The Memory Hole Podcast
Episodes
Listen now: my July 2025 conversation with Dan Savage
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve migrated my podcast to Substack, and am working out the kinks in that process. Which brings me to episode #975 of the Savage Lovecast, when Dan...
S2. EP.5 Fictional Memories: Past, Present, and Future
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Dames https://nicholasdames.org/contact-2/Pride and Prejudice Inside Out 2 - Nostalgia Dan Chaon https://danchaon.com/Olivia Gatwood https:...
S2.EP4. The Mirage of the Zeitgeist
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Twin PeaksThe Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, by Jennifer LynchKatie Roiphe's Harper's article about incest-related fiction can be accessed here, on my ...
S2. EP3. In Search of Lost Time; Memoirs and Memory
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Featured in this episode:Kate St. Vincent VoglAndromeda Romano-Lax-Andromeda's novel, now in paperbackThe Tell by Amy GriffenRemembering Molly - Immed...
S2. EP2. Remember the Memory, Solve the Crime
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do people still believe in repressed memories? It's a mystery.In this episode:The first detective novel: The Moonstone Wilkie Collins and the Birt...
S2. EP1. Tell Me A Story
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tell Me A Story; an introduction to Season 2Memory's misuse in storytellingI made a second season because I wondered - why, if the recovered memory mo...
Trailer for Season 2
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the Memory Hole.This trailer features interviews with authors Andromeda Romano-Lax and Kat Rosenfield. Complete links to guests and so...
Ep. 6: What did we learn?
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 6: Carrie Poppy https://maximumfun.org/about/team/carrie-poppy/ Historian Edward Shorter From Paralysis to Fatigue; a history ...
Ep. 5: Forget Me Not; how we don't remember
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Opening: The Confessions of St. Augustine, AD 401 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3296/3296-h/3296-h.htm Interviews: Dr. Henry Otgaar Personal Websit...
Bonus: Crews on Freud
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a bonus episode, to bring you more from my interview conducted on June 28 2023 with Dr. Frederick Crews, Professor Emeritus of English at the ...
Ep. 4: The Fog of War; believing the unbelievable.
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Freud to Geraldo Show Notes: Frederick Crews is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California at Berkeley. His many books inclu...
Ep. 3: "Suspicion to Confirmation"; the promise of The Courage to Heal
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All quotes come from the 1st Edition of The Courage to Heal; a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse, 1988 For more audio background about ...
Ep. 2: “Every tear was an incest-driven tear”; child sexual abuse comes to light in the 1980s.
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Please note: between minutes 3:30-4:56 on some platforms there is a blank space. This was a YouTube clip of an Oprah Winfrey program in 1986, included...
Ep. 1: Forgetting about remembering
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How on earth did I become interested in this topic? That's what this episode is about. Interview with Meredith Maran, conducted 5/23/2023 You ca...
Trailer
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Coming Soon: The Memory Hole Podcast, a 6-episode series about the Recovered Memory Movement of the late 1980's and early 90's, told from the ...