{"id":8491,"date":"2015-01-05T20:17:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T00:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8491"},"modified":"2015-01-05T20:17:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T00:17:56","slug":"podcast-simple-tricks-and-nonsense-ep-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-simple-tricks-and-nonsense-ep-101","title":{"rendered":"Podcast &#8211; Simple Tricks and Nonsense (ep. 101)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Memories Show:<br \/>\nLevi Stahl &#8211; Simple Tricks and Nonsense<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8665\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8491-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.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_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8491-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.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;The biggest thing I learned editing <strong>The Getaway Car<\/strong> is that a working writer&#8217;s work is never done.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s kick off 2015 with a podcast about one of the 20th century&#8217;s great America writers, Donald Westlake! Our guest, Levi Stahl, is the editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/022612181X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=022612181X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=KNES7TS6TFMKQC3Y\">The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=022612181X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (University of Chicago Press). We talk about his history with Westlake&#8217;s crime novels, why Parker is Westlake&#8217;s greatest achievement, why the author wrote under so many pseudonyms, what it was like to be a working writer and how that concept may not exist nowadays, and what Westlake project he&#8217;d love to bring into print.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Levi Stahl on The Virtual Memories Show by Gil Roth, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/15374313603\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7506\/15374313603_8d57157ab6_z.jpg?w=440&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Levi Stahl on The Virtual Memories Show\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also talk about Levi&#8217;s day job as publicity manager for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">U of Chicago Press<\/a>, his advice for people looking to get into publishing, why he loves twitter, how the internet has helped and hurt book criticism, what makes him put a book down, what he&#8217;s learned about book marketing over the years, his favorite menswear store in NYC, how he can support both the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs, and more!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8666\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8491-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.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_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8491-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_101_-_Simple_Tricks_and_Nonsense.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\">the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! You might like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-bookmans-holiday\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Dirda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-slippery-animal\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Jay Friedman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-stick-and-move\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Deming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-wax-rhapsodic-2\" target=\"_blank\">Rupert Thomson<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemories.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ivebeenreadinglately.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Levi Stahl<\/a> is the publicity manager for the University of Chicago Press. He has served as the poetry editor for the Quarterly Conversation, and has written for the Poetry Foundation, the Chicago Reader, the Second Pass, the Bloomsbury Review, the Front Table, the New-York Ghost, the New York Moon, and McSweeneys Internet Tendency. He tweets at @levistahl<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Life of Crime<em>\u00a0by The Triffids. The conversation was recorded on a pair of <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=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=64RDM7RI2SABXGPL\">Blue enCORE 200 microphones<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002SQJLA4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> 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=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=DRHR6463DEQ4TO3N\">Zoom H5<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00KCXMBES\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> digital recorder. I recorded the intro and outro on a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002VA464S\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002VA464S&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue Yeti USB Microphone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002VA464S\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Processing was done in Audacity and Logic Pro. Photo of Mr. Stahl by me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories Show: Levi Stahl &#8211; Simple Tricks and Nonsense &#8220;The biggest thing I learned editing The Getaway Car is that a working writer&#8217;s work is never done.&#8221; Let&#8217;s kick off 2015 with a podcast about one of the 20th century&#8217;s great America writers, Donald Westlake! Our guest, Levi Stahl, is the editor of The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-simple-tricks-and-nonsense-ep-101\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast &#8211; Simple Tricks and Nonsense (ep. 101)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[632,27,1028,4,1183,32],"tags":[3193,1459,3210,3216,1014,3194,3206,3198,3200,3201,338,3214,3202,3207,3199,3195,3208,1930,3212,3217,3196,3205,3197,2937,1291,3204,1450,3209,3218,3213,283,3189,2510,322,2999,3190,3211,3203,3215,3191,3192],"class_list":["post-8491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-big-business","category-chicago","category-literature","category-podcasts","category-sports","tag-abby-westlake","tag-agatha-christie","tag-ali-smith","tag-alice-goffman","tag-bruce-jay-friedman","tag-charles-ardai","tag-choire-sicha","tag-dashiell-hammett","tag-david-morrell","tag-david-ramus","tag-donald-westlake","tag-dorothy-dunnett","tag-dortmunder","tag-edwin-drood","tag-ethan-iverson","tag-hard-case-crime","tag-hermione-lee","tag-hilary-mantel","tag-hild","tag-jeff-vandemeer","tag-john-d-macdonald","tag-king-of-comedy","tag-lawrence-block","tag-levi-stahl","tag-martin-scorsese","tag-max-allan-collins","tag-michael-dirda","tag-nero-wolfe","tag-nick-harkaway","tag-nicola-griffith","tag-otto-penzler","tag-parker","tag-penelope-fitzgerald","tag-raymond-chandler","tag-rex-stout","tag-richard-stark","tag-sam-sacks","tag-samuel-holt","tag-the-new-republic","tag-trent-reynolds","tag-violent-world-of-parker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-2cX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12757,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/my-books-of-the-decade-2010-2019","url_meta":{"origin":8491,"position":0},"title":"My Books of the Decade: 2010-2019","author":"Gil","date":"December 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Alphabetical by author: I Will Be Complete: A Memoir - Glen David Gold (podcast) Essays After Eighty - Donald Hall A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety - Donald Hall James Merrill: Life and Art - Langdon Hammer (podcast) The Witch of Lime Street: S\u00e9ance, Seduction, and Houdini in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1567.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1567.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1567.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1567.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8262,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-a-sense-of-someplace-to-go","url_meta":{"origin":8491,"position":1},"title":"Podcast &#8211; A Sense of Someplace To Go","author":"Gil","date":"October 6, 2014","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: Dmitry Samarov\u00a0- A Sense of Someplace To Go \"The great [storytelling] advantage to driving a cab is that you have the back of your head to the person. 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