It’s (way past) 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 David Leopold, Liz Hand, Kliph Nesteroff, Fred Kaplan, Charles Bivona and April Darcy.

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

David Leopold (starts at 1:35)

• Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas – Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker
• FDR’s speeches

Liz Hand (4:00)

• Echoes from the Dead – Johan Theorin
• The Darkest Room – Johan Theorin
• The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot – Robert Macfarlane
• Anhedonia, Here I Com – Colin Barrett
• Young Skins: Stories – Colin Barrett
• The Third Man – Graham Greene

Kliph Nesteroff (9:40)

• The Man with the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
• A Walk on the Wild Side: A Novel – Nelson Algren
• Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London – Shawn Levy
• And the Beat Goes On – Sonny Bono
• Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970 – Jann Wenner

Fred Kaplan (13:45)

• A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809 – 1849 – Sidney Blumenthal
• Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran – Laura Secor

Charles Bivona / #NJPoet (15:00)

• Textbook on financial planning
• Newspapers, magazines, online journalism
• Holy Bible: King James Version

April Darcy (18:00)

• We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel – Michael Thomas
• Stop-Time: A Memoir – Frank Conroy
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith