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Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 2
\nWillard Spiegelman – The Magnificent Seven<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"41S4TPQQmeL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_\"Reading, walking, looking, dancing, listening, swimming, and writing: these are the activities organizing the life of this episode’s guest,\u00a0Willard Spiegelman<\/strong>, author of\u00a0Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness<\/a>\"\"! We talk about his wonderful book (go read it!), his addiction to ballroom dancing, how to find joy in the day-to-day world, why he hates book clubs, what Dallas, TX is like for a secular Philadelphia Jew, how he turned me on to one of my favorite novels, who his Desert Island Poets are, how he writes about the visual arts, why the world’s great novels are lost on the young, and what it was like to attend his 50th high school reunion. (Also, Harold Bloom crops up yet again; I really gotta try to get him on the show sometime. Boy, talk about the anxiety of influence . . .)<\/p>\n

One of the best things about doing this podcast is that I get to meet some wonderful people. In this case, meeting with Willard over two afternoons (story to come) was like making a new old friend.<\/p>\n

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About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n

Willard Spiegelman<\/strong> is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. He also serves as editor-in-chief of Southwest Review<\/em>, the third oldest continuously published literary quarterly in America. In 2005, Willard won the PEN\/Nora Magid award for literary editing. In addition to Seven Pleasures, he’s also written or edited How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry<\/a>\"\", Wordsworth’s Heroes<\/a>\"\", Imaginative Transcripts: Selected Literary Essays<\/a>\"\", Majestic Indolence: English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art<\/a>\"\", The Didactic Muse: Scenes of Instruction in Contemporary American Poetry<\/a>\"\", and Love, Amy: The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt<\/a>\"\". He writes about the arts for the Wall Street Journal<\/em>. Oh, and he’s quite dapper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>This Charming Man\u00a0by The Smiths. The conversation was recorded at Willard Spiegelman’s home in New York City, on a pair of AT2020 mics<\/a>\"\", feeding into a Zoom H4n<\/a>\"\" recorder. <\/em>I recorded the other material on a Blue Yeti USB mic<\/a>\"\" into Audacity.\u00a0All editing and processing was done in Garage Band.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 2 Willard Spiegelman – The Magnificent Seven Reading, walking, looking, dancing, listening, swimming, and writing: these are the activities organizing the life of this episode’s guest,\u00a0Willard Spiegelman, author of\u00a0Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness! We talk about his wonderful book (go read it!), his addiction to ballroom dancing, how … <\/p>\n

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