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 Paul Mavrides, Malcolm Margolin, MK Brown, and Arthur Lubow.

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

Paul Mavrides starts at 1:25

• The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI – Betty Medsger
• True Grit – Charles Portis

Malcolm Margolin starts at 9:30

• The Imperfectionists – Tom Rachman
• Ian McEwan’s novels
• Julian Barnes’ novels
• Martin Amis’ novels
• The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch – Thomas Thwaites
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel – George V. Higgins
• Anna Karenina – Tolstoy

MK Brown starts at 14:50

• Michael Connolly’s novels
• Nelson DeMille
• Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel – Jacqueline Winspear (and a bunch of her other Maisie Dobbs novels)
• Konrad Lorenz’ books, until . . .
• Bailey White’s books
• LOTS of David Sedaris

Arthur Lubow starts at 18:00

• Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music – Rob Young
• Leaving the Atocha Station – Ben Lerner
• 10:04: A Novel – Ben Lerner
• City of Bohane: A Novel – Kevin Barry
• Beatlebone – Kevin Barry
• Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First – Frank Trentmann

Gil Roth (because people ask occasionally) – starts at 21:15

• Play All: A Bingewatcher’s Notebook – Clive James
• Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
• Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller