{"id":2263,"date":"2011-03-20T21:03:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T01:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2011-03-20T21:03:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T01:03:23","slug":"all-that-survives-of-my-1972-interview-with-isaac-asimov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/20\/all-that-survives-of-my-1972-interview-with-isaac-asimov\/","title":{"rendered":"All that survives of my 1972 interview with Isaac Asimov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I interviewed Isaac Asimov on November 7, 1972&#8212;Election Day&#8212;for my high school alternative newspaper, <em>Kong<\/em>. When I ran across the tape last year, I discovered to my horror that three years later, I&#8217;d recorded over the first 31 minutes of that tape with a second interview, this one with Steve Gerber. So all that remains of my Asimov interview are these concluding five minutes. <\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t hate me &#8230; but you&#8217;re free to hate the impetuous 19-year-old me who reused the tape!<\/p>\n<p> The photo embedded on the video below shows us in Doubleday&#8217;s Park Avenue offices. Isaac is wearing his traditional bolo necktie. Unfortunately, I can be seen wearing a puka shell necklace, which I guess I thought was cool back when I was 17. <\/p>\n<p>We discuss the sexual aspects of <em>The Gods Themselves<\/em>, the number of typewriters he owns, his advice for breaking into the business, and more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KijREk1Hfeo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the one who asks the first complete question about the collection <em>The Early Asimov<\/em>, and it&#8217;s Asimov, of course, who answers. The third voice is that of high school classmate Eric Shalit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I interviewed Isaac Asimov on November 7, 1972&#8212;Election Day&#8212;for my high school alternative newspaper, Kong. When I ran across the tape last year, I discovered to my horror that three years later, I&#8217;d recorded over the first 31 minutes of that tape with a second interview, this one with Steve Gerber. So all that remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,56,10],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-isaac-asimov","tag-science-fiction","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}