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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 620 – Damion Searls

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2025/01/07

Virtual Memories Show 620: Damion Searls “The thing about translation in our culture is that people have this skewed idea because they’re thinking of their French 1 or Greek 1 class.” Translator & author Damion Searls kicks off our 2025 season with a talk about his amazing new book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF TRANSLATION (Yale University … Continue reading "Episode 620 – Damion Searls"

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Episode 619 – 2024 Recap

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2024/12/30

Virtual Memories Show 619: 2024 Recap It’s the end of the year, so let’s take stock of 2024 with a big ol’ year-in-review monologue! Your intrepid/decrepit host, Gil Roth, gets personal while talking about what he’s learned from the podcast & his guests this year, how they continue to change each other’s lives, the moment … Continue reading "Episode 619 – 2024 Recap"

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Episode 618 – The Guest List 2024

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2024/12/22

Virtual Memories Show: The Guest List 2024 It’s time for our year-end Virtual Memories Show tradition, now celebrating its twelfth anniversary: The Guest List! I reached out to 2024’s pod-guests and asked them about the favorite book(s) they read in the past year, as well as the books or authors they’re hoping to read in … Continue reading "Episode 618 – The Guest List 2024"

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Episode 617 – Benjamin Swett

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2024/12/17

Virtual Memories Show 617: Benjamin Swett “You’re looking through a camera at the world and the camera is helping you to see outside yourself better.” With The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography (NYRB), Benjamin Swett brings us a subtly beautiful series of essays that explore memory and identity and what we really see … Continue reading "Episode 617 – Benjamin Swett"

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Episode 616 – Ken Krimstein

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2024/12/11

Virtual Memories Show 616: Ken Krimstein “Prague was to Einstein as the apple was to Newton. The city is bizarre. It’s got a heritage of art and science crashing into each other, going all the way back to Mad Emperor Rudolf II.” LIVE from Labyrinth Books, artist and vulgarizer of history (in the French sense) … Continue reading "Episode 616 – Ken Krimstein"

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Episode 615 – Eddie Campbell

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2024/12/05

Virtual Memories Show 615: Eddie Campbell “Cartoonists spend most of their life sitting at a table; we don’t get out very much. But that’s the very thing that distinguishes Kate Carew from all the others.” Cartoonist & historian Eddie Campbell returns to the show with his fantastic new book, KATE CAREW: America’s First Great Woman … Continue reading "Episode 615 – Eddie Campbell"

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Episode 614 – Caitlin McGurk

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2024/11/26

Virtual Memories Show 614: Caitlin McGurk “I thought of myself as someone who really knew a lot about cartooning and had heard of everybody, but the fact that I’d never heard of Barbara Shermund at all was embarrassing and panic-inducing, but also inspiring.” Comics librarian and curator Caitlin McGurk returns to the show to celebrate … Continue reading "Episode 614 – Caitlin McGurk"

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Episode 613 – Frances Jetter

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2024/11/19

Virtual Memories Show 613: Frances Jetter “My work materializes and ends up in being through printmaking and sometimes in other forms, but it starts with the drawing, and if the drawing doesn’t work, it’s not going to be anything but decoration.” Artist Frances Jetter joins the show to talk about her amazing new book, AMALGAM: … Continue reading "Episode 613 – Frances Jetter"

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Episode 612 – Roland Allen

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2024/11/12

Virtual Memories Show 612: Roland Allen “Once I started looking into their history, I was surprised at how important notebooks had been in corners of history.” With THE NOTEBOOK: A History of Thinking on Paper (Biblioasis), Roland Allen explores how the proliferation of paper & binding changed culture, business, and maybe the nature of human … Continue reading "Episode 612 – Roland Allen"

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Episode 611 – Eric Drooker

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2024/11/05

Virtual Memories Show 611: Eric Drooker “With my earlier books, I wanted to challenge myself to see how much of a story I could tell, how involved of a novel could I write without resorting to any words. I found that you could go pretty far.” With his new graphic novel, NAKED CITY (Dark Horse … Continue reading "Episode 611 – Eric Drooker"

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Episode 610 – Simon Critchley

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2024/10/30

Virtual Memories Show 610: Simon Critchley “The history of philosophy is largely a bunch of blokes with their treatises, and there’ll be one or two women here and there, but in mysticism there’s a tradition where women have a central function: they’re the agents of it, the messengers on it, the commentators on it, too. … Continue reading "Episode 610 – Simon Critchley"

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Episode 609 – Doug Brod

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2024/10/23

Virtual Memories Show 609: Doug Brod “I wanted to approach LaVey from a journalistic point of view . . . I wanted to try to get to the real story, to humanize this guy who was seen as a demonic character.” Hail Satan! It’s spooky season, and writer/editor Doug Brod joins the show to celebrate … Continue reading "Episode 609 – Doug Brod"

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Episode 608 – Sven Birkerts

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2024/10/16

Virtual Memories Show 608: Sven Birkerts “What fascinates me most — what I find most exciting — when I’m writing is when I find the smallest possible thing that will open out into the biggest possible thing.” Author & essayist Sven Birkerts returns to the show to celebrate his fantastic new essay collection, The Miró … Continue reading "Episode 608 – Sven Birkerts"

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Episode 607 – Christopher Brown

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2024/10/01

Virtual Memories Show 607: Christopher Brown “I wanted to combine the nature writing style I had been riffing on in my FIELD NOTES newsletter, with the potential for lyrical, descriptive translation of the richness of the world into language, and also provide an effective information delivery vehicle, like classic American non-fiction, and then telling a … Continue reading "Episode 607 – Christopher Brown"

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Episode 606 – Dmitry Samarov

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2024/09/24

Virtual Memories Show 606: Dmitry Samarov “I start the book out with the statement that somebody else should be writing and publishing this thing, but nobody did, so I had to do it.” Artist Dmitry Samarov returns to the show to bail me out after a stressful couple of weeks and to explore his fantastic … Continue reading "Episode 606 – Dmitry Samarov"

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Episode 605 – Stephen B Shepard

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2024/09/17

Virtual Memories Show 605: Stephen B. Shepard “I wanted to tell the story of his life in seclusion, and why he became famous for not wanting to be famous.” With Salinger’s Soul: His Personal & Religious Odyssey (Post Hill Press), author and retired journalist/editor Stephen B. Shepard explores the life of JD Salinger and the … Continue reading "Episode 605 – Stephen B Shepard"

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Episode 604 – Benjamin Dreyer

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2024/09/10

Virtual Memories Show 604: Benjamin Dreyer “When I started the book, what I was doing was trying to replicate everything that I’ve ever read in somebody else’s style manual into my own voice. I realized a) ‘No, you don’t,’ and b) ‘What is your voice anyway?'” Benjamin Dreyer joins the show to talk about the … Continue reading "Episode 604 – Benjamin Dreyer"

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Episode 603 – Nicholas Delbanco

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2024/09/03

Virtual Memories Show 603: Nicholas Delbanco “More and more I measure success in terms of the distance between intention and execution.” Nicholas Delbanco returns to the show to celebrate his 32nd book and his first true foray into memoir (or ME-moir), STILL LIFE AT EIGHTY (Mandel Vilar Press)! We talk about how the rediscovery of … Continue reading "Episode 603 – Nicholas Delbanco"

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Episode 602 – Dash Shaw

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2024/08/27

Virtual Memories Show 602: Dash Shaw “Someone told me that reading this book after COVID felt like being a crowd of people again, and that felt great.” Cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw returns to the show to celebrate his phenomenal new graphic novel, BLURRY (New York Review Comics). We talk about the decompressed mode he … Continue reading "Episode 602 – Dash Shaw"

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Episode 601 – Jess Ruliffson

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2024/08/20

Virtual Memories Show 601: Jess Ruliffson “I started talking to some of my friends who were veterans with the idea of ‘what do you do when come home, after you’ve done your job but also been exposed to some weird stuff?'” Comics journalist Jess Ruliffson joins the show to talk about the origins of INVISIBLE … Continue reading "Episode 601 – Jess Ruliffson"

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