The Virtual Memories Show with Gil Roth Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Virtual Memories Show is a weekly podcast on books, art, comics & culture, feat. fascinating conversation with creative people. Also at https://t.co/Q8fNtau7kg

Affinities
Brian Dillon
New #podcast is live! @briangdillon joins the show to talk about his new #book, AFFINITIES: On Art & Fascination (@NYRB_Imprints)! We get into #art #writing #memoir #essays #mood vs. #argument #influence (& #anxiety) & plenty more! Go listen! https://t.co/FBb2i75eyz
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Gone to the Wolves
John Wray
New ep is up, feat. @John_Wray! We talk about his awesome new novel of the '90s metal scene, GONE TO THE WOLVES (@fsgbooks), + #writing #music #comics #home & plenty more, so go listen! https://t.co/irQeqqDG0z
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lost Americans
Christopher Bollen
Weekend's cominatcha! Make some time to listen to the really fun episode I posted this week, feat. @christobollen, & go pick up his fantastic new book, THE LOST AMERICANS https://t.co/p9xTtFzi0g
Paperback, 2024
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt
Willard Spiegelman
New episode is up! Great conversation w/#WillardSpiegelman about his amazing new book, NOTHING STAYS PUT: The Life & Poetry of Amy Clampitt (@AAKnopf). We talk #art #poetry #books #biography & more, so go listen in! https://t.co/uguaWHxBoE
Hardcover, 2023
$38.00$19.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff
Go listen to this week’s #podcast feat. @bymattruff — https://t.co/A4AOSuk00f — on his brand-new novel, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS, and give this week’s #substack — https://t.co/07ZwHhn09q — a read, whydon’tcha? https://t.co/qVTzNkutt3
Paperback, 2024
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
New episode is out: @rossmbenjamin rejoins the show to celebrate his amazing new #translation, THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA! It's a great conversation about literary legacy, #writing, the fantastic & the mundane, & SO much more. Go listen! https://t.co/1qMYtXWY7f
Hardcover, 2023
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape
Joe Pera
If you're observing, have a good Thanksgiving! However, I hope you have a copy of @JosephPera & Joe Bennett's "A Bathroom Book For People Not Pooping Or Peeing But Using The Bathroom As An Escape," just to be safe https://t.co/9U0xcPi7ef
Hardcover, 2021
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford
I’ve read some great books by my pod-guests, but my NON-podcast reading this year has been pretty awesome, too: Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino Old Poets: Remembrances and Opinions - Donald Hall 1/2
Paperback, 2007
$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy Blindness - Jose Saramago The Outline Trilogy - Rachel Cusk Ways of Seeing - John Berger Against The Day - Thomas Pynchon (The full list of Every Book I’ve Finished Since 1989 is at https://t.co/gHOEV1CHgV) 2/2
Paperback, 1992
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Final Harvest: Poems
Emily Dickinson
"How much the present moment means / To those who've nothing more - . . . " Emily Dickinson #1420, from my daily attempt at making heads/tails of her poems. Also, last week's #substack went up/out a day early, so this week's will be late. I don't make the rules.
Paperback, 1964
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book