Fear of a Square Planet

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 week’s episode features Dan Cafaro, Glenn Head, Burton Pike, Bob Stein, Ashton Applewhite, Dan Perkins (aka Tom Tomorrow) and Charles Bivona.

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

Dan Cafaro (starts at 1:35)

• Avenue of Mysteries – John Irving
• Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace – Annie Lamott
• Cathedral – Raymond Carver

Glenn Head (4:00)

• Girl, Interrupted – Susannah Kaysen
• Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century – Kenneth Goldsmith

Burton Pike (5:50)

• Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
• assorted Montesquieu and other 17th and 18th century French writers

Bob Stein (11:10)

• Scary Old Sex – Arlene Heyman
• The Harder They Come – TC Boyle

Ashton Applewhite (13:50)

• Women in Late Life: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age (Diversity and Aging) – Martha Holstein
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel – David Mitchell
• The Last Girl – Stephan Collishaw
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel – Karen Joy Fowler
• The New Yorker

Dan Perkins / Tom Tomorrow (15:30)

• The God’s Eye View – Barry Eisler
• The Everything Box – Richard Kadrey
• Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? – Thomas Frank
• Medusa’s Web: A Novel – Tim Powers
• All the Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders
• The Three-Body Problem – Liu Cixin
• Lovecraft Country: A Novel – Matt Ruff

Charles Bivona (24:00)

• Sarah Kendzior