It’s (way past) time for a new episode of Fear of a Square Planet, our patron-only monthly podcast where I ask the all-important question of this month’s Virtual Memories podcast-guests, “So, who you reading?”
This month’s episode features Ben Model, John Holl, Harry Katz, David Mikics, Chester Brown, and Lee Clay Johnson.
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Here are the guests and the books they talked about (their names link to their episodes of the show):
Ben Model starts at 1:45
- The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
– Tracey Goessell
- The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930
– Scott Eiman
– Tracey Goessell
– Scott EimanJohn Holl starts at 3:25
Harry Katz starts at 5:05
- Hell Bay
– Sam Llewellyn
- Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
– Nathaniel Philbrick
– Sam Llewellyn
– Nathaniel PhilbrickDavid Mikics starts at 9:20
- To Jerusalem and Back
– Saul Bellow
- The Last Days of Stalin
– Joshua Rubenstein
– Saul Bellow
– Joshua RubensteinChester Brown starts at 11:00
- Fifteen Dogs
– Andre Alexis
– Andre AlexisBONUS: Lee Clay Johnson, author of Nitro Mountain: A novel
- Wieland; or, the Transformation: An American Tale
– Charles Brockden Brown
- Rides of the Midway: A Novel
– Lee Durkee
– Charles Brockden Brown
– Lee Durkee
– Aristotle
– Thomas Aquinas
– Kant
– Hegel
– Homer
– Homer
– Edith Hamilton
– Euclid
– Plato
– Plato
– Plato
– Robert Frost
– Virgil
– Seamus Heaney
(specifically Job, Genesis and Matthew)
– Ruth Benedict
– Aeschylus
– Sophocles
– Tolstoy
– Tolstoy
– George Eliot
– Charles Dickens
– Jane Austen
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
– Virginia Woolf
– Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker
– Johan Theorin
– Johan Theorin
– Robert Macfarlane
– Colin Barrett
– Graham Greene
– Nelson Algren
– Nelson Algren
– Shawn Levy
– Sonny Bono
– Jann Wenner
– Sidney Blumenthal
– Laura Secor
– Michael Thomas
– Frank Conroy
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
– Jane Austen
– Betty Smith
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