Elizabeth Hand: Parasomnia conversation with Carl W. Bazil April 1, 7-8:30 at Rubin Museum in NYC • Listen to my conversation with Liz

Summer Pierre: “The End of February” • Listen to my conversation with Summer (and Jennifer Hayden)

Ashton Applewhite: Why I’m Not Ray, or How I Came to Write a Manifesto Against Ageism • Listen to my conversations with Ashton (2014, 2016)

Roger Langridge: Some Comics I Pitched That Never Got Made • Listen to my conversation with Roger

Edward Mendelson: LARB Review by Robert L. Kehoe III on Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers • Listen to my conversation with Edward

Carol Tyler: video by John Kinhart of Pages & Progress gallery show • Listen to my conversation with Carol

Bill Griffith: Paul Buhle at Dissent “Pulp Nonfiction” • Listen to my conversations with Bill

Nancy Hightower: Washington Post column “Best science fiction and fantasy this month” • Listen to my conversation with Nancy

Peter Kuper: Stars and Strife • Listen to my conversation with Peter

It’s time for a new episode of Fear of a Square Planet, our patron-only monthly podcast where I ask the all-important question of this month’s Virtual Memories podcast-guests, “So, who you reading?”

This week’s episode features Rachel Hadas, Kriota Willberg, Christopher Kloeble, Ross Benjamin, Charles Bivona, Luz Costa, Elayne Tobin and R. Sikoryak. Give it a listen!

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Here are the guests and the books they talked about:

Rachel Hadas

• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy – William Irvine
• On Desire: Why We Want What We Want – William Irvine
• Discourses, Fragments, Handbook – Epictetus
• The Lake of Dead Languages – Carol Goodman
• The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood – Ellen Handler Spitz
• Bermuda Gold – Lee Slonimsky
• Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems – Harold Bloom, ed.
• Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel

Kriota Willberg

• Expanse – James S.A. Corey
• Seveneves – Neal Stephenson
• Reamde – Neal Stephenson
• Anathem – Neal Stephenson
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (among others) – John Le Carre
• Old Man’s War (among others) – John Scalzi
• The Abyss Beyond Dreams: A Novel of the Commonwealth (among others) – Peter F. Hamilton
• The Expats – Chris Pavone
• The Accident – Chris Pavone
• 5 Complete Novels (among others) – Ellery Queen
• Cover Her Face (among others) – PD James

Christopher Kloeble

• Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle – Vladimir Nabokov
• Number9Dream – David Mitchell

Ross M. Benjamin

• Sudden Death: A Novel – Alvaro Enrigue (tr. Natasha Wimmer)
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel – Neil Gaiman

Charles Bivona

• Great Books of the Western World
• The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
• Symphony of Crows – Damian Rucci
• She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman – Ian Kerner
• Feminist Theory: A Reader – Wendy Kolmar and Frances Bartkowski

Luz Costa

• Critical Theory Since Plato – Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle
• Poetry.org app

Elayne Tobin

• The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics – Ramzi Fawaz
• Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father – Alysia Abbott
• The Ex – Alafair Burke

R Sikoryak

• The Iliad – WHD Rouse
• Dick Tracy – Chester Gould
• Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life – Ulli Lust
• Arsene Schrauwen – Olivier Schrauwen
• Pax Americana – Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely
• Masters of American Comics – John Carlin