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 month’s episode features Ben Model, John Holl, Harry Katz, David Mikics, Chester Brown, and Lee Clay Johnson.

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

Ben Model starts at 1:45

• The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks – Tracey Goessell
• The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930 – Scott Eiman

John Holl starts at 3:25

• New Yorker
• New York Times
• Newark Star-Ledger

Harry Katz starts at 5:05

• Hell Bay – Sam Llewellyn
• Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution – Nathaniel Philbrick

David Mikics starts at 9:20

• To Jerusalem and Back – Saul Bellow
• The Last Days of Stalin – Joshua Rubenstein

Chester Brown starts at 11:00

• Fifteen Dogs – Andre Alexis

BONUS: Lee Clay Johnson, author of Nitro Mountain: A novel, starts at 13:00

• Wieland; or, the Transformation: An American Tale – Charles Brockden Brown
• Rides of the Midway: A Novel – Lee Durkee