Virtual Memories Show 406: David Shields “So much of American history has been a fairy-tale children’s history, and so much of Trump’s dealing with COVID

Virtual Memories Show 405: Jeff Trexler “When you think about what law has meant to comics, it isn’t just about censorship. A lot of it

Virtual Memories Show 404: Michael Shaw “The Elements of Stress is the perfect gift for the person who HAD everything.” Got the election / pandemic

Virtual Memories Show 403: Merrill Markoe (+ Emily Flake) “What you find when you look at your old writings is that you’re a completely different

Virtual Memories Show 402: Darryl Pinckney “The vote has to be rethought in our American hearts as a radical act, because so many people don’t

Virtual Memories Show 401: John Keene “How do we think about the past in this country? What tends to be erased? Once we start to

Virtual Memories Show 400: Michael Musto “I learned you have to only interview people you love, really do your research so you’re not asking them

Virtual Memories Show 399: Sheila Williams With her new fantastic short story anthology, Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families, and Friends (MIT Press), editor Sheila Williams brings

Virtual Memories Show 398: R. Sikoryak “I really wanted to make a book where anyone could pick it up and say, ‘That’s something I know!’,

Virtual Memories Show 397: Daniel Mendelsohn “Each of my four books is secretly exploring a genre: lyric, epic, novel, and I’m not even sure what

Virtual Memories Show 396: Keith Knight “There have been plenty of woke moments throughout my life, but the police incident in San Francisco made me

Virtual Memories Show 395: Derf Backderf “There have been a lot of stories written about Kent State, but I was going to tell it through