The Virtual Memories Show
Episodes
Season 3, Episode 28 - You Can't Get There From Here
26 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Borders joins the show to talk about her new novel, The Fifty-First State! It's a fine book about mismatched half-siblings brought together by ca...
Season 3, Episode 27 - Sex, Crime and Other Arbitrary Genre Labels
19 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Editor, writer, publisher and translator Maxim Jakubowski talks about his lifetime & career in erotica, how he feels about being The King of the Eroti...
Season 3, Episode 26 - Glamour Profession
12 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Virginia Postrel joins us to talk about her new book, The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion. We talk about the uses and abuse...
Season 3, Episode 25 - The Land of the Big Sulk
05 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Hooman Majd joins us to talk about his new book, The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran, documenting his family'...
Season 3, Episode 24 - The Show Must Go On
28 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Cartoonist Roger Langridge joins us to talk about his work on The Muppets, Doctor Who, and Popeye, finding his niche in all-ages comics, his upbringi...
Season 3, Episode 23 - Wine, Women and Novel-Writing
21 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Author Charles Blackstone drops in to talk about his new novel Vintage Attraction! Along the way, we talk about his managing editor role at Bookslut, ...
Season 3, Episode 22 - The Least Insane of Cartoonists
14 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Bagge, the comics legend behind Hate!, Neat Stuff, Apocalypse Nerd and Everybody is Stupid Except for Me, joins us to talk about his new book, W...
Season 3, Episode 21 - The Guy Who Drew the Liver Spots
07 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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 Howard Stern's...
Season 3, Episode 20 - Slipping the Noose of the Topical
23 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Phillip Lopate joins us to talk about his career as America's pre-eminent personal essayist, his literary influences, his teaching methods, his two ne...
Season 3, Episode 19 - Great Vengeance and Furious Anger
09 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s not natural to forgive without some sense of evening the score. It’s intolerable to know that someone gets away with something, and there’...
Season 3, Episode 18 - American Graffiti
02 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Hyman is the first guest of our two-part 9/11 special! Jonathan began photographing 9/11 murals, tattoos and other memorials immediately afte...
Season 3, Episode 17 - Arts and Sciences and Bugs
20 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I take something that seems obscure, and it leads you to somewhere that is not where you expect. --David Rothenberg First, philosopher, musicologist,...
Season 3, Episode 16 - Readercon - Monsters, Memories and Mythmaking
05 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In Part 2 of our Readercon 2013 special, we talk with authors Theodora Goss, Valya Lupescu and Nancy Hightower about their new books, their writing ca...
Season 3, Episode 15 - Readercon - Fairies and Zombies
23 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It's time for a 2-part podcast! I went up to Readercon 24 in Burlington, MA in July and came back with a passel of conversations! First, John Crowley,...
Season 3, Episode 14 - The Wonders of the Audible World
08 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
David Gates, author of Jernigan. Preston Falls, and The Wonders of the Invisible World, talks about his writing career, owning his niche (once accu...
Season 3, Episode 13 - Mike and Ivan's Cartoon Cabaret
22 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This time around on the Virtual Memories Show, we talk to a couple of great cartoonists! First up, Michael Kupperman, the cartoonist behind Tales Desi...
Season 3, Episode 12 - Highest Learning
11 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Eva Brann of St. John's College tells us about how the school and its Great Books program has (and hasn't) changed over the FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS she's be...
Season 3, Episode 11 - Little Suicides, Little Fish
27 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Lori Carson joins us to talk about her debut novel, The Original 1982 (published by William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins), as well as her time...
Season 3, Episode 10 - Eternity is Music that Plays
14 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Poet, novelist, memoirist and all-around wonderful writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi joins us on this episode of The Virtual Memories Show to talk about her...
Season 3, Episode 9 - Putting the Pro in Profanity
29 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower joins us to talk about his work at the Oxford English Dictionary, the process of pitching The F-Word, how what we find ...
Season 3, Episode 8 - Visible Cities
15 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Cartoonist and MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship winner Ben Katchor joins us for the first live episode of The Virtual Memories Show (in conjun...
Season 3, Episode 7 - The Importance of Being Out
31 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Gidney discusses his YA novella, Bereft, and Ed Hermance tells us about the history and significance of Giovanni's Room, the oldest operating qu...
Season 3, Episode 6 -Cartoon Character
18 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Virtual Memories - season 3 episode 6 - Cartoon Character "Political cartoonists have it easy: we turn on the TV or computer and Sarah Palin has said ...
Season 3, Episode 5 - Sound Before Story
04 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Writer/critic Greg Gerke joins us to talk about his recent interview with William Gass, the literary legend behind Omensetter's Luck, The Tunnel, a w...
Season 3, Episode 4 - God's Way of Teaching Americans Geography
19 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Guest Fred Kaplan talks about the history of counterinsurgency and his new book, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Wa...
Season 3, Episode 3 - All Tomorrow's Parties
05 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I talked with Miss Scorpio, party planner extraordinaire and mistress of Gemini and Scorpio, about 10 years of throwing fabulous themed costume partie...
Season 3, Episode 2 - The Magnificent Seven
22 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Willard Spiegelman talks about his wonderful book, Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness, his addiction to ballroom dancing, how to find joy i...
Season 3, Episode 1 - Disarm
08 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We kick off the new year by talking about the end of the world! Guest Ron Rosenbaum discusses his new book on nuclear war, the paradox of deterrence, ...
Season 2, Episode 16 - Not the camera but the eye
17 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Photographer Kyle Cassidy, author of Armed America (2007) and War Paint (2012), joins The Virtual Memories Show to talk about the myths of gun culture...
Season 2, Episode 15 - Hassling the Hoff
09 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Guest Scott Hoffman of Folio Literary Management talks about the changing economics of publishing, the explosion of the YA market, the diminishing rel...
Season 2, Episode 14 - Classic Pop
26 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Guest Bob Sikoryak talks about Masterpiece Comics, mashing up high and low culture, the '80's art scene in NYC, the mainstream acceptance of comics, c...
Season 2, Episode 13 - The Correction of Taste
16 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer-winning book critic Michael Dirda joins us to talk about the role of negative reviews, the value of book reviews in the internet age, breaki...
Season 2, Episode 12 - Comic Sans
02 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Guest Tom Spurgeon of comicsreporter.com talks about losing half his body weight, gaining perspective, and how junk culture eats itself. This episode ...
Season 2, Episode 11 - Fire and Bleak House
13 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Guest Boaz Roth talks about rebuilding his library after a house fire, the joys of Bleak House, the influence of Orwell's essay, Inside the Whale, sup...
Season 2, Episode 10 - Four Quartets and Other Pilgrimages
05 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Guest Lyn Ballard talks about her gateway books, the metaphysical poets, reading Huck Finn at the age of 5, an embarrassing Stanley Elkin anecdote, th...
Season 2, Episode 9 - New York and Old South
09 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Guest Jane Borden talks about how debutante training did not prepare her for life in New York, how a night at UCB changed her life, how she built her ...
Season 2, Episode 8 - Manga-loids and Steampunks
05 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Gil Roth talks with Diana Renn about her new YA novel, Tokyo Heist, then has a long conversation with science fiction writer/critic Paul Di Filippo ab...
Season 2, Episode 7 - Here at the Western World
15 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Gil talks with Tom May, a tutor at St. John's College, about his path to the school, how the place has changed over the years, and how he had to get a...
Season 2, Episode 6 - My Old School
15 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Gil gets back from "vacation" and chats with St. John's College tutor David Townsend about the transcendence of good conversation, and the possibility...
Season 2, Episode 5 - Look in Your Heart.mp3
12 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Guest John B. talks about his 10-minute death last year and how he's looked at his life since then, and Gil talks about Robert Caro and the publicity-...
Season 2, Episode 3 - Good Housekeeping.mp3
05 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Guest Ann Rivera talks about Housekeeping in the first Secondhand Books conversation.
Season 2, Episode 2 - Burning libraries.mp3
05 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Host Gil Roth talks about burning libraries, Geoff Dyer, and Norah Jones
Season 2, Episode 1 - Pale horses at the burger joint.mp3
11 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Host Gil Roth talks about Bach, Piers Anthony and the escapism of being a geek.