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Episode 329 – Kate Maruyama
Virtual Memories Show 329: Kate Maruyama “I was always attracted to dark writing. I grew up in a kind of gothic house, and there was always good stuff on the shelves.” Writer, teacher, and activist...
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Episode 341 – Chris Ware
Virtual Memories Show 341: Chris Ware “Something in comics allows the concretization of the weird shifting and changing of our memories and senses of selves. It comes out organically in the drawing of...
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Episode 342 – Witold Rybczynski
Virtual Memories Show 342: Witold Rybczynski “What Charleston did in the Colonial period with single houses, they basically just kept repeating it all these years.” The great architecture writer Witold...
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Episode 344 – Liz Hand
Virtual Memories Show 344: Liz Hand “Henry Darger was a devout Catholic who was engaged in a huge argument with God.” Transgression vs. transcendence: Elizabeth Hand‘s brand-new novel, Curious Toys...
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Episode 345 – Frank Santoro
Virtual Memories Show 345: Frank Santoro “Memory rhymes with these little moments in time, and time folds in on itself in a remarkable way, and comics is a wonderful example of that, unlike film or...
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Episode 347 – Kevin Huizenga
Virtual Memories Show 347: Kevin Huizenga “I have a split in my writing life. Part of my brain plans everything out, but I know enough now not to listen to that too much, and that I should be more open...
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Episode 353 – Edie Nadelhaft
Virtual Memories Show 353: Edie Nadelhaft “For my art to click, sometimes I have to walk away at the right moment, and come back and see it new.” Artist and avid motorcyclist Edie Nadelhaft joins the...
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Episode 358 – Daniel Mendelsohn
Virtual Memories Show 358: Daniel Mendelsohn “Achilles is a hero who is mesmerizing without being penetrable, whereas Odysseus I think I understand (perhaps hubristic to say that).” His wondrous new...
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Episode 359 – Joan Marans Dim and Antonio Masi
Virtual Memories Show 359: Joan Marans Dim & Antonio Masi “Immigration is the central meaning and purpose of the Statue of Liberty.” In a time where immigration is under attack, Joan Marans Dim and...
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Episode 365 – Ben Katchor
Virtual Memories Show 365: Ben Katchor “A dairy restaurant feels to me like an urban, walled Garden of Eden, but it’s in this world, so it gets trapped in the doings of this world.” The great...
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Episode 366 – Sato Moughalian
Virtual Memories Show 366: Sato Moughalian “I’m not a historian. I’m a musician who’s obsessed by cultural history, and environment, and filling in gaps.” The phenomenal new book, Feast of Ashes: The...
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COVID Check-In with Eva Hagberg 2
Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Eva Hagberg Returns! Last time Eva Hagberg checked in, she’d just gotten her positive COVID-19 test. Three weeks later, she fills us in on the most harrowing...
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Episode 370 – Alta L Price
Virtual Memories Show 370: Alta L. Price “Books were my first drug.” Translator Alta L. Price joins the show to talk about co-curating the 2020 (now 2021) edition of Festival Neue Literatur with Tess...
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COVID Check-In with Nathaniel Popkin
Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Nathaniel Popkin Author & activist Nathaniel Popkin checks in from Philadelphia. We talk about the potential for creative moments in the midst of...
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COVID Check-In with Witold Rybczynski
Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Witold Rybczynski Architecture writer Witold Rybczynski checks in from Philadelphia. We talk about how his present circumstances — retired from teaching, helping...
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COVID Check-In with Glynnis Fawkes
Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Glynnis Fawkes Cartoonist, illustrator, archeologist, and teacher Glynnis Fawkes checks in from Burlington, VT. We get into how her knowledge with Ancient Greece...
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COVID Check-In with Steven Heller
Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Steven Heller Design scholar, teacher, and author Steven Heller checks in from New York City. We talk about the anxiety & stress of pandemic life, and why he’s...
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COVID Check-In with Kipp Friedman
Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Kipp Friedman Author & photographer Kipp Friedman checks in from Milwaukee, hours after the death of his father, the great writer Bruce Jay Friedman. We trade...
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Milton Glaser Tribute Episode
Virtual Memories: Milton Glaser Tribute Episode “What was my purpose? I transmitted what I knew to others. There was a use to all I learned that went beyond me.” “Dream-making and art-making are...
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Episode 389 – Woodrow Phoenix
Virtual Memories Show 389: Woodrow Phoenix Who’s driving whom? With Crash Course (Street Noise Books), British cartoonist, artist and designer Woodrow Phoenix examines what cars do to us: physically,...
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