It’s 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 David M. Carr, Willard Spiegelman, Michael Maslin, Tom Gauld, and bonus guest Derf Backderf.

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

David M. Carr starts at 1:35

• The Riyria Chronicles – Michael J. Sullivan
• Don Quixote – Cervantes
• Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
• War and Peace – Tolstoy

Willard Spiegelman starts at 6:55

• The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic – Jamie James
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome – Mary Beard
• What Belongs to You: A Novel – Garth Greenwell

Michael Maslin starts at 11:05

• John Adams – David McCullough
• An Atheist in Heaven – Peter Steiner
• Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music – Greil Marcus

Tom Gauld starts at 16:05

• A Farewell To Arms – Ernest Hemingway
• Blammo – Noah Van Sciver

Derf Backderf starts at 18:15

• Childhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke
• Rendezvous with Rama – Arthur C. Clarke
• City – Clifford D. Simak
• The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
• The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury

Gil Roth (because some of you ask) starts at 20:45

• The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
• Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
• In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way, Vol. 1 – Proust