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Virtual Memories Show

Gil Roth

A weekly podcast about books and life, not necessarily in that order

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Episode 641 – Peter Stothard

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2025/06/03

Virtual Memories Show 641: Peter Stothard “What’s very important if you’re writing a biography — a personal history — of a poet is to get as close as possible to the process of writing, how it sounded, how he made it sing, how he made the words fit together.” Can we find the poet in … Continue reading "Episode 641 – Peter Stothard"

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Episode 640 – Cecile Wajsbrot

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2025/05/27

Virtual Memories Show 640: Cécile Wajsbrot “What struck me was the coincidence, the collusion between what Virginia Woolf was describing in Time Passes and the things I saw in that documentary about the Forbidden Zone.” With her bewitching and beautiful novel NEVERMORE (Seagull Books, translated from French by Tess Lewis, who joins our conversation), Cécile … Continue reading "Episode 640 – Cecile Wajsbrot"

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Episode 639 – Keiler Roberts

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2025/05/20

Virtual Memories Show 639: Keiler Roberts “My comics have never been about me in the way that memoirs or diary comics are about the person. They’re snapshots, things I want to remember. It’s a way of looking at life that isn’t about identity.” She may be able to quit cartooning (for a while), but Keiler … Continue reading "Episode 639 – Keiler Roberts"

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Episode 638 – Peter Kuper

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2025/05/14

Virtual Memories Show 638: Peter Kuper “What I’m going for — without being message-y — is recognition of how much the world turns because of insects. As E.O. Wilson puts it, if humans were to disappear, the world would return to its natural beauty, and if insects were to disappear, it would collapse into chaos.” … Continue reading "Episode 638 – Peter Kuper"

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Episode 637 – Vauhini Vara

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2025/05/05

Virtual Memories Show 637: Vauhini Vara “I’m interested in power, the relationship between individual agency and how we define meaning for ourselves, find value for ourselves.” With SEARCHES: Selfhood in the Digital Age (Pantheon), tech writer Vauhini Vara explores how our sense of self has been co-opted, quantified, and exploited by big tech as a … Continue reading "Episode 637 – Vauhini Vara"

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Episode 636 – Craig Thompson

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2025/04/30

Virtual Memories Show 636: Craig Thompson “I’m not that interested in what I can just see or know; I’m much more obsessed with the mysterious and the things that I don’t know how to communicate or understand.” Artist Craig Thompson joins the show at long last to celebrate his new book, GINSENG ROOTS: A Memoir … Continue reading "Episode 636 – Craig Thompson"

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Episode 635 – Ari Richter

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2025/04/23

Virtual Memories Show 635: Ari Richter “If I’m not obsessed with this history, then this history goes away.” Artist, professor and now like-it-or-not cartoonist Ari Richter joins the show to talk about his fantastic book, Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance (Fantagraphics). We talk about how he … Continue reading "Episode 635 – Ari Richter"

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Episode 634 – Dan Nadel

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2025/04/15

Virtual Memories Show 634: Dan Nadel “You could tell a story about the history of comics, and drawing, and even music through Crumb’s life.” Author and curator Dan Nadel joins the show to celebrate the publication of his amazing new biography, CRUMB: A Cartoonist’s Life (Scribner). We get into Robert Crumb‘s significance in American art, … Continue reading "Episode 634 – Dan Nadel"

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Episode 633 – See Hear Speak

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2025/04/12

Virtual Memories Show 633: See Hear Speak No guest? No problem! It’s time for another impromptu monologue episode: this time, Gil sorts through family legacies of the genetic and Larkinesque variety, as occasioned by taking his dad for cataract surgery and getting a call from an old & previously deceased friend! Give it a listen! … Continue reading "Episode 633 – See Hear Speak"

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Episode 632 – Peter Trachtenberg

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2025/03/31

Virtual Memories Show 632: Peter Trachtenberg “Westbeth was designed as an egalitarian community. . . . In any community, you have to have people who are actually involved in its maintenance.” With his amazing new book THE TWILIGHT OF BOHEMIA: Westbeth and the Last Artists in New York (Black Sparrow Press), Peter Trachtenberg explores the … Continue reading "Episode 632 – Peter Trachtenberg"

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Episode 630 – Meeting Across The River

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2025/03/19

Virtual Memories Show 630: Meeting Across The River Uh-oh! Gil doesn’t have a guest this week, so he recorded a monologue from a hotel room in Weehawken, NJ during a business conference for his day job! He talks mental health, oblique mythology, Charles Crumb, comics and pharma friends, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and more! … Continue reading "Episode 630 – Meeting Across The River"

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Episode 629 – Elon Green

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2025/03/11

Virtual Memories Show 629: Elon Green “The Wikipedia entry was so interesting that I assumed there were already two or three books written about the case, and I was frankly shocked that nobody had gone back in the intervening 40 years to revisit it.” With THE MAN NOBODY KILLED: Life, Death, and Art In Michael … Continue reading "Episode 629 – Elon Green"

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Episode 628 – Vanda Krefft

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2025/03/04

Virtual Memories Show 628: Vanda Krefft “Katharine Gibbs was not against marriage or family, but her main idea was that women cannot — must not — for their own wellbeing, depend entirely on a man.” Biographer Vanda Krefft returns to the show to celebrate her wonderful & illuminating new book: EXPECT GREAT THINGS!: How the … Continue reading "Episode 628 – Vanda Krefft"

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Episode 627 – Seth Lorinczi

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2025/02/25

Virtual Memories Show 627: Seth Lorinczi “There’s this idea that every third generation, someone comes to upend the family myths, the things that say, ‘This is who we are and this is how we move through the world.’ My book is very much about uncovering those stories so that I, and my family, and the … Continue reading "Episode 627 – Seth Lorinczi"

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Episode 626 – Martin Mittelmeier

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2025/02/19

Virtual Memories Show 626: Martin Mittelmeier “I always had the feeling that if I understood Adorno’s texts, then everything would be clear . . . I would understand how society works, how fascism came into being, how we can get to a better society.” With NAPLES 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical … Continue reading "Episode 626 – Martin Mittelmeier"

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Episode 625 – Jonathan Ames

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2025/02/11

Virtual Memories Show 625: Jonathan Ames “My primary reading for a while now has been private detective novels and various Buddhist philosophical tests. So when Happy expounds on these things, in a way it’s that I love reading these sorts of books.” Can LA private detective Happy Doll live up to the Four Noble Truths … Continue reading "Episode 625 – Jonathan Ames"

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Episode 624 – Witold Rybczynski

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2025/02/05

Virtual Memories Show 624: Witold Rybczynski “As an architect, if you write about buildings, you don’t just write about what they look like, but how they work, the plans, how they’re built, how they function. But most books about cars focus on the styling, not all the other aspects, and that’s what I wanted to … Continue reading "Episode 624 – Witold Rybczynski"

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Episode 623 – Matt Madden

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2025/01/29

Virtual Memories Show 623: Matt Madden “I like the whole idea of creating art by setting yourself a rule to follow, especially one that’s weird and unexpected.” Cartoonist Matt Madden rejoins the show to celebrate his new collection, SIX TREASURES OF THE SPIRAL: Comics Formed Under Pressure (Uncivilized Books). We talk about the liberation to … Continue reading "Episode 623 – Matt Madden"

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Episode 622 – Fred Kaplan

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2025/01/20

Virtual Memories Show 622: Fred Kaplan “This is a book about Washington culture, a sort of comical ‘How Things Work’.” After 4+ decades as a reporter and with a half-dozen nonfiction books under his belt, Fred Kaplan rejoins the show to celebrate his first foray into fiction, A CAPITAL CALAMITY (Miniver Press)! We talk about … Continue reading "Episode 622 – Fred Kaplan"

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Episode 621 – Mia Wolff

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2025/01/14

Virtual Memories Show 621: Mia Wolff “Talent is almost irrelevant. It’s just work and being relentlessly focused. . . . Talent is like rain; does it go in the pot with the plant or does it go down the sewer?” With THE EMPTY LOT (Fantagraphics Underground), artist Mia Wolff brings together 100 paintings from more … Continue reading "Episode 621 – Mia Wolff"

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