Podcasts by The Virtual Memories Show

Season 4, Episode 39 - 35 Cents&a Stamp from 2014-10-14T00:29:53

John Porcellino has been publishing his King-Cat Comics & Stories mini-comics for 25 years, but I managed not to check them out un...

Season 4, Episode 38 - A Sense of Someplace To Go from 2014-10-06T23:32:47

This podcast often hangs out at the intersection of art and commerce, so I was happy when Dmitry Samarov drove up in a cab with his sketch...

Season 4, Episode 37 - May God Remember from 2014-09-29T23:32:11

During the middle of the High Holidays, two Jews sit down in Manhattan to talk about antisemitism! Daniel Goldhagen joins the show to talk abou...

Season 4, Episode 36 - Time's Bomb from 2014-09-23T00:49:41

"Fatherland is really about who my father was, getting to understand him, and also an attempt to explain how politics can tear a family apart, just like they tore apart...

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Season 4, Episode 35 - Jewish Gothic and the Restless Artist from 2014-09-16T12:35:12

Come for the Friedman, stay for the Lippmann! Or vice versa! This week's podcast features two great conversations: first I talk with D...

Season 4, Episode 34 - Parental Guidance from 2014-09-09T01:05:51

The great Roz Chast talks about cartooning, The New Yorker, Disco the Talking Parakeet, and her fantastic new book, Listen

Season 4, Episode 33 - The Peace Poet from 2014-09-02T00:58:45

Charles Bivona's business card reads, "Poet, Writer, Professor," but he's a lot more than that. Over the course of an hour, we talked about...

Season 4, Episode 32 - The War Poet from 2014-08-26T12:45:29

Jonathan Rose, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History at Drew University, joins the show to talk about his new boo...

Season 4, Episode 31 - Critical Mass from 2014-08-18T19:00

Frank Wilson, book reviewer, columnist and founder of the Books, Inq. blog, completes our August book critics miniseries! Frank talks a...

Season 4, Episode 30 - Bookslut's Holiday from 2014-08-11T21:42:30

Jessa Crispin, founder of Bookslut and Spolia, joins us to talk about 12 years of book-bloggi...

Season 4, Episode 29 - Bookman's Holiday from 2014-08-04T20:41

Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda rejoins the Virtual Memories Show at Readercon 2014 to talk about the ti...

Season 4, Episode 28 - Re-Explaining Hitler from 2014-07-29T00:50:30

Ron Rosenbaum returns to the show to talk about the new edition of his amazing book, Listen

Season 4, Episode 27 - Buddy Rich's Teeth and the Corruption of Reality from 2014-07-22T02:23:06

"It's said that the sources of writing are mysterious, but the sources of not writing are pathological."

Ron Slate spen...

Season 4, Episode 26 - Fail Better from 2014-07-15T08:40:30

"Artistically, LA's a disaster. It's full of amazing stories. But as a city, it's not a city. Nobody but bus-drivers see the whole place."

Singer-songwriter, musician, i...

Season 4, Episode 25 - Dogs of LA from 2014-07-08T04:09:59

Comedy legend Merrill Markoe joins The Virtual Memories Show to prove Christopher Hitchens wrong: women can be very...

Season 4, Episode 24 - From Billiards to Bach from 2014-07-01T13:21:08

How does a man go from being a ne'er-do-well in a Pennsylvania mining town to a tutor at St. John's College? Peter Kalkavage joins the show to talk about his path to that Great Books institution...

Season 4, Episode 23 - Haste Ye Back from 2014-06-16T04:24:25

The great cartoonist (and designer and illustrator) Seth joins the Virtual Memories Show to talk about memory and time, his love of digression, being "Mr. Old-Timey", and learning to let go of t...

Season 4, Episode 22 - Wax, Rhapsodic from 2014-06-09T22:47:53

"When I first started out, what I liked was the unlikely image, the unlikely metaphor. What I like now is finding that simple sentence that captures something you haven't thought of bef...

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Season 4, Episode 21 - Theory and Practice from 2014-06-03T12:41:09

"I'm never gonna be a parent, but if I were, I'd be like, 'We're skippin' this Goodnight, Moon thing; you're goin' to Pale Fire.'"

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Season 4, Episode 20 - Bildung Stories from 2014-05-26T15:41:45

"Zweig was immersed in the problem of the disjunction between our grand desires for the kind of life we dream we should be living and the actual circumscribed canvas on which we must op...

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Season 4, Episode 19 - The Customer is Always Wrong from 2014-05-19T22:45:42

Mimi Pond joins the Virtual Memories Show to talk about Listen

Season 4, Episode 18 - Persona from 2014-05-13T00:25:25

Listen in to part 2 of my conversation with Linn Ullmann about her new novel, Listen

Season 4, Episode 17 - Lady with a Dog from 2014-05-06T12:25:35

In part 1 of our first 2-part episode, Linn Ullmann talks about the influences of her parents -- Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman ...

Season 4, Episode 16 - Euphonic Sounds from 2014-04-28T17:57:19

Novelist, essayist, poet, short story writer, and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz sat down with me to talk about her newest essay co...

Season 4, Episode 15 - Hello Columbus from 2014-04-21T21:39:59

"I'm a person who works in comics and knows a lot about comics, and I'm teaching people who know nothing about comics to talk to other people who know nothing about comics, about comics...

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Season 4, Episode 14 - They Call Me MISTER Hyde! from 2014-04-14T20:41:53

"I like that we live in an age that's increasingly curious about this dark side, and not merely in terms of its pure darkness, but of how seemingly ordinary or normal people can commit ...

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Season 4, Episode 13 - Reading Maketh a Full Man from 2014-04-07T22:16:46

Literature professor and book critic DG Myers is dying of cancer, but that doesn’t mean he’s planning to go gentle into that good night....

Season 4, Episode 12 - Window, Pain from 2014-03-31T12:56:07

Tova Mirvis joins The Virtual Memories Show to talk about her brand-new novel, Listen

Season 4, Episode 11 - Stick and Move from 2014-03-25T00:37:01

“Claressa Shields was the first boxer who showed me that women can be artists in the ring, like men. It was kind of like the first time I read Virginia Woolf."

Essayist,...

Season 4, Episode 10 - The Stars Have Anemia from 2014-03-17T00:35:49

“There's a sort of romance in riding a bicycle across the country. It's something that some people would fantasize about, and when they saw me ride into their town, it brought them back...

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Season 4, Episode 9 - Semper Fido from 2014-03-10T22:12:55

"We move through a human-centric world as if that is reality, but we're surrounded by other species, and their species is centric to their world. I'm interested in how that works, not i...

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Season 4, Episode 8 - The Slippery Animal from 2014-03-04T01:38:04

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Season 4, Episode 6 - The Realm of the Possible from 2014-02-10T15:00

"Being an artist and talking about being an artist is a lot about trying to suss out your audience: how much do they know about art, how much do they care, is a casual question, or are ...

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Season 4, Episode 5 - Feeling Gravett's Pull from 2014-02-03T12:00

"Comics is a medium that isn't going to go away. It may just now finally be coming into its own in the 21st century. In this internet era, there's something very special about what comi...

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Season 4, Episode 4 - Crackers and Bagels from 2014-01-28T01:29:53

Josh Alan Friedman, author of Listen

Season 4, Episode 3 - The Consolation of Poetry from 2014-01-19T21:36:32

Rachel Hadas, poet, essayist, translator and professor, discusses her recent memoir, Listen

Season 4, Episode 2 - A Place To Rest from 2014-01-14T00:20:50

Emily Raboteau, author of Listen

Season 4, Episode 1 - Changing Channels from 2014-01-07T00:22:33

We kick off 2014 with a conversation with Brett Martin, author of Listen

Season 3, Episode 32 - The Guest List from 2013-12-31T02:38:52

It's the last episode of 2013! Let's ask two dozen of our pod-guests for the favorite books that they read in the last year! (Here's the cheat-sheet, if you don't wanna write them all down...) Listen

Season 3, Episode 31 - The Whimsical Barracuda from 2013-12-17T01:17

"With my brothers, it was like ‘Resistance is futile! You will enjoy horror movies! You will go to comic book conventions! You will learn to love B-movies and worship Tor Johnson and Listen

Season 3, Episode 30 - On Cats and Calamities from 2013-12-10T01:12:18

What does the search for a lost cat have to tell us about the nature of love and marriage? Peter Trachtenberg joins...

Season 3, Episode 29 - War is a Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone from 2013-12-03T00:55:48

Zach Martin recently retired from the U.S. Marine Corps after 16 years in the service. But 25 years ago, he and your host were hyperlite...

Season 3, Episode 28 - You Can't Get There From Here from 2013-11-26T11:52:12

Lisa Borders joins the show to talk about her new novel, Listen

Season 3, Episode 27 - Sex, Crime and Other Arbitrary Genre Labels from 2013-11-19T01:41

Editor, writer, publisher and translator Maxim Jakubowski talks about his lifetime & career in erotica, how he feels about being The Ki...

Season 3, Episode 26 - Glamour Profession from 2013-11-12T03:18:28

Virginia Postrel joins us to talk about her new book, Listen

Season 3, Episode 25 - The Land of the Big Sulk from 2013-11-05T02:07:40

Hooman Majd joins us to talk about his new book, Listen

Season 3, Episode 24 - The Show Must Go On from 2013-10-28T10:47:48

Cartoonist Roger Langridge joins us to talk about his work on The Muppets, Doctor Who, and Popeye, finding his niche in all-a...

Season 3, Episode 23 - Wine, Women and Novel-Writing from 2013-10-21T20:50:42

Author Charles Blackstone drops in to talk about his new novel Listen

Season 3, Episode 22 - The Least Insane of Cartoonists from 2013-10-14T23:23:52

Peter Bagge, the comics legend behind Hate!, Neat Stuff, Apocalypse Nerd and Everybody is Stupid Except for Me, joins us to...

Season 3, Episode 21 - The Guy Who Drew the Liver Spots from 2013-10-07T22:34

Drew Friedman, the Vermeer of the Borscht Belt, joins us at the 2nd Ave. Deli in NYC to talk about painting Old Jewish Comedians, being Howa...