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
– Colson Whitehead
– Jennifer Egan
– Erik Larson
– Michael Chabon
– Junot Diaz
– Janice KaplanHal 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 Philbrick
– John Kennedy Toole
– Katherine Graham
– Colin Powell
– Duncan Hannah
– Salman RushdieNathaniel 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
– Almir Narayamoga Surui
– Timothy Morton
– Italo Calvino
– Clarice LispectorDavid Lloyd starts at 14:05
- Her Beautiful Monster: The Ravi PI Series
– Adi Tantimedh
– Adi TantimedhLance 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 Powers
– Tommy Orange
– Alexander CheeRichard 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)
– Eugene Thacker
– Eugene Thacker
– Jason Heller
– Federico Axat
(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
– Don Winslow
– Lee Child
– Anya YurchyshynMoby starts at 28:15
- poems of Kabir and other Sufi poets
- The Overstory: A Novel
- The Idiot
– Dostoevsky
- some Harlan Coben
- some John Connolly
- The Big Book of AA
– Dostoevsky
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
– John Crowley
– Mark O’ConnellKen 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
– Boris Pasternak
– Boris Pasternak
– Rudyard Kipling
– Norman Podhoretz
– JA BakerYou can find everydamnthing I’ve been reading at this page.
– Sinclair Lewis
– Philip Roth
– Arthur Koestler
– Arthur Koestler
– Joe Hagan
– Linda Gordon
– Jan T. Gross
– Daniel Mendelson
– Vassily Grossman
– Doug Stanhope
– Doug Stanhope
– Alan Arkin
– Ron Perlman
– Katie Skelly
– by JD Vance
– Julia Gfrorer
– Ed Piskor
– DC Pierson
– Iasmin Omar Ata
– Alice Munro
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– Shakespeare
– Shakespeare
– Shakespeare
– L. Timmel Duchamp
– Thomas Hauser
– Mark Fallon
– Daniel Gordis
– Craig L. Symonds
– Pablo De Santis
– Maaza Mengiste
– Jack Miles
– Kafka
– Ellery Queen
– Stephen King
– Roger Deakin
– Nan Shepherd
– Clive James
– Laszlo Krasznahorkai
– Paul Auster
– Iona and Peter Opie (Mark Newgarden)
– Mohsin Hamid
– Elena Ferrante
– Tara Westover
– Svetlana Alexievich
– John Crowley
– Nick Harkaway
– Richard Jeffries
– Christopher Brown
– Tommi Parrish
– Diane Radycki
– Daniel J. Siegel
– Adele Faber
– Graham Greene
– Emil Ferris
– Paul Karasik & Mark Newgarden
– Mindy Johnson
– David A. Bossert
– Henry James
– James Salter
– Saad Z. Hossain
– Saad Z. Hossain
– Tim Kreider
– John Darnielle
– Austin Grossman
– Sigrid Nunez
– Pamela
– Elisabeth Åsbrink
– Matt Taibbi
– Jonathan Allen, Arnie Parnes
– Hillary Rodham Clinton
– Andy Weir
– Alan Moore
– Jen Hayden
– Ariel Gore
– Flann O’Brien
– George Saunders
– David Zane Mairowitz
– Evelyn Waugh
– Laurence Sterne
– Paul Theroux
– John Le Carre
– Nathan Hill
– Ulli Lust
– Inio Asano
– Drew Friedman
– Charlie Booker
– John Williams
– Mark Bowden
– Tom Ricks
– Nathan Englander
– Michael Connelly
– Robert Goolrick
– Ethan Mordden
– Megan Abbott
– Don Winslow
John Lawton
– Philip Kerr
– Jack Viertel
– Mary Beard
– PG Woodhouse
– Alison Bechdel
– Hugo Prosper Leaming, presented as his Ph.D. thesis at the U. of Illinois at Chicago Circle in 1979
– Warren Buffet
– Peter Lynch
– Laurent Binet
– John McPhee
– David J. Skal
– Paul La Farge
– Douglas Scott Delaney
– Deepak Unnikrishnan
– Ruth Franklin
– Kit Reed
– John Langan
– Stephen Graham Jones
– Paul Cornell
– Matt Ruff
– Stephen Graham Jones
– George Meredith
– John Kessel
– Jules Verne
– Jules Verne
– Michelle Tea
– Brontez Purnell
– Guy Delisle
– Sen. Al Franken
– AB Liebling