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 podcast-guests, “So, who you reading?”

This month’s episode features Ed Koren, Bob Eckstein, Myke Cole and Ed Ward.

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

Ed Koren starts at 1:30

• The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
• George Eliot
• Thomas Hardy
• Don DeLillo
• Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts – Clive James

Bob Eckstein starts at 6:55

• Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir – Terry Gilliam
• In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy – Adam Carolla
• various cartoon collections of Bruce Eric Kaplan
• And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers–The New Unexpurgated Version! – Mike Sacks
• Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writers – Mike Sacks

Myke Cole starts at 11:00

• Red Rising – Pierce Brown
• Golden Son: Book 2 of the Red Rising Saga – Pierce Brown
• Northmen: The Viking Saga AD 793-1241 – John Haywood

Ed Ward starts at 14:35

• The Middle Ages – Johannes Fried
• Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock – Barney Hoskins
• The Year the Horses Came: A Novel – Mary Mackey
• If Wishes Were Horses: A Memoir of Equine Obsession – Susanna Forrest
• The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey Through Human History – Susanna Forrest