Three Percent Podcast
Episodes
Three Percent Podcast #208: Translating Godzilla & Mothra
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Angles (translator of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again and many non-Kaiju related titles) joins Chad and special guest Joanne Bernardi (Writi...
Three Percent Podcast #207: Translating Malagasy Literature with Allison Charette
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the Three Percent Podcast, French translator and University of Rochester MALTS grad, Allison Charette, joins Chad to discuss her mo...
"The Calf" by Leif Høghaug & David M. Smith
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leif Høghaug (who is currently translating Finnegans Wake into Norwegian) and David M. Smith join Chad and Kyle Semmel to talk about The Calf, one of...
"Married Life" by Sergio Pitol & George Henson
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
George Henson (Pitol’s translator) and Mark Haber (Lesser Ruins, Ada) join Chad to celebrate the recent release in English of the third volume in Se...
Hagfish
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dropping on the same day that Hagfish’s first publication—To Smithereens by Rosalyn Drexler—was named as one of the New York Times’s “100 No...
Three Percent Podcast #203: World Editions 3.0 + "The Cracks We Bear"
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Swedowsky, the newest publisher of World Editions, and Michelle Mirabella, translator of Catalina Infante’s The Cracks We Bear join Chad t...
Three Percent Podcast #202: Jen Calleja on "Fair: The Life-Art of Translation"
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Quick Reminder: All Open Letter books either written or translated by women are on sale for 40% off to celebrate Women in Translation Month through Au...
Three Percent Podcast #201: Suzanne Jill Levine's "Unfaithful"
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our ongoing celebration of Women in Translation Month, Chad talked to Suzanne Jill Levine about Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir, recently relea...
Three Percent Podcast #200: The Return of Roberge
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this special 200th episode of the Three Percent Podcast, Tom Roberge—original co-host, former publicist for New Directions, co-founder of Riffraf...
Three Percent Podcast #199: Blake Butler and the Ideal Publisher
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Blake Butler (Molly, Void Corporation, Uxa.Gov, the Dividual Substack) joins Chad to discuss his recent piece, “What I Want In an I...
Three Percent Podcast #198: Tom Comitta and "People's Choice Literature"
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Tom Comitta (The Nature Book, Patchwork) joins Chad to talk about their book(s) People’s Choice Literature: The Most Wanted and Unw...
Three Percent Podcast: Why Fund a Nonprofit Publisher?
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final entry in this series of podcasts on the NEA (for now . . . there may be a return to industry-based Three Percent episodes in the near fut...
Three Percent Podcast: The Impact of the Terminated and Withdrawn Grants
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our series on the National Endowment for the Arts continues by talking with three organizations and publishers about both the specific impact of the M...
Three Percent Podcast: The History of the NEA (and the Attacks on It)
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is part one of a two part series (for now) on the National Endowment for the Arts and the, by now, much reported on letters that NEA grantees rec...
Three Percent Podcast #196: The Latvian Triptych
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a special episode of the Three Percent Podcast, Kaija Straumanis (curator of the Latvian Triptych, translator of The River by Laura Vinogradova) di...
Three Percent Podcast #196: Emyr Wallace Humphreys
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every spring, I teach a “World Literature & Translation” class in which I select 10 translations from 10 languages and 10 different translators—...
TMR 24.9: "I Hate Thinking about Thinking about Myself Like This" [Melvill]
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the penultimate episode of this season, there’s a lot of talk about Melville’s relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne as we get more of Melville...
TMR 24.8: "Fampiro" [Melvill]
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to this feed. And this one if you listen on Spotify. The others will be going away in ...
TMR 24.7: "The White Delirium" [Melvill]
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please subscribe to this feed.] Lori Feathers (Across the Pond podcast, Involutions of the Seashell, Inte...
TMR 24.6: "Liquidate It At Cost" [Melvill]
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to this feed. The other one will be going away in the near future.] With Melville's Fi...
TMR 24.5: "Very Charming." [Confidence-Man]
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to this feed. The other one will be going away in the near future.] Chad, Brian, and Ka...
TMR 24.4: "How Unreal All This Is!" [Confidence-Man]
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to this feed. The other one will be going away in the near future.] Opening with a coup...
TMR 24.3: "You Are a Punster" [Confidence-Man]
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to this feed. The other one will be going away in the near future.] "Grifters Gonna Gri...
TMR 24.2: "Trust Me, Nature Is Health" [Confidence-Man]
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to this feed. The other one will be going away in the near future.] Chad and Kaija go i...
TMR 24.1: "May I Ask if You Have Confidence?" [Confidence-Man]
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Not the happiest day in which to record a podcast, but Chad, Brian, and Kaija speak their fears and then dive into Melville's Confidence-Man, talking...
TMR Supplement #2: "Joytime Killbox" by Brian Wood
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After referencing Joytime Killbox on hundreds of TMR episodes, we finally break it down with the author himself! Conversation includes ideas about sh...
Three Percent #195: Lori Feathers on Marguerite Young
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Lori Feathers joins Chad to talk about "Involutions of the Seashell," a Substack project dedicated to reading and talking about Marguerite...
TMR Supplement #1: "Dear Dickhead" by Virginie Despentes & Frank Wynne
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the first ever one-off episode of the Two Month Review, Chad breaks down Virginie Despentes's Dear Dickhead for Kaija and Brian, a novel about . . ...
Three Percent #194: Mark Haber, "Lesser Ruins"
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode features Mark Haber talking about his brand new novel, Lesser Ruins, his influence, the Bernhard thing, going from bookselling to pub...
Three Percent #193: K.E. Semmel, "Book of Losman"
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's podcast, Kyle Semmel—translator from the Danish and author of Book of Losman—discusses his debut novel, life as a translator, arti...
Three Percent #191: Pilar Adón, "Of Beasts and Fowls"
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special edition of the podcast, Chad talks with Pilar Adón about the forthcoming Of Beasts and Fowls (translated by Katie Whittemore), her...
TMR 23.9: "My Maps Are Out of Date" [Lanark]
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It all gets wrapped up with a "Catastrophe,." "Explanation," an "End," and a "Tailpiece." Chad, Brian, and Kaija discuss global capitalism, the fight ...
TMR 23.8: "The Critic Fights Back" [Lanark]
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the Olympics to the most meta moment of the whole of Lanark, this week's podcast has you covered! Brian, Chad, and Kaija banter about divorce, p...
TMR 23.7: "Not a Domestic Man" [Lanark]
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The reviews were right: Once you hit page 410, the Unthank sections of Lanark snap into place. Chad, Brian, and Kaija discuss that, capitalism, how ...
TMR 23:6 "Upon This Spot King Edward Had Lunch After Stalking" [Lanark]
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to send Chad through the roof, simple crap on his conceptual publishing project five years in the making . . . To that end, everyone readi...
TMR 23.5: "His Brain Rotten with Resentful Dreams" [Lanark]
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Duncan Thaw feels like he's on the brink in this week's episode which includes conversations about incels, kind fathers, painting and art, perfection ...
TMR 23.4: “Homo A Se Coctum Esumque Crustum Est Hoc Fecit Separation” [Lanark]
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chad and Brian break down the loss of Duncan Thaw's mother, his entrance into art school, his reasons for creating art, religious imagery throughout t...
TMR 23.3: "Normal Underworlds" [Lanark]
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come for the book discussion, stay for Thaw's unproven remedies for asthma! One of the most fun, and conventional, sections of the book so far, Chad, ...
TMR 23.2: "Can He Help Lanark Out of Hell?" [Lanark]
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As mentioned from the top, we had severe technical difficulties, so the sound quality on this is janky. (Mostly Chad's voice is quiet, which, for ma...
TMR 23.1: "Book Three" [Lanark]
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mostly a set-up episode about Alasdair Gray and Lanark, in which Chad, Kaija, and Brian discuss the introduction (weird), the start of the novel (whi...
TMR 22.10: "Butterfly Coma" [Praiseworthy]
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Praiseworthy ends with some praise, a bit of exhaustion, questions about satire and the ending, and a dirty phrase Chad can't quit competing. Then th...
TMR 22.9: "One Donkey at a Time" [Praiseworthy]
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Like a first time marathon runner, Chad, Brian, and Kaija are losing steam this season, but persist in talking about the book and their mixed feelings...
TMR 22.8: "Madder Than White Heat" [Praiseworthy]
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Little discussion of Priaseworthy in this episode. Instead there's a longer discussion about publishing, art, sales, how do these books get made?, fa...
TMR 22.7: "@CheapIllegalPeopleSmuggler" [Praiseworthy]
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk of Australian cartoons—and not just Bluey—morphs into a look at several specific passages in Wright's Praiseworthy, discussion what makes t...
TMR 22.6: "Nuisance Bugger Donkeys" [Praiseworthy]
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chad and Kaija make up this week's panel as they play the "Slang Game," then discuss the elliptical meta-structure of the book and how this impacts th...
TMR 22.5: "Maximum Superhero Cop-God" [Praiseworthy]
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Who's Stronger?" is the game of the week in this episode about the Maximum Superhero Cop-God's arrival in Praiseworthy to quell the frantic search fo...
TMR 22.4: "Devotion to Off-Grid Religions" [Praiseworthy]
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emmett Stinson (Murnane) joins Chad W. Post and Kaija Straumanis this week to educate us about Australian culture and literature and things we should ...
TMR 22.3: "Tommyhawk!" [Praiseworthy]
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode could be titled, "Dead Bodies in Water," as Chad and Brian talk about the unfortunate situation in Rochester and the juxtaposition of Abs...
TMR 22.2: "God Donkey" [Praiseworthy]
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From discussion of Ohio and disturbing news about everyone's favorite Australian export, this episode skirts talking too deeply about Alexis Wright's ...
TMR 22.1: "Kick the Haze in its Guts" [Praiseworthy]
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first episode of the new season of the Two Month Review—covering Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy (New Directions, And Other Stories, Giramondo)—...
TMR 21.8: "MOON IS A MENACE" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We've reached the end which, in Chad and Brian's opinion, Ed Park totally lands. There's Friday the 13th talk. Reagan makes an appearance. The struc...
TMR 21.7: "Taro Tsujimoto" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The threads all come together in this week's section as the book barrels toward its conclusion. On this episode, Chad describes his visualization of t...
TMR 21.6: "Interview with a Mirror" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Korean food, Grocery Games, VCR tapes, screenplays, gazebos, a thumb drive, Amsterdam, and the statement, "TRANSLATION IS A LONG CON." This week's mu...
TMR 21.5: "A-Bomb Destroys Downtown Buffalo" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The connections proliferate and the threading together of the three sections continues. Interactive rights to 2333 are finally, properly sold; the m...
TMR 21.4: "The Second Bae" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brian's back and everyone is (mostly) healthy. They talk about Korean history, double (or triple) agents, the idea of history as coincidence or plot, ...
TMR 21.3: "Wildwording" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Protect yourself: There's a chance you'll catch Chad's illness simply by listening to this episode. An episode in which he tries to recap a number of ...
TMR 21.2: "2333" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From their respective hotel rooms, Chad and Brian talk about science fiction, 2/3/33 (and 2/6/66??), conspiracy vs. coincidence, Ohtani and Lee, the A...
TMR 21.1: "What Is History?" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Season 21 of the Two Month Review kicks off with a discussion of Taylor Swift and the demise of alt-weeklies, then segues into a long discussion about...
TMR 20.8: "Making It Up As We Goes Along" [MULLIGAN STEW]
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brian and Chad break down the ending of Mulligan Stew, discuss how this is one of maybe 2-3 endings by books featured on TMR that truly works, bante...
TMR 20.7: "Ambidextriprestigigit!" [MULLIGAN STEW]
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brian sings! Pynchon is made fun of! Lamont totally goes off the rails but really really really wants that corset! Rich art collectors are absurd! T...
TMR 20.6: "Nameless Shamelessness" [MULLIGAN STEW]
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chad had a night before this recording, so ignore him, but pay attention to the worst possible smut you will ever hear read aloud (the Franzen bits ...
TMR 20.5: "Bubble in My Fizziness" [MULLIGAN STEW]
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wacky Aphorisms vs. Cowboy Clichés. A title change that indicates a change in attitude. A bizarre publisher's catalog. The Red Swan. More letters! Th...
TMR 20.4: "The Sweat of Love" [MULLIGAN STEW]
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"I SUCK!" Kicking off with an "erotic" "poem," this week's episode is nuts from the very start. There is a very serious explanation for the "Flawless ...
TMR 20.3: "Drunken Condition of Both Teams" [MULLIGAN STEW]
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This section of Mulligan Stew is particularly wild, featuring a western populated by Irishmen speaking in bad accents (and worse accents in The Club...
Three Percent #191: Raymond Queneau
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the first-ever English-language publication of Raymond Queneau's Sally Mara's Intimate Journal, and the reissue of Pierrot Mon Ami as ...
TMR 20.2: “THE ULTIMATE IN BIZARRE BEAUTY!!” [MULLIGAN STEW]
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Loveletters galore! Lists without context! Repurposing life for fiction! More puzzles! Terrible book reviews! An insufferable, pretentious elementary ...
Three Percent #190: John Barth
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In honor of two recent John Barth reissues—The Sot-Weed Factor and Chimera, both Dalkey Archive Essentials—John Domini (The Archeology of a Good...
TMR 20.1: "Then You Do Not Approve of Nabokov?" [MULLIGAN STEW]
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chad and Brian kick off the new season in near hysterics over the first little chunk of Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew. From talking about the r...
TMR 19.12: "Fill Up with Karmas" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brian returns to help breakdown the ending to Rodrigo Fresán's "Part Triptych." Is it earned? Is it sincere?? Is this all a Jacob's Ladder scenario??...
TMR 19.10: "The Fine Art of Leaving Something Out" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time in the history of the Two Month Review, Chad had to go it alone. He stuck in there, didn't get too crazy, and covered the last chun...
TMR 19.9: "The Dream of the Invention of the Memory, Etc." [THE REMEMBERED PART]
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Veeeeekingdor!!!!! This week's episode is pretty wild, with stories of Riga FC, stoic faces, Fresán's visit to the University of Rochester, Kurt Vonn...
Three Percent #188: Baseball
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Well, we did it: One whole episode just about baseball and books about baseball and baseball memories and anything else baseball. Caitlin Luce Baker o...
TMR 19.7: "The Good Rememberer (A How-To Guide)" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Former TMR guest Patrick Smith returns to discuss his reread of the first two volumes of the trilogy, how Fresán's writing inspires him, hanging on t...
TMR 19.6: "The Impossibility of Painting with Watercolors in the Rain" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chad and Kaija break down the final bit of the first part of the third volume in Fresán's trilogy (phew), revisit the "is this difficult to read?" di...
TMR 19.5: "The Burning Gaze of Vladimir Nabokov" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Separated by 10 hours—like podcasting jet lag?—Chad and Brian work through some observations and rants (specifically about a shitty NY Times lis...
TMR 19.4: "Read like Dracula and write like Frankenstein!" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Nobel Prize favorites to Proust to competitive cliques on the mountain, this week's episodes is almost as sprawling as the ex-writer's airplane t...
TMR 19.3: "DREAM + MEMORY = INVENTION" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kaija Straumanis pinch hits this week for a discussion about Lost, airplanes, the past and nostalgia, writers vs. narrators, autofiction, how hard it...
TMR 19.1: Where Are We At? [THE REMEMBERED PART]
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maybe not the most informative of recaps, but Brian and Chad discuss what the love about Fresán's writing, things they recall from the first two volu...
Three Percent #188: Cultural Support in Multilingual Spain [A Riveting Event]
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chad talks with Olga Castro (Univ. of Warwick), and translators Jacob Rogers (Galician), Mara Faye Lethem (Catalan), Robin Munby (Ast...
TMR 18.10: "Looks Like a Lump of Shit to Me" [Ann Quin]
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The final episode of this season focuses on The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments, focusing on the titular story/unfinished novel, along with a...
TMR 18.9: "Your Name? Your Trauma?" [Ann Quin]
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chad, Brian, and Kaija finish up their discussion of Tripticks, which basically devolves into reading out the funniest lines they can find from the t...
TMR 18.8: "No. 1 X-Wife" [Ann Quin]
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NIGHTRIPPER!!!!!!!!! This week's music is "Dirty Boots" by Sonic Youth. You can watch next week's discussion of Tripticks live on YouTube. (Reading sc...
TMR 18.7: "I Would Like To Exhaust the Limits of the Possible" [Ann Quin]
10 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kaija Straumanis filled in for a domestically distressed Brian, and Chad went all psych0-philosophical on this week's episode, talking about schizoid ...
TMR 18.5: "Reads Without Turning a Page" [Ann Quin]
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kaija Straumanis joins Chad and Brian this week to talk about orchids, hot takes (did S. sleep with L.?? how exactly did she die?), creepy British du...
TMR 18.4: "Pursuit to the Point of Indiscretion" [Ann Quin]
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chad and Bria dive into Three, discussing the humor of the dialogue, the poetic-cinematic techniques Quin employs, monogamy and marriage, whether or ...
TMR 18.3: "Why This Eternal Escaping?" [Ann Quin]
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dead dummies, drowned tramps, resolving the Oedipal complex, the forever incompleteness of the number "3," sex, the sea, slapstick comedy, irony, comp...
TMR 18.2: "BUY BERG'S BEST HAIR TONIC" [Ann Quin]
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chad and Brian dive into the first half of Berg this episode, mispronouncing words, talking about the literary scene Quin came out of, whether or not...
TMR 18.1: Who Was Ann Quin?
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The eighteenth season of the Two Month Review is all about Ann Quin's books—all four novels and her collected stories and fragments—and starts off...
TMR 17.7: "I Erased Your Face" [Eltit + Hahn]
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Katie and Chad tackle this section alone, discussing the revolutionary background of the main characters, going off into Bernadine Dohrn, the SDS, the...
TMR 17.6: "The Letters Defeated You" [Eltit + Hahn]
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In addition to talking about the Trump/Tesla/Lockwood conspiracy theory, our hosts this week discuss "bone avalanches," how translators are paid, the ...
TMR 17.5: "Our Organicity" [Eltit + Hahn]
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chad and Brian go it alone and discuss "navel gazing" novels, books that entertain vs. ones about the prose, where Eltit's novel resides on that spect...
TMR 17.4: "I Watched the Death Machine" [Eltit + Hahn]
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Technical difficulties are kept to a minimum on this week's episode, as Chad, Brian, and Katie talk about the advancement of plot, the French New Nove...
TMR 17.3: "Mónica & Carlos & Tony" [Eltit + Hahn]
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In lieu of a live episode, this week's TMR features interviews with Mónica Ramón Ríos and Carlos Labbé about their relationship with Diamela Elti...
TMR 17.2: "Pure Hatred" [Eltit + Hahn]
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Technical difficulties abound as Chad struggles to find reliable Wifi in Latvia. (While being recruited by the Russian mafia?) Katie and Brian take ...
TMR 17.1: You Behaved Like a Dog
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
TMR is back, breaking down Daniel Hahn's translation diary, Catching Fire, alongside his translation of Never Did the Fire by Diamela Eltit. In t...
Three Percent #187: Is This The End?
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After a two-year hiatus, Chad and Tom are back! In this episode—maybe the final one of this particular scope and format—they talk about what's gon...
TMR 16.13: "Fürst Pückler" [2666]
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We've reached the end of 2666 and Chad, Katie, and Brian convene to talk about how amazing the ending is, publishers protecting authors, love and fam...
TMR 16.12: "Senselessness" [2666]
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chad and Brian talk about more vampires, about semen, about senseless scene after senseless scene, about WWII, about masterpieces and mediocre writing...
TMR 16.11: "Hello, Big German" [2666]
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're in the home stretch, as Archimboldi appears at last. Chad, Katie, and Brian discuss his origin story, vampires, seaweed, the nature of time, var...
TMR 16.10: "Three Men and a Congresswoman" [2666]
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chad and Brian tackle the braided narratives that close out "The Part About the Crimes," discussing Michel Butor's thoughts about detective novels (fr...