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New newsletter has a lot of good links to check out, after you get past the part where I write about my dad's death last week, so GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-71325/

Clearing out some of my dead father’s stuff, I finally got a very funny answer to something I’d been wondering about for many years. I’ll talk about it in a monologue for next week’s podcast, unless I decide to write about it for the newsletter tomorrow. Follow it all at chimeraobscura.com/vm

No new podcast, because my father's dying: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/eugoogoolizer-copy/

This morning’s reading: the last (published) chapter

#TheManWithoutQualities #RobertMusil #Musil #book #translation

Photo of first page of the final published chapter of The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil, translated by Burton Pike. The chapter is entitled, “A Great Event Is In The Making. But No One Has Noticed.”

No #podcast this week, nor (probably) next week. No idea beyond that, as my old man is (probably) dying, so go listen to my Virtual Memories Show archives & keep culture alive, wouldja?

Main page: https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/

Alphabetical guest-list: http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/podcast-archive/podcasts-guests-alphabetical

There was a little about The Dad Situation in Sunday's newsletter; the situation has grown immeasurably more fucked since then: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-7625/

Photo of bearded white man in blue suit & light yellow longsleeved poll sitting at a small silver table with a pair of microphones on tripods feeding into a digital audio recorded. He's gesturing to the viewer to sit down and gab.

I might be putting things on hiatus for a while, so GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-7625/

New #newsletter! GO READ about my pre-writing dad's eulogy and watching him embarrass a radiologist & nurse, + my new #podcast w/ @rachelcockerell.bsky.social, some #Instax & #art, I more: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/eugoogoolizer/

And go get MELTING POINT from the publisher https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374609269/meltingpoint/ or your fave bookshop https://bookshop.org/a/4669/9780374609269

Cover of the book MELTING POINT by Rachel Cockerell

New #podcast w/ Rachel Cockerell about her amazing new #book, MELTING POINT! We talk #Jews, #migration, #assimilation, #GalvestonTX, #history, #Herzl, #Zangwill, #family, & more, so GO LISTEN: https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-645-rachel-cockerell

The Virtual Memories Show boosted:

a first glimpse in the wild : Another green world (2025)

https://endlessbookshelf.net/2025/06/28/another-green-world-by-henry-wessells-2025/

New linky newsletter! Lots of links, some personal thoughts, a cute doggo, & more, so GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-62925/

New newsletter! We've got my new #podcast with #PaulKarasik, + sweating through this week's DC trip, getting ideas at the least convenient time, & more, so GO READ:
https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/being-boring/

And go get THE NEW YORK TRILOGY from the publisher https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723320/paul-austers-the-new-york-trilogy-by-paul-auster-the-graphic-adaptation-by-paul-karasik-lorenzo-mattotti-and-david-mazzucchelli/ or your fave bookshop https://bookshop.org/a/4669/9780553387643

cover of the graphic adaptation of Paul Auster's THE NEW YORK trilogy, showing a face in 3 horizontal ands, with the top portion drawn by David Mazzucchelli, the center by Lorenzo Mattotti, and the bottom by Paul Karasik

New #podcast! #PaulKarasik rejoins the show from #Yaddo to celebrate THE NEW YORK TRILOGY, his graphic adaptation of #PaulAuster (with #DavidMazzuchelli & #LorenzoMattotti)! We talk #comics, #storytelling, #art, & a LOT more, so GO LISTEN! https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-644-paul-karasik

New linky-newsletter! There's a LOT going on in the world, so maybe take a little break and check out the links, the pix, BIRDY, and more? GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-62225/

view during morning walkies

photo of suburban street with sunlight illuminating mist through the breaks in trees

New newsletter, incl. a weird Flannery O'Connor moment at a biotech trade show, so GO READ! https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/everything-that-rises-must-converge/

New episode is live! Kate Maruyama talks about her fantastic new novel, ALTERATIONS! We get into #Hollywood, #movies, #costumes, #art, #love, #fiction, #LosAngeles & more, so GO LISTEN: https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-643-kate-maruyama

New linky newsletter! Lots of great stuff to read, some quick thoughts pending a visit to Yaddo, I flex, Birdy gets a visit from the groomer, and more, so GO READ! https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-61525/

New newsletter, on the Acel, somewhere between WAS & NWK
https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/running-up-that-hill/

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