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 second quarter of 2017: Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, George Prochnik, Vanessa Sinclair, RO Blechman, Keiler Roberts, Seth, Kyle Cassidy, Joe Ciardiello, and Graham Chaffee!
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Here are the guests and the books they talked about (their names link to their episodes of the show):
Sarah Williams Goldhagen, starts at 1:45
- The Complete Notebooks of Henry James: The Authoritative and Definitive Edition
– Henry James (ed. Leon Edel, Lyall H. Powers)
- Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape
– David Hinton
– Henry James (ed. Leon Edel, Lyall H. Powers)
– David HintonWallis Wilde-Menozzi, starts at 5:05
- Anne Carson
- Where I Was From
– Joan Didion
- When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
– Terry Tempest Williams
- Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
– Zadie Smith
- The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
– Edmund de Waal
- Blindness
– Jose Saramago
- Americanah
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition
– Carl Jung
- Plus, her take on Elena Ferante’s books
– Joan Didion
– Terry Tempest Williams
– Zadie Smith
– Edmund de Waal
– Jose Saramago
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
– Carl JungGeorge Prochnik, starts at 12:15
- In Search of Lost Time
– Marcel Proust
- Thomas Hardy
- Raymond Chandler
- Shadows on the Hudson: A Novel
– I.B. Singer
– Marcel Proust
– I.B. SingerVanessa Sinclair, starts at 16:00
- The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
- Sunshine State: Essays
– Sarah Gerard
- Lust & Wonder: A Memoir
– Augusten Burroughs
- Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
– Reece Jones
- The Complete Stories
– Clarice Lispector
– Sarah Gerard
– Augusten Burroughs
– Reece Jones
– Clarice LispectorRO Blechman, starts at 18:00
- Pride & Prejudice
– Jane Austen, at my suggestion, because he’s never read her
- Orlando: A Biography
– Virginia Woolf
- This is Not a Novel
– David Markson
– Jane Austen, at my suggestion, because he’s never read her
– Virginia Woolf
– David MarksonKeiler Roberts, starts at 23:40
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
– Ken Kesey
- The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
– Sarah Silverman
- The First Bad Man: A Novel
– Miranda July
– Ken Kesey
– Sarah Silverman
– Miranda JulySeth, starts at 26:30
- Deep dive into Anita Brookner, starting with Hotel Du Lac
, and another dozen since then
- Hans Christian Andersen
, and another dozen since thenKyle Cassidy, starts at 36:00
- Borne: A Novel
– Jeff VanderMeer
- Running with a Police Escort: Tales from the Back of the Pack
– Jill Grunenwald
- Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future
– John Scalzi
- The Arrangement: A Novel
– Sarah Dunn
– Jeff VanderMeer
– Jill Grunenwald
– John Scalzi
– Sarah DunnJoe Ciardiello, starts at 38:00
- My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
– Emil Ferris
- Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
– Joe Jackson
– Emil Ferris
– Joe JacksonGraham Chaffee, starts at 40:30
- The Crying of Lot 49
– Thomas Pynchon
- The Rat on Fire
– George V. Higgins
– Thomas Pynchon
– George V. Higgins
– Dan Bright, Justin Nobel
– Mikhail Bulgakov
– Harold Sterling Vanderbilt
– Ron Chernow
– Volker Ullrich
– Junichiro Tanizaki
– Mary Dearborn
– Patti Bosworth
– Garth Greenwell
– Jonah Kinigstein
– Tom Hart
– Martha Hodes
– Michael Tisserand
– Frances Wilson
– Antoine de Baecque
– Albert Murray
– Wendy Lesser
– Adam Kirsch
– Krishan Kumar
– Derek Sayer
– Emile Zola
– Jean Genet
– Frank Bidart (whom Garth considers the most important living American writer)
– Rachel Ingalls
– Kawabata Yasunari
– Jane Austen
– Paul Sahre
– George Saunders
– Langdon Hammer
– Deborah E. Kennedy
– Jenny Chang
– Carmen Machado
– Karan Mahajan
– Elena Ferrante
– Bruce Springsteen
– Megan Marshall
– James Thurber
– Henry James
– Clive James
– Terry Gilliam
– Adam Carolla
– Mike Sacks
– Mike Sacks
– Pierce Brown
– Pierce Brown
– John Haywood
– Johannes Fried
– Barney Hoskins
– Mary Mackey
– Susanna Forrest
– Susanna Forrest
– Philip Roth
– Philip Roth
– Philip Roth
– Joan Didion
– Don DeLillo
– Katherine Dunn
– Robert Gottlieb
– Philip Hoare
– Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
– Karen Bergreen
– George Saunders
– Heinrich Kley
– Heinrich Kley
– Saul Bellow
– David Mikics
– Art Young
– Johann Peter Eckermann
– Jack Clark
– Jack Clark
– Rene Magritte
– Michael J. Sullivan
– Cervantes
– Herman Melville
– Tolstoy
– Jamie James
– Mary Beard
– Garth Greenwell
– David McCullough
– Greil Marcus
– Ernest Hemingway
– Arthur C. Clarke
– Arthur C. Clarke
– Clifford D. Simak
– Ursula K. Le Guin
– Ray Bradbury
– Ray Bradbury
– Ford Madox Ford
– Stanislaw Lem
– Proust