Virtual Memories Show 316: Michael Carroll “I think I became a writer because my father never wanted to get out of the car.” The Village

Virtual Memories Show 315: David Shields “We’ll all be dead quite soon. This is our one chance to learn something about life on earth. I’m

Virtual Memories Show 314: Mark Alan Stamaty “MacDoodle St. is the closest I ever got to the direction I wanted to go with my work.”

Virtual Memories Show 313: Nathan Englander “Why I like writing is: it always feels like the first book.” On the eve of his fifth book,

Virtual Memories Show 312: Bram Presser “To me, this is a book about how we tell stories, and how we come to understand stories.” What

Virtual Memories Show 311: Martin Hägglund “Only a being who is finite and anxious about their finitude can lead a spiritual life.” What if we

Virtual Memories Show 310: James Sturm “I don’t consider myself to be a political cartoonist, but I feel like no one can afford not to

Virtual Memories Show 309: Joe Ciardiello “Everything Sergio Leone knew about Americans came from the movies, so he was let down when he saw American

Virtual Memories Show 308: James Oseland “I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost, someone who’s always reporting, always trying to find out

Virtual Memories Show 307: Mort Gerberg “People submitting comics to the New Yorker could expect a 98% rejection rate. What kind of a sane person

Virtual Memories Show 306: Eva Hagberg Fisher “A thread in my book is that I never learn the lessons I want to learn.” She got

Virtual Memories Show 305: Deborah Feingold “Photography students are begging me to teach them about strobes and lights, but it’s all about what you see.