HeyJaredVirtual Memories Show
A weekly podcast about books and life, not necessarily in that order
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Episode 692 – Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand (opens the original)
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Virtual Memories Show 692: Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand “New Orleans has come to be defined by this hyper-awareness of its own identity. It’s all music, food, and culture, and it’s Bunny’s generation that started that deep examination of the identity of New Orleans.” Let’s celebrate a New Orleans legend with Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand ‘s fantastic new book, BUNNY MATTHEWS: HIS LIFE, ART, AND OBSESSIONS (New Orleans Historical Society)! We talk about the role Bunny Mat
Episode 691 – Emil Wilson (opens the original)
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Virtual Memories Show 691: Emil Wilson “With comics, I think I was looking for an art form that I could devote the most amount of creative skills to, and graphic novels let me do art, let me write, let me do graphic design: different types of skills.” With his fantastic debut graphic novel, THE NIGHTINGALES (Avid Reader Press), Emil Wilson tells a heartbreaking and beautiful coming-of-age story of the AIDS era. We talk about his father’s decision in 1985 to bring a work-friend with AIDS into the
Episode 690 – Jonathan Ames (opens the original)
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Virtual Memories Show 690: Jonathan Ames “My goal is creating that sensation for the reader of having to turn the page. It’s like a kind of music.” Jonathan Ames returns to celebrate his fantastic new crime novel, A PAST WITHOUT PICTURES (Mysterious Press). We talk about his obsession with pulp fiction, how he found the character of Maria Cole and her tortured relationship with her father after setting out to write a companion to You Were Never Really Here , how hard (and rewarding) it is to cra
Episode 689 – Dash Shaw (opens the original)
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Virtual Memories Show 689: Dash Shaw “Something not being placeable sticks with me a lot longer, and I think about it a lot more.” With his new book, LIKE SWIMMERS (New York Review Comics), Dash Shaw brings us a supernatural murder mystery set in COVID-era Richmond, VA. We talk about how he uses that story to explore memory, identity, art, marriage, and the social breakdown in America, how a murder mystery helped him reflect on the losses of COVID, LIKE SWIMMERS ‘ pamphlet comic-feel and how tha
Episode 688 – Phillip Lopate (opens the original)
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Virtual Memories Show 688: Phillip Lopate “The whole history of American prose passed through Irving, then went somewhere else.” Five-Timer Club Alert! Essayist Phillip Lopate rejoins the show as we celebrate his wonderful new book, A WASHINGTON IRVING SKETCH BOOK (Princeton)! We talk about the origins of the biography, incl. how he wound up with a 12-volume set of Washington Irving’s complete works, his choice to write the bio in the form of sketches, how Irving as America’s first professional
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