Michael talks with Erin Langner about working in museums, getting into art and writing and museology, her essay collection Souvenirs from Paradise (Zone 3 Press), the space between reality and fantasy, tourist cities, historical cities as myth, Vegas as a mirror for the self, internal experience of artifice and spectacle, attempting to touch the real, memorializing tragedy, mapping the structure of the book, personal essay as museum, and more.
Erin Langner is the author of the debut essay collection Souvenirs from Paradise, which is out now from Zone 3 Press. She is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic and METROPOLIS magazines, and her writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Fourth Genre, december, The Offing, and The Normal School. She works on exhibitions and publications at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle.
Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.
