{"id":6960,"date":"2013-03-30T21:55:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T01:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=6960"},"modified":"2017-11-11T08:36:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T12:36:46","slug":"podcast-the-importance-of-being-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-importance-of-being-out","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: The Importance of Being Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Craig<\/a><\/p>\n

Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 7 –
\nThe Importance of Being Out<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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It’s time for the first double-episode of the season!<\/p>\n

“To me, there are two types of YA: one is fiction written with the kid in mind, and the other is where the characters happen to be that age. It’s a fascinating age-group, because that’s where the world is changing. I tend to write for the latter.”
\n–Craig Gidney<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, Craig Gidney<\/strong>, author of the new YA novel, Bereft<\/a><\/em>, talks about bullying and how the internet has amplified it, his literary influences, his problems with “transparent” prose and Twilight<\/em>, how his new book differs from his first collection, Sea, Swallow Me<\/em>,<\/a> and the joy of getting a blurb from one of his favorite authors.<\/p>\n

“For the first 15 years or so, we’d occasionally get busted windows. It hasn’t happened in 10 or 15 years now, but in a period of two weeks, there were three windows smashed, and then we would go a few years without having any busted. It always struck me as interesting that these broken windows always came in the dead of night.”
\n –Ed Hermance<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then Ed Hermance\u00a0<\/strong>talks to us about the history of his queer bookstore, Giovanni’s Room<\/a>,\u00a0the changing face of gay literature, the challenges of selling books in The Amazon Age, the historical creation of gay identity, why he was a little embarrassed by Obama’s Stonewall shout-out, and the most poignant story that the store has to tell.<\/p>\n

Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out our archives<\/a> for more great talks!<\/p>\n

\"Ed<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow\u00a0The Virtual Memories Show<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0iTunes<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Tumblr<\/a>, and\u00a0RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Craig Laurance Gidney<\/strong> writes both contemporary, young adult and genre fiction. Recipient of the 1996 Susan C. Petrey Scholarship to the Clarion West writer\u2019s workshop, he has published works in the fantasy\/science fiction, gay and young adult categories. His first collection, Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories<\/em>, was nominated for the 2009 Lambda Literary Award in the Science Fiction\/Fantasy and Horror category. He lives and writes in his native Washington, DC. He is on Twitter as @ethereallad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed Hermance<\/strong> is the owner of Giovanni’s Room, the longest-operating queer bookstore in America. Ed was born in Houston in 1940, graduated Dartmouth College (\u201962, BA, philosophy) and Indiana University, Bloomington (\u201965, MA, comparative literature), and taught at Auburn, Indiana State , and Tuebingen University in Germany. Fearing that he might never escape the closet as long as he remained a teacher, Ed abandoned academia and joined a hippie commune in the mountains of Southern Colorado (still a going concern with a long history of distinguished perennial guests, including Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and John Corso). Ed moved to Philadelphia in 1971 to manage Ecology Food Co-op, a natural foods outlet. He bought Giovanni’s Room from its founders with partner Arleen Olshan in 1976.<\/p>\n

Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Heaven or Las Vegas\u00a0by Cocteau Twins. The conversation with Craig was recorded at the Doris-Mae Gallery<\/a> in Washington, D.C., on a pair of Blue Encore 100 mics<\/a>\"\". The conversation with Ed was recorded at the Giovanni’s Room<\/a> in Philadelphia, on a pair of AT2020 mics<\/a>\"\", feeding into a Zoom H4n recorder<\/a>\"\". I recorded the interstitial stuff 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 7 – The Importance of Being Out It’s time for the first double-episode of the season! “To me, there are two types of YA: one is fiction written with the kid in mind, and the other is where the characters happen to be that age. It’s a fascinating age-group, … <\/p>\n

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