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 Show podcast-guests, “So, who you reading?”
I decided to go quarterly starting with this episode, so you get a super lineup of guests: Michael Tisserand, Thomas Dolby, Brad Gooch, Karen Green, Ben Yagoda, Phillip Lopate, Jessa Crispin, Garth Greenwell, Barbara Epler, Jeff Nunokawa, Tony Tulathimutte, and John Cuneo!
Here’s the mp3 link: Download it and give it a listen!
Michael Tisserand starts at 2:10
- The Story of Dan Bright: Crime, Corruption, and Injustice in the Crescent City
– Dan Bright, Justin Nobel
- The Master and Margarita
– Mikhail Bulgakov
– Dan Bright, Justin Nobel
– Mikhail BulgakovThomas Dolby starts at 5:40
- Enterprise: The story of the defense of the America’s Cup in 1930
– Harold Sterling Vanderbilt
- Alexander Hamilton
– Ron Chernow
– Harold Sterling Vanderbilt
– Ron ChernowBrad Gooch starts at 6:40
- Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
– Volker Ullrich
- Naomi
– Junichiro Tanizaki
- Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
– Mary Dearborn
- The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan
– Patti Bosworth
- What Belongs to You: A Novel
– Garth Greenwell
– Volker Ullrich
– Junichiro Tanizaki
– Mary Dearborn
– Patti Bosworth
– Garth GreenwellKaren Green starts at 10:10
- The Emperor’s New Clothes – The Tower of Babel in the “Art” World
– Jonah Kinigstein
- How David Lost His Voice – Judith Vanistendael
- Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
– Tom Hart
- comics of Leela Corman
– Jonah Kinigstein
– Tom HartBen Yagoda starts at 12:40
- Mourning Lincoln
– Martha Hodes
- Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
– Michael Tisserand
– Martha Hodes
– Michael TisserandPhilllip Lopate starts at 14:50
- Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
– Frances Wilson
- Éric Rohmer: A Biography
– Antoine de Baecque
- Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs: The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / The Blue Devils of Nada
– Albert Murray
- You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
– Wendy Lesser
- Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas
– Adam Kirsch
– Frances Wilson
– Antoine de Baecque
– Albert Murray
– Wendy Lesser
– Adam KirschJessa Crispin starts at 16:20
- “Academic, crazy, giant books”
- Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times
– Krishan Kumar
- Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History
– Derek Sayer
- The Master and Margarita
– Krishan Kumar
– Derek SayerGarth Greenwell starts at 19:45
- Lots by Jenny Erpenbeck
- A not-yet-available in the US book by South African author SJ Naude, The Third Reel
- L’Assommoir
– Emile Zola
- The Thief’s Journal
– Jean Genet
- Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
– Frank Bidart (whom Garth considers the most important living American writer)
– Emile Zola
– Jean Genet
– Frank Bidart (whom Garth considers the most important living American writer)Barbara Epler starts at 23:15
- Mrs. Caliban
– Rachel Ingalls
- Dandelions
– Kawabata Yasunari
- Emma
– Jane Austen
- Two-Dimensional Man
– Paul Sahre
- Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
– George Saunders
– Rachel Ingalls
– Kawabata Yasunari
– Jane Austen
– Paul Sahre
– George SaundersJeff Nunokawa starts at 26:35
- Jane Austen
- Lots of Hannah Arendt
- Joan Didion
- Mary McCarthy
- James Merrill: Life and Art
– Langdon Hammer
– Langdon HammerTony Tulathimutte starts at 27:50
- Tornado Weather
– Deborah E. Kennedy
- Sour Heart: Stories
– Jenny Chang
- Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
– Carmen Machado
- The Association of Small Bombs: A Novel
– Karan Mahajan
- The Story of a New Name
– Elena Ferrante
– Deborah E. Kennedy
– Jenny Chang
– Carmen Machado
– Karan Mahajan
– Elena FerranteJohn Cuneo starts at 33:40
- Born to Run
– Bruce Springsteen
- Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
– Megan Marshall
- The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom and Surprising Life of James Thurber
– James Thurber
– Bruce Springsteen
– Megan Marshall
– James Thurber