Episode 685 - Sarah Minor
With her amazing new book, CAROUSEL: An Essay On Seeing (Yale University Press), Sarah Minor offers a multi-threaded exploration — lecture,...
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Episode 684 - Ali Trotta
With her debut poetry collection, OFFERINGS FOR ORDINARY GODS (Clash Books), Ali Trotta brings myth, magick, tarot, and ritual to bear on th...
Episode 683 - R Sikoryak
Let's celebrate/commemorate America's independence with an amazing new double book, DECLARATION ILLUSTRATED / EMANCIPATION ILLUSTRATED (Draw...
Episode 682 - Katie Skelly
After a 12-year Virtual Memories gap, Katie Skelly is back to celebrate her fantastic new graphic novel, HEAVEN (Fantagraphics)! But that's...
Episode 681 - Colin Asher
With his amazing new book, THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL: The Secret Prison History of American Music (WW Norton), author Colin Asher explores how th...
Episode 680 - Kate Maruyama and Me
During my recent LA weekend, I asked author, pal, and past guest Kate Maruyama if she'd be interested in interviewing me , and for some craz...
Episode 679 - Heather Cass White
"A letter is a joy of Earth — It is denied the Gods —," sez Emily Dickinson (#1672), and THE MAN WHO READ EVERYTHING: The Literary Letters o...
Episode 678 - Paul Gravett
Happy Pride! Let's get Queer As Comics! Writer, critic, curator, publisher and broadcaster Paul Gravett rejoins the show to talk about curat...
Episode 677 - Luis Mendo
Welcome to Mundo Mendo! I visited artist and writer Luis Mendo in Karuizawa, Japan for a wide-ranging conversation about art, creativity, co...
Episode 676 - Benoit Denizet-Lewis
Can people change? How continuous is identity? With YOU'VE CHANGED: The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation (William Morrow), Benoit De...
Episode 675 - Clare Carlisle
Philosopher and biographer Clare Carlisle converses & communes with me over her new book, TRANSCENDENCE FOR BEGINNERS: LIFE WRITING AND PHIL...
Episode 674 - Josh Alan Friedman
Pull up a chair, enjoy a kasha varnishke, and listen to me and Josh Alan Friedman talk about his kaleidoscopic novel, ALL ROADS LEAD TO GREA...
Episode 673 - Andrew Durbin
With THE WONDERFUL WORLD THAT ALMOST WAS: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek (FSG), Andrew Durbin brings us a masterful biography of a pair...
Episode 672 - Dean Haspiel and Doug Latino
With REAL LIFE COMIX: ONLY IN NEW YORK (Cosmic Lion Productions), editors Dean Haspiel and Doug Latino bring together 66 fantastic cartoonis...
Episode 671 - Rachel Tzvia Back
With The Dark-Robed Mother: A Memoir (Wesleyan University Press), poet-translator-professor Rachel Tzvia Back explores her life with high-fu...
Episode 670 - Sven Birkerts
Essayist Sven Birkerts , one of my favorite past pod-guests, welcomes me back to the mic for a conversation about writing, art, mortality, r...
Episode 670 - Sven Birkerts
Essayist Sven Birkerts , one of my favorite past pod-guests, welcomes me back to the mic for a conversation about writing, art, mortality, r...
Episode 669 - Indefinite Hiatus
For his 2025 year-end wrap-up, Gil's putting the podcast & newsletter on hiatus: talk about your crazy New Year's resolutions! He talks abou...
Episode 668 - The Guest List 2025
It's time for our year-end Virtual Memories Show tradition, now celebrating its thirteenth anniversary: The Guest List ! I reached out to 20...
Episode 667 - Jonathan Sandler
Let's close out 2025 with graphic memoirist and comics journalist Jonathan Sandler ! We talk about his childhood secret origin in comics, th...