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 second quarter of 2017: Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, George Prochnik, Vanessa Sinclair, RO Blechman, Keiler Roberts, Seth, Kyle Cassidy, Joe Ciardiello, and Graham Chaffee!

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

Sarah Williams Goldhagen, starts at 1:45

• The Complete Notebooks of Henry James: The Authoritative and Definitive Edition – Henry James (ed. Leon Edel, Lyall H. Powers)
• Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape – David Hinton

Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, starts at 5:05

• Anne Carson
• Where I Was From – Joan Didion
• When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice – Terry Tempest Williams
• Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays – Zadie Smith
• The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance – Edmund de Waal
• Blindness – Jose Saramago
• Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition – Carl Jung
• Plus, her take on Elena Ferante’s books

George Prochnik, starts at 12:15

• In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
• Thomas Hardy
• Raymond Chandler
• Shadows on the Hudson: A Novel – I.B. Singer

Vanessa Sinclair, starts at 16:00

• The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
• Sunshine State: Essays – Sarah Gerard
• Lust & Wonder: A Memoir – Augusten Burroughs
• Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move – Reece Jones
• The Complete Stories – Clarice Lispector

RO Blechman, starts at 18:00

• Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen, at my suggestion, because he’s never read her
• Orlando: A Biography – Virginia Woolf
• This is Not a Novel – David Markson

Keiler Roberts, starts at 23:40

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
• The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee – Sarah Silverman
• The First Bad Man: A Novel – Miranda July

Seth, starts at 26:30

• Deep dive into Anita Brookner, starting with Hotel Du Lac, and another dozen since then
• Hans Christian Andersen

Kyle Cassidy, starts at 36:00

• Borne: A Novel – Jeff VanderMeer
• Running with a Police Escort: Tales from the Back of the Pack – Jill Grunenwald
• Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future – John Scalzi
• The Arrangement: A Novel – Sarah Dunn

Joe Ciardiello, starts at 38:00

• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters – Emil Ferris
• Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary – Joe Jackson

Graham Chaffee, starts at 40:30

• The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
• The Rat on Fire – George V. Higgins