{"id":13131,"date":"2020-04-12T11:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13131"},"modified":"2020-04-12T11:27:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T15:27:43","slug":"episode-368-tess-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-368-tess-lewis","title":{"rendered":"Episode 368 &#8211; Tess Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_368_-_Tess_Lewis.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Memories Show 368: <\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_368_-_Tess_Lewis.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Tess Lewis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1437\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13131-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_368_-_Tess_Lewis.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_368_-_Tess_Lewis.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_368_-_Tess_Lewis.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_368_-_Tess_Lewis.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=13131-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_368_-_Tess_Lewis.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_368_-_Tess_Lewis.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=\"https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>&#8220;Oblivion works its way through the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Translator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesslewis.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tess Lewis<\/a> joins the show to talk about co-curating the 2020 (now 2021) edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/festivalneueliteratur.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Festival Neue Literatur<\/a>, why editing a bad translation is much tougher than just translating it yourself, the book she&#8217;s proudest of translating (Maja Haderlap&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesslewis.org\/books#\/new-gallery-35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Angel of Oblivion<\/a>), and the project that is the most difficult (Ludwig Hohl&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gf.org\/fellows\/all-fellows\/tess-lewis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Notizen<\/a>), how the business and culture has changed, her dream project of translating Montaigne (swoon!), and how literature \u2014 especially in translation \u2014 can disrupt the familiar and familiarize what seems strange. <em>This episode was intended to promote the Festival Neue Literatur, which was to be held April 23-26, 2020 but has been postponed along with everything else; I decided to keep it all to remind us of The Before Times.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_368_-_Tess_Lewis.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Give it a listen!<\/a> And go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesslewis.org\/books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some of Tess&#8217; translations<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>&#8220;A constant discussion among translators: what is the right tone, how close should you be, how much should you reinvent?&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tHYyS6qEVfQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>&#8220;Montaigne is one of those writers who never ages, but his translations do.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/1dAFfQfubhX7hyHUpwcDVo\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/embed\/player\/t141572298\/\" style=\"width:100%; height:100px;\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_368_-_Tess_Lewis.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>&nbsp;Then check out&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the archives<\/a>&nbsp;for more great episodes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of ways to follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em>! <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vmspod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXoLbP-9GbhHJZpCQP5TR5A\/videos?view_as=subscriber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemories.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesslewis.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tess Lewis<\/a> is a writer and translator from French and German. Her translations include works by Peter Handke, Walter Benjamin, Klaus Merz, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Christine Angot, Pascal Bruckner and Jean-Luc Benoziglio. She has been awarded grants from PEN USA, PEN UK, and the NEA, a Max Geilinger Translation Grant for her translation of Philippe Jaccottet, the ACFNY Translation Prize and the 2017 PEN Translation Prize for her translation of the novel <em>Angel of Oblivion<\/em> by the Austrian writer Maja Haderlap, and most recently a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She is Co-chair of the PEN Translation Committee and Advisory Editor for <em>The Hudson Review<\/em>. Her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesslewis.org\/reviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">essays and reviews<\/a> have appeared in a number of journals and newspapers including <em>Bookforum, Partisan Review, The Hudson Review, World Literature Today, The Wall Street Journal<\/em> and <em>The American Scholar<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Fella<em>&nbsp;by <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/may4th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hal Mayforth<\/a>, used with permission from&nbsp;the artist. The conversation was recorded at Tess&#8217; home on a pair of&nbsp;<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=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=URDAV7Z2QAHX4UAB\">Blue enCORE 200 Microphones<\/a> 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=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=4WKYIFHCCL6N44BR\">Zoom H5<\/a> digital recorder. I recorded the intro and outro on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000SOYOTQ\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000SOYOTQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=04f89e1b44161aff17be7ee9479f6d64\">Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone<\/a> feeding into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004MQSV04\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004MQSV04&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=1a177654d0c55797588bc43949ef369e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cloudlifter CL-1<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003VZG550\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B003VZG550&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=M2DKYCZ52E6ZFUA3\">Mackie Onyx Blackjack 2&#215;2 USB Recording Interface<\/a>. All processing and editing done in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00DRPVEUK\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00DRPVEUK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=902a694e24a241f7cee18f483a6ce2dd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adobe Audition CC<\/a>. Photo of Tess by me. It&#8217;s on my <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories Show 368: Tess Lewis &#8220;Oblivion works its way through the world.&#8221; Translator Tess Lewis joins the show to talk about co-curating the 2020 (now 2021) edition of Festival Neue Literatur, why editing a bad translation is much tougher than just translating it yourself, the book she&#8217;s proudest of translating (Maja Haderlap&#8217;s Angel of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-368-tess-lewis\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 368 &#8211; Tess Lewis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","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":[4,1183,18],"tags":[5983,3331,5989,5988,1586,5987,5986,118,5990,5985,5991,4115,5984,2774],"class_list":["post-13131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","category-podcasts","category-politics-implicit","tag-alois-hotschnig","tag-anthea-bell","tag-doron-rabinovici","tag-jean-luc-benoziglio","tag-john-le-carre","tag-ludwig-hohl","tag-maja-haderlap","tag-montaigne","tag-norman-manea","tag-peter-handke","tag-philippe-jaccottet","tag-ross-benjamin","tag-tess-lewis","tag-walter-benjamin","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/tesslewiscomp.jpg?fit=1780%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-3pN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14829,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-459-tess-lewis-and-alta-price","url_meta":{"origin":13131,"position":0},"title":"Episode 459 &#8211; Tess Lewis and Alta Price","author":"Gil","date":"November 10, 2021","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 459: Tess Lewis & Alta L. Price \"'Turn And Face The Strange' is a pretty ideal theme not just for the era we're living, but the particular books we chose for the festival.\" They were among the last people I recorded with before lockdown, and now translators\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Chicago&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Chicago","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/chicago"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/tessalta2021comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/tessalta2021comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/tessalta2021comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/tessalta2021comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/tessalta2021comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13193,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-370-alta-l-price","url_meta":{"origin":13131,"position":1},"title":"Episode 370 &#8211; Alta L Price","author":"Gil","date":"April 20, 2020","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 370: Alta L. Price \"Books were my first drug.\" Translator Alta L. Price joins the show to talk about co-curating the 2020 (now 2021) edition of Festival Neue Literatur with Tess Lewis. We talk about the bureaucratic snafu that led her into a life of translation, how\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/altapricecomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C529&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/altapricecomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C529&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/altapricecomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C529&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/altapricecomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C529&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/altapricecomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C529&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17548,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-640-cecile-wajsbrot","url_meta":{"origin":13131,"position":2},"title":"Episode 640 &#8211; Cecile Wajsbrot","author":"Gil","date":"May 27, 2025","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 640: C\u00e9cile Wajsbrot \"What struck me was the coincidence, the collusion between what Virginia Woolf was describing in Time Passes and the things I saw in that documentary about the Forbidden Zone.\" With her bewitching and beautiful novel NEVERMORE (Seagull Books, translated from French by Tess Lewis,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/wajsbrotcomp.jpg?fit=1177%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/wajsbrotcomp.jpg?fit=1177%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/wajsbrotcomp.jpg?fit=1177%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/wajsbrotcomp.jpg?fit=1177%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/wajsbrotcomp.jpg?fit=1177%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14095,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-412-the-guest-list-2020","url_meta":{"origin":13131,"position":3},"title":"Episode 412 &#8211; The Guest List 2020","author":"Gil","date":"December 13, 2020","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: The Guest List 2020 It's time for our year-end Virtual Memories Show tradition: The Guest List! I reached out to 2020's pod-guests and asked them about the favorite book(s) they read in the past year, as well as the books or authors they're hoping to read in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020books-scaled.jpeg?fit=1029%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020books-scaled.jpeg?fit=1029%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020books-scaled.jpeg?fit=1029%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020books-scaled.jpeg?fit=1029%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14172,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-416-wendung","url_meta":{"origin":13131,"position":4},"title":"Episode 416 &#8211; Wendung","author":"Gil","date":"January 11, 2021","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 416: Wendung \"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves,\" said George Orwell, but he died at 47, so what does he know? To celebrate turning 50, I use an obscure Woody Allen movie to talk about why I can't take stock of my life. Then the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7283.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7283.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7283.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7283.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7283.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9466,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-156-ross-benjamin","url_meta":{"origin":13131,"position":5},"title":"Episode 156 &#8211; Ross Benjamin","author":"Gil","date":"February 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show #156: Ross Benjamin \"As a translator, your initial feeling is, 'I want to inhabit this text.' There's a primary identification, a mirror effect, where you see your own creative possibilities reflected there, and want to realize them through this text.\" The 7th annual Festival Neue Literatur\u00a0is Feb.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"Seriously-Funny-Prof-Pic-v2-1-300x300","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Seriously-Funny-Prof-Pic-v2-1-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13131"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13140,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13131\/revisions\/13140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}