{"id":9227,"date":"2015-12-07T21:26:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T01:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=9227"},"modified":"2015-12-08T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T12:55:34","slug":"episode-146-david-jaher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-146-david-jaher","title":{"rendered":"Episode 146 – David Jaher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show #146:
\nDavid Jaher<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Like most people, I associated the Jazz Age with gaiety and decadence, but what I came to recognize was the underlying fear that, after World War I and the influenza epidemic, rather than heading toward a new enlightened era, the world was headed to a new Dark Age.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"witchcover\"<\/a>There’s a reason I don’t do those “best books of the year” until the end<\/em> of the year; you might come across a fantastic one in November or December! David Jaher<\/a>‘s new nonfiction book, The Witch of Lime Street: S\u00e9ance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World<\/a>\"\"\u00a0(Crown), might be my absolute fave from 2015! It’s both a ridiculously entertaining page-turner about Houdini’s duel with a high-class medium in Boston in the 1920s, and a remarkable study of the Spiritualism craze and humanity’s deep-rooted need to hear word from beyond the grave. David and I\u00a0have a great conversation about the book,the origins of ectoplasm, his history with Houdini, researching and writing the Jazz Age, the nature of fame, David’s career as an astrologer, and more!\u00a0Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Seriously, The Witch of Lime Street<\/em> is a remarkable book (go read Cass Sunstein’s review of it in the NYRB<\/a>) and deserves a wide audience, so\u00a0go listen<\/a>\u00a0to our conversation and then go buy the book<\/a>!
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We talk about some books in this episode. Here’s a list of them:<\/p>\n