{"id":217,"date":"2007-10-18T09:32:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T16:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/21\/orhan-pamuk-at-the-jcc-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2007-10-21T19:33:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T02:33:58","slug":"orhan-pamuk-at-the-jcc-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/18\/orhan-pamuk-at-the-jcc-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Orhan Pamuk at the JCC San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image218\" alt=\"pamukforblog.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-content\/pamukforblog.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By chance I discovered that Orhan Pamuk was reading at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jccsf.org\">JCC in San Francisco<\/a> last night. Unfortunately, tickets were sold out. And yet, I decided to drive up to the city after work, anyway, to see if I might be able to score a ticket by standing outside on California Street. I happened to also be very hungry during the drive, and couldn&#8217;t help but make a sushi stop at Whole Foods before I got to the JCC. By the time I did arrive, it was 8:07 pm, and I was seven minutes late for the event and probably 15 minutes late for my chance at buying a ticket from someone going in with an extra. So, I went over to the ticket booth on a whim, and asked if they had any tickets available. And indeed they gave me one. &#8220;How much is it?&#8221; I asked, and the girl at the booth told me, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry about it.&#8221; (Free ticket to see Orhan Pamuk! And I got sushi!)<\/p>\n<p>I absolutely loved the event and am going to see him again tomorrow evening at Stanford. Some of the things I remember from his talk at the JCC, which will be broadcast on November 12 at 8 pm on <span id=\"ProgramContentDisplay_1_0\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kalw.org\/\">KALW 91.7<\/a> FM<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The central work of the writer is spending a lot of time alone in a room, looking inside yourself and putting what you find on the outside.<\/li>\n<li>Pamuk paraphrasing Adorno in response to a question about the writer&#8217;s position at the border of his culture: &#8220;Morality is to never feel at home anywhere.&#8221; The actual line from Adorno, which I looked up afterwards: &#8220;It is part of morality not to be at home in one&#8217;s home.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Pamuk&#8217;s comments on always falling into depression when he reads the English translations of his work because English is the one other language he understands well enough to be critical of.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, I came away from the event reminded of my love for both writing and reading, and I look forward to finishing up Pamuk&#8217;s <em>Other Colors<\/em> and then diving into <em>Snow<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By chance I discovered that Orhan Pamuk was reading at the JCC in San Francisco last night. Unfortunately, tickets were sold out. And yet, I decided to drive up to the city after work, anyway, to see if I might be able to score a ticket by standing outside on California Street. I happened to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}