Dorothy Gallagher's guest appearances

Dorothy Gallagher

The Virtual Memories Show

hr2 Neue Bücher

WDR 4 Bücher

Sarah Williams

Ashton Applewhite

Patti Smith

Kurt Andersen

David Shields

Bob Stein

Amy Stewart

Eddy Portnoy

Andrew Parker

Gary Clark

Bill Griffith

Ian McEwan

Anthony Horowitz

William Boyd

Kate Atkinson

OwlTail

Ein kurzes Buch, eigentlich ein Monolog: Eine Frau unterhält sich mit ihrem verstorbenen Mann darüber, wie sie jetzt lebt.

"Und was ich dir noch erzählen wollte" von Dorothy Gallagher

For my first in-person podcast since March 2020 (!), I talked with writer, memoirist &amp; biographer Dorothy Gallagher about her beautiful new collection, Stories I Forgot To Tell You (NYRB). We get into the 2010 death of her husband, literary editor &amp; raconteur Ben Sonnenberg, and how it took her five years before she could begin to write about him, the need to balance elegy and humor in her writing, and the importance of her early days working at Magazine Management (alongside the likes of Mario Puzo &amp; Bruce Jay Friedman). We also discuss whether things are "only things" or evidence of a life, why it's not good for a biographer to actively dislike her subject, the one biography she'd love to write, her atheist's notion of an afterlife (less eternal punishment/reward, more eternal cocktail hour), her favorite time &amp; place in NYC, why she misses flea markets, the impact/scars of her Communist upbringing, how she's handled the pandemic, and why the isolation would have driven her late husband nuts. • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

<p>For my first in-person podcast since March 2020 (!), I talked with writer, memoirist &amp; biographer <a href="https://www.nyrb.com/collections/dorothy-gallagher" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Dorothy Gallagher</a> about her beautiful new collection, <a href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/stories-i-forgot-to-tell-you" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Stories I Forgot To Tell You</a> (NYRB). We get into the 2010 death of her husband, literary editor &amp; raconteur <a href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/lost-property" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Ben Sonnenberg</a>, and how it took her five years before she could begin to write about him, the need to balance elegy and humor in her writing, and the importance of her early days working at Magazine Management (alongside the likes of Mario Puzo &amp; <a href="http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/bruce-jay-friedman-bonus-episode" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Bruce Jay Friedman</a>). We also discuss whether things are "only things" or evidence of a life, why it's not good for a biographer to actively dislike her subject, the one biography she'd love to write, her atheist's notion of an afterlife (less eternal punishment/reward, more eternal cocktail hour), her favorite time &amp; place in NYC, why she misses flea markets, the impact/scars of her Communist upbringing, how she's handled the pandemic, and why the isolation would have driven her late husband nuts. • More info <a href="http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-435-dorothy-gallagher" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">at our site</a> • Support The Virtual Memories Show via <a href="https://patreon.com/vmspod" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a> or <a href="https://paypal.me/vmspod" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Paypal</a></p>

Episode 435 - Dorothy Gallagher