{"id":2408,"date":"2014-09-18T08:27:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2014-09-18T08:27:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:27:59","slug":"los-angeles-review-of-books-podcast-sean-wilsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2408","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast: Sean Wilsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/larb.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/wilsey-243x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">I talk\u00a0with Sean Wilsey, author of the memoir\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #444444;\">Oh the Glory of It All<\/em><span style=\"color: #444444;\">, and co-editor of the collections\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #444444;\">The Thinking Fan&#8217;s Guide to the World Cup<\/em><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #444444;\">State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America<\/em><span style=\"color: #444444;\">. In his new volume of essays,\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #444444;\">More Curious<\/em><span style=\"color: #444444;\">, Wilsey investigates the artistic and social realms of Marfa, Texas, compulsively buys precision-engineered German appliances on Craigslist, investigates the causes of NASA&#8217;s diminishing relevance to the national consciousness, and returns to his days as a <em>Thrasher<\/em>-reading San Francisco skater.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You\u00a0can listen to the conversation\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #444444;\">on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/interview\/podcast-68-sean-wilsey\">the\u00a0<em>LARB\u2019<\/em>s site<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, or download it\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/la-review-of-books\/id493864450\">on iTunes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talk\u00a0with Sean Wilsey, author of the memoir\u00a0Oh the Glory of It All, and co-editor of the collections\u00a0The Thinking Fan&#8217;s Guide to the World Cup\u00a0and\u00a0State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America. In his new volume of essays,\u00a0More Curious, Wilsey investigates the artistic and social realms of Marfa, Texas, compulsively buys precision-engineered German appliances on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles-review-of-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","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=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}