The Virtual Memories Show

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A weekly long-form interview podcast hosted by Gil Roth featuring in-depth conversations with writers, cartoonists, artists, critics, and publishers. Has an extensive archive of comics and cartooning-focused episodes alongside broader literary and cultural interviews.

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Aug 24, 2026

Episode 688 – Phillip Lopate

Virtual Memories Show 688: Phillip Lopate “The whole history of American prose passed through Irving, then went somewhere else.” Five-Timer Club Alert! Essayist Phillip Lopate rejoins the...

Aug 19, 2026

Episode 687 – Ida Kao

Virtual Memories Show 687: Ida Kao “I can point to a dozen different problems that all meaningfully contributed to why Hampshire is closing now. How all those things accumulated is pretty tragic...

Aug 03, 2026

Episode 686 – Halstead York

Virtual Memories Show 686: Halstead York “The core Hampshire experience was figuring out how to do things for myself and figuring out how to excite other people about what I wanted to do.”...

Jul 28, 2026

Episode 685 – Sarah Minor

Virtual Memories Show 685: Sarah Minor “The panorama is a metaphor for the type of looking or the type of dizziness that early audiences felt. . . . It was like people in the 19th century were e...

Jul 21, 2026

Episode 684 – Ali Trotta

Virtual Memories Show 684: Ali Trotta “I think mythology and fairy tales provide a good baseline, because almost everyone has read a subset of those stories, and the symbolism is something most...

Jul 14, 2026

Episode 683 – R Sikoryak

Virtual Memories Show 683: R Sikoryak “By contrasting the Declaration with the Emancipation Proclamation, I was showing some of the evolution that also happens in the Constitution.” Let&#8...

Jul 07, 2026

Episode 682 – Katie Skelly

Virtual Memories Show 682: Katie Skelly “I was on twitter and saw someone say, ‘The Weeknd makes music for haunted strip clubs,’ and that idea is something my brain kept coming back...

Jun 30, 2026

Episode 681 – Colin Asher

Virtual Memories Show 681: Colin Asher “The creation of culture is what marks us as human beings, and the fact that everybody has that desire connects us to each other.” With his amazing n...

Jun 24, 2026

Episode 680 – Kate Maruyama and Me

Virtual Memories Show 680: Kate Maruyama and Me BLARDY BLARDY BLARDY During my recent LA weekend, I asked author, pal, and past guest Kate Maruyama if she’d be interested in interviewing me, and for s...

Jun 14, 2026

Episode 679 – Heather Cass White

Virtual Memories Show 679: Heather Cass White “This was the most fun I ever had making a book. I got to sit on the attic floor, going though Harold’s papers and books, and there were a lot...