The Virtual Memories Show

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I'm Gil Roth, and the Virtual Memories Show is a weekly podcast about books, art, comics & culture, featuring fascinating conversation with creative people.
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Christmas Eve newsletter, feat. the annual Guest List episode with a TON of #book recommendations, + a great Instax & some holiday wishes, so GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/pink-and-blue-just-like-a-child/
Pink and Blue Just Like A Child

It's time for the Year-End Guest List episode, plus holiday wishes, a great Instax, & more

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It's time for the annual GUEST LIST episode! Find out which books 26 of this year's pod-guests loved the most & what they hope to read next year! (I participated, too, and tell some stories at the end.) GO LISTEN (& check out the list of books!): https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/the-guest-list-2025
The Guest List 2025

We asked the past year’s podcast-guests for the favorite books they read in 2025 and the books they hope to read in 2026 for our special year-end Guest List episode! Twenty-six guests partici…

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Last linky-newsletter before Christmas! GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-122125/
Hitting The Links: 12/21/25

We've got lots of links, a do-or-die stretch for my book, BIRDY!'s centerfold, a throwback flex, & more

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Mismemory

New podcast feat. Jonathan Sandler, a throwback Instax, a half-memory, the limits of journals, and another and another

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And go subscribe to the Graphic Memoir blog – https://graphicmemoir.co.uk/ – and buy his debut graphic memoir, The English GI, at https://www.amazon.com/ENGLISH-GI-YORKSHIRE-SCHOOLBOYS-ADVENTURES/dp/B09XNFLQGB
New #podcast: #JonathanSandler of #GraphicMemoir blog joins the show for our last interview ep. of 2025! We talk #comics, #art, #memoir, #WWII, #storytelling, & more, so GO LISTEN: https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-667-jonathan-sandler
Episode 667 – Jonathan Sandler

Virtual Memories Show 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, the comics…

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Time for a new linky-newsletter, featuring a ton of great links AND lots of art from my visit to the National Portrait Gallery (also, BIRDY)! GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-121425/
Hitting The Links: 12/14/25

We've got a whole ton of links for you to check out, plus my visit to the National Portrait Gallery, Union Station at 4:30 a.m., BIRDY! on zombie- patrol, and more

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New pod-newsletter! Check out the latest episode, thrill to my adventures mentoring brainy high-school students at an old money NYC club, and more! GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/soft-skills/
Soft Skills

A new podcast about Thomas Mann & The Magic Mountain, my impromptu mentoring at the Metropoitan Club, a Kirby-esque Instax throwback, & more

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And go get THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS from the publisher https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300233742/the-master-of-contradictions/ or from your fave bookshop https://bookshop.org/a/4669/9780300233742

And if you haven't read The Magic Mountain, do yourself a favor and make it your 2026 book-resolution! https://bookshop.org/a/4669/9780679772873

New #podcast is up! Morten Høi Jensen joins the show to talk about his fantastic new literary #biography: THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain! This one's a blast, so GO LISTEN: https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-666-morten-hoi-jensen
Episode 666 – Morten Hoi Jensen

Virtual Memories Show 666: Morten Høi Jensen “Part of what The Magic Mountain is about is the sense of having lived through a really major rupture in time, of living through a moment in which…

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