{"id":8393,"date":"2014-12-16T10:03:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T14:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?page_id=8393"},"modified":"2016-04-16T10:02:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T14:02:39","slug":"the-guest-list-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-guest-list-2014","title":{"rendered":"The Guest List: 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2014 edition of The Guest List<\/em> includes the favorite books\u00a0from more than 30\u00a0of this year’s guests on The Virtual Memories Show podcast (as well as a few picks by your host)! Listen to the episode to hear all about their picks, and use this cheat-sheet to look up all the books and check out the past episodes with those guests! (You can find the 2013 cheat-sheet and episode<\/a> over here.)<\/p>\n

Follow The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on iTunes<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, Tumblr<\/a>, <\/strong>and RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Maria Alexander<\/a><\/em>, author of Mr. Wicker<\/a>\"\"
\nThe Intruders<\/a>\"\" – Michael Marshall Smith<\/p>\n

Ashton Applewhite<\/a><\/em>
\nThe Fault in Our Stars<\/a>\"\" – John Green
\nThe Goldfinch<\/a>\"\" – Donna Tartt<\/p>\n

David Baerwald<\/a><\/em>
\nThe Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan<\/a>\"\" – Rick Perlstein<\/p>\n

Nina Bunjevac<\/a><\/em>, author of Fatherland: A Family History<\/a>\"\"
\nOver Easy<\/a>\"\"\u00a0–\u00a0Mimi Pond<\/p>\n

Roz Chast<\/a><\/em>, author of Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir<\/a>\"\"
\nStoner<\/a>\"\" – John Wiliams
\nThe Paying Guests<\/a>\"\" – Sarah Waters
\nTender Is the Night<\/a>\"\" – F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/p>\n

Sarah Deming<\/a><\/em>
\nDon Juan<\/a>\"\" – Lord Byron<\/p>\n

Michael Dirda<\/a><\/em>, author of On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling<\/a>\"\"
\n(He named a whole bunch, but he’s Michael Dirda, so I don’t mind)<\/em>
\nThe Paying Guests<\/a>\"\" – Sarah Waters
\nLet Me Be Frank With You<\/a>\"\" – Richard Ford
\nLimonov: The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia<\/a>\"\" – Emmanuel Carrere
\nPlato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away<\/a>\"\" – Rebecca Goldstein
\nDiagnosis: Impossible – The Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne<\/a>\"\" – Edward D. Hoch
\nMore Things Impossible: The Second Casebook of Dr. Sam Hawthorne<\/a>\"\" – Edward D. Hoch
\nNothing Is Impossible: Further Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne<\/a>\"\" – Edward D. Hoch
\nThe Derek Smith Omnibus<\/a>\"\" – Derek Smith
\nThe Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries<\/a>\"\" – Otto Penzler
\nThe Four Sherlock Holmes Novels<\/a>\"\" – Arthur Conan Doyle<\/p>\n

Jules Feiffer<\/a><\/em>, author of Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel<\/a>\"\"
\nIllusion of Memory<\/a>\"\" – JZ Holden<\/p>\n

Mary Fleener<\/a><\/em>, author of Life of the Party<\/a>\"\"
\nShirley Jackson: Novels and Stories<\/a>\"\" – Shirley Jackson<\/p>\n

Nathan Fox<\/a><\/em>, artist on Dogs of War<\/a>\"\"
\nThe Camelot Kids<\/a>\"\" – Ben Zackheim<\/p>\n

Josh Alan Friedman<\/a><\/em>, author of Black Cracker<\/a>\"\"
\nTampa<\/a>\"\" – Alisa Nutting<\/p>\n

Richard Gehr<\/a><\/em>, author of I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker’s Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists<\/a>\"\"
\nBleeding Edge<\/a>\"\" – Thomas Pynchon<\/p>\n

Paul Gravett<\/a><\/em>, author of Comics Art<\/a>\"\"
\nGast<\/a>\"\" – Carol Swain<\/p>\n

Sam Gross<\/a><\/em>
\nParis Reborn: Napol\u00e9on III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Rachel Hadas<\/a><\/em>, author of Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry<\/a>\"\"
\nPlato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away<\/a>\"\" – Rebecca Goldstein<\/p>\n

Kaz<\/a><\/em>
\nMother Nature Is Trying to Kill You: A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World<\/a>\"\" – Dan Riskin, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

Daniel Levine<\/a><\/em>, author of Hyde<\/a>\"\"
\nAnnihilation<\/a>\"\" – Jeff Vandermeer
\nBlood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade<\/a>\"\" – Walter Kirn<\/p>\n

Sara Lippmann<\/a><\/em>, author of Doll Palace<\/a>\"\"
\nThe Handmaid’s Tale<\/a>\"\" – Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n

Merrill Markoe<\/a><\/em>, author of What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I’ve Learned<\/a>\"\"
\nI Am Charlotte Simmons<\/a>\"\" – Tom Wolfe
\nThe Circle<\/a>\"\" – Dave Eggers
\nThe Goldfinch<\/a>\"\" – Donna Tartt
\nThe work of Dan Clowes<\/a><\/p>\n

Brett Martin<\/a><\/em>, author of Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad<\/a>\"\"
\nMay We Be Forgiven<\/a>\"\" – A.M. Homes<\/p>\n

Mimi Pond<\/a><\/em>, author of Over Easy<\/a>\"\"
\nPunk Rock and Trailer Parks<\/a>\"\" – Derf Backderf<\/p>\n

George Prochnik<\/a><\/em>, author of The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World<\/a>\"\"
\nMemoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories<\/a>\"\" – Gregor von Rezzori<\/p>\n

Emily Raboteau<\/a><\/em>, author of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora<\/a>\"\"
\nJoe Cinque’s Consolation<\/a>\"\" – Helen Garner<\/p>\n

Jonathan Rose<\/a><\/em>, author of The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor
\n<\/a>Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington.<\/a>\"\" – Sharyl Attkisson
\nFahrenheit 451<\/a>\"\" – Ray Bradbury<\/p>\n

Ron Rosenbaum<\/a><\/em>, author of Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil (updated edition)
\n<\/a>(he walked around his apartment and talked about the books he’s been reading lately, but it’s a fun list, so hey)<\/em>\"\"
\nThe Defence of Poesy and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism<\/a>\"\" – Philip Sidney
\nThe Kreutzer Sonata<\/a>\"\" – Tolstoy
\nOn the Nature of Things<\/a>\"\" – Lucretius
\nParting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63<\/a>\"\" – Taylor Branch
\nAndrew’s Brain<\/a>\"\" – E.L. Doctorow
\nIf the Dead Rise Not: A Bernie Gunther Novel<\/a>\"\" – Philip Kerr
\nAnother Side of Bob Dylan: A Personal History on the Road and off the Tracks<\/a>\"\" – Victor Maymudes
\nTatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel<\/a>\"\" – Martin Cruz Smith
\nRoman Fever and Other Stories<\/a>\"\" – Edith Wharton
\nThe Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk<\/a>\"\" – Edward St. Aubyn
\nAt Last: The Final Patrick Melrose Novel<\/a>\"\" – Edward St. Aubyn
\nDark Places<\/a>\"\" – Gillian Flynn
\nGentlemen Prefer Blondes<\/a>\"\" – Anita Loos
\nHapgood: A Play<\/a>\"\" – Tom Stoppard
\nPerdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley<\/a>\"\" – Richard Kaczynski
\nThe Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them<\/a>\"\" – Elif Batuman
\nCollected Poems<\/a>\"\" – W.H. Auden
\nCollected Poems<\/a>\"\" – Philip Larkin
\nForever Doo-Wop: Race, Nostalgia, and Vocal Harmony (American Popular Music)<\/a>\"\" – John Michael Runowicz
\nThe Anatomy of Melancholy<\/a>\"\" – Robert Burton
\nThe Information<\/a>\"\" – Martin Amis<\/p>\n

Gil Roth, host of The Virtual Memories Show
\nCan’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir<\/a>\"\" – Roz Chast
\nBlood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade<\/a>\"\" – Walter Kirn
\nThe Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk<\/a>\"\" – Edward St. Aubyn
\nAll That Is: A Novel<\/a>\"\" – James Salter<\/p>\n

Dmitry Samarov<\/a><\/em>, author of Where To?: A Hack Memoir<\/a>\"\"
\nExperience: A Memoir<\/a>\"\" – Martin Amis<\/p>\n

Seth<\/a><\/em>
\nCelibate Lives<\/a>\"\" – George Moore<\/p>\n

Katie Skelly<\/a><\/em>
\nHow To Be Happy<\/a>\"\" – Eleanor Davis<\/p>\n

Ron Slate<\/a><\/em>, author of The Great Wave<\/a>\"\"
\nWalter Benjamin: A Critical Life<\/a>\"\" – Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings
\nThe Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World<\/a>\"\" – George Prochnik
\nWonderland<\/a>\"\" – Stacy D’Erasmo
\nThe Wilderness: Poems<\/a>\"\" – Sandra Lim<\/p>\n

Maya Stein<\/a><\/em>
\nEleanor & Park<\/a>\"\" – Rainbow Rowell<\/p>\n

Rupert Thomson<\/a><\/em>, author of Secrecy<\/a>\"\"
\nMy Brilliant Friend<\/a>\"\" – Elena Ferrante
\nAll Days Are Night<\/a>\"\" – Peter Stamm
\nAll My Puny Sorrows<\/a>\"\" – Miriam Toews<\/p>\n

Frank Wilson<\/a><\/em>
\nExistential Phenomenology<\/a>\"\" – William A. Luijpen
\nWhat can you say about God? (Except “God”)<\/a>\"\" – William A. Luijpen<\/p>\n

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The 2014 edition of The Guest List includes the favorite books\u00a0from more than 30\u00a0of this year’s guests on The Virtual Memories Show podcast (as well as a few picks by your host)! Listen to the episode to hear all about their picks, and use this cheat-sheet to look up all the books and check out … <\/p>\n

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