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?”

I decided to go quarterly starting with this episode, so you get a super lineup of guests: Michael Tisserand, Thomas Dolby, Brad Gooch, Karen Green, Ben Yagoda, Phillip Lopate, Jessa Crispin, Garth Greenwell, Barbara Epler, Jeff Nunokawa, Tony Tulathimutte, and John Cuneo!

Here’s the mp3 link: Download it and give it a listen!

Michael Tisserand starts at 2:10

• The Story of Dan Bright: Crime, Corruption, and Injustice in the Crescent City – Dan Bright, Justin Nobel
• The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

Thomas Dolby starts at 5:40

• Enterprise: The story of the defense of the America’s Cup in 1930 – Harold Sterling Vanderbilt
• Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow

Brad Gooch starts at 6:40

• Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 – Volker Ullrich
• Naomi – Junichiro Tanizaki
• Ernest Hemingway: A Biography – Mary Dearborn
• The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan – Patti Bosworth
• What Belongs to You: A Novel – Garth Greenwell

Karen Green starts at 10:10

• The Emperor’s New Clothes – The Tower of Babel in the “Art” World – Jonah Kinigstein
• How David Lost His Voice – Judith Vanistendael
• Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir – Tom Hart
• comics of Leela Corman

Ben Yagoda starts at 12:40

• Mourning Lincoln – Martha Hodes
• Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White – Michael Tisserand

Philllip Lopate starts at 14:50

• Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey – Frances Wilson
• Éric Rohmer: A Biography – Antoine de Baecque
• Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs: The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / The Blue Devils of Nada – Albert Murray
• You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn – Wendy Lesser
• Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas – Adam Kirsch

Jessa Crispin starts at 16:20

• “Academic, crazy, giant books”
• Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times – Krishan Kumar
• Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History – Derek Sayer
• The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

Garth Greenwell starts at 19:45

• Lots by Jenny Erpenbeck
• A not-yet-available in the US book by South African author SJ Naude, The Third Reel
• L’Assommoir – Emile Zola
• The Thief’s Journal – Jean Genet
• Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 – Frank Bidart (whom Garth considers the most important living American writer)

Barbara Epler starts at 23:15

• Mrs. Caliban – Rachel Ingalls
• Dandelions – Kawabata Yasunari
• Emma – Jane Austen
• Two-Dimensional Man – Paul Sahre
• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel – George Saunders

Jeff Nunokawa starts at 26:35

• Jane Austen
• Lots of Hannah Arendt
• Joan Didion
• Mary McCarthy
• James Merrill: Life and Art – Langdon Hammer

Tony Tulathimutte starts at 27:50

• Tornado Weather – Deborah E. Kennedy
• Sour Heart: Stories – Jenny Chang
• Her Body and Other Parties: Stories – Carmen Machado
• The Association of Small Bombs: A Novel – Karan Mahajan
• The Story of a New Name – Elena Ferrante

John Cuneo starts at 33:40

• Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
• Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast – Megan Marshall
• The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom and Surprising Life of James Thurber – James Thurber