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 fourth quarter of 2017: Shannon Wheeler, Barry Blitt, Martin Rowson, Nicholas Delbanco, Eshkol Nevo, Paul Gravett, Eddy Portnoy, Vanda Krefft and Cullen Murphy!

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

Shannon Wheeler, starts at 1:45

• Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus – Matt Taibbi
• Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign – Jonathan Allen, Arnie Parnes
• What Happened – Hillary Rodham Clinton
• The Martian – Andy Weir
• Anything by Neal Stephenson
• Jerusalem – Alan Moore
• The Story of My Tits – Jen Hayden
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters – Emil Ferris
• We Were Witches – Ariel Gore

Barry Blitt, starts at 8:50

• Best of Myles (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) – Flann O’Brien
• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel – George Saunders

Martin Rowson, starts at 10:50

• The Radical Soap Opera – David Zane Mairowitz
• Waugh Abroad: The Collected Travel Writing (Everyman’s Library) – Evelyn Waugh
• A Sentimental Journey (Penguin Classics) – Laurence Sterne

Nicholas Delbanco, starts at 13:10

• The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road – Paul Theroux
• A Legacy of Spies: A Novel – John Le Carre

Eshkol Nevo, starts at 15:05

• The Nix – Nathan Hill
• lots of student manuscripts

Paul Gravett, starts at 16:05

• Voices in the Dark – Ulli Lust
• Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 1 – Inio Asano
• Driving Short Distances – Joff Winterhart

Eddy Portnoy, starts at 19:25

• Drew Friedman’s Chosen People – Drew Friedman
• How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels – Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden
• I Can Make You Hate – Charlie Booker

Vanda Krefft, starts at 22:25

• Stoner – John Williams

Cullen Murphy, starts at 24:50

• Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam – Mark Bowden
• Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom – Tom Ricks
• Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A novel – Nathan Englander
• The Late Show – Michael Connelly
• A Legacy of Spies: A Novel – John Le Carre

You can find everydamnthing I’ve been reading at this page.