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 third quarter of 2017: Howard Chaykin, Joyce Farmer, Ben Schwartz, Ellen Forney, Matt Ruff, Patty Farmer, Sven Birkerts, Gordon Van Gelder, Ellen Datlow, Kathy Bidus, John Clute, Mimi Pond, and Matt Wuerker!

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

Howard Chaykin, starts at 1:35

• Heading Out to Wonderful – Robert Goolrick
• On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide – Ethan Mordden
• You Will Know Me: A Novel – Megan Abbott
• The Force: A Novel – Don Winslow
• Friends and TraitorsJohn Lawton
• Prussian Blue – Philip Kerr
• The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built – Jack Viertel
• Lots of crime novels
• Ted Gioia‘s jazz writing

Joyce Farmer, starts at 5:45

• A book on wood-finishing, illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories for kids, The New Yorker, Pogo strips, and the MENSA newsletter. Plus, why she foists off Archeology Today on her friends.

Ben Schwartz, starts at 9:50

• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome – Mary Beard
• The Inimitable Jeeves – PG Woodhouse
• Hellboy – Mike Mignola

Ellen Forney, starts at 13:10

• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters – Emil Ferris
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Alison Bechdel

Matt Ruff, starts at 20:20

• Hidden Americans: Maroons of Virginia and the Carolinas – Hugo Prosper Leaming, presented as his Ph.D. thesis at the U. of Illinois at Chicago Circle in 1979

Patty Farmer, starts at 25:40

• The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Fourth Edition – Warren Buffet
• One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market – Peter Lynch

Sven Birkerts, starts at 29:00

• The Seventh Function of Language: A Novel – Laurent Binet
• Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process – John McPhee
• Poetry of Adam Zagajewski
• Teju Cole
• Javier Marías

Gordon Van Gelder, starts at 31:05

• Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula – David J. Skal
• The New Yorker
• The Night Ocean – Paul La Farge
• Tower Dog: Life Inside the Deadliest Job in America – Douglas Scott Delaney
• Temporary People – Deepak Unnikrishnan
• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin

Ellen Datlow, starts at 37:55

• Mormama – Kit Reed
• the next one from Liz Hand
• HEX
• The Fisherman – John Langan
• Mongrels: A Novel – Stephen Graham Jones
• Chalk: A Novel – Paul Cornell
• Lovecraft Country: A Novel – Matt Ruff
• Mapping the Interior – Stephen Graham Jones
• Livia Llewellyn
• Jeffrey Ford

Kathy Bidus, starts at 41:25

• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin
• histories by Antonia Fraser
• more Anthony Trollope
• The Egoist – George Meredith

John Clute, starts at 46:15

• The Moon and the Other – John Kessel
• Robur the Conqueror – Jules Verne
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

Mimi Pond, starts at 52:50

• Black Wave – Michelle Tea
• Since I Laid My Burden Down – Brontez Purnell
• Hostage – Guy Delisle
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters – Emil Ferris

Matt Wuerker, starts at 54:50

• Al Franken, Giant of the Senate – Sen. Al Franken
• The Peregrine – JA Baker
• The Earl of Louisiana – AB Liebling