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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 649 – David Levithan and Jens Lekman

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2025/08/13

Virtual Memories Show 649: David Levithan and Jens Lekman “Collaborating can bring out new things in your own writing, but also structurally gives you the chance to do something different: combining songs and story is something I could never do on my own.” “I hate how music has been turned into content, like it’s a … Continue reading "Episode 649 – David Levithan and Jens Lekman"

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1:11:40

Episode 648 – Sacha Mardou

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2025/08/05

Virtual Memories Show 648: Sacha Mardou “Going inside is how we get better, and how we get better at being human.” With PAST TENSE: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself In Therapy (Avery), cartoonist Sacha Mardou brings us a phenomenal graphic memoir about the midlife process of overcoming lifelong traumas and anxiety. We talk about … Continue reading "Episode 648 – Sacha Mardou"

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1:34:46

Episode 647 – Oliver Radclyffe

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2025/07/28

Virtual Memories Show 647: Oliver Radclyffe “I’m slightly staggered that the impetus to transition was so strong that even despite knowing what I was going to lose from it, I couldn’t stop it from happening.” With his phenomenal debut memoir, FRIGHTEN THE HORSES (Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic), Oliver Radclyffe takes us on a journey into … Continue reading "Episode 647 – Oliver Radclyffe"

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Episode 646 – Eulogy

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2025/07/15

Virtual Memories Show 646: Eulogy No conversation this week, unless you count me talking to myself. I share some thoughts and memories about my father, who died last week at the age of 88 — or 87, depending on who he was lying to — along with the eulogy I gave at his funeral. Give … Continue reading "Episode 646 – Eulogy"

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1:13:51

Episode 645 – Rachel Cockerell

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2025/06/30

Virtual Memories Show 645: Rachel Cockerell “I kept coming back to the notion that there’s no easy answers. I hope that the reader is changing their mind every few pages, because the book is about the search for a promised land, and it’s this question of a Jewish refuge that turns around and around over … Continue reading "Episode 645 – Rachel Cockerell"

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1:25:20

Episode 644 – Paul Karasik

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2025/06/25

Virtual Memories Show 644: Paul Karasik “I feel like I’m a character in a Paul Auster novel: a life rife with circumstance and unpredictable coincidence.” Thirty-plus years in the making, the graphic adaptation of Paul Auster’s THE NEW YORK TRILOGY (Pantheon) is here at last! Paul Karasik rejoins the show from Yaddo Artists Retreat to … Continue reading "Episode 644 – Paul Karasik"

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Episode 643 – Kate Maruyama

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2025/06/17

Virtual Memories Show 643: Kate Maruyama “When I sent Alterations out to market for the first time, I really went into mourning for the characters.” One of my fave guest/friends, Kate Maruyama, rejoins the show to celebrate her wonderful new novel, ALTERATIONS (Running Wild Press)! We talk about the book’s long gestation/publishing history, Kate’s love … Continue reading "Episode 643 – Kate Maruyama"

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1:37:45

Episode 642 – David Denby

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2025/06/09

Virtual Memories Show 642: David Denby “What if Jews had freedom they never had before, and they had it in the United States?” With his fantastic new book, EMINENT JEWS (Holt), writer and critic David Denby explores the impact on American culture of Jews Unbound through profiles of Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and … Continue reading "Episode 642 – David Denby"

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1:07:34

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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1:25:09

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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