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 second quarter of 2018: Steven Heller, Dean Haspiel, Jaime Hernandez, JJ Sedelmaier, Michael Kupperman, Ilana Myer, Christopher Brown, Irvin Ungar, Alberto Manguel, Chris Reynolds, and Dave Calver!

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

Steven Heller, starts at 1:45

• It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis
• The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
• Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler
• Scum of the Earth – Arthur Koestler
• Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine – Joe Hagan
• The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition – Linda Gordon
• Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland – Jan T. Gross
• The Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million (P.S.) – Daniel Mendelson
• Life and Fate – Vassily Grossman

Dean Haspiel, starts at 5:30

• Digging Up Mother: A Love Story – Doug Stanhope
• This Is Not Fame: A From What I Re-Memoir – Doug Stanhope
• An Improvised Life: A Memoir – Alan Arkin
• Easy Street (the Hard Way): A Memoir – Ron Perlman

Jaime Hernandez, starts at 9:25

• My Pretty Vampire – Katie Skelly
• Eleanor Davis
• Lisa Hanawalt

JJ Sedelmaier, starts at 10:35

• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis – by JD Vance
• Research on Andrew King

Michael Kupperman, starts at 13:30

• Laid Waste – Julia Gfrorer
• Superman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen
• Tales of Bizarro World
• Hip Hop Family Tree – Ed Piskor
• The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To – DC Pierson
• Mis(h)adra – Iasmin Omar Ata

Ilana Myer, starts at 15:40

• Friend of My Youth: Stories – Alice Munro
• King Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2 – Shakespeare
• The Tempest – Shakespeare
• King Lear – Shakespeare

Christopher Brown, starts at 18:20

• Chercher La Femme – L. Timmel Duchamp
• legal thrillers
• The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice – Thomas Hauser
• Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture – Mark Fallon

Irvin Ungar, starts at 23:20

• Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn – Daniel Gordis
• World War II at Sea: A Global History – Craig L. Symonds

Alberto Manguel, starts at 24:30

• The Paris Enigma: A Novel – Pablo De Santis
• Beneath the Lion’s Gaze: A Novel – Maaza Mengiste
• Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God – Jack Miles
• The Man Who Disappeared – Kafka
• The Door Between – Ellery Queen
• Ancient Rhetoric: From Aristotle to Philostratus

Chris Reynolds, starts at 27:10

• crossword puzzles and codewords
• Dick Francis novels
• Paul Temple series

Dave Calver, starts at 28:50

• also crossword puzzles
• Sleeping Beauties: A Novel – Stephen King

You can find everydamnthing I’ve been reading at this page.