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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 668 – The Guest List 2025

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2025/12/23

Virtual Memories Show:The Guest List 2025 It’s time for our year-end Virtual Memories Show tradition, now celebrating its thirteenth anniversary: The Guest List! I reached out to 2025’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 2026! Twenty-six guests responded with wonderful, idiosyncratic, and illuminating book recommendations: Jonathan Ames, Kayla E., Dan Goldman, Dean Haspiel,

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Episode 667 – Jonathan Sandler

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2025/12/16

Virtual Memories Show 667:Jonathan Sandler Let’s close out 2025 with graphic memoirist and comics journalist Jonathan Sandler! We talk about his childhood secret origin in comics, the comics course in 2017 that brought him back to the form, the process of turning his grandfather’s WWII memoir into a comic, THE ENGLISH GI (with art by Brian Bicknell), and how he really became a comics aficionado after publishing his first graphic novel. We get into how he started the Graphic Memoir

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Episode 666 – Morten Hoi Jensen

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2025/12/09

Virtual Memories Show 666:Morten Høi Jensen “Part of what The Magic Mountain is about is the sense of having lived through a really major rupture in time, of living through a moment in which an old order is falling apart. And that’s the way in which it most speaks to our time.” With THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press), Morten Høi Jensen brings us a masterful biography of one of the great novels of the 20th century

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Episode 665 – Prue Shaw

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2025/12/03

Virtual Memories Show 665:Prue Shaw “I felt again incredulity that one person could have produced this poem.” With her amazing new book, DANTE: THE ESSENTIAL COMMEDIA (Liveright), scholar Prue Shaw brings us a canto-by-canto journey through Dante’s masterwork, interweaving translated verses with her commentary, and serving as a Virgil-like guide to the poem. We talk about how she was inspired by John Carey’s The Essential Paradise Lost, why the Paradiso was her biggest

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Episode 664 – Glenn Kurtz

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2025/11/18

Virtual Memories Show 664: Glenn Kurtz “It’s a profound question: What are we looking at? If you keep asking that question in a naive and cunning way, it will draw out the history of the world.” Who were the men who built the Empire State Building? Glenn Kurtz returns to the show to tell their … Continue reading "Episode 664 – Glenn Kurtz"

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Episode 663 – Jennifer Hayden

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2025/11/11

Virtual Memories Show 663: Jennifer Hayden “The great crystallizing aspect of aging is that the older you get, the more intense you get about what you really are, and the less you give a shit about all that stuff you’re not.” Who knew that olive oil makes head lice sleepy? Jennifer Hayden rejoins the show … Continue reading "Episode 663 – Jennifer Hayden"

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Episode 662 – Rian Hughes

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2025/11/05

Virtual Memories Show 662: Rian Hughes “I’m never bored. I’m very lucky because I get up in the morning and I’m full of the possibilities of what I can do that day. And I’m very, very lucky because what I do seems to have some kind of audience.” Multi-hyphenate Rian Hughes rejoins the show to … Continue reading "Episode 662 – Rian Hughes"

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Episode 661 – Josh Neufeld

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2025/10/28

Virtual Memories Show 661: Josh Neufeld “It was a really fulfilling thing, as an artist, as a journalist, to feel like I was carrying these people’s stories, that I was representing them, bringing out who they were, and that they were trusting me to give them a voice.” Comics journalist Josh Neufeld joins the show … Continue reading "Episode 661 – Josh Neufeld"

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Episode 660 – Dean Haspiel and Whitney Matheson

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2025/10/24

Virtual Memories Show 660: Dean Haspiel & Whitney Matheson Cartoonist-playwright-filmmaker Dean Haspiel rejoins the show for the homestretch of his new Kickstarter, ANTIMATTER (finishing Nov. 3, 2025), and brings his studio mate Whitney Matheson along to talk about her new story collection, THE FEELING. We talk about how Dino got the idea for a one-man … Continue reading "Episode 660 – Dean Haspiel and Whitney Matheson"

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Episode 659 – Ron Rosenbaum

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2025/10/21

Virtual Memories Show 659: Ron Rosenbaum “I’m always looking beyond the surface of the words to deeper meanings. Or sometimes shallower meanings.” One of my fave writers, Ron Rosenbaum, returns to the show to celebrate his amazing new book, BOB DYLAN: Things Have Changed (A Kind Of Biography) (Melville House Press). We talk about how … Continue reading "Episode 659 – Ron Rosenbaum"

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Episode 658 – Lance Richardson

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2025/10/14

Virtual Memories Show 658: Lance Richardson “‘Who was Peter Matthiessen?’ is one of those fractals; the closer you look, the more complicated the question becomes.” Writer Lance Richardson rejoins the show to celebrate his magnificent new biography, TRUE NATURE: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen (Pantheon). We talk about his youthful introduction to Peter Matthiessen via … Continue reading "Episode 658 – Lance Richardson"

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Episode 657 – Tom Tomorrow

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2025/10/07

Virtual Memories Show 657: Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) “Every week is a battle between my deadline and my self-loathing.” Political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) is back as we celebrate his new Kickstarter project, OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE (closing Oct. 30, 2025), collecting 5+ years of weekly This Modern World cartoons! We talk … Continue reading "Episode 657 – Tom Tomorrow"

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Episode 656 – Kayla E

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2025/10/01

Virtual Memories Show 656: Kayla E “This has transmuted the pain into something beautiful. It’s given it meaning.” With her debut graphic novel, PRECIOUS RUBBISH (Fantagraphics), artist and designer Kayla E explores and investigates the trauma of her upbringing, the fragments of her memories, and the process of reintegration. We talk about why comics were … Continue reading "Episode 656 – Kayla E"

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Episode 655 – Hunter Prosper

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2025/09/23

Virtual Memories Show 655: Hunter Prosper “No matter who you are, you have emotions that I have felt. Our experiences are different, but I can speak to the emotions. I’ve felt love and you’ve felt love. I’ve felt anxiety and you’ve felt anxiety. That connectedness makes me feel less alone in the world.” ICU nurse … Continue reading "Episode 655 – Hunter Prosper"

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Episode 654 – ML Rio

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2025/09/16

Virtual Memories Show 654: M.L. Rio “Music, cars, going west: those things were always inseparable for me.” With her amazing new novel, HOT WAX (Simon & Schuster), author, critic, and inveterate road-tripper M.L. Rio evokes the rock scene of the ’80s and the travails of the not-quite-Almost-Famous band GIL AND THE KILLS. We talk about … Continue reading "Episode 654 – ML Rio"

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Episode 653 – David Leopold

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2025/09/10

Virtual Memories Show 653: David Leopold “Hirschfeld and Sondheim are two men of the theater who have theaters named for them.” Curator and archivist David Leopold rejoins the show for a wide-ranging talk centered on the amazing new HIRSCHFELD’S SONDHEIM: A Poster Book (Abrams ComicArts). We talk about David’s decades as Hirschfeld’s archivist, Sondheim’s love … Continue reading "Episode 653 – David Leopold"

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Episode 652 – Dmitry Samarov

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2025/09/03

Virtual Memories Show 652: Dmitry Samarov “I want the reader to feel like they were there, like it’s a sketchbook from that moment in the book.” It’s been a year since his last episode, so what’s artist Dmitry Samarov been up to? Plenty! We talk about his new project of redesigning and illustrating public domain … Continue reading "Episode 652 – Dmitry Samarov"

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Episode 651 – AMA

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2025/08/26

Virtual Memories Show 651: Ask Me Anything No guest this week, so it’s time for our first Ask Me Anything (AMA) episode since 2019! Past guests and pals peppered me with questions about the podcast, my reading habits, menswear aesthetics, mental health, comics, hair care, keeping a journal, work/life balance or lack thereof, the one … Continue reading "Episode 651 – AMA"

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Episode 650 – Dan Goldman

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2025/08/19

Virtual Memories Show 650: Dan Goldman “There was something about mortality and sunshine being intertwined that meant RLP had to be set in south Florida.” With RED LIGHT PROPERTIES: Unfinished Business (Kinjin Storylab), writer/cartoonist Dan Goldman brings us a wildly entertaining graphic novel of midlife, the afterlife, and the south Florida real estate market. We … Continue reading "Episode 650 – Dan Goldman"

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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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