{"id":16716,"date":"2024-04-02T14:56:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T18:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=16716"},"modified":"2024-04-02T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T18:56:33","slug":"episode-583-leela-corman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-583-leela-corman","title":{"rendered":"Episode 583 &#8211; Leela Corman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_583_-_Leela_Corman.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Memories Show 583:<br \/>\nLeela Corman<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5071\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-16716-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_583_-_Leela_Corman.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_583_-_Leela_Corman.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_583_-_Leela_Corman.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_583_-_Leela_Corman.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=16716-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_583_-_Leela_Corman.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_583_-_Leela_Corman.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<blockquote><p>&#8220;My positionality when I work with the Holocaust is not insular; it is my way of carrying my little corner of humanity&#8217;s coffin at the funeral.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9780805243444\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16717\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-583-leela-corman\/victory-parade-_-cover-art\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Victory-Parade-_-Cover-Art-scaled.jpg?fit=2219%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2219,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Victory Parade _ Cover Art\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Victory-Parade-_-Cover-Art-scaled.jpg?fit=525%2C606&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16717\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Victory-Parade-_-Cover-Art.jpg?resize=300%2C346\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Victory-Parade-_-Cover-Art-scaled.jpg?resize=381%2C440&amp;ssl=1 381w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Victory-Parade-_-Cover-Art-scaled.jpg?resize=537%2C620&amp;ssl=1 537w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Victory-Parade-_-Cover-Art-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C886&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Victory-Parade-_-Cover-Art-scaled.jpg?resize=1331%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1331w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Victory-Parade-_-Cover-Art-scaled.jpg?resize=1775%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1775w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Victory-Parade-_-Cover-Art-scaled.jpg?w=1050 1050w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Victory-Parade-_-Cover-Art-scaled.jpg?w=1575 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>At long last, artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leelacorman.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leela Corman<\/a> joins the show as we celebrate her breathtaking new graphic novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9780805243444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VICTORY PARADE<\/a> (Schocken Books)! We talk about how the book brings together the women welders of WWII-era Brooklyn Navy Yards, professional wrestling, and her lifelong obsession with the Shoah, how discovering her watercolor style was like the portal between life and death opening, the art school experience that derailed her, and how the artistic ground start shifting beneath her as she got serious about her comics. We get into her life-defining visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the sacred responsibility of teaching, the influence of New Objectivity (&amp; a bazillion other styles and modes of art &amp; storytelling) on her work, why she brought characters from her earlier GN <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9780805242591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unterzakhn<\/a> into <em>Victory Parade<\/em>, her twin polestars of Primo Levi &amp; Lisa Carver, and her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WUOOmqf9Xpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">music-comics collaboration with Thalia Zedek<\/a>. Plus we discuss the Gen X practice of warts-and-all autobio comics, transgenerational trauma and the next book in her &#8216;Birnbaumiad&#8217; triptych, the BS of artist&#8217;s statements, the revelation of Neko Case&#8217;s music, and a lot more. <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_583_-_Leela_Corman.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9780805243444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VICTORY PARADE<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;RAW made me realize how much I wanted to make comics, and WEIRDO made me realize I could.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4TGFetZbw2U?si=HYtlFwdH44PKrJxc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t make this book because of the 2016 election or of fascist politics on the rise; it was already percolating. But things can converge sometimes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/episode-583-leela-corman\/id531173075?i=1000651221227\" height=\"175\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I love performance, and backstage, and costumes, and the weird intersection of the pubic and private that performance is.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/5q0SVi5aI732FiAz7WMJK6?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Fuck permission. The world should consider itself lucky that I&#8217;m here to tell these stories.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_583_-_Leela_Corman.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!<\/p>\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=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/vmspod.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BlueSky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vmspod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXoLbP-9GbhHJZpCQP5TR5A\/videos?view_as=subscriber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/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\">good ol&#8217; RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leelacorman.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leela Corman<\/a> is a painter, educator, and graphic-novel creator, working in the realm of diaspora Ashkenazi culture and third-generation restorative work. Her books include <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9780805242591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unterzakhn<\/a>, which was nominated for an Eisner Award, a <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> Book Prize, and Le Prix Art\u00e9misia; won the 2015 Romics Prize for Best Anglo-American Comic; and received a 2023 MoCCA Arts Festival Award of Excellence, and the short comics collections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldmouse.press\/shop\/p\/you-are-not-a-guest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You Are Not a Guest<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9781940398518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We All Wish for Deadly Force<\/a>. Her work has appeared in many publications, including <em>The Believer, Nautilus<\/em>, and <em>The Nib<\/em>. She is a founding instructor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sequential Artists Workshop<\/a> and an instructor at Rhode Island School of Design. Her new book is <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9780805243444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victory Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Leela on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/leelacorman.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/leelacorman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, and support her work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/leela\/posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patreon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeelaCorman_byDenaRosenberg-scaled.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16719\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-583-leela-corman\/leelacorman_bydenarosenberg\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeelaCorman_byDenaRosenberg-scaled.jpg?fit=2190%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2190,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LeelaCorman_byDenaRosenberg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeelaCorman_byDenaRosenberg-scaled.jpg?fit=525%2C614&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16719\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeelaCorman_byDenaRosenberg.jpg?resize=525%2C614\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeelaCorman_byDenaRosenberg-scaled.jpg?resize=530%2C620&amp;ssl=1 530w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeelaCorman_byDenaRosenberg-scaled.jpg?resize=376%2C440&amp;ssl=1 376w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeelaCorman_byDenaRosenberg-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C898&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeelaCorman_byDenaRosenberg-scaled.jpg?resize=1314%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1314w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeelaCorman_byDenaRosenberg-scaled.jpg?resize=1752%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1752w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeelaCorman_byDenaRosenberg-scaled.jpg?w=1050 1050w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeelaCorman_byDenaRosenberg-scaled.jpg?w=1575 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Fella<em>\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/may4th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hal Mayforth<\/a>, used with permission from\u00a0the artist. The conversation was recorded at Leela&#8217;s home on a pair of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Rvj3R6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blue enCORE 200<\/a> microphones feeding into a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Q9Br0z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zoom PodTrak P4<\/a> digital recorder &amp; interface. I recorded the intro and outro on a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3cGZ1Em\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone<\/a> feeding into a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Q9Br0z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zoom PodTrak P4<\/a>. All processing and editing done in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3RwlQsW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adobe Audition CC<\/a>. Photo of Leela by Dena Rosenberg. It&#8217;s on my <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories Show 583: Leela Corman &#8220;My positionality when I work with the Holocaust is not insular; it is my way of carrying my little corner of humanity&#8217;s coffin at the funeral.&#8221; At long last, artist Leela Corman joins the show as we celebrate her breathtaking new graphic novel, VICTORY PARADE (Schocken Books)! We talk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-583-leela-corman\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 583 &#8211; Leela Corman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16718,"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":[22,26,46,4,1083,40,1183,17,18,20],"tags":[3838,7378,7374,1141,7382,3453,7356,7298,7381,96,7373,7376,2658,2047,3466,2912,6024,6943,7383,1430,643,7386,628,7048,7372,1792,7375,7380,7385,7377,6975,7379,3826,7384],"class_list":["post-16716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-design","category-literature","category-movies","category-music","category-podcasts","category-politics-explicit","category-politics-implicit","category-religion","tag-aline-kominsky-crumb","tag-alphonse-mucha","tag-altie-karper","tag-beto-hernandez","tag-blixa-bargeld","tag-brad-gooch","tag-edith-hall","tag-elizabeth-flock","tag-fatih-akin","tag-jaime-hernandez","tag-jean-louis-costes","tag-jonathan-glazer","tag-karl-ove-knausgaard","tag-kaz","tag-keith-haring","tag-kim-deitch","tag-leela-corman","tag-len-bias","tag-lisa-carver","tag-lynda-barry","tag-martin-amis","tag-meredith-monk","tag-neko-case","tag-nick-cave","tag-pedro-almodovar-2","tag-primo-levi","tag-roland-s-howard","tag-rothko","tag-tanya-tagaq","tag-thalia-zedek","tag-thomas-woodruff","tag-thurston-moore","tag-tom-hart","tag-william-kentridge","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/corman2024comp.jpg?fit=2000%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-4lC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17239,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-618-the-guest-list-2024","url_meta":{"origin":16716,"position":0},"title":"Episode 618 &#8211; The Guest List 2024","author":"Gil","date":"December 22, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: The Guest List 2024 It's time for our year-end Virtual Memories Show tradition, now celebrating its twelfth anniversary: The Guest List! 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Everything feels like the old form. I'm giving myself that luxury. 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