{"id":7075,"date":"2013-05-13T18:07:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T22:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=7075"},"modified":"2013-05-13T21:09:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T01:09:22","slug":"podcast-eternity-is-music-that-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-eternity-is-music-that-plays","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Eternity is Music that Plays"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 10 – Eternity is Music that Plays<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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“Americans who come to Italy want to get its beauty, its art, its delicious food. They move very fast through Italy. They’ll see 8 or 10 cities in two weeks.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Poet, novelist, memoirist and all-around wonderful writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi<\/a> joins us on this episode of The Virtual Memories Show<\/strong> to talk about her two new books, The Other Side of the Tiber: Reflections on Time in Italy<\/a> and Toscanelli’s Ray: A Novel<\/a>. It’s a great conversation about the American experience in Italy over 40 years. Ms. Wilde-Menozzi possesses both a poet’s sensibility for beautiful language and a keen eye that carefully observes the character of Italy, its populace, and its art. I highly recommend The Other Side of the Tiber<\/em>; it’s a gorgeous, haunting book (I haven’t read Toscanelli<\/em> yet, so I can’t vouch for it).<\/p>\n

“I felt the enormous power of what Michelangelo was doing, but also this sense of process, the fact that we’re becoming, that nothing is quite finished.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out our archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great talk!<\/p>\n

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

Wallis Wilde-Menozzi<\/a> grew up in Wisconsin amid stability and quiet natural beauty. After graduating from the University of Michigan, she lived in Oxford, England, NYC, London, Rome, Palo Alto, California and finally, Parma, Italy. Her Midwestern accent has never been replaced, even by learning other languages. She teaches in Europe and the U.S., lectures widely, and is a founding member of the Ledig-Rowohlt International Writers Residence<\/a> in Lavigny, Switzerland, where she has read the work of more than 500 writers from 65 countries. She is the author of Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She writes, “The decades I have lived in Italy brought me to the door of different ways of seeing. I knocked, not without trepidation, and have never gotten through half of the rooms. I write about our times in poetry, essays, memoir, nonfiction, and fiction.”<\/p>\n

Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Her Hollow Ways\u00a0by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi. The conversation was recorded at Wallis’ New York pied-a-terre on a pair of AT2020 mics<\/a>\"\",\u00a0feeding into a Zoom H4n recorder<\/a>\"\". I recorded the intro and outro on a Blue Yeti USB mic<\/a>\"\" into Audacity.\u00a0All editing and processing was done in Garage Band. Photo by Amy Roth<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 10 – Eternity is Music that Plays “Americans who come to Italy want to get its beauty, its art, its delicious food. They move very fast through Italy. They’ll see 8 or 10 cities in two weeks.” Poet, novelist, memoirist and all-around wonderful writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi joins us on … <\/p>\n

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