Gil Roth
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All of the above, plus access to Fear of a Square Planet, the monthly patron-only podcast (if we reach our $100/month goal), and early notice about upcoming guests, so you can submit questions for them (no guarantee your question will make it into the episode)
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All of the above, plus you get early access to each week's episode (when feasible), a thank-you during each episode of The Virtual Memories Show, and JPGs of my pre-/post-interview notes.
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per monthAbout Gil Roth

I'm Gil Roth, host of The Virtual Memories Show, a podcast about books and life -- not necessarily in that order. Since 2012, I've delivered more than 400 fascinating conversations with writers, artists, cartoonists, critics, musicians, and other creative people, including Clive James, Thomas Dolby, Roz Chast, Samuel R. Delany, Moby, Kurt Andersen, Irvine Welsh, Molly Crabapple, Harold Bloom, Jules Feiffer, Celia Paul, Jaime Hernandez, Merrill Markoe, Virginia Heffernan, Barry Blitt, Audrey Niffenegger, Phillip Lopate, Kyle Cassidy, Hayley Campbell, John Crowley, Michael Musto, Tom Tomorrow, David Baerwald, Carol Tyler, Eddie Campbell, Virginia Postrel, Gary Clarkand Drew Friedman.
The Virtual Memories Show is the definition of a labor of love.
I've been footing the bill for recording equipment and software, website- and file-hosting, travel, and coffee with the proceeds of my day job, while spending nights and weekends producing this podcast on a weekly basis. That involves booking guests, researching their work and doing a ton of reading, conducting hour-plus in-person interviews, taking guest photos, processing and editing audio files, recording introductions, writing up show notes and weekly e-blasts, and promoting episodes on Twitter, Instagram, and elsewhere.
I'm asking you to help support The Virtual Memories Show so that I can continue to bring you the illuminating conversations that you've come to expect, along with new material:
- a quarterly patrons-only bonus podcast,
- live podcast events,
- an E-book series,
- video shorts,
- and more!
--Gil Roth
Virtual Memories






(If you're uncomfortable using Patreon, you can make a donation via Paypal instead.)
Photo: "The Sorrow of the Lonely Podcaster, or, I'm Just Waiting on a Guest" by Aaron K. Finkelstein. Drawing of Poetry Ape by Roger Langridge. Design of Virtual Memories Show banner by Aaron K. Finkelstein. Design of "big square" graphic by me.
Goals
$153.24 of $200 per month
I'll start publishing the Virtual Memories E-book series, transcribing interviews from our archives and formatting them for a variety of platforms. This will require permission from each guest, and I'm hoping to use the profits to support the CBLDF and PEN America.
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