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 2019: Karl Stevens, Emily Nussbaum, Kate Maruyama, Liniers, Christopher Brown, Caleb Crain, David Shields, Dawn Raffel, Amor Towles, Simon Doonan, Simon Critchley, and Sylvia Nickerson!
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Here are the guests and the books they talked about (their names link to their episodes of the show):
Karl Stevens starts at 1:45
- Sentimental Education
– Flaubert
- Conversations with Friends: A Novel
– Sally Rooney
- Normal People: A Novel
– Sally Rooney
- Eileen: A Novel
– Ottessa Moshfegh
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
– Ottessa Moshfegh
- Alex Raymond’s Rip Kirby comics
- Joe Decie’s comics
- Return to Romance: The Strange Love Stories of Ogden Whitney
- Being an Artist and a Mother – Lauren Weinstein
- Over Easy
– Mimi Pond
- The Customer is Always Wrong
– Mimi Pond
– Flaubert
– Sally Rooney
– Sally Rooney
– Ottessa Moshfegh
– Ottessa Moshfegh
– Mimi Pond
– Mimi PondEmily Nussbaum starts at 8:10
- Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel
– Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
– Jia Tolentino
– Taffy Brodesser-Akner
– Jia TolentinoKate Maruyama starts at 13:15
- Heavy: An American Memoir
– Kiese Laymon
- Little Eve
– Catriona Ward
- Trail of Lightning
– Rebecca Roanhorse
- In the Night Wood
– Dale Bailey
- Eric Guignard’s short stories
- Alyssa Wong’s fiction
- Escape from Beckyville: Tales of Race, Hair and Rage
– Nicole D. Sconiers
– Kiese Laymon
– Catriona Ward
– Rebecca Roanhorse
– Dale Bailey
– Nicole D. SconiersLiniers starts at 18:00
- Hellboy – Mike Mignola
- Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
– Vincent Lobrutto
- Hell House
– Richard Matheson
- Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
– George Saunders
– Vincent Lobrutto
– Richard Matheson
– George SaundersChristopher Brown starts at 20:55
- Dhalgren
– Samuel R. Delany
- Njal’s Saga
- The Only Harmless Great Thing
– Brooke Bolander
- Time Was
– Ian McDonald
- Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories
– Abbey Mei Otis
- Ambiguity Machines: and Other stories
– Vandana Singh
- Agency
– William Gibson
- The Training Commission – a serial fiction newsletter by Brendan Byrne and Ingrid Burrington
– Samuel R. Delany
– Brooke Bolander
– Ian McDonald
– Abbey Mei Otis
– Vandana Singh
– William GibsonCaleb Crain starts at 29:00
- A Fairly Honourable Defeat
– Iris Murdoch
- The Abbess of Crewe: A Modern Morality Tale
– Muriel Spark
– Iris Murdoch
– Muriel SparkDavid Shields starts at 40:00
- GK Chesterton’s aphorisms
- Best Thought, Worst Thought: On Art, Sex, Work and Death
– Don Paterson
- Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
– Sarah Manguso
– Don Paterson
– Sarah MangusoDawn Raffel starts at 45:45
- unnamed novel by Steven Heighton
- Dawson’s Fall: A Novel
– Roxana Robinson
- Collected Poems
– Auden
- Invisible Cities
– Italo Calvino
– Roxana Robinson
– Auden
– Italo CalvinoAmor Towles starts at 49:15
- Edith Wharton novels, chronologically
- John Le Carré’s George Smiley novels, in sequence
- The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street
– Naguib Mafouz
- The Raj Quartet
– Paul Scott
– Naguib Mafouz
– Paul ScottSimon Doonan starts at 54:40
- Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London’s Foundlings
– Helen Berry
- Dangerous Liaisons
– Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite: My Story
– Roger Daltrey
- The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
– Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg
- Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
– Holly Madison
- all of Iris Murdoch
- all of Muriel Spark
– Helen Berry
– Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
– Roger Daltrey
– Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg
– Holly MadisonSimon Critchley starts at 59:15
- Holy the Firm
– Annie Dillard
- The Peregrine
– JA Baker
- Nicholson Baker nonfiction
- Ann the Word: The Story of Ann Lee, Female Messiah, Mother of the Shakers, the Woman Clothed with the Sun
– Richard Francis
- Frankenstein
– Mary Shelley
– Annie Dillard
– JA Baker
– Richard Francis
– Mary ShelleySylvia Nickerson starts at 1:01:25
- Seth’s Dominion
– Seth
- Leaving Richard’s Valley
– Michael DeForge
- Hot Comb
– Ebony Flowers
– Seth
– Michael DeForge
– Ebony FlowersMy segment starts at 1:02:00, but you can find everydamnthing I’ve been reading for both the podcast and my weird idea of leisure at this page.
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