{"id":260,"date":"2008-02-19T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/charles-baxter-bss-179\/"},"modified":"2012-02-25T20:21:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T01:21:58","slug":"charles-baxter-bss-179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/charles-baxter-bss-179\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Baxter (BSS #179)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Baxter is most recently the author of <i>The Soul Thief<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/baxter.jpg' alt='baxter.jpg' align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9839\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-260-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo179.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo179.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo179.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo179.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=260-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo179.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo179.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 33:50 &#8212; 31.0MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Vengeful towards literary ransackers.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesbaxter.com\/\">Charles Baxter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><B>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> Nathaniel Branden, Ayn Rand, intellectualism and the academic community, reductionist dialogue, being a grad student in the 1970s, Baxter&#8217;s recurrent water motif, placing a novel in Buffalo, getting the setting right, conversations in Volkswagen Beetles, Lucas Samaras&#8217;s Mirrored Room, manufacturing images, <i>The Feast of Love<\/i> as film adaptation, whether or not Los Angeles has seen better times, pretentious words, overly precise details, Tolstoy, occupying a place without people, <i>The Twilight Zone<\/i>, antipodean characters, William Maxwell, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believermag.com\/issues\/200802\/?read=article_baxters\">&#8220;The Chaos Machine,&#8221;<\/a> whether the written word is permanent, the revelatory ending of <i>The Soul Thief<\/i> (sans spoilers), fundamentalist readers, novels as models of lives, sponging off experience, playing by the rules and objective narratives, real-life burglars vs. soul thieves, Steve Erickson&#8217;s <i>Zeroville<\/i>, and plots as chessboards.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B><\/p>\n<p><b>Baxter:<\/b> I don&#8217;t mean to interrupt your question, but I think it is very much a process of the last thirty years.  It&#8217;s been the time &#8212; the last three decades &#8212; when it&#8217;s been most noticeable.  That cities have become museums of what it was they once made.  And that&#8217;s not true for Los Angeles.  But it is true for Minneapolis.  If you go down to where I live, you go down to the Mississippi River, you&#8217;ll see grain mills that once were there.  You will see the Mill City Museum.  What you will see is a simulacrum &#8212; another pretentious word &#8212; of what was once there and isn&#8217;t there anymore.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> By the way, you can throw as many pretentious words here as you like.  It doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p><b>Baxter:<\/b> Okay, thanks.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> No judgment here.  (<i>laughs<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><b>Baxter:<\/b> I appreciate it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9840\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-260-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo179.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo179.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo179.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo179.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=260-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo179.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo179.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 33:50 &#8212; 31.0MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Baxter is most recently the author of The Soul Thief. 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