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 2019: Mark Alan Stamaty, David Shields, Michael Carroll, Frederic Tuten, Ersi Sotiropoulos, Katelan Foisy, Seth, Nina Bunjevac, Steven Guarnaccia, Hugh Ryan, Bill Griffith, Boris Fishman, and Barbara Nessim!

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

Mark Alan Stamaty starts at 2:00

• Bleak House – Charles Dickens
• A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
• Another Roadside Attraction: A Novel – Tom Robbins

David Shields starts at 5:05

• Ongoingness: The End of a Diary – Sarah Manguso

Michael Carroll starts at 7:45

• work by Joy Williams
• A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories – Lucia Berlin
• eightball – Elizabeth Geoghegan
• The Easter Parade: A Novel – Richard Yates
• “Someone Is Crying in the Chateau de Berne” – Andrew Holleran

Frederic Tuten starts at 13:50

• Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History – Tony Perrottet

Ersi Sotiropoulos starts at 14:40

• Istanbul Istanbul: A Novel – Burhan Sönmez
• A Burnt Child – Stig Dagerman

Katelan Foisy starts at 19:15

• Noho Gloaming & the Curious Coda of Anthony Santos – Daniel Knauf
• American Circus: An Illustrated History – John Culhane
• On the Frontiers of Science: Strange Machines You Can Build – G. Harry Stine
• An Experiment with Time (Studies in Consciousness) – JW Dunne
• Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red Light District – Al Rose
• La Sorcellerie au Maroc (French Edition) – Émile Mauchamp

Seth starts at 26:55

• The Pillow Book – Sei Shonagon
• novels of Iris Murdoch
• novels of Anita Brookner
• one novel by Anthony Trollope, but we never get around to mentioning which

Nina Bunjevac starts at 34:35

• The Ever-Present Origin, Part One: Foundations of the Aperspectival World and Part Two: Manifestations of the Aperspectival World – Jean Gebser
• In Search of the Miraculous – PD Ouspensky
• On Magic – Giordano Bruno
• Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition – Frances A. Yates

Steven Guarnaccia starts at 39:25

• The Valley of Fear – Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Little Nugget – PG Wodehouse
• Profiles – Kenneth Tynan

Hugh Ryan starts at 44:50

• research on the Women’s House of Detention in Greenwich Village
• Afeni Shakur : Evolution of a Revolutionary – Jasmine Guy
• Angela Davis: An Autobiography
• The Lonely Trip Back – Florrie Fisher
• Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800-1935 – Nicole Hahn Rafter
• Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action) – Joey L. Mogul
• The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters

Bill Griffith starts at 47:15

• Our Universe: An Astronomer’s Guide – Jo Dunkley
• How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels – by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden

Boris Fishman starts at 50:00

• Philip Roth: Why Write?: Collected Nonfiction 1960-2013 – Philip Roth
• Lolita – Nabokov
• Saul Bellow: Letters
• Before Night Falls: A Memoir – Reinaldo Arenas
• Sir Vidia’s Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents – Paul Theroux

Barbara Nessim starts at 55:55

• Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind – Henry Hobhouse
• A Journal of the Plague Year – Daniel Defoe

My segment starts at 58:00, but you can find everydamnthing I’ve been reading for both the podcast and my weird idea of leisure at this page.