Final newsletter of the year (and for . . . a while), with lots of good stuff, incl. BIRDY! celebrating her gotchaversary, some art, in-process of my book, & more, so GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/going-away/

I'm putting The Virtual Memories Show on hiatus, so this is my last #podcast for a while! I talk about that decision and wrap up 2025; GO LISTEN: https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-669-indefinite-hiatus

It's the last linky-newsletter of 2025! Tons of great reading, plus put-upon BIRDY!, so GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-122825/

Christmas Eve newsletter, feat. the annual Guest List episode with a TON of #book recommendations, + a great Instax & some holiday wishes, so GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/pink-and-blue-just-like-a-child/

It's time for the annual GUEST LIST episode! Find out which books 26 of this year's pod-guests loved the most & what they hope to read next year! (I participated, too, and tell some stories at the end.) GO LISTEN (& check out the list of books!): https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/the-guest-list-2025

Last linky-newsletter before Christmas! GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-122125/

New #newsletter, from another #Acela! GO READ:
https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/mismemory/

And go subscribe to the Graphic Memoir blog – https://graphicmemoir.co.uk/ – and buy his debut graphic memoir, The English GI, at https://www.amazon.com/ENGLISH-GI-YORKSHIRE-SCHOOLBOYS-ADVENTURES/dp/B09XNFLQGB

New #podcast: #JonathanSandler of #GraphicMemoir blog joins the show for our last interview ep. of 2025! We talk #comics, #art, #memoir, #WWII, #storytelling, & more, so GO LISTEN: https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-667-jonathan-sandler

Time for a new linky-newsletter, featuring a ton of great links AND lots of art from my visit to the National Portrait Gallery (also, BIRDY)! GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-121425/

New pod-newsletter! Check out the latest episode, thrill to my adventures mentoring brainy high-school students at an old money NYC club, and more! GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/soft-skills/

And go get THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS from the publisher https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300233742/the-master-of-contradictions/ or from your fave bookshop https://bookshop.org/a/4669/9780300233742

And if you haven't read The Magic Mountain, do yourself a favor and make it your 2026 book-resolution! https://bookshop.org/a/4669/9780679772873

New #podcast is up! Morten Høi Jensen joins the show to talk about his fantastic new literary #biography: THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain! This one's a blast, so GO LISTEN: https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-666-morten-hoi-jensen

Follow the tracks to my latest linky-newsletter!
https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-12725/

New newsletter about surfacing from depression, being seen by a friend, a new #podcast about Dante & the Commedia, and more, so GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/surfacing/

Oh, and listen to our 2015 conversation about READING DANTE http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-111-time-memory-friendship-poetry-art

And go get DANTE: THE ESSENTIAL COMMEDIA from the publisher https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324096207 or your fave bookshop https://bookshop.org/a/4669/9781324096207

and DEFINITELY check out The Digital Commedia https://www.dantecommedia.it

New #podcast: #PrueShaw rejoins the show to celebrate her fantastic new book, DANTE: THE ESSENTIAL COMMEDIA! We talk #Dante, #poems, #Inferno, #Purgatorio, #Paradiso, #translation, #CliveJames, & more, so GO LISTEN: https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-665-prue-shaw

New linky-newsletter! GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-113025/

No new #podcast this week but YES new newsletter, so GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/with-thanks/