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The Virtual Memories Show

Gil Roth

A weekly conversation about books and life -- not necessarily in that order. Hosted by Gil Roth

The Virtual Memories Show Podcast Guide

Listen to The Virtual Memories Show, a Arts podcast by Gil Roth. Stream 748 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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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...

01:24:20May 5, 2026

Episode 675 - Clare Carlisle

Philosopher and biographer Clare Carlisle converses & communes with me over her new book, TRANSCENDENCE FOR BEGINNERS: LIFE WRITING AND PHIL...

01:24:47Apr 29, 2026

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...

01:04:14Apr 25, 2026

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...

01:19:05Apr 14, 2026

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...

01:27:31Apr 9, 2026

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...

01:20:42Mar 3, 2026

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...

01:23:58Feb 7, 2026

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...

01:23:58Feb 7, 2026

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...

48:10Dec 29, 2025

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...

01:21:27Dec 23, 2025

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...

01:36:57Dec 16, 2025

Episode 666 - Morten Hoi Jensen

With THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press), Morten Høi Jensen brings us a m...

01:17:46Dec 9, 2025

Episode 665 - Prue Shaw

With her amazing new book, DANTE: THE ESSENTIAL COMMEDIA (Liveright), scholar Prue Shaw brings us a canto-by-canto journey through Dante's m...

01:39:16Dec 2, 2025

Episode 664 - Glenn Kurtz

Who were the men who built the Empire State Building? Glenn Kurtz returns to the show to tell their story with MEN AT WORK: The Empire State...

01:40:41Nov 18, 2025

Episode 663 - Jennifer Hayden

Who knew that olive oil makes head lice sleepy? Jennifer Hayden rejoins the show to celebrate her new graphic memoir/anti-cookbook, WHERE TH...

01:27:42Nov 11, 2025

Episode 662 - Rian Hughes

Multi-hyphenate Rian Hughes rejoins the show to celebrate his new Kickstarter, TYPERACTIVE: Thirty Years of Device Fonts (closing November 2...

02:03:20Nov 5, 2025

Episode 661 - Josh Neufeld

Comics journalist Josh Neufeld joins the show to talk about the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the legacy of his fantastic graphi...

01:19:42Oct 28, 2025

Episode 659 - Ron Rosenbaum

One of my fave writers, Ron Rosenbaum , returns to the show to celebrate his amazing new book, BOB DYLAN: Things Have Changed (A Kind Of Bio...

01:14:56Oct 21, 2025

Episode 658 - Lance Richardson

Writer Lance Richardson rejoins the show to celebrate his magnificent new biography, TRUE NATURE: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen (Panth...

01:36:24Oct 14, 2025

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