{"id":2965,"date":"2013-09-02T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T19:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2014-01-26T19:41:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T23:41:30","slug":"life-stories-38-marco-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/02\/life-stories-38-marco-roth\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Stories #38: Marco Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a summer hiatus, Life Stories<\/i>, the podcast series where I interview memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir, returns! In this episode, I chat with Marco Roth about The Scientists<\/i><\/a>. Roth grew up believing that his father had become HIV-positive in the early ’80s through an accident in the medical research lab where he worked; after his father’s death, his aunt wrote a memoir in which she speculated that he might have contracted the disease “in the more usual way.” We talked about his desire to exact literary “revenge” for creating a version of his father so at odds with his memories… and what he learned along the way to writing that book.<\/p>\n

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Marco Roth grew up believing that his father had been accidentally infected with HIV working in a medical research lab; his father’s condition loomed over their relationship, adding another layer to the frustrations every adolescent faces. Then, after his father’s death, Marco’s aunt put out another story–and it was in pushing against her version that he eventually came to the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[624,132,305,625],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}