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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 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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Episode 600 – Joe Coleman

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2024/08/13

Virtual Memories Show 600: Joe Coleman “I don’t step back that often when I’m in there, because I’m inside this tiny bit of the universe. For me, that’s what living things are: endless world within world within world within world.” For my 600th episode, the great artist Joe Coleman joins the show to celebrate his … Continue reading "Episode 600 – Joe Coleman"

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Episode 599 – Mirana Comstock

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2024/08/06

Virtual Memories Show 599: Mirana Comstock “This is the first book in 70 years that can conjure up that era, and there will never ben another book that can, because everyone connected with that era is gone.” This one’s all about legacies: familial, literary, cultural & institutional! Mirana Comstock joins the show to celebrate the … Continue reading "Episode 599 – Mirana Comstock"

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Episode 598 – Anita Kunz

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2024/07/30

Virtual Memories Show 598: Anita Kunz “It’s a whole different experience from making the paintings to see everything on a wall. That’s the only way to understand where you’ve been and where you’re going.” Artist & illustrator Anita Kunz returns to the show to talk about how art saved her life, as we catch up … Continue reading "Episode 598 – Anita Kunz"

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Episode 597 – Shalom Auslander

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2024/07/23

Virtual Memories Show 597: Shalom Auslander “You are not born hating yourself; someone puts that in there. What would the world be like if they hadn’t?” With his amazing new book, FEH: A Memoir (Riverside Books), Shalom Auslander explores how the judgmental disgust of FEH infected his life, and what it meant to get sick … Continue reading "Episode 597 – Shalom Auslander"

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Episode 596 – Maurice Vellekoop

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2024/07/16

Virtual Memories Show 596: Maurice Vellekoop “For me, sex and love was too complicated and scary, so I would draw it rather than experience it.” Artist & illustrator Maurice Vellekoop joins the show to celebrate his amazing new graphic memoir, I’M SO GLAD WE HAD THIS TIME TOGETHER (Pantheon). We talk about the midlife crisis … Continue reading "Episode 596 – Maurice Vellekoop"

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Episode 595 – Laura Beers

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2024/07/11

Virtual Memories Show 595: Laura Beers “I came to Orwell interested in him as a political historian and how he can help us understand our modern politics.” Historian, professor & author Laura Beers joins the show as we celebrate her important new book, ORWELL’S GHOSTS: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century (Norton). We talk … Continue reading "Episode 595 – Laura Beers"

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Episode 594 – Robert Pranzatelli

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2024/07/02

Virtual Memories Show 594: Robert Pranzatelli “This book is about the balance between art and life and trying to capture that vitality in both.” Author, publicist and partially involved narrator Robert Pranzatelli joins the show to celebrate his amazing new book, PILOBOLUS: A Story of Dance and Life (University Press of Florida). We talk about … Continue reading "Episode 594 – Robert Pranzatelli"

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