{"id":7865,"date":"2014-04-28T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=7865"},"modified":"2014-04-28T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T20:30:00","slug":"podcast-euphonic-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-euphonic-sounds","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Euphonic Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Lynne Sharon Schwartz on The Virtual Memories Show by Gil Roth, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/13900377185\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3820\/13900377185_e71c63ee5e.jpg?resize=440%2C341&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lynne Sharon Schwartz on The Virtual Memories Show\" width=\"440\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Virtual Memories \u2013 season 4 episode 16 &#8211; Euphonic Sounds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4944\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7865-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.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_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7865-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.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>&#8220;In the late 1970s, I wanted to write against the grain, so I wrote about a marriage that lasted a long time, with all the strife and stresses.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Novelist, essayist, poet, short story writer, and translator <a href=\"http:\/\/lynnesharonschwartz.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lynne Sharon Schwartz<\/a>\u00a0sat down with me to talk about her newest essay collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/161902246X\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=161902246X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">This Is Where We Came In: Intimate Glimpses<\/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=161902246X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0(Counterpoint), but we talked about a <em>lot<\/em> more in our hour! Listen in to learn\u00a0how she and her husband began recording literary readings by authors like James Baldwin, Philip Roth, John Updike, William Styron in the &#8217;60s, and how they&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/calliopeauthorreadings.com\" target=\"_blank\">re-launched those recordings<\/a>. We also discuss how second-wave feminism convinced her to pursue a writing career, how her ear for music influences her writing, why she swears by audiobook reader David Case, and how Margaret Atwood once dropped the boom on Norman Mailer.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Although I identify with feminism, my literary tastes don&#8217;t divide into men and women; it&#8217;s the ones who are concerned with language and delight in language, rather than their gender, that I read.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We also talk about her love of digressive essays, the joys of translation, her travel-anxiety, the difficulty in getting a book of essays published, why W.G. Sebald is one of her favorite authors, and how &#8212;\u00a0kinda like last week&#8217;s guest, <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-hello-columbus\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin McGurk<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; she got involved in bringing back lost women writers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4945\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7865-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.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_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7865-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.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_4_Episode_16_-_Euphonic_Sounds.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\">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\">Phillip Lopate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-reading-maketh-a-full-man\" target=\"_blank\">DG Myers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-consolation-of-poetry\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Hadas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-on-cats-and-calamities\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Trachtenberg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-arts-and-sciences-and-bugs\" target=\"_blank\">David Rothenberg<\/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\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?tag=podcast&amp;feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynnesharonschwartz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lynne Sharon Schwartz<\/a> is the author of more than 20 books, including novels, short story collections, non-fiction, poetry, and translations. Her new essay collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/161902246X\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=161902246X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">This Is Where We Came In: Intimate Glimpses<\/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=161902246X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, was just published by Counterpoint. Her first novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0872168468\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0872168468&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Rough Strife<\/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=0872168468\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, was nominated for a National Book Award and the PEN\/Hemingway First Novel Award. Her other novels include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1582433003\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1582433003&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">The Writing on the Wall<\/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=1582433003\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0688170714\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0688170714&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">In the Family Way: An Urban Comedy<\/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=0688170714\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1582433321\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1582433321&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Disturbances in the Field<\/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=1582433321\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0976631148\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0976631148&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Leaving Brooklyn (Rediscovery)<\/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=0976631148\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, nominated for the PEN\/Faulkner Award. She and her husband Harry have launched <a href=\"http:\/\/calliopeauthorreadings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Calliope Author Readings<\/a>, which offers lovers of literature a rare opportunity to hear great 20th century American authors interpreting their own works. Ms. Schwartz has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. Her stories and essays have been reprinted in many anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American Essays. She has taught writing and literature at colleges and universities in the U.S.\u00a0and abroad. She lives in New York City.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Gladiolas<em>\u00a0by Scott Joplin. The conversation was recorded at Ms. Schwartz&#8217;s\u00a0home on a pair of\u00a0<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\" \/>. The intro and outro were recorded on <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 Ms. Schwartz\u00a0by me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories \u2013 season 4 episode 16 &#8211; Euphonic Sounds &#8220;In the late 1970s, I wanted to write against the grain, so I wrote about a marriage that lasted a long time, with all the strife and stresses.&#8221; Novelist, essayist, poet, short story writer, and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz\u00a0sat down with me to talk about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-euphonic-sounds\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast: Euphonic Sounds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,40,1183],"tags":[2567,1666,152,2030,2425,2582,426,2564,1446,2583,772,2579,2566,2577,2580,2575,2561,1568,84,2563,1707,2433,2571,2573,535,1353,2574,1573,2560,693,2581,1780,2578,765,2562,609,1963,2576,2568,2572,694,2016,1895,2570,1343,1763,2565,1534,2569],"class_list":["post-7865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-music","category-podcasts","tag-aleksandar-hemon","tag-alice-munro","tag-anthony-powell","tag-anthony-trollope","tag-bernard-malamud","tag-change-rae-lee","tag-clive-james","tag-david-case","tag-dostoevsky","tag-edward-p-jones","tag-elmore-leonard","tag-gail-godwin","tag-george-elliot","tag-glenda-adams","tag-grace-paley","tag-guy-deutscher","tag-harry-schwartz","tag-henry-james","tag-homer","tag-howard-kahn","tag-james-baldwin","tag-james-jones","tag-janet-frame","tag-jerry-mander","tag-john-updike","tag-joyce-carol-oates","tag-karl-ove-knausgard","tag-keats","tag-lynne-sharon-schwartz","tag-margaret-atwood","tag-marilyn-french","tag-natalia-ginzburg","tag-nicole-krauss","tag-norman-mailer","tag-peter-bartok","tag-philip-roth","tag-phillip-lopate","tag-rebecca-caviller","tag-rebecca-mead","tag-rebecca-west","tag-robertson-davies","tag-susan-sontag","tag-sven-birkerts","tag-tea-obreht","tag-w-g-sebald","tag-wallis-wilde-menozzi","tag-walter-moseley","tag-william-styron","tag-william-trevor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-22R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8112,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-booksluts-holiday","url_meta":{"origin":7865,"position":0},"title":"Podcast: Bookslut&#8217;s Holiday","author":"Gil","date":"August 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: Jessa Crispin\u00a0- Bookslut's Holiday \"You would be surprised at the level of craziness and hostility that exists in the literary world if you share a different opinion than somebody.\" Last week's guest was quintessential bookman Michael Dirda, and this time around we have Jessa Crispin, founder of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Chicago&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Chicago","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/chicago"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&l=as2&o=1&a=B002SQJLA4","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15139,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-478-rebecca-mead","url_meta":{"origin":7865,"position":1},"title":"Episode 478 &#8211; Rebecca Mead","author":"Gil","date":"March 21, 2022","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 478: Rebecca Mead \"There's a sense of layered history in London, and you can see it written into the streets. 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Bellow is interested in something much more basic: who we really are.\" David Mikics joins the show\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Chicago&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Chicago","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/chicago"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/mikics2016comp.jpg?fit=1124%2C800&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/mikics2016comp.jpg?fit=1124%2C800&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/mikics2016comp.jpg?fit=1124%2C800&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/mikics2016comp.jpg?fit=1124%2C800&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/mikics2016comp.jpg?fit=1124%2C800&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9039,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-135-irvine-welsh-dmitry-samarov","url_meta":{"origin":7865,"position":3},"title":"Episode 135 &#8211; Irvine Welsh \/ Dmitry Samarov","author":"Gil","date":"September 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show #135: Irvine Welsh \/ Dmitry Samarov \"What would young, pre-Trainspotting Irvine Welsh think of you now?\" \"He'd think I was a total wanker.\" Irvine Welsh has created unforgettable characters in his novels, beginning with the cast of\u00a0Trainspotting in 1993. 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