{"id":8666,"date":"2015-04-14T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8666"},"modified":"2018-01-31T09:03:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T13:03:02","slug":"episode-114-roller-coaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-114-roller-coaster","title":{"rendered":"Episode 114 &#8211; Roller Coaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_114_-_Roller_Coaster.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Memories Show:<br \/>\nBrad Gooch &#8211; Roller Coaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2616\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8666-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_114_-_Roller_Coaster.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_114_-_Roller_Coaster.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_114_-_Roller_Coaster.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_114_-_Roller_Coaster.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8666-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_114_-_Roller_Coaster.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_114_-_Roller_Coaster.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;History and culture are the rooms in which a person is living.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bradgooch.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brad Gooch<\/a> joins the show to talk about his new memoir,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062354957\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0062354957&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=JVZMKTCO2AGHJUU6\">Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard &amp; Art &amp; the &#8217;70s &amp; the &#8217;80s<\/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=0062354957\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (Harper). We discuss his long relationship with director Howard Brookner, his need to chronicle\u00a0the New York City scene of his youth, the transitory nature of so much of the great art of that era, the Life-During-Wartime aspect of the AIDS era in the city, survivor&#8217;s guilt, how he stumbled into becoming a literary biographer, and why 63 is the perfect age to become a dad.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_114_-_Roller_Coaster.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give it a listen<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One friend\u00a0told me, &#8216;Sixty is the perfect age to get married. If I&#8217;d known, I wouldn&#8217;t have had three divorces.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Seriously. That guy is 63. Sheesh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we also talk about\u00a0the influence of Frank O&#8217;Hara&#8217;s poetry and life, the many faces of Rumi,\u00a0why he&#8217;s\u00a0hooked on Knausgaard, the differences between writing biography and memoir, his career as a male model, and how it feels to get\u00a0retweeted by RuPaul and the Elton John Foundation. Go listen!<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2617\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8666-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_114_-_Roller_Coaster.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_114_-_Roller_Coaster.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_114_-_Roller_Coaster.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_114_-_Roller_Coaster.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8666-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_114_-_Roller_Coaster.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_114_-_Roller_Coaster.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\/Episode_114_-_Roller_Coaster.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! You might like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-importance-of-being-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Craig Gidney and Ed Hermance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-mimi-pond-the-customer-is-always-wrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mimi Pond<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-102-the-sprinter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Claudia Young<\/a><\/li>\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-peace-poet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Bivona<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-112-remainder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clive James<\/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:\/\/virtualmemories.libsyn.com\/rss\" 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:\/\/bradgooch.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brad Gooch<\/a> is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062354957\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0062354957&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=JVZMKTCO2AGHJUU6\">Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard &amp; Art &amp; the &#8217;70s &amp; the &#8217;80s<\/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=0062354957\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (Harper) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316018996\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0316018996&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=X4MDUT53AXMBTDWD\">Flannery: A Life of Flannery O&#8217;Connor<\/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=0316018996\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (Little, Brown, 2009), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a <em>New York Times<\/em> Notable Book of the Year, and a New York Times bestseller. His previous books include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062303414\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0062303414&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=NRR55WKMAN6LPCTX\">City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O&#8217;Hara<\/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=0062303414\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>; as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679447091\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0679447091&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=XSI2TML7OYMN7E5W\">Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America<\/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=0679447091\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>; three novels&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1585674265\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1585674265&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=SKI2BP2Q3O4BHS73\">Scary Kisses<\/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=1585674265\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679447083\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0679447083&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=O3A5JBIHOXW7F247\">The Golden Age of Promiscuity<\/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=0679447083\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1585671878\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1585671878&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=4HFSHX6X6UAKHOTU\">Zombie 00<\/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=1585671878\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>; a collection of stories, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0933322178\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0933322178&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=LYUBEHXPSUXS62LI\">Jailbait and Other Stories<\/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=0933322178\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, chosen by Donald Barthelme for a Writer\u2019s Choice Award; a collection of poems, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0915990075\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0915990075&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=VUG67ED4BIRHIM74\">Daily News<\/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=0915990075\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>; and two previous memoirs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0743225309\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0743225309&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=Y3H4FW5Y7MDUUGOT\">Finding the Boyfriend Within<\/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=0743225309\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0743226690\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0743226690&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=CKCPXUDB4I5T6FSM\">Dating the Greek Gods<\/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=0743226690\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. His work has been featured in numerous magazines, including <em>The New Republic, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Travel and Leisure, Partisan Review, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Art Forum, Harper\u2019s Bazaar, The Nation,<\/em> and regularly on <em>The Daily Beast<\/em>. A Guggenheim fellow in Biography, he has received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and a Furthermore grant in publishing from the J.M. Kaplan Fund. A professor of English at William Paterson University, he earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University, and lives in New York City. He is currently writing a biography of the Sufi mystic poet Rumi.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Beautiful Child<em>\u00a0by Rufus Wainwright. The conversation was recorded at Mr. Gooch&#8217;s office 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. Gooch by me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories Show: Brad Gooch &#8211; Roller Coaster &#8220;History and culture are the rooms in which a person is living.&#8221; Brad Gooch joins the show to talk about his new memoir,\u00a0Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard &amp; Art &amp; the &#8217;70s &amp; the &#8217;80s (Harper). 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