{"id":7969,"date":"2014-06-09T20:05:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T00:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=7969"},"modified":"2014-06-09T20:15:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T00:15:24","slug":"podcast-wax-rhapsodic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-wax-rhapsodic-2","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Wax, Rhapsodic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rupert-thomson-011.jpg?resize=525%2C315\" alt=\"rupert thomson\" width=\"525\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Memories: Rupert Thomson &#8211; Wax, Rhapsodic<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4017\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7969-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.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_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7969-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.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;There is a kind of comfort in having a part of yourself that will never be known, can never be known, by others.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.otherpress.com\/books\/secrecy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7978\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-wax-rhapsodic-2\/thomson_secrecy-252x390\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thomson_Secrecy-252x390.jpg?fit=252%2C390\" data-orig-size=\"252,390\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Thomson_Secrecy-252&amp;#215;390\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thomson_Secrecy-252x390.jpg?fit=252%2C390\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7978\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thomson_Secrecy-252x390.jpg?resize=150%2C232\" alt=\"Thomson_Secrecy-252x390\" width=\"150\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a>Genre-jumping author <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@rupertthomson1\" target=\"_blank\">Rupert Thomson<\/a>\u00a0joins the show to talk about\u00a0his\u00a0new novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1590516850\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1590516850&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Secrecy<\/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=1590516850\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.otherpress.com\/books\/secrecy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Other Press<\/a>), a 1690&#8217;s-based thriller about the Florentine wax-sculptor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaetano_Giulio_Zumbo\" target=\"_blank\">Zumbo<\/a>.\u00a0Along the way, we talk about the arbitrariness of &#8220;historical fiction,&#8221; the perils of researcher&#8217;s block (as opposed to writer&#8217;s block), what he learned from a 90-minute audience with James Salter, discovering\u00a0archaic Italian curses, letting one&#8217;s art follow one&#8217;s unconscious, the joys of\u00a0visiting the graves and\/or homes of his literary idols, why\u00a0finding the psychological truth of a story is more important than the details and background, and why\u00a0it always helps to know a good histopathologist.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Go listen<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I first started out, what I liked was the unlikely image, the unlikely metaphor. What I like now is finding that simple sentence that captures something you haven&#8217;t thought of before.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4018\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7969-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.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_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7969-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.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_22_-_Wax_Rhapsodic.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>Linn Ullmann (<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-lady-with-a-dog\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-persona\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-bildung-stories\" target=\"_blank\">George Prochnik<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-sex-crime-and-other-arbitrary-genre-labels\" target=\"_blank\">Maxim Jakubowski<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-wonders-of-the-audible-world\" target=\"_blank\">David Gates<\/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:\/\/twitter.com\/@rupertthomson1\" target=\"_blank\">Rupert Thomson<\/a> is the author of nine\u00a0highly acclaimed novels: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0689119577\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0689119577&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Dreams of Leaving<\/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=0689119577\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679735712\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0679735712&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">The Five Gates of Hell<\/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=0679735712\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679425063\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0679425063&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Air And Fire<\/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=0679425063\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679781501\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0679781501&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">The Insult<\/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=0679781501\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375702202\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0375702202&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Soft!<\/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=0375702202\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375708456\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0375708456&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">The Book of Revelation<\/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=0375708456\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400076595\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1400076595&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Divided Kingdom<\/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=1400076595\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307278743\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0307278743&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Death of a Murderer<\/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=0307278743\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, which was short-listed for the 2007 Costa Novel Award, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1590516850\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1590516850&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Secrecy<\/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=1590516850\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. His memoir, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1847081622\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1847081622&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">This Party&#8217;s Got To Stop<\/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=1847081622\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, won the Writers\u2019 Guild Non-Fiction Award. He lives in London.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Hotwax<em>\u00a0by Beck. The conversation was recorded at the <a href=\"http:\/\/otherpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Other Press<\/a> offices\u00a0on a\u00a0pair 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\" \/>\u00a0feeding 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>. 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 Mr. Thomson\u00a0by Graeme Robertson.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories: Rupert Thomson &#8211; Wax, Rhapsodic &#8220;There is a kind of comfort in having a part of yourself that will never be known, can never be known, by others.&#8221; Genre-jumping author Rupert Thomson\u00a0joins the show to talk about\u00a0his\u00a0new novel, Secrecy\u00a0(Other Press), a 1690&#8217;s-based thriller about the Florentine wax-sculptor Zumbo.\u00a0Along the way, we talk about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-wax-rhapsodic-2\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast: Wax, Rhapsodic&#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":[22,4,1183],"tags":[2649,1813,1918,2650,1663,2639,1357,2641,2638,1798,812,1577,2647,2645,2642,2648,2643,2640,2644,2636,2646,2637],"class_list":["post-7969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-literature","category-podcasts","tag-agota-kristof","tag-anne-carson","tag-auden","tag-claire-messud","tag-denis-johnson","tag-eiffel","tag-flannery-oconnor","tag-frankenstein","tag-gaetano-giulio-zumbo","tag-haruki-murakami","tag-isak-dinesen","tag-james-salter","tag-jean-genet","tag-jean-rhys","tag-louise-bourgeois","tag-margaret-louise","tag-mary-gaitskill","tag-mary-shelley","tag-patrick-modiano","tag-rupert-thomson","tag-william-faulkner","tag-zumbo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-24x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9155,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-142-rupert-thomson","url_meta":{"origin":7969,"position":0},"title":"Episode 142 &#8211; Rupert Thomson","author":"Gil","date":"November 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show #142: Rupert Thomson \"I often think that my ideas are exaggerations that are on the brink of disbelief, but just this side of that, so the suspension of disbelief is a challenge in my books. I like to push things as far as they can go.\" Rupert\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"rt","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/rt.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8414,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-guest-list-2014","url_meta":{"origin":7969,"position":1},"title":"Podcast &#8211; The Guest List 2014","author":"Gil","date":"December 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: The Guest List 2014 Two years in a row? That makes The Guest List a Virtual Memories Show tradition! I reached out to 2014's podcast guests and asked them about the favorite book(s) they read in the past year. 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