Virtual Memories Show 367: Whitney Matheson “Music, film, TV, books: those are the things that tell you when you’re a kid that there’s a world

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

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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

Virtual Memories Show 364: Stoya “Coming from porn you deal with a small slice of human emotion: lust, arousal, maybe some basic things. It’s a

Virtual Memories Show 363: Cassandra Khaw “In novels, you’re trusting the reader to follow you along the whole way. In video games, you’re working with

Virtual Memories Show 362: Richard Kadrey “I try to tell young writers, ‘Do not fetishize your world-building.’ I’ve seen writers think they have to be

Virtual Memories Show 361: Dmitry Samarov “I’ve been very fortunate to have an undying inner need to keep expressing myself, in the face of fairly

Virtual Memories Show 360: Otto Penzler “Writing is hard. I’d rather do yard work than write. But this memoir was the least onerous writing I’ve

Virtual Memories Show 359: Joan Marans Dim & Antonio Masi “Immigration is the central meaning and purpose of the Statue of Liberty.” In a time

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

Virtual Memories Show 357: Walter Bernard “The first thing you try when you’re called in, is to find out how the top people see the