The Virtual Memories Show

Gil Roth

Booking Overview

A weekly literary conversation focused on books, writing, and the lives and creative practices of authors, artists, editors, and other intellectually engaged guests. PR agencies could credibly pitch published authors, poets, essayists, literary scholars, editors, and artists with a substantive new book or project; booking difficulty is medium because the show accommodates emerging and established voices but favors highly relevant literary credentials.

Metrics

Episodes: 762

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 1.5k subscribers

Instagram: 1.2k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

groth@chimeraobscura.com

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Host

Gil Roth - Host and interviewer who leads long-form conversations about books, writing, art, and life.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Published authors, poets, essayists, artists, editors, educators, scholars, and creators with a substantive literary, artistic, or educational project to discuss.

Required Achievements:

Published books or poetry collections, Major literary, artistic, or educational projects, Editorial, teaching, or archival work, Distinctive expertise in literature, art, writing, or education

Recent Guest Discussions

Phillip Lopate - Washington Irving, Literary Biography, Personal Essays, Memoir, Literary Fame, And 19th-century American Literature.

Ida Kao - Hampshire College, Higher Education, Student Publications, Institutional Decline, Archives, And Preserving Educational Communities.

Halstead York - Student-driven Education, Project Development, Techno-utopianism, Self-directed Learning, And The Lasting Influence Of Hampshire College.

Sarah Minor - Literary Nonfiction, Visual Essays, Art Criticism, Perception, Screens, Historical Context, And Creative Process.

Ali Trotta - Poetry, Mythology, Tarot, Ritual, Feminist Retellings, Online Writing Communities, And Creative Development.

Recent Topics

Literature, Writing, Poetry, Essays, Visual Arts

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Virtual Memories Show

Episode 690 - Jonathan Ames

September 08, 2026

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 craft page-turning prose, and how he compares the experience of reading Death in Venice to reading a Parker novel. We get into how his Buddhist inter...

Episode 689 - Dash Shaw

September 02, 2026

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 that pay tribute to a lost friend who liked very different comics than what Dash usually makes, and how writing this story in the mi...

Episode 688 - Phillip Lopate

August 24, 2026

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 writer is a precursor/trailblazer for Phillip's career, and how well Irving understood the fickleness of literary fame. We get...

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