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?”
This episode features most of the guests from the Virtual Memories Show in the fourth quarter of 2017: Shannon Wheeler, Barry Blitt, Martin Rowson, Nicholas Delbanco, Eshkol Nevo, Paul Gravett, Eddy Portnoy, Vanda Krefft and Cullen Murphy!
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Here are the guests and the books they talked about (their names link to their episodes of the show):
Shannon Wheeler, starts at 1:45
- Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus – Matt Taibbi
- Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign – Jonathan Allen, Arnie Parnes
- What Happened – Hillary Rodham Clinton
- The Martian – Andy Weir
- Anything by Neal Stephenson
- Jerusalem – Alan Moore
- The Story of My Tits – Jen Hayden
- My Favorite Thing Is Monsters – Emil Ferris
- We Were Witches – Ariel Gore
Barry Blitt, starts at 8:50
- Best of Myles (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) – Flann O’Brien
- Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel – George Saunders
Martin Rowson, starts at 10:50
- The Radical Soap Opera – David Zane Mairowitz
- Waugh Abroad: The Collected Travel Writing (Everyman’s Library) – Evelyn Waugh
- A Sentimental Journey (Penguin Classics) – Laurence Sterne
Nicholas Delbanco, starts at 13:10
- The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road – Paul Theroux
- A Legacy of Spies: A Novel – John Le Carre
Eshkol Nevo, starts at 15:05
- The Nix – Nathan Hill
- lots of student manuscripts
Paul Gravett, starts at 16:05
- Voices in the Dark – Ulli Lust
- Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 1 – Inio Asano
- Driving Short Distances – Joff Winterhart
Eddy Portnoy, starts at 19:25
- Drew Friedman’s Chosen People – Drew Friedman
- How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels – Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden
- I Can Make You Hate – Charlie Booker
Vanda Krefft, starts at 22:25
- Stoner – John Williams
Cullen Murphy, starts at 24:50
- Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam – Mark Bowden
- Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom – Tom Ricks
- Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A novel – Nathan Englander
- The Late Show – Michael Connelly
- A Legacy of Spies: A Novel – John Le Carre
You can find everydamnthing I’ve been reading at this page.