The Virtual Memories Show
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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Episode 695 – Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
Virtual Memories Show 695: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi “Her poetry — as with most Italian poetry — is dedicated . . . to addressing all that has previously been written as poetry.” She’s be...
Episode 694 – Nate Powell
Virtual Memories Show 694: Nate Powell “I’ve been drawn my whole life to a certain type of mystery: mystery that is not to be solved, but about the state of mystery.” With DIANA (Abr...
Episode 693 – Karl Christian Krumpholz
Virtual Memories Show 693: Karl Christian Krumpholz “Whenever an iconic place closes, everyone laments, ‘The neighborhood’s never going to be the same again,’ but whatever repl...
Episode 692 – Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand
Virtual Memories Show 692: Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand “New Orleans has come to be defined by this hyper-awareness of its own identity. It’s all music, food, and culture, and...
Episode 691 – Emil Wilson
Virtual Memories Show 691: Emil Wilson “With comics, I think I was looking for an art form that I could devote the most amount of creative skills to, and graphic novels let me do art, let me wri...
Episode 690 – Jonathan Ames
Virtual Memories Show 690: Jonathan Ames “My goal is creating that sensation for the reader of having to turn the page. It’s like a kind of music.” Jonathan Ames returns to celebrate...
Episode 689 – Dash Shaw
Virtual Memories Show 689: Dash Shaw “Something not being placeable sticks with me a lot longer, and I think about it a lot more.” With his new book, LIKE SWIMMERS (New York Review Comics)...
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...
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...
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.”...
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