It’s (way past) 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 David Leopold, Liz Hand, Kliph Nesteroff, Fred Kaplan, Charles Bivona and April Darcy.
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Here are the guests and the books they talked about (their names link to their episodes of the show):
David Leopold (starts at 1:35)
- Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas
– Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker
- FDR’s speeches
Liz Hand (4:00)
- Echoes from the Dead
– Johan Theorin
- The Darkest Room
– Johan Theorin
- The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
– Robert Macfarlane
- Anhedonia, Here I Com – Colin Barrett
- Young Skins: Stories
– Colin Barrett
- The Third Man
– Graham Greene
Kliph Nesteroff (9:40)
- The Man with the Golden Arm
– Nelson Algren
- A Walk on the Wild Side: A Novel
– Nelson Algren
- Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London
– Shawn Levy
- And the Beat Goes On
– Sonny Bono
- Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970
– Jann Wenner
Fred Kaplan (13:45)
- A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809 – 1849
– Sidney Blumenthal
- Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
– Laura Secor
Charles Bivona / #NJPoet (15:00)
- Textbook on financial planning
- Newspapers, magazines, online journalism
- Holy Bible: King James Version
April Darcy (18:00)
- We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel
– Michael Thomas
- Stop-Time: A Memoir
– Frank Conroy
- The Great Gatsby
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Pride and Prejudice
– Jane Austen
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
– Betty Smith
