Unrequired Reading: April Link Showers
Bizarre! I was just settling in to collect my May Twitter-links for a big Unrequired Reading when I discovered that last month’s load o’ links never went live! So here’s all of April’s great stuff!...
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Finishing the Dance
I first encountered A Dance To The Music Of Time in the mid-’90’s. A Borders bookstore had opened at the West Belt Mall in Wayne, NJ, and as was my wont, I inspected the fiction section — or was it...
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On sobriety
Today’s my 100th day without a drink. I got off the sauce because I wanted to see how much it was affecting my reading. Feel free to laugh at that notion. I wasn’t drinking heavily — just 2 to 2.5 oz....
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Podcast: Wine, Women, and Novel-Writing
Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 23 – Wine, Women, and Novel-Writing “Restaurants follow the opposite direction of stories: they’re like finding a book of blank pages and trying to come up with...
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Podcast – The War Poet
Virtual Memories Show: Jonathan Rose – The War Poet “Churchill was one of the last members of the Aesthetic Movement, except he applied his aestheticism to war.” Professor Jonathan Rose joins the show...
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Podcast 102 – The Sprinter
Virtual Memories Show: Claudia Young – The Sprinter “Being in a wheelchair didn’t change me; it just made things harder to do.” From the Flora-Bama to Vietnam, Claudia Young has sprinted through life....
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Episode 167 – John Holl
Virtual Memories Show #167: John Holl “I really think New Jersey has the most diverse food culture around.” This week, John Holl joins the show to talk about his new book, Dishing Up New Jersey: 150...
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Episode 180 – Leslie Stein
Virtual Memories Show #180: Leslie Stein “I’m able to be what people want me to be when I’m behind the bar or playing music, but I’m not a performer by nature, so it’s not an easy transition. With...
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Episode 238 – Shannon Wheeler
Virtual Memories Show 238: Shannon Wheeler “Cartooning for The New Yorker is like being in a jazz club, and you don’t go into a jazz club and play the Ramones.” It’s late-night podcast-action with...
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Episode 260 – Jesse Sheidlower
Virtual Memories Show 260: Jesse Sheidlower “You don’t need to reinterpret drinks that have been perfect for 80 years.” Time for a books & booze break! Lexicographer/bartender Jesse Sheidlower...
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COVID-19 Bonus Mini-Episode
Virtual Memories Show: COVID-19 Bonus Mini-Episode “I’m not one to rely on outside aids, but this time I felt like that jungle rat William Burroughs mentions in Naked Lunch, just responding to a...
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COVID Check-In with Henry Wessells
Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Henry Wessells “One of the great lines from AJ Liebling, which I wish I had known when I was 25, is, ‘Often alone, but seldom lonely.'” Writer, editor and rare...
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COVID Check-In with Brett Martin
Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Brett Martin James Beard Award-winning writer Brett Martin checks in from New Orleans. We talk about his brand-new Best New Restaurants In America feature in GQ,...
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Episode 430 – Jesse Sheidlower
Virtual Memories Show 430: Jesse Sheidlower Lexicographer, bartender and bon vivant Jesse Sheidlower rejoins the show to talk about his new project, the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. We get...
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