Virtual Memories Show 390: Kurt Andersen “Almost all of the things that I say the evil geniuses did — discredit the idea of government, discredit

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

Virtual Memories Show 388: Margot Mifflin “It’s especially odd for Miss AMERICA to have a crown, because if it’s a pageant that represents America and

Virtual Memories Show 387: Benjamin Taylor “I had a reverent feeling about the writers of that generation. They were little children in the Great Depression,

Virtual Memories Show 386:Judy Gold “Don’t tell me what I’m allowed to talk about. There’s no growth without discourse. When you start shutting people up,

Virtual Memories Show 385: Ellen Lindner “Women have always played baseball; it just hasn’t been discussed. In the late 19th century, in concert with American

Virtual Memories Show 384: Adrian Tomine “For all those years, one of the main questions in my mind was: What is my own style? What

Virtual Memories Show 383: Everett Glenn “My motivation? Kinda cookie-cutter: Desperate person doesn’t want to die of alcoholism, writes instead. That’s the blurb.” Artist, cartoonist,

Virtual Memories Show 382: John Vercher “Growing up mixed-race, there’s a lot of soul-searching and identity-searching, and when you’re asked often enough ‘What are you?’,

Virtual Memories Show 381: Zena Hitz “The forms of learning for its own sake that happen in ordinary life are more fundamental than the professional

Virtual Memories Show 380: Bill Campbell “When you own the field, it’s very easy to move the goalposts.” Author & publisher Bill Campbell joins the

Virtual Memories Show 379: Jonathan W. Gray “Literature has a role to play at precisely this moment, because we have to dream and think big.”