Season 4, Episode 17 - Lady with a Dog
In part 1 of our first 2-part episode, Linn Ullmann talks about the influences of her parents -- Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman -- on her storytelling process, her subversion of the "Scandinavian cri…
Season 4, Episode 16 - Euphonic Sounds
Novelist, essayist, poet, short story writer, and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz sat down with me to talk about her newest essay collection, This Is Where We Came In: Intimate Glimpses (Counterpoin…
Season 4, Episode 15 - Hello Columbus
Caitiln McG…
Season 4, Episode 14 - They Call Me MISTER Hyde!
Season 4, Episode 13 - Reading Maketh a Full Man
Literature professor and book critic DG Myers is dying of cancer, but that doesn’t mean he’s planning to go gentle into that good night. In a wide-ranging conversation, we talk about why he believes …
Season 4, Episode 12 - Window, Pain
Tova Mirvis joins The Virtual Memories Show to talk about her brand-new novel, Visible City and how she learned to act on her unhappiness, as well as the lifelong advice she got from Mary Gordon, the…
Season 4, Episode 11 - Stick and Move
Essayist, boxer, novelist, chef and mor…
Season 4, Episode 10 - The Stars Have Anemia
Season 4, Episode 9 - Semper Fido
Season 4, Episode 8 - The Slippery Animal
Virtual Memories – season 4 episode 8 - The Slippery Animal
"I'm always in the middle of a struggle with a short story. You'd think I'd have the hang of it by now. It's a slippery animal.'"Literary…
Season 4, Episode 6 - The Realm of the Possible
Season 4, Episode 5 - Feeling Gravett's Pull
Season 4, Episode 4 - Crackers and Bagels
Josh Alan Friedman, author of Black Cracker, is the third Friedman brother I've interviewed, as part of my "Capturing the (Other) Friedmans" series of podcasts. (I really gotta rename that.) Josh is …
Season 4, Episode 3 - The Consolation of Poetry
Rachel Hadas, poet, essayist, translator and professor, discusses her recent memoir, Strange Relation, about losing her husband to early-onset dementia. She also talks about lessons learned from more…
Season 4, Episode 2 - A Place To Rest
Emily Raboteau, author of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora (Atlantic Monthly Press), joins the Virtual Memories Show to show to talk about the many notions of “home" for…
Season 4, Episode 1 - Changing Channels
We kick off 2014 with a conversation with Brett Martin, author of Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad (The Penguin Pr…
Season 3, Episode 32 - The Guest List
It's the last episode of 2013! Let's ask two dozen of our pod-guests for the favorite books that they read in the last year! (Here's the cheat-sheet, if you don't wanna write them all down...)
Season 3, Episode 31 - The Whimsical Barracuda
Season 3, Episode 30 - On Cats and Calamities
What does the search for a lost cat have to tell us about the nature of love and marriage? Peter Trachtenberg joins The Virtual Memories Show to try to answer that question and to talk about his work…
Season 3, Episode 29 - War is a Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone
Zach Martin recently retired from the U.S. Marine Corps after 16 years in the service. But 25 years ago, he and your host were hyperliterate misfit high-school pals, trading Thomas Pynchon, Thomas Di…