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 2018: Nora Krug, Jason Lutes, David Small, Eddie Campbell, Michael Gerber, Mark Dery, Angela Himsel, Cathy B Graham, Shachar Pinsker, Summer Pierre, and Bill Kartolopoulos!
Here’s the mp3 link: Download it and give it a listen!
(And if someone gave you a link to this page but you’re not a supporter of The Virtual Memories Show, please visit my Patreon or Paypal pages and become a regular contributor to the podcast. Keep book-culture alive!)
Here are the guests and the books they talked about (their names link to their episodes of the show):
Nora Krug starts at 1:50
- Ian McEwan
- Alexandra Fuller
- Mein Kampf
- Black Dogs: A Novel – Ian McEwan
Jason Lutes starts at 4:00
- A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
- Between the World and Me – Te-Nahisi Coates
- Blame This on the Boogie – Rina Ayuyang
- Sabrina – Nick Drnaso
David Small starts at 5:40
- Fear: Trump in the White House – Bob Woodward
- The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel – Barbara Kingsolver
Eddie Campbell starts at 6:50
- Jerusalem – Alan Moore
- 7 volumes of Walt and Skeezix/Gasoline Alley – Frank King
Michael Gerber starts at 10:20
- The Making of Donald Trump – David Cay Johnston
- Mary Karr
Mark Dery starts at 12:00
- The Poetry of Surrealism: An Anthology – ed. Michael Benedikt
- Heidegger on Being Uncanny – Katherine Withy
Angela Himsel starts at 22:25
- Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
- A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel – Amor Towles
Cathy B. Graham starts at 23:05
- The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society – Mary S. Lovell
- Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill – Sonia Purnell
- The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible – AJ Jacobs
- Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography – Eric Idle
- Educated: A Memoir – Tara Westover
- Anthony Trollope
- Jane Austen
- Fear: Trump in the White House – Bob Woodward
Shachar Pinsker starts at 25:45
- Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel – Gary Shteyngart
- How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images – Sara Blair
Summer Pierre starts at 30:20
- The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
- There There: A novel – Tommy Orange
- 7 volumes of Walt and Skeezix/Gasoline Alley – Frank King
Bill Kartalopoulos starts at 32:30
You can find everydamnthing I’ve been reading at this page.