{"id":7507,"date":"2013-12-07T09:25:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T13:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2018-02-04T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T15:30:46","slug":"podcast-on-cats-and-calamities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-on-cats-and-calamities","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: On Cats and Calamities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Virtual Memories \u2013 season 3 episode 30 &#8211;<br \/>\nOn Cats and Calamities<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3945\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7507-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7507-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLove is usually the end of the sentence, the end of the riddle. But what does love call forth from you? What are the faculties that come into play? It\u2019s one of those questions that we think is settled.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What does the search for a lost cat have to tell us about the nature of love and marriage? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petertrachtenberg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peter Trachtenberg<\/a> joins <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> to try to answer that question and to talk about his work, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316158798\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0316158798&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0738217298\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0738217298&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\" rel=\"nofollow\">Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons<\/a>! We discuss the tension between non-fiction and fiction, how to search for a lost cat, where the line is between the private and the public, how he stumbled into the lyric essay form, how the process of getting clean and sober influenced his writing, how marriages fall apart and how they (maybe) come back together, and more!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cArt is high-level lying.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to lie; our conversation jumps all over the darned place, because Peter happens to have an even more discursive mind than your scatterbrained host&#8217;s. But it&#8217;s a great talk about the nature of non-fiction writing, Buddhism, the relationship of facts to truth, respecting intuition, and how to navigate memory\u2019s internal landscape. Sadly, we didn\u2019t yet have the news that <em>Another Insane Devotion<\/em> received the 2013 Golden Purr Award for excellence in cat writing from <a href=\"http:\/\/catwisdom101.com\/cat-wisdom-101-top-10-cat-books-awards-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cat Wisdom 101<\/a>, but there\u2019s still some cat-talk.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3946\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7507-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7507-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_30_-_On_Cats_and_Calamities.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! Related conversations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-slipping-the-noose-of-the-topical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phillip Lopate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-wonders-of-the-audible-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Gates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-eternity-is-music-that-plays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wallis Wilde-Menozzi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-magnificent-seven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Willard Spiegelman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-new-york-and-old-south\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jane Borden<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?tag=podcast&amp;feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petertrachtenberg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peter Trachtenberg<\/a> is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0140273905\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0140273905&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0140273905\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0(Penguin Books), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316158798\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0316158798&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Book of Calamities<\/a>\u00a0(Little, Brown &amp; Co.)\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0738217298\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0738217298&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\" rel=\"nofollow\">Another Insane Devotion<\/a>\u00a0(Da Capo). His essays, journalism, and short fiction have been published in <em>The New Yorker, Harper&#8217;s, BOMB, TriQuarterly, O, The New York Times Travel Magazine<\/em>, and <em>A Public Space<\/em>. His commentaries have been broadcast on NPR&#8217;S <em>All Things Considered<\/em>. Peter has received an NYFA artist&#8217;s fellowship, the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, a Whiting Writers Fellowship, a 2010 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and a 2012 residency at the Rockefeller Foundation&#8217;s Bellagio Center. <em>The Book of Calamities<\/em> was given the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Society&#8217;s Ralph Waldo Emerson Award &#8220;for scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.&#8221; He has taught creative writing at Bennington College, the New School, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, the City College of New York, St. Mary&#8217;s College of California, the University of Iowa Summer Writers Festival, and Ashland University. He&#8217;s also taught in Bard College&#8217;s Language &amp; Thinking Program. Since 2011, he has been an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Stray Cat Blues<em>\u00a0by The Rolling Stones. The conversation was recorded at the home of a friend of Peter on a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002SQJLA4\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002SQJLA4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue enCORE 200 microphones<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002SQJLA4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> feeding into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001QWBM62\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001QWBM62\">Zoom H4n recorder<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001QWBM62\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. <\/em><em>The intro and outro were recorded at home on a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002VA464S\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002VA464S&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue Yeti USB Microphone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002VA464S\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Processing was done in Audacity and Garage Band. Photo of Peter Trachtenberg by me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories \u2013 season 3 episode 30 &#8211; On Cats and Calamities \u201cLove is usually the end of the sentence, the end of the riddle. But what does love call forth from you? What are the faculties that come into play? It\u2019s one of those questions that we think is settled.&#8221; What does the search &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-on-cats-and-calamities\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast: On Cats and Calamities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,4,1183],"tags":[1243,2262,2257,1448,2266,1533,1663,2268,2258,2022,2261,592,85,1479,2255,1240,2027,1837,2023,2270,2264,2265,2269,2263,2259,1963,1239,2254,86,2260,2267,2256,1242],"class_list":["post-7507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-literature","category-podcasts","tag-allen-ginsberg","tag-another-insane-devotion","tag-book-of-calamities","tag-charles-dickens","tag-charlottes-web","tag-chekhov","tag-denis-johnson","tag-e-l-nesbitt","tag-elements-of-the-philosophy-of-right","tag-eula-biss","tag-hardy-boys","tag-harold-bloom","tag-hegel","tag-herman-melville","tag-hilton-als","tag-jack-kerouac","tag-james-frey","tag-joan-didion","tag-john-dagata","tag-john-jeremiah-sullivan","tag-john-seidensticker","tag-joseph-mitchell","tag-life-of-pi","tag-linda-curente","tag-peter-trachtenberg","tag-phillip-lopate","tag-proust","tag-rebecca-skloot","tag-ron-rosenbaum","tag-thierry-le-portier","tag-ulysses-s-grant","tag-wilfred-thesiger","tag-william-s-burroughs","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/trachtenberg.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1X5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13421,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/covid-check-in-with-peter-trachtenberg","url_meta":{"origin":7507,"position":0},"title":"COVID Check-In with Peter Trachtenberg","author":"Gil","date":"May 21, 2020","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Peter Trachtenberg Author and professor Peter Trachtenberg checks in from the Catskills. We talk about his surprise at how well he's dealing with This Whole Situation, the essay he's working on about Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the realization that Americans are more\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\/covidtrachtenbergcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C550&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/covidtrachtenbergcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C550&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/covidtrachtenbergcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C550&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/covidtrachtenbergcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C550&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/covidtrachtenbergcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C550&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17451,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-632-peter-trachtenberg","url_meta":{"origin":7507,"position":1},"title":"Episode 632 &#8211; Peter Trachtenberg","author":"Gil","date":"March 31, 2025","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 632: Peter Trachtenberg \"Westbeth was designed as an egalitarian community. . . . 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