{"id":8534,"date":"2015-01-28T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T16:56:00","slug":"podcast-104-it-came-from-gen-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-104-it-came-from-gen-x","title":{"rendered":"Podcast 104 &#8211; It Came From Gen X!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Memories Show:<br \/>\nRon Hogan &amp; Josh Alan Friedman\u00a0&#8211; It Came From Gen X!<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4920\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8534-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8534-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.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;You grow up imagining all these writers live in mansions and have their private, elegant writing rooms. But the working reality for most writers is not that different from the working reality for working class to middle class people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Ron Hogan on the Virtual Memories Show by Gil Roth, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/16367630495\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7438\/16367630495_d650b77e9b_z.jpg?w=440&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ron Hogan on the Virtual Memories Show\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Editor, book-blogger and podcaster <a href=\"http:\/\/ronhogan.net\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Hogan<\/a> joins the show to talk about his 20-year history with the literary internet, launching <a href=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\" target=\"_blank\">Beatrice.com<\/a>, interviewing his favorite writers, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/life-stories\/id650168716?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">podcasting <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/life-stories\/id650168716?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">Life Stories<\/a>,<\/em> taking the wrong lessons from the work of Harlan Ellison, defending <em>Hudson Hawk<\/em>, retaining his inner fanboy, discovering romance fiction, overcoming gender\/race imbalances in publishing (and podcasting), using Foucault as cover for being a pugnacious asshole, getting to meet James Ellroy, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, and Cornel West, and generally trying to overthrow the hegemony.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Give it a listen<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4921\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8534-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8534-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.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;We severely underestimated the ability of corporate media to assimilate challenges to it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_1689 by Gil Roth, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/16173422319\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7346\/16173422319_9431ec5c94_n.jpg?resize=320%2C292&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_1689\" width=\"320\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a>But first, <a href=\"http:\/\/joshalanfriedman.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Alan Friedman<\/a> offers us his reminiscences and reflections on the great Joe Franklin, who passed away last weekend at the age of 88. Josh wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/joshalanfriedman.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/why-joe-franklin-matters.html\" target=\"_blank\">wonderful piece on Joe in 2012<\/a>, so I called him down in Texas and invited him to\u00a0tell us about this legendary celebrity fixture of New York. <em>(That&#8217;s &#8220;Handsome Dick&#8221; Manitoba&#8221; with Joe in March 2014.) (Oh, and check out our first Josh Alan Friedman episode <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-crackers-and-bagels\" target=\"_blank\">over here<\/a>!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_104_-_It_Came_from_Gen_X.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! You might like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-simple-tricks-and-nonsense-ep-101\" target=\"_blank\">Levi Stahl<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-35-cents-a-stamp\" target=\"_blank\">John Porcellino<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-crackers-and-bagels\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Alan Friedman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-booksluts-holiday\" target=\"_blank\">Jessa Crispin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-peace-poet\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Bivona<\/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:\/\/virtualmemories.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ronhogan.net\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Hogan<\/a> helped create the literary Internet by launching <a href=\"http:\/\/Beatrice.com\" target=\"_blank\">Beatrice.com<\/a> in 1995. He is currently an editor at Regan Arts, acquiring both fiction and nonfiction titles. He maintains an active presence in New York City\u2019s literary scene, hosting and curating events such as Lady Jane\u2019s Salon, the first monthly reading series dedicated to romance fiction. (Previously, he curated a series of conversations between authors and bloggers at Brooklyn\u2019s Greenlight Bookstore.)<\/p>\n<p>He was a columnist at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shelf Awareness<\/a>, and has written book reviews and feature stories for publications like Tor.com, the <em>Dallas Morning News<\/em>, Buzzfeed and The Daily Beast. He spent several years writing about the business side of publishing as a senior editor for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/galleycat\/\" target=\"_blank\">GalleyCat<\/a>, then briefly worked with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as their director of e-marketing strategy. He speaks frequently at book festivals and publishing conferences about how to make the best use of social networking tools, advances in digital publishing, and other transformative trends in the publishing industry.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Here and Now<em>\u00a0by Letters to Cleo, on account of all the Gen X references we made. The conversation was recorded on a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002SQJLA4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002SQJLA4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=64RDM7RI2SABXGPL\">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\/B00KCXMBES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00KCXMBES&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=DRHR6463DEQ4TO3N\">Zoom H5<\/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=B00KCXMBES\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> digital recorder. I recorded the intro and outro 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 Logic Pro. Photo of Mr. Hogan by me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories Show: Ron Hogan &amp; Josh Alan Friedman\u00a0&#8211; It Came From Gen X! &#8220;You grow up imagining all these writers live in mansions and have their private, elegant writing rooms. But the working reality for most writers is not that different from the working reality for working class to middle class people.&#8221; Editor, book-blogger &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-104-it-came-from-gen-x\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast 104 &#8211; It Came From Gen X!&#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":[61,27,26,4,1083,40,1183,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis","category-big-business","category-comics","category-literature","category-movies","category-music","category-podcasts","category-politics-implicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-2dE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13362,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/covid-check-in-with-ron-hogan","url_meta":{"origin":8534,"position":0},"title":"COVID Check-In with Ron Hogan","author":"Gil","date":"May 12, 2020","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Ron Hogan Writer and editor Ron Hogan checks in from Queens (near Elmhurst Hospital). 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