Unrequired Reading: Feb. 19, 2010
Llllllllllllllet’s get ready for Unrequired Reading! I inadvertently copied this post, because my research assistants didn’t label it properly. It’s your fault for expecting so much of me. * * * Of...
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Finishing the Dance
I first encountered A Dance To The Music Of Time in the mid-’90’s. A Borders bookstore had opened at the West Belt Mall in Wayne, NJ, and as was my wont, I inspected the fiction section — or was it...
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Podcast: The Wonders of the Audible World
Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 14 – The Wonders of the Audible World “One day, I was on the train to work and I had a terrible anxiety attack and a crisis of whatever, and began just scribbling...
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Shaft’s Big Book Score
What with me being me, it’s tough to go without buying books for too long, although I’m in semi-austerity mode just now. I ordered a stack of books from Bookcloseouts.com last week, but still made a...
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Podcast: Bookslut’s Holiday
Virtual Memories Show: Jessa Crispin – Bookslut’s Holiday “You would be surprised at the level of craziness and hostility that exists in the literary world if you share a different opinion than...
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Podcast – Jewish Gothic and the Restless Artist
Virtual Memories Show: Sara Lippmann and Drew Friedman – Jewish Gothic and the Restless Artist “My father, to this day, will still call and say, ‘It’s not too late for medical school!'” –Sara Lippmann...
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Podcast – The Hollow Man
Virtual Memories Show: The Hollow Man It’s the ONE-HUNDREDTH EPISODE of The Virtual Memories Show! And they said it would never last! To celebrate hitting the century mark, I asked past guests,...
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Episode 135 – Irvine Welsh / Dmitry Samarov
Virtual Memories Show #135: Irvine Welsh / Dmitry Samarov “What would young, pre-Trainspotting Irvine Welsh think of you now?” “He’d think I was a total wanker.” Irvine Welsh has created unforgettable...
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New books from old guests
With the recent release of The Peace Process: A Novella and Stories by Bruce Jay Friedman (and this fantastic review of it by Adam Kirsch), I thought it would be a good idea to get together a list of...
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Episode 231 – Sven Birkerts
Virtual Memories Show 231: Sven Birkerts “There are thresholds or shelves where we go from having incremental change to systemic moments of transformation.” In the ’90s, Sven Birkerts cautioned us...
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Episode 253 – John Leland
Virtual Memories Show 253: John Leland “The wisdom of old age is something living with us right now.” New York Times reporter John Leland joins the show to talk about his new book, Happiness Is a...
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Episode 367 – Whitney Matheson
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 out there.” It’s the end of the world as we know it, and...
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Episode 393 – Betsy Bonner
Virtual Memories Show 393: Betsy Bonner With her new memoir The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing (Tin House), author Betsy Bonner explores her sister’s mysterious death by...
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Episode 521 – Sara Lippmann
Virtual Memories Show 521: Sara Lippmann “All we’re doing is telling stories and getting them out, and if one person on the other end is there to receive it and have an experience that shifts them in...
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Episode 605 – Stephen B Shepard
Virtual Memories Show 605: Stephen B. Shepard “I wanted to tell the story of his life in seclusion, and why he became famous for not wanting to be famous.” With Salinger’s Soul: His Personal &...
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Episode 608 – Sven Birkerts
Virtual Memories Show 608: Sven Birkerts “What fascinates me most — what I find most exciting — when I’m writing is when I find the smallest possible thing that will open out into the biggest possible...
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