{"id":5594,"date":"2010-09-16T18:26:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T22:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/who-am-i\/"},"modified":"2010-09-16T18:26:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T22:26:36","slug":"who-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/who-am-i","title":{"rendered":"Who am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the guy who had four magazines waiting in his mailbox when he got home from work today \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/monocle.com\" target=\"_blank\">Monocle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parisreview.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Paris Review<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\" target=\"_blank\">Esquire<\/a>. I&#8217;m the guy who looked at the cover of the latter, muttered, &#8220;Lousy better-looking-than-everyone Javier Bardem,&#8221; then noticed the words, &#8220;PHILIP ROTH PG. 146,&#8221; and smiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the guy who had four magazines waiting in his mailbox when he got home from work today \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Monocle, Sports Illustrated, The Paris Review, and Esquire. I&#8217;m the guy who looked at the cover of the latter, muttered, &#8220;Lousy better-looking-than-everyone Javier Bardem,&#8221; then noticed the words, &#8220;PHILIP ROTH PG. 146,&#8221; and smiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1145,609],"class_list":["post-5594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-javier-bardem","tag-philip-roth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1se","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7839,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/roth-on-roth-action","url_meta":{"origin":5594,"position":0},"title":"Roth on Roth action","author":"Gil","date":"April 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Looks like PBS has the entire Philip Roth ep. of its American Masters series free online! He remains #1 on my dream-list of guests for the podcast. Yesterday's interview, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, told me that she's acquaintances with him, but I doubt that'll be enough to get my foot in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14732,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-452-rosemary-steinbaum","url_meta":{"origin":5594,"position":1},"title":"Episode 452 &#8211; Rosemary Steinbaum","author":"Gil","date":"September 21, 2021","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 452: Rosemary Steinbaum \"His reading and his writing are intertwined. That's the main theme of the Philip Roth Personal Library: a writer at work reading and a reader at work writing.\" It's part 1 of a 2-part show about the new Philip Roth Personal Library at the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14742,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-453-nadine-sergejeff","url_meta":{"origin":5594,"position":2},"title":"Episode 453 &#8211; Nadine Sergejeff","author":"Gil","date":"September 28, 2021","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 453: Nadine Sergejeff \"What you see when you enter the Philip Roth Personal Library are about three-thousand, seven hundred and twenty books* that have marginalia, are presentation copies, or are otherwise special.\" [* Librarians are very exact] It's part 2 of a 2-part show about the new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2029,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sun-roth","url_meta":{"origin":5594,"position":3},"title":"Sun Roth","author":"Gil","date":"May 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's edition of the New York Sun's Arts+ section continues to defend its title as Official Newspaper of Gil Roth (and several other Roths, as seen in #s 1 and 2): Roth Time Redux, discussing the impact of Dieter Roth, a new exhibition on Philip Guston, with a shout-out to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5859,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/where-can-wisdom-be-found","url_meta":{"origin":5594,"position":4},"title":"Where Can Wisdom Be Found?","author":"Gil","date":"January 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently, Philip Roth tells us, not in old age: Which is not good news, as I turn 40 next week. On the upside, he can't wait to turn 80!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15292,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-489-ira-nadel","url_meta":{"origin":5594,"position":5},"title":"Episode 489 &#8211; Ira Nadel","author":"Gil","date":"June 7, 2022","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 489: Ira Nadel \"Roth left so many instructions and prescriptive statements about how things should happen after his death, that he was really trying to \u2014 to use a phrase uttered by the gravedigger in Everyman \u2014 square the hole.\" Professor & biographer Ira Nadel joins the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}