It’s time for a new episode of Fear of a Square Planet, our patron-only bonus podcast where I ask the all-important question of my Virtual Memories Show podcast-guests, “So, who you reading?” This episode features most of the guests from the Virtual Memories Show in the fourth quarter of 2019: Chris Ware, Witold Rybczynski, Kate Lacour, Liz Hand, Frank Santoro, Ho Che Anderson, Kevin Huizenga, Steven Heller, Pete Bagge, Ed Ward, Annie Koyama, Robb Armstrong, Edie Nadelhaft,, and Peter Kuper!
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Here are the guests and the books they talked about (their names link to their episodes of the show):
Chris Ware starts at 2:10
- Walden
– Thoreau
- Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography
– David S. Reynolds
- Grand Union: Stories
– Zadie Smith
- Plus we talk about Tolstoy a bit
– Thoreau
– David S. Reynolds
– Zadie SmithWitold Rybczynski starts at 6:30
- Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
– Paul Hendrickson
- Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
– Paul Hendrickson
– Paul Hendrickson
– Paul HendricksonKate Lacour starts at 12:30
- Spiritual Writings
– Flannery O’Connor
- The Magic Mountain
– Thomas Mann
- Plus Ursula K. LeGuin and NK Jemisin
– Flannery O’Connor
– Thomas MannLiz Hand starts at 17:55
- The Child Finder
– Rene Denfeld
– Rene DenfeldFrank Santoro starts at 20:00
- Jerusalem
– Alan Moore
- Between Them: Remembering My Parents
– Richard Ford
- Ask the Dust
– John Fante
– Alan Moore
– Richard Ford
– John FanteHo Che Anderson starts at 24:10
- They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers
– Romeo Dallaire
- Rendezvous with Rama
– Arthur C. Clarke
– Romeo Dallaire
– Arthur C. ClarkeKevin Huizenga starts at 25:30
- You Must Change Your Life
– Peter Sloterdijk
- Dream Diary
– R. Crumb
- The Mirror: A History
– Sabine Melchoir-Bonnet
– Peter Sloterdijk
– R. Crumb
– Sabine Melchoir-BonnetSteven Heller starts at 29:50
- An Officer and a Spy
– Robert Harris
- Three New Deals
– Wolfgang Schivelbusch
- Quichotte: A Novel
– Salman Rushdie
- Caging Skies
– Christine Leunens
– Robert Harris
– Wolfgang Schivelbusch
– Salman Rushdie
– Christine LeunensPete Bagge starts at 37:05
- Reference books for his biographical subjects, like Spinoza and Mary Wollstonecraft
Ed Ward starts at 42:40
- New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, and the New Yorker
Annie Koyama starts at 59:50
- Elvis Road
– Elvis Studio
- Gary Panter’s stuff
- Metropolitan Life
– Fran Leibowitz
– Elvis Studio
– Fran LeibowitzRobb Armstrong starts at 1:03:05
- Between the World and Me
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
– Ta-Nehisi CoatesEdie Nadelhaft starts at 1:04:00
- contemporary short fiction
- The Little Friend
– Donna Tartt
- The Goldfinch: A Novel
– Donna Tartt
- Faulkner
- The Great Gatsby
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
– Donna Tartt
– Donna Tartt
– F. Scott FitzgeraldPeter Kuper starts at 1:09:30
- A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
– Amor Towles
- King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
– Adam Hochschild
- Sabrina
– Nick Drnaso
- The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
– Thi Bui
- City of Thieves: A Novel
– David Benioff
- Elevation
– Stephen King
- The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
– Mark Moffett
- The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
– Douglas Preston
– Amor Towles
– Adam Hochschild
– Nick Drnaso
– Thi Bui
– David Benioff
– Stephen King
– Mark Moffett
– Douglas PrestonMy segment starts at 1:15:20, but you can find everydamnthing I’ve been reading for both the podcast and my weird idea of leisure at this page.
– Flaubert
– Sally Rooney
– Sally Rooney
– Ottessa Moshfegh
– Ottessa Moshfegh
– Mimi Pond
– Mimi Pond
– Taffy Brodesser-Akner
– Jia Tolentino
– Kiese Laymon
– Catriona Ward
– Rebecca Roanhorse
– Dale Bailey
– Nicole D. Sconiers
– Vincent Lobrutto
– Richard Matheson
– George Saunders
– Samuel R. Delany
– Brooke Bolander
– Ian McDonald
– Abbey Mei Otis
– Vandana Singh
– William Gibson
– Iris Murdoch
– Muriel Spark
– Don Paterson
– Sarah Manguso
– Roxana Robinson
– Auden
– Italo Calvino
– Naguib Mafouz
– Paul Scott
– Helen Berry
– Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
– Roger Daltrey
– Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg
– Holly Madison
– Annie Dillard
– JA Baker
– Richard Francis
– Mary Shelley
– Seth
– Michael DeForge
– Ebony Flowers
– Charles Dickens
– John Kennedy Toole
– Tom Robbins
– Lucia Berlin
– Elizabeth Geoghegan
– Richard Yates
– Tony Perrottet
– Burhan Sönmez
– Stig Dagerman
– Daniel Knauf
– John Culhane
– G. Harry Stine
– JW Dunne
– Al Rose
– Émile Mauchamp
– Sei Shonagon
– Jean Gebser
– PD Ouspensky
– Giordano Bruno
– Frances A. Yates
– Arthur Conan Doyle
– PG Wodehouse
– Kenneth Tynan
– Jasmine Guy
– Florrie Fisher
– Nicole Hahn Rafter
– Joey L. Mogul
– Sarah Waters
– Jo Dunkley
– by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden
– Philip Roth
– Nabokov
– Reinaldo Arenas
– Paul Theroux
– Henry Hobhouse
– Daniel Defoe
– Maya Jasanoff
– Ken Krimstein
– Rob Hill and Emma Hill
– George Orwell
– Robert Louis Stevenson
– by Michael Carroll
– by Eric Vuillard
– Paige Williams
– Claire Dederer
– Lisa Halliday
– Tom Friedman
– James Comey
– Haruki Murakami
– Charlotte Bronte
– Bruce Chatwin
– Gay Talese
– Amos Oz
– Summer Pierre
– Rebecca Makkai
– Chuck Forsman
– Jason Lutes
– Martin Heidegger
– Yiyun Li
– Albert Sanchez Pinol (tr. Cheryl Leah Morgan)
– Ófeigur Sigurðsson
– George Konrad (tr. Ivan Sanders)
– Norman Rush
– Liana Finck
– David Guterson
– JM Coetzee
– JM Coetzee
– Ian McEwan
– Jennifer Egan
– Rina Ayuyang
– Bob Woodward
– Barbara Kingsolver
/Gasoline Alley – Frank King
– David Cay Johnston
– ed. Michael Benedikt
– Katherine Withy
– Min Jin Lee
– Amor Towles
– Mary S. Lovell
– Sonia Purnell
– AJ Jacobs
– Eric Idle
– Tara Westover
– Gary Shteyngart
– Sara Blair
– Tove Jansson
– Tommy Orange
– Jason E. Hill