{"id":1396,"date":"2013-03-17T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2013-03-17T17:13:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:13:39","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s3e16-autobiology-with-kurt-hollander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S3E16: Autobiology with Kurt Hollander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1397\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"kurthollander\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kurthollander.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City&#8217;s Colonia Condesa with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurthollander.com\/\">Kurt Hollander<\/a>, photographer, filmmaker, magazine editor, and author of <em>Several Ways to Die in Mexico City: An Autobiography<\/em>. They discuss his microbiologically informed view of life; the presence of death in Mexico, especially since people there now die developed-world deaths <em>and<\/em>, to an extent, developing-world deaths; his first enjoyment of Mexico&#8217;s working-class culture, and his perspective, as an American, on American cultural encroachment; his earlier life on New York&#8217;s Lower East Side, a barrio which prepared him for the one-huge-barrio that is Mexico City; the importance of &#8220;doing New York right&#8221; to subsequently spending time in other major cities; what he learned publishing the magazine <em>The Portable Lower East Side<\/em>; what kind of immigration makes a place more interesting, and what kind of immigration makes a place less so; how moving to Mexico City presented him the greatest learning curve of his life; when, and how, he got sick and didn&#8217;t seem like he would get better; how danger makes culture, which he considers to be the accumulation of survival strategies; what it means to adapt to a culture, and what bearing doing so has on your survival; his strategies for seeking out the remaining strongholds of working-class culture, such as riding the Metro and exploring the miniature economies that grow in its stations; the importance of the pulqueria, and other places Mexicans warn foreigners away from; and how he has never felt in harm&#8217;s way in Mexico City, despite respecting nothing, criticizing everything, and always going with the more dramatic story.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e16-autobiology-with-kurt-hollander\"><em>Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em>\u2019s feed<\/a> or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City&#8217;s Colonia Condesa with Kurt Hollander, photographer, filmmaker, magazine editor, and author of Several Ways to Die in Mexico City: An Autobiography. They discuss his microbiologically informed view of life; the presence of death in Mexico, especially since people there now die developed-world deaths and, to an extent, developing-world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico-city","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}