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 Hayley Campbell, Glen Baxter, Liza Donnelly, Jim Woodring, Ben Katchor, and bonus guest Dmitry Samarov.

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

Hayley Campbell starts at 1:40

• Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
• American Pastoral – Philip Roth
• Everyman – Philip Roth
• The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
• Zero K – Don DeLillo
• Geek Love – Katherine Dunn

Glen Baxter starts at 6:50

• Avid Reader: A Life – Robert Gottlieb
• Leviathan – Philip Hoare

Liza Donnelly starts at 8:00

• Freedom at Midnight – Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
• Perfect Is Overrated – Karen Bergreen

Jim Woodring starts at 9:40

• How To Be A Cartoonist – Claire Briggs (I can’t find a link to this anywhere)
• Tenth of December: Stories – George Saunders
• Sir Alfred – Tim Hensley
• The Lost Art of Heinrich Kley, Vol. 1: Drawings – Heinrich Kley
• The Lost Art of Heinrich Kley, Vol. 2: Paintings & Sketches – Heinrich Kley

Ben Katchor starts at 11:00

• There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction – Saul Bellow
• Bellow’s People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art – David Mikics
• Art Young – His Life And Times – Art Young
• The Legends of Troy in Art and Literature
• Conversations with Goethe – Johann Peter Eckermann

Dmitry Samarov starts at 19:10

• Back Door to L.A. – Jack Clark
• Nobody’s Angel – Jack Clark
• Selected Writings – Rene Magritte