It’s 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 week’s episode features Rachel Hadas, Kriota Willberg, Christopher Kloeble, Ross Benjamin, Charles Bivona, Luz Costa, Elayne Tobin and R. Sikoryak. Give it a listen!
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Here are the guests and the books they talked about:
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy – William Irvine
- On Desire: Why We Want What We Want – William Irvine
- Discourses, Fragments, Handbook – Epictetus
- The Lake of Dead Languages – Carol Goodman
- The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood – Ellen Handler Spitz
- Bermuda Gold – Lee Slonimsky
- Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems – Harold Bloom, ed.
- Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
- Expanse – James S.A. Corey
- Seveneves – Neal Stephenson
- Reamde – Neal Stephenson
- Anathem – Neal Stephenson
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (among others) – John Le Carre
- Old Man’s War (among others) – John Scalzi
- The Abyss Beyond Dreams: A Novel of the Commonwealth (among others) – Peter F. Hamilton
- The Expats – Chris Pavone
- The Accident – Chris Pavone
- 5 Complete Novels (among others) – Ellery Queen
- Cover Her Face (among others) – PD James
- Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle – Vladimir Nabokov
- Number9Dream – David Mitchell
- Sudden Death: A Novel – Alvaro Enrigue (tr. Natasha Wimmer)
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel – Neil Gaiman
- Great Books of the Western World
- The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
- Symphony of Crows – Damian Rucci
- She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman – Ian Kerner
- Feminist Theory: A Reader – Wendy Kolmar and Frances Bartkowski
- Critical Theory Since Plato – Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle
- Poetry.org app
- The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics – Ramzi Fawaz
- Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father – Alysia Abbott
- The Ex – Alafair Burke
- The Iliad – WHD Rouse
- Dick Tracy – Chester Gould
- Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life – Ulli Lust
- Arsene Schrauwen – Olivier Schrauwen
- Pax Americana – Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely
- Masters of American Comics – John Carlin
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