{"id":7742,"date":"2018-05-25T10:31:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=7742"},"modified":"2018-05-25T10:31:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:31:55","slug":"nathaniel-popkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/nathaniel-popkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Popkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9835\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7742-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/NathanielPopkin.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/NathanielPopkin.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/NathanielPopkin.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7744 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NathanielPopkin-headshot.jpg?resize=300%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NathanielPopkin-headshot.jpg?resize=300%2C265&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NathanielPopkin-headshot.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielpopkin.net\/\">Nathaniel Popkin<\/a> is the author of five books, including the new novel\u00a0<em>Everything is Borrowed<\/em>\u00a0(New Door Books), called \u201cutterly absorbing\u201d by the writer Robin Black, and the co-editor of\u00a0<em>Who Will Speak for America?<\/em>, a literary anthology in response to the American political crisis, forthcoming in June 2018 (Temple University Press). He is the fiction review editor of\u00a0<em>Cleaver Magazine<\/em>, as well as a prolific book critic\u2014and National Book Critics Circle member\u2014focusing on literary fiction and works in translation. His work has appeared in the\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Public Books<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Rumpus<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Tablet Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0<em>LitHub<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Millions<\/em>, and the\u00a0<em>Kenyon Review<\/em>, among other publications.<\/p>\n<p>As a keen observer of cities and lived places, Popkin has often turned his eye to the layers of history and life in his own city. He\u2019s the founding co-editor of the\u00a0<em>Hidden City Daily<\/em>, a web magazine that covers architecture, design, planning, and preservation in Philadelphia, and the co-author of the 2017 work of non-fiction,\u00a0<em>Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City<\/em>\u00a0(Temple University Press). He\u2019s also the senior writer and story editor of the multi-part documentary film series \u201cPhiladelphia: The Great Experiment,\u201d for which his work has been recognized with several Emmy awards. He was the guest architecture critic of the\u00a0<em>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>\u00a0from 2011-12.<\/p>\n<p>Popkin\u2019s first novel,\u00a0<em>Lion and Leopard<\/em>\u00a0(The Head and The Hand Press), is a mediation on originality and influence in art. It reimagines the life and tragic death of the first great American genre painter, John Lewis Krimmel.\u00a0<em>Lion and Leopard<\/em>\u00a0was a finalist for the Foreword Reviews Indie Book of the Year Award, and novelist Ken Kalfus described it as \u201chistorical literary fiction at its most engaging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Lion and Leopard<\/em>\u00a0followed two books of literary non-fiction, the 2002\u00a0<em>Song of the City<\/em>(Four Walls Eight Windows\/Basic Books) and the 2008 essay collection,\u00a0<em>The Possible City<\/em>\u00a0(Camino Books).<\/p>\n<p>Popkin has been a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellow and a writer-in-residence at Philadelphia University and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7745\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/EverythingIsBorrowed_cover_300dpi.jpg?resize=640%2C988&#038;ssl=1\" 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