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 first quarter of 2018: Dave McKean, Paul Karasik, Mark Newgarden, Seymour Chwast, John Leland, Ann Hulbert, Henry Wessells, Lauren Weinstein, Jerry Beck, Willard Spiegelman, Lavie Tidhar, Jesse Sheidlower, and Robert Weil!

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

Dave McKean, starts at 2:00

• Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees – Roger Deakin
• The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland – Nan Shepherd
• a bunch by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts – Clive James
• The Last Wolf & Herman – Laszlo Krasznahorkai
• 4 3 2 1: A Novel – Paul Auster

Paul Karasik & Mark Newgarden, starts at 6:45

• The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book – Iona and Peter Opie (Mark Newgarden)
• a random Dennis the Menace paperback in a used bookstore (Paul Karasik)

Seymour Chwast, starts at 9:00

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America – Erik Larson

John Leland, starts at 11:40

• Exit West: A Novel – Mohsin Hamid
• My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One – Elena Ferrante

Ann Hulbert, starts at 17:15

• Educated: A Memoir – Tara Westover
• My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One – Elena Ferrante
• The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II – Svetlana Alexievich

Henry Wessells, starts at 20:50

• Little, Big – John Crowley
• Gnomon: A novel – Nick Harkaway
• After London – Richard Jeffries
• Our daily lives have to be a satisfaction in themselves – Emily Larned
• Tropic of Kansas: A Novel – Christopher Brown

Lauren Weinstein, starts at 25:05

• The Lie And How We Told It – Tommi Parrish
• Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist – Diane Radycki
• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind – Daniel J. Siegel
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk – Adele Faber
• The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters – Emil Ferris

Jerry Beck, starts at 28:00

• How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels – Paul Karasik & Mark Newgarden
• Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney’s Animation – Mindy Johnson
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The Search for the Lost Disney Cartoons – David A. Bossert

Willard Spiegelman, starts at 30:15

• Dodie Smith, Willa Cather, James Salter, William Maxwell, Shirley Hazzard
• The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
• Don’t Save Anything: Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles – James Salter

Lavie Tidhar, starts at 32:40

• Escape from Baghdad! – Saad Z. Hossain
• Djinn City – Saad Z. Hossain

Jesse Sheidlower, starts at 34:20

• I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays – Tim Kreider
• Universal Harvester: A Novel – John Darnielle
• You – Austin Grossman

Bob Weil, starts at 36:00

• The Friend: A Novel – Sigrid Nunez
• My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues – Pamela
• uncollected letters of F. O. Matthiessen
• uncollected letters of Malcolm Cowley
• 1947: Where Now Begins – Elisabeth Åsbrink

You can find everydamnbook I’ve been reading at this page.