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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 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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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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