Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show
@vmspod.bsky.social
I make a weekly podcast feat. talks w/writers, artists, cartoonists & other culture-making people, at https://chimeraobscura.com/vm
Also: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-virtual-memories-show/id531173075
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VMSpod
Also: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-virtual-memories-show/id531173075
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VMSpod
Go listen to some of my new Virtual Memories Shows!
#JenniferHayden - chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
@rianhughes.bsky.social chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6... (& support his KS www.kickstarter.com/projects/ria...)
@joshneufeld.bsky.social chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
& 650+ more of 'em
#JenniferHayden - chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
@rianhughes.bsky.social chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6... (& support his KS www.kickstarter.com/projects/ria...)
@joshneufeld.bsky.social chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
& 650+ more of 'em
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Go listen to some of my new Virtual Memories Shows!
#JenniferHayden - chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
@rianhughes.bsky.social chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6... (& support his KS www.kickstarter.com/projects/ria...)
@joshneufeld.bsky.social chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
& 650+ more of 'em
#JenniferHayden - chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
@rianhughes.bsky.social chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6... (& support his KS www.kickstarter.com/projects/ria...)
@joshneufeld.bsky.social chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
& 650+ more of 'em
New newsletter, so GO READ buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...
Big Man Harmonies
New episode with Jennifer Hayden, a new Instax, and some resonances from my recent business travels.
buttondown.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
New newsletter, so GO READ buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...
New #podcast! #JenniferHayden rejoins the show to celebrate her fantastic new graphic memoir/anti-cookbook, WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S DINNER: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook! Go listen: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
#comics #art #cooking #family @topshelfcomix.bsky.social
#comics #art #cooking #family @topshelfcomix.bsky.social
Episode 663 – Jennifer Hayden
Virtual Memories Show 663: Jennifer Hayden “The great crystallizing aspect of aging is that the older you get, the more intense you get about what you really are, and the less you give a shit…
chimeraobscura.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
New #podcast! #JenniferHayden rejoins the show to celebrate her fantastic new graphic memoir/anti-cookbook, WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S DINNER: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook! Go listen: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
#comics #art #cooking #family @topshelfcomix.bsky.social
#comics #art #cooking #family @topshelfcomix.bsky.social
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What really happened with the CIA and the Paris Review? Had a long chat with Dan Piepenbring for the magazine.
What Really Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?: A Conversation with Lance Richardson by Dan Piepenbring
November 11, 2025 – “In a funny way, it was really the fact that writing is far too solitudinous an activity that gave us The Paris Review. Along with the CIA, of course.”
www.theparisreview.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What really happened with the CIA and the Paris Review? Had a long chat with Dan Piepenbring for the magazine.
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
It's too early to go out for walkies, Dad!
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It's too early to go out for walkies, Dad!
Just hit the "Changing Light at Sandover" section of The Magic Mountain, and have no idea how Mann is going to wrap this thing up in the last 50 pages.
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Just hit the "Changing Light at Sandover" section of The Magic Mountain, and have no idea how Mann is going to wrap this thing up in the last 50 pages.
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Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
READ THIS BOOK
If you've been on the fence about buying THE MAN NOBODY KILLED because it wasn't $5, well, I have good news. (It's $5.)
www.amazon.com/dp/125089822...
www.amazon.com/dp/125089822...
The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York [Green, Elon] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
www.amazon.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
READ THIS BOOK
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Now is the perfect time to pick up The ALTIPLANO saga or any (or all!) of my Peruvian Cyberpunk books! 😁🤖🐯
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Now is the perfect time to pick up The ALTIPLANO saga or any (or all!) of my Peruvian Cyberpunk books! 😁🤖🐯
FWIW, I'm making some progress, getting some pieces finalized, writing some new ones. Maybe I'll actually go on a tear and finish the writing in 2025. (Then on the production quotes, crowdfunding, etc.)
Ooh! It’s the terror of the goddamned blank page! Wonderful to meet you yet again!
#writing #amwriting #amnotwriting #anxiety
#writing #amwriting #amnotwriting #anxiety
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
FWIW, I'm making some progress, getting some pieces finalized, writing some new ones. Maybe I'll actually go on a tear and finish the writing in 2025. (Then on the production quotes, crowdfunding, etc.)
Ooh! It’s the terror of the goddamned blank page! Wonderful to meet you yet again!
#writing #amwriting #amnotwriting #anxiety
#writing #amwriting #amnotwriting #anxiety
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Ooh! It’s the terror of the goddamned blank page! Wonderful to meet you yet again!
#writing #amwriting #amnotwriting #anxiety
#writing #amwriting #amnotwriting #anxiety
New linky-newsletter! Tons of links for you to check out, BIRDY! Gets groomed, my doppelgänger builds a starship, & more, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...
Hitting The Links: 11/9/25
Lots and lots of links, plus a couple of doppelgänger updates, a LEGO Enterprise, some BIRDY!, and more
buttondown.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
New linky-newsletter! Tons of links for you to check out, BIRDY! Gets groomed, my doppelgänger builds a starship, & more, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...
They leave the S off for Savings
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
They leave the S off for Savings
Great #podcast session & extracurricular gabbing with #JenniferHayden today
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Great #podcast session & extracurricular gabbing with #JenniferHayden today
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The sixth issue of my newsletter, This, Not That, is out today. It's a commonplace book issue, offering the first 50 of what will, after a subsequent issue, be 100 quotes about the bore, the bored, the boring, and boredom. (A fun thing: 5 of the people quoted are writers I know!)
Issue 6: 100 notes on the bore, the bored, the boring, and boredom (Part 1)
The key to immortality is boredom.
—Elisa Gabbert
There comes a tide in the affairs of men which, if you don't nip it in the bud, leads on to boredom.
—E. F. Benson, Mapp and Lucia
Boredom is an exq...
this-not-that.ghost.io
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The sixth issue of my newsletter, This, Not That, is out today. It's a commonplace book issue, offering the first 50 of what will, after a subsequent issue, be 100 quotes about the bore, the bored, the boring, and boredom. (A fun thing: 5 of the people quoted are writers I know!)
BIG MEN in Frankfurt & Baltimore
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
BIG MEN in Frankfurt & Baltimore
I’ve got flare
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I’ve got flare
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I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
lithub.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
Somewhere just past PHL
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Somewhere just past PHL
It’s November; READ THE ROOM
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It’s November; READ THE ROOM
New newsletter! We've got this week's #podcast with @rianhughes.bsky.social, some fantastic Instax #photos, a little update after my Frankfurt/London week, and more, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...
8 Ball
We've got a big new podcast with Rian Hughes about TYPERACTIVE, a post-travel update, a bunch of great Instax pix from the UK, and more
buttondown.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
New newsletter! We've got this week's #podcast with @rianhughes.bsky.social, some fantastic Instax #photos, a little update after my Frankfurt/London week, and more, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...
New #podcast: @rianhughes.bsky.social & I talk about TYPERACTIVE, his new #Kickstarter to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his Device Fonts foundry. We talk #type, #fonts, #art, #comics, #typography, & more, so GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
Episode 662 – Rian Hughes
Virtual Memories Show 662: Rian Hughes “I’m never bored. I’m very lucky because I get up in the morning and I’m full of the possibilities of what I can do that day. And I…
chimeraobscura.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
New #podcast: @rianhughes.bsky.social & I talk about TYPERACTIVE, his new #Kickstarter to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his Device Fonts foundry. We talk #type, #fonts, #art, #comics, #typography, & more, so GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...