Season 4, Episode 37 - May God Remember
During the middle of the High Holidays, two Jews sit down in Manhattan to talk about antisemitism! Daniel Goldhagen joins the show to talk about his newest book, The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise a…
Season 4, Episode 36 - Time's Bomb
Season 4, Episode 35 - Jewish Gothic and the Restless Artist
Come for the Friedman, stay for the Lippmann! Or vice versa! This week's podcast features two great conversations: first I talk with Drew Friedman at Small Press Expo '14 about his great new book of …
Season 4, Episode 34 - Parental Guidance
The great Roz Chast talks about cartooning, The New Yorker, Disco the Talking Parakeet, and her fantastic new book, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir.
Season 4, Episode 33 - The Peace Poet
Charles Bivona's business card reads, "Poet, Writer, Professor," but he's a lot more than that. Over the course of an hour, we talked about what it means to be NJPoet, his theory on the transmissibil…
Season 4, Episode 32 - The War Poet
Jonathan Rose, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History at Drew University, joins the show to talk about his new book, The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor (Yale University Press). It's…
Season 4, Episode 31 - Critical Mass
Frank Wilson, book reviewer, columnist and founder of the Books, Inq. blog, completes our August book critics miniseries! Frank talks about 50 years in the book review biz, the similarities of poetry…
Season 4, Episode 30 - Bookslut's Holiday
Jessa Crispin, founder of Bookslut and Spolia, joins us to talk about 12 years of book-blogging, the downsides of learnign to write online, how she learned to love Henry James, why lack of ambition m…
Season 4, Episode 29 - Bookman's Holiday
Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda rejoins the Virtual Memories Show at Readercon 2014 to talk about the time Neil Gaiman tried to explain Twitter to him, his new project on the golden …
Season 4, Episode 28 - Re-Explaining Hitler
Ron Rosenbaum returns to the show to talk about the new edition of his amazing book, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil (Da Capo Press)! We talk Hitler, the meaning(s) of evil,…
Season 4, Episode 27 - Buddy Rich's Teeth and the Corruption of Reality
Ron Slate spent more than two decades in the corporate world before returning to poetry and wr…
Season 4, Episode 26 - Fail Better
Singer-songwriter, musician, inventor, dad, reader, and writ…
Season 4, Episode 25 - Dogs of LA
Comedy legend Merrill Markoe joins The Virtual Memories Show to prove Christopher Hitchens wrong: women can be very funny! We talk about her career, helping launch Late Night with David Letterman, he…
Season 4, Episode 24 - From Billiards to Bach
How does a man go from being a ne'er-do-well in a Pennsylvania mining town to a tutor at St. John's College? Peter Kalkavage joins the show to talk about his path to that Great Books institution, wha…
Season 4, Episode 23 - Haste Ye Back
The great cartoonist (and designer and illustrator) Seth joins the Virtual Memories Show to talk about memory and time, his love of digression, being "Mr. Old-Timey", and learning to let go of the fi…
Season 4, Episode 22 - Wax, Rhapsodic
Season 4, Episode 21 - Theory and Practice
Cartoonist Katie Skelly joins the show to talk about her new book, O…
Season 4, Episode 20 - Bildung Stories
At his…
Season 4, Episode 19 - The Customer is Always Wrong
Mimi Pond joins the Virtual Memories Show to talk about Over Easy, her 15-years-in-the-making, New York Times bestselling graphic novel about diners, drugs and northern California in the 1970s!
Season 4, Episode 18 - Persona
Listen in to part 2 of my conversation with Linn Ullmann about her new novel, The Cold Song (Other Press)! We talk about her writing habits and practices, her favorite Scandinavian authors, how she t…