{"id":7016,"date":"2013-04-15T06:32:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T10:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=7016"},"modified":"2013-04-15T06:38:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T10:38:23","slug":"the-wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-wish-list","title":{"rendered":"The Wish List"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know my podcast is an amateur pursuit, and thus isn’t a draw for high-profile guests. Nonetheless, I keep a Dream List of guests I’d love to interview. I like to think some of them are actually gettable, if only because my idea of a tough guest is often someone no one else is even interested in interviewing.<\/p>\n

The one guest I despair I’ll never get is Clive James<\/a>, partly because his renown as an interviewer might mean that he doesn’t have much respect for this DIY form I work in, but mainly because his health has been so poor and I don’t have any UK travel coming up.<\/p>\n

Lucky for me, this interview he just did in the NYTimes<\/a>\u00a0on the eve of his publication of his new translation of The Divine Comedy<\/a>\"\" answers many of the questions that I would have put to him. Still, I’m sad that I’ll (probably) never get to meet Mr. James, even if all I would do is thank him for writing Cultural Amnesia<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know my podcast is an amateur pursuit, and thus isn’t a draw for high-profile guests. Nonetheless, I keep a Dream List of guests I’d love to interview. I like to think some of them are actually gettable, if only because my idea of a tough guest is often someone no one else is even … <\/p>\n

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