Episode 618 – The Guest List 2024

Virtual Memories Show

Virtual Memories Show:
The Guest List 2024

It’s time for our year-end Virtual Memories Show tradition, now celebrating its twelfth anniversary: The Guest List! I reached out to 2024’s pod-guests and asked them about the favorite book(s) they read in the past year, as well as the books or authors they’re hoping to read in 2025! Twenty-two guests responded with wonderful, idiosyncratic, and illuminating book recommendations: Roland Allen, Shalom Auslander, Laura Beers, Sven Birkerts, Mirana Comstock, Leela Corman, Nicholas Delbanco, Benjamin Dreyer, Eric Drooker, Randy Fertel, Sammy Harkham, Frances Jetter, Ken Krimstein, Jim Moske, Robert Pranzatelli, Jess Ruliffson, Dmitry Samarov, Dash Shaw, David Small, Benjamin Swett, Maurice Vellekoop,, and D.W. Young (and me)! This great episode of The Virtual Memories Show offers up a huge list of books that you’re going to want to read in the new year, so give it a listen, and get ready to update your reading lists!

You can listen to The Guest List episode here, but if you visit our special Guest List 2024 page, you’ll find the listof all our respondents and all the books they cited (w/links!).

Also, go check out The Guest List archive page, which has links to all of the previous annual editions of The Guest List, dating back to 2013!

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About our Guests

The guests who participated in this year’s Guest List are Roland Allen, Shalom Auslander, Laura Beers, Sven Birkerts, Mirana Comstock, Leela Corman, Nicholas Delbanco, Benjamin Dreyer, Eric Drooker, Randy Fertel, Sammy Harkham, Frances Jetter, Ken Krimstein, Jim Moske, Robert Pranzatelli, Jess Ruliffson, Dmitry Samarov, Dash Shaw, David Small, Benjamin Swett, Maurice Vellekoop, and DW Young, and me, Gil Roth!

Credits: This episode’s music is Fella by Hal Mayforth, used with permission from the artist. The episode was recorded at stately Virtual Memories Manor on a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. Photo of my 2024 reads by me. It’s on my instagram.