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 month’s episode features Andrea Tsurumi, Chris Rose, Virginia Heffernan and Jeff Gomez.

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Here are the guests and the books they talked about (their names link to their episodes of the show):

Andrea Tsurumi starts at 1:30

• Lafayette in the Somewhat United States – Sarah Vowell
• Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation – Judith Mackrell
• Dorothy Sayers
• Patience – Daniel Clowes
• Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride – Lucy Knisley

Chris Rose starts at 3:00

• The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
• Magazine junkie: The New Yorker (except the fiction), New York, Wired, The Wall Street Journal
• “I haven’t read a book in 5 years.”

Virginia Heffernan starts at 6:15

• A Multitude of Sins – Richard Ford
• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future – Kevin Kelly
• We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel – Matthew Thomas

Jeff Gomez starts at 9:25

• LOTS of stuff on medium.com
• Saga – Brian K. Vaughan
• religious texts