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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