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 2019: Jerome Charyn, Peter Kuper, Edmund White, Eva Hagberg Fisher, Mort Gerberg, James Oseland, Joe Ciardiello, James Sturm, Martin Hagglund, Bram Presser, and Nathan Englander!

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

Jerome Charyn starts at 1:50

• Research on Louise Brooks and Hot Springs, Arkansas, for an upcoming novel
• Rereading stories by Flannery O’Connor and Isaac Babel

Peter Kuper starts at 3:55

• The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World – Maya Jasanoff
• The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth – Ken Krimstein
• The Bad Movie Bible: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Movies That Are so Bad They’re Good – Rob Hill and Emma Hill
• Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell
• Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

Edmund White starts at 8:20

• autobiography of Elizabeth de Gramont
• Stella Maris: And Other Key West Stories – by Michael Carroll
• The Order of the Day – by Eric Vuillard

Eva Hagberg Fisher starts at 10:55

• The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy – Paige Williams
• Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses – Claire Dederer

Mort Gerberg starts at 13:30

• Asymmetry: A Novel – Lisa Halliday
• Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (Version 2.0) – Tom Friedman
• A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership – James Comey
• Killing Commendatore: A novel – Haruki Murakami

James Oseland starts at 19:50

• Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
• The Songlines – Bruce Chatwin

Joe Ciardiello starts at 21:25

• Unto the Sons – Gay Talese

James Sturm starts at 22:55

• Judas – Amos Oz
• All the Sad Songs – Summer Pierre
• The Great Believers – Rebecca Makkai
• A Mother’s Walk – by Lauren Weinstein
• I Am Not Okay With This – Chuck Forsman
• The Weight – Melissa Mendes
• Berlin – Jason Lutes

Martin Hagglund starts at 32:45

• Being and Time – Martin Heidegger
• Some Rilke

Bram Presser starts at 37:30

• Where Reasons End: A Novel – Yiyun Li
• Cold Skin: A Novel – Albert Sanchez Pinol (tr. Cheryl Leah Morgan)
• Oraefi: The Wasteland – Ófeigur Sigurðsson
• The Loser – George Konrad (tr. Ivan Sanders)

Nathan Englander starts at 43:30

• Mating: A Novel – Norman Rush
• Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir – Liana Finck
• Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
• Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel – JM Coetzee
• Disgrace: A Novel – JM Coetzee

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