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 2019: Chris Ware, Witold Rybczynski, Kate Lacour, Liz Hand, Frank Santoro, Ho Che Anderson, Kevin Huizenga, Steven Heller, Pete Bagge, Ed Ward, Annie Koyama, Robb Armstrong, Edie Nadelhaft,, and Peter Kuper!

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

Chris Ware starts at 2:10

• Walden – Thoreau
• Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography – David S. Reynolds
• Grand Union: Stories – Zadie Smith
• Plus we talk about Tolstoy a bit

Witold Rybczynski starts at 6:30

• Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 – Paul Hendrickson
• Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright – Paul Hendrickson

Kate Lacour starts at 12:30

• Spiritual Writings – Flannery O’Connor
• The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
• Plus Ursula K. LeGuin and NK Jemisin

Liz Hand starts at 17:55

• The Child Finder – Rene Denfeld

Frank Santoro starts at 20:00

• Jerusalem – Alan Moore
• Between Them: Remembering My Parents – Richard Ford
• Ask the Dust – John Fante

Ho Che Anderson starts at 24:10

• They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers – Romeo Dallaire
• Rendezvous with Rama – Arthur C. Clarke

Kevin Huizenga starts at 25:30

• You Must Change Your Life – Peter Sloterdijk
• Dream Diary – R. Crumb
• The Mirror: A History – Sabine Melchoir-Bonnet

Steven Heller starts at 29:50

• An Officer and a Spy – Robert Harris
• Three New Deals – Wolfgang Schivelbusch
• Quichotte: A Novel – Salman Rushdie
• Caging Skies – Christine Leunens

Pete Bagge starts at 37:05

• Reference books for his biographical subjects, like Spinoza and Mary Wollstonecraft

Ed Ward starts at 42:40

• New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, and the New Yorker

Annie Koyama starts at 59:50

• Elvis Road – Elvis Studio
• Gary Panter’s stuff
• Metropolitan Life – Fran Leibowitz

Robb Armstrong starts at 1:03:05

• Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates

Edie Nadelhaft starts at 1:04:00

• contemporary short fiction
• The Little Friend – Donna Tartt
• The Goldfinch: A Novel – Donna Tartt
• Faulkner
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Peter Kuper starts at 1:09:30

• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel – Amor Towles
• King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa – Adam Hochschild
• Sabrina – Nick Drnaso
• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir – Thi Bui
• City of Thieves: A Novel – David Benioff
• Elevation – Stephen King
• The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall – Mark Moffett
• The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story – Douglas Preston

My segment starts at 1:15:20, but you can find everydamnthing I’ve been reading for both the podcast and my weird idea of leisure at this page.