TMR 16.2: "Can Anyone Solve the Riddle?" [2666]
This week's episode opens with 'Professor Post" poking a bit of fun at academics, then dives headfirst into the first 75 pages of 2666. Brian, Katie, ...
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The Three Percent Podcast is a weekly(ish) conversation about new books, the publishing scene, international literature in translation, and many other random rants and raves. Chad W. Post of Open Letter Books and Tom Roberge of New Directions and Albertine Bookstore keep things irreverent, informed, and funny in a podcast that'll keep you up to date on the international literary and publishing worlds. Maybe. (Presented by Three Percent @ the University of Rochester.)
TMR 16.1: "Roberto Bolaño Overview" [2666]
Season 16 is here! At long last, Bolaño's 2666 takes center stage, and Chad and Brian are joined by translator and Bolaño enthusiast, Katie Whittemore...
TMR 15.15: "The End" [Vernon Subutex]
Chad and Brian recap the wild end to Vernon Subutex, debate whether it was predictable or not, whether Despentes earned it or not, and what to make of...
TMR 15.14: "And Then Evil Showed Its Face" [Vernon Subutex]
Covering what's probably the most disturbing section of Vernon Subutex, this is an intense, fairly dark episode of the Two Month Review. They discuss ...
TMR 15.13: "Gangland Shooting" [Vernon Subutex]
Chad almost had to do this episode solo, but all of you were spared that catastrophe by Kaija Straumanis and David Smith (whose delay makes for some f...
TMR 15.11: "Everyone's Been Talking to Me About You" [Vernon Subutex]
Following up on last week's catastrophic technical difficulties, Brian recaps some of his conversation with Frank Wynne before he and Chad dive into v...
TMR 15.8: "You Shouldn't Have Hurt My Mother" [Vernon Subutex]
Chad and Brian get into some fun and vengeful parts of Vernon Subutex 2 this week, talking about Gaëll, the proliferation of diereses in this section,...
TMR 15.8: "Bourgeois Shitdick!" [Vernon Subutex]
Kaija Straumanis pinch hits this week to talk about Céleste, about spray painting insults, the best forms of revenge, how to upend a system, and wheth...
Three Percent #186: Italian Science Fiction
In this special episode, Chad talks with Rachel Cordasco about a new Three Percent project focusing on translators as curators. Over the course of the...
TMR 15.7: "You Don't Look Your Best" [Vernon Subutex]
Derek Maine returns for his second appearance this season to talk about Alex Bleach's tapes, Vodka Satana's death, how the system is rigged, horrible ...