{"id":8596,"date":"2015-03-10T05:21:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T09:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8596"},"modified":"2015-03-10T05:40:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T09:40:41","slug":"episode-109-the-confidence-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-109-the-confidence-man","title":{"rendered":"Episode 109 – The Confidence Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show:
\nWalter Kirn – The Confidence Man<\/a><\/p>\n

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“He could not imagine what went on in other people’s hearts and minds any more than you and I could imagine what it’s like to live on Jupiter.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"ph-bc-bloodwillout\"<\/a>Author and journalist Walter Kirn<\/a> joins the show to discuss his latest book, Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade<\/a>\"\" (Liveright Press), which chronicles his relationship with con artist\/sociopath “Clark Rockefeller”<\/a>. We talk about how Clark hacked the social software, how attending Princeton and Oxford prepared Walt to be fooled by Clark’s lies, why he thinks Clark was actually a progenitor of the social media age, whether writing his best book was worth losing his faith in humanity, what it felt like to be the Nick Carraway to Rockefeller’s Gatsby, and more! Give it a listen<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“One thing I learned is that I might never have found out about Clark’s lies if he hadn’t made a mistake.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We also talk about the three things that are most often smuggled into California prisons, what (if anything) can be done to pre-empt sociopaths, the experience of getting trolled by a convicted murderer, the advice he gleaned from Joan Didion before starting up his Great American Novel, what he thinks of New York under DeBlasio, what brought him to Montana and what keeps him there, and where the name “Virtual Memories” comes from!<\/p>\n

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

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Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! You might like:<\/p>\n