{"id":17225,"date":"2024-12-17T17:11:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=17225"},"modified":"2024-12-17T17:11:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:11:19","slug":"episode-617-benjamin-swett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-617-benjamin-swett","title":{"rendered":"Episode 617 &#8211; Benjamin Swett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_617_-_Benjamin_Swett.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Memories Show 617:<br \/>\nBenjamin Swett<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6120\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17225-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_617_-_Benjamin_Swett.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_617_-_Benjamin_Swett.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_617_-_Benjamin_Swett.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_617_-_Benjamin_Swett.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=17225-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_617_-_Benjamin_Swett.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_617_-_Benjamin_Swett.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;You&#8217;re looking through a camera at the world and the camera is helping you to see outside yourself better.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9781681378633\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17228\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-617-benjamin-swett\/thepicturenottaken-jpg\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThePictureNotTaken.jpg.jpeg?fit=1725%2C2550&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1725,2550\" 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;1734338695&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=\"ThePictureNotTaken.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThePictureNotTaken.jpg.jpeg?fit=419%2C620&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17228\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThePictureNotTaken.jpg.jpeg?resize=280%2C414\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThePictureNotTaken.jpg.jpeg?resize=298%2C440&amp;ssl=1 298w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThePictureNotTaken.jpg.jpeg?resize=419%2C620&amp;ssl=1 419w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThePictureNotTaken.jpg.jpeg?resize=768%2C1135&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThePictureNotTaken.jpg.jpeg?resize=1039%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1039w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThePictureNotTaken.jpg.jpeg?resize=1385%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1385w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThePictureNotTaken.jpg.jpeg?w=1725&amp;ssl=1 1725w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThePictureNotTaken.jpg.jpeg?w=1575 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>With <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9781681378633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography<\/a> (NYRB), <a href=\"https:\/\/benjaminswett.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin Swett<\/a> brings us a subtly beautiful series of essays that explore memory and identity and what we <em>really<\/em> see in the viewfinder. We talk about the role of photography in his life, how Musil, Sebald, and Knausgaard and taught him to trust digressions, the freedom to be found in the essay, how working in the NYC Parks Dept. led him into some strange career choices, and the challenge (&amp; reward) of <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9781581574425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photographing trees<\/a>. We get into our respective rebellions against our fathers and linearity, the loss of his daughter and how her shadow looms over the book, his idea for a negative-autobiography and my own photo-text project, how his family felt about being included in the essays, and the moment he felt comfortable moving from film to digital. We also discuss his 9\/11 and what it revealed to him about himself, how the constraint of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/benjaminswettnyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram captions<\/a> can lead to good storytelling, the ~30-year gap he took to finish his MFA, the benefits of leaning in to awkwardness and self-revelation, and a lot more. <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_617_-_Benjamin_Swett.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9781681378633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Picture Not Taken<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have this feeling that when I combine photographs and text, it has to be autobiographical.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/go_wP6S_tLM?si=DhPVNRZfM_bSJVNs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/episode-617-benjamin-swett\/id531173075?i=1000680749334\" 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;Reviewing the book, I think I found the self I was when I wrote the essays, but I also realized there was more, there were other ways of approaching things that I&#8217;d like to try again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/4zSjio2ZhIzbh6kguWXKGL?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_617_-_Benjamin_Swett.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=\"https:\/\/benjaminswett.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin Swett<\/a> is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/benjaminswett.com\/route-22-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Route 22<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9781581574425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City of Trees<\/a>, which won the 2013 New York City Book Award for Photography. He teaches writing at the City College of New York and was named the Larry Lederman Photography Fellow at the New York Botanical Garden for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Benjamin on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/benjaminswettnyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0770-scaled.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17229\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-617-benjamin-swett\/img_0770\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0770-scaled.jpeg?fit=1920%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 14 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1733574893&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.69&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0770\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0770-scaled.jpeg?fit=465%2C620&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17229\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0770.jpeg?resize=465%2C620\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0770-scaled.jpeg?resize=465%2C620&amp;ssl=1 465w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0770-scaled.jpeg?resize=330%2C440&amp;ssl=1 330w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0770-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0770-scaled.jpeg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0770-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0770-scaled.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0770-scaled.jpeg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/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 Benjamin&#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>. Nice photo of Benjamin by Harry Wilks; the one&#8217;s by me. 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 617: Benjamin Swett &#8220;You&#8217;re looking through a camera at the world and the camera is helping you to see outside yourself better.&#8221; With The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography (NYRB), Benjamin Swett brings us a subtly beautiful series of essays that explore memory and identity and what we really see &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-617-benjamin-swett\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 617 &#8211; Benjamin Swett&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17226,"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":[25,22,4,1183],"tags":[1021,7747,2616,1171,7750,2658,2237,7748,7321,7749,4149,1895,2920,3340,887],"class_list":["post-17225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-literature","category-podcasts","tag-anthony-bourdain","tag-benjamin-swett","tag-edwin-frank","tag-flaubert","tag-john-nordell","tag-karl-ove-knausgaard","tag-michael-ondaatje","tag-morgan-fleisig","tag-olga-tokarczuk","tag-rebecca-norris-webb","tag-robert-musil","tag-sven-birkerts","tag-thomas-mann","tag-wg-sebald","tag-william-gaddis","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/swettcomp.jpg?fit=1715%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-4tP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17239,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-618-the-guest-list-2024","url_meta":{"origin":17225,"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! I reached out to 2024's pod-guests and asked them about the favorite book(s) they read in the past year, as well as the books or authors\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_2197.jpeg?fit=1200%2C583&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2197.jpeg?fit=1200%2C583&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2197.jpeg?fit=1200%2C583&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2197.jpeg?fit=1200%2C583&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2197.jpeg?fit=1200%2C583&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16633,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-577-scott-guild","url_meta":{"origin":17225,"position":1},"title":"Episode 577 &#8211; Scott Guild","author":"Gil","date":"February 20, 2024","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 577: Scott Guild \"I wish I could've understood the book I wanted to write and written it in one go, but here we are, 10 years later.\" With his fantastic debut novel, PLASTIC (Pantheon), Scott Guild brings us a dystopian future of eco-terrorism, meta-reality, and . .\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\/guildcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C740&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/guildcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C740&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/guildcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C740&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/guildcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C740&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/guildcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C740&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9515,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-159-burton-pike","url_meta":{"origin":17225,"position":2},"title":"Episode 159 &#8211; Burton Pike","author":"Gil","date":"March 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show #159: Burton Pike \"When you translate, you are digging into not so much the psyche of the author but the psyche of the author's use of language.\" Translator and emeritus literature professor Burton Pike joins the show to talk about his lifetime in the arts, the musicality\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"25540193895_62b4490de7_z","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/25540193895_62b4490de7_z-620x425.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/25540193895_62b4490de7_z-620x425.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/25540193895_62b4490de7_z-620x425.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15641,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-511-marina-warner","url_meta":{"origin":17225,"position":3},"title":"Episode 511 &#8211; Marina Warner","author":"Gil","date":"November 8, 2022","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 511: Marina Warner \"In my old age I've become haunted by my parents.\" Writer, professor & critic Marina Warner joins the show to talk about her new book about her parents, Esmond and Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir (New York Review Books). 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