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: Mark Ulriksen, Hal Mayforth, Nathaniel Popkin, David Lloyd, Lance Richardson, Glen David Gold, Moby, Audrey Niffenegger, and Ken Krimstein!

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

Mark Ulriksen starts at 1:40

• The Underground Railroad: A Novel – Colson Whitehead
• Manhattan Beach: A Novel – Jennifer Egan
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America – Erik Larson
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
• How Luck Happens: Using the Science of Luck to Transform Work, Love, and Life – Janice Kaplan

Hal Mayforth starts at 4:05

• Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution – Nathaniel Philbrick
• A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
• Personal History – Katherine Graham
• My American Journey – Colin Powell
• Twentieth-Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies – Duncan Hannah
• The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie

Nathaniel Popkin starts at 6:15

• Save The Planet: An Amazonian Tribal Leader Fights for His People, The Rainforest, and The Earth – Almir Narayamoga Surui
• Being Ecological – Timothy Morton
• Cosmicomics – Italo Calvino
• The Chandelier – Clarice Lispector

David Lloyd starts at 14:05

• Her Beautiful Monster: The Ravi PI Series – Adi Tantimedh

Lance Richardson starts at 15:00

• The Overstory: A Novel – Richard Powers
• Modern Nature: The Journals of Derek Jarman
• There There: A novel – Tommy Orange
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays – Alexander Chee

Richard Kadrey starts at 18:35

• In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy (Volume 1) – Eugene Thacker
• Infinite Resignation: On Pessimism – Eugene Thacker
• Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded – Jason Heller
• Kill the Next One – Federico Axat
• The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan (coming Feb. 2019)

Glen David Gold starts at 24:00

• The Force: A Novel – Don Winslow
• Killing Floor (Jack Reacher) – Lee Child
• My Dead Parents: A Memoir – Anya Yurchyshyn
• Hey Kids! Comics! – Howard Chaykin

Moby starts at 28:15

• poems of Kabir and other Sufi poets
• The Overstory: A Novel – Richard Powers
• The Idiot – Dostoevsky
• some Harlan Coben
• some John Connolly
• The Big Book of AA

Audrey Niffenegger starts at 32:30

• Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr – John Crowley
• To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death – Mark O’Connell

Ken Krimstein starts at 34:00

• Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
• Safe Conduct: An Autobiography and Other Writings – Boris Pasternak
• Kim – Rudyard Kipling
• Making It – Norman Podhoretz
• The Peregrine – JA Baker

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