{"id":146,"date":"2007-06-13T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T20:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=146"},"modified":"2012-02-26T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T15:23:19","slug":"bss-117-scarlett-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/bss-117-scarlett-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Thomas (BSS #117)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scarlett Thomas is most recently the author of <i>The End of Mr. Y<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/sthomas.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sthomas\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3096\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-146-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=146-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo117.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 57:51 &#8212; 53.0MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookgirl.org\/\">Scarlett Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Recovering from Scarlett fever.<\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> Prodigious fiction authors, pursuing the novel of ideas, <i>Neuromancer<\/i>, moving away from families to loner characters, striving for authenticity in a middle-class literary culture, smart women characters and sex, breaking rules, codebreaking, academic environments in novels, plots dictated by ideas, the importance of preplanning a novel in a notebook, the relationship between teaching and writing, the difference between a reader and a reading audience, the dangers of information processing, Derrida, relative narrative vs. the Jungian collective unconscious, devising the troposphere, the mashing up of literary and genre, Arturo Perez-Reverte, the question of whether genre is superior or inferior, formulaic plots, narrative ambiguity in the novel of ideas, responding to Mark Sarvas&#8217;s narrative quibble about <i>The End of Mr. Y<\/i>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/magazine\/story\/0,11913,1596540,00.html\">the New Puritans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B> <\/p>\n<p><b>Thomas:<\/b> The family in the Lily Pascale novels was very much a combination of a fantasy and a lie.  I mean, I&#8217;ve had quite &#8212; I guess everybody&#8217;s had a strange crazy life in some ways.  But for me, I knew when I was a teenager that I didn&#8217;t want to have children for myself.  I didn&#8217;t have a cozy, middle-class upbringing at all.  My life was really very complex growing up.  And when I decided I was going to write, I almost made this weird decision at the very beginning of my career that I was going to write as a kind of mask.  I was going to do something completely different from what I try to do know.  I mean, now, authenticity is very, very important to me.  At the time, I felt like writing was kind of a game, a construction. And I don&#8217;t know why I created such a nauseating bourgeois family back then. I think partly, I wanted to come from that.  Because then my life would make a more usual kind of sense.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3097\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-146-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=146-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo117.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 57:51 &#8212; 53.0MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scarlett Thomas is most recently the author of The End of Mr. Y. 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Subjects Discussed: Prodigious fiction authors, pursuing the novel of ideas, Neuromancer, moving away from families to loner characters, striving for authenticity in a middle-class literary culture, smart women characters and sex, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3098\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-146-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=146-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo117.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo117.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 57:51 &#8212; 53.0MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1084],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}