Three Percent Podcast
Episodes
#63: Spermatic Economy
13 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week's podcast is a special combo version featuring two separate conversations: one between Chad, Stephen Sparks (BTBA judge, Green Apple booksel...
#62: The Random Podcast
06 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week's podcast is a hodgepodge of opinions, rants, and jokes. We talked about summer music--and our mutual dislike of Robin Thicke--Hawthorne & C...
#61: The Cheery Podcast
21 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
At the request of one of Tom's friends, we tried to keep this particular podcast upbeat and cheery . . . and we sort of succeeded. Most of the podcast...
#60: BEA and Sucking
07 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This post-BookExpo America podcast (with special guest, Bromance Will/Will Evans, the man behind Deep Vellum Press) is all about the good and bad of t...
#59: Don't Call Your Website "Book" Anything
28 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's podcast, Chad and Tom make fun of yet another new "social book community recommendation" website. Also, they discuss the awesomeness of...
#58: Richard Nash.
03 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We're back! With our newest and semi-delayed installment of the Three Percent Podcast. This week is a two-parter. First, Chad and Tom run down the lis...
#57: The Master Unchained [Favorite Movies of 2012]
10 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
What is this? The much-delayed "favorite movies of 2012" episode of the Three Percent Podcast? It is! Better late than never, right? Yes, it is. Stop ...
#56: Apple-azon, Marias, and the Possibility of Love
22 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week's podcast is a bit of a hodge-podge: We start out talking about the concept of selling used ebooks, then Tom gets to express his admiration ...
#55: Twenty-Five Books to Add to Your List
06 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week's podcast is a look at the 25 titles on the Best Translated Book Awards Fiction Longlist. Tom and I discuss each title, talking about which ...
#54: Selling Swing Sets and Books to Costco Is for Closers
22 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Chad talks with special guest George Carroll about the enchanted lives of literary sales reps, Seagull Books, the Seagull School of Publish...
#53: Are the NBCCs the Greatest American Book Awards?
15 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's podcast, we welcome National Book Critics Circle board member Carolyn Kellogg to talk about the NBCC awards, the changes to the Nationa...
#52: 2013 Doesn't Officially Start Until We Podcast
01 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
So, it's been a while. Due to some technical difficulties, we haven't been able to post a podcast for the past few weeks. But thanks to the whizbang I...
#51: Long Intros and Boy Bands [Favorite Music of 2012]
19 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week's podcast features Chad, Nathan Furl, Kaija Straumanis, and Will Cleveland talking about their favorite albums of 2012. (And sometimes 2011....
#50: Favorite Translations of 2012 (And Trilogies Tom Likes)
10 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's podcast (Tom's last one of of the year), we discuss the translations we did (and didn't) read from 2012, including Maidenhair by Mikhai...
#49: Two Books, One Rant
16 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week's podcast is focused on crime and detective books--both fiction and nonfiction. First off, we talk I monologue about Errol Morris's A Wilder...
#48: The Difficulties of Difficult Books
26 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
After a bit of a hiatus, Tom Roberge and Chad W. Post are back to discuss what we mean when we say that a book is "difficult." They use a range of exa...
#47: The Initiation Well
01 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Chad W. Post and Kaija Straumanis talk with Philip Graham--a co-founder and current nonfiction editor of Ninth Letter, author of several bo...
#46: The Greatest ALTA of All ALTAs
21 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week's podcast features special guest Kaija Straumanis to help preview the upcoming American Literary Translators Conference. Every fall, approx....
#45: +1
10 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week's podcast features freelance book critic Jacob Silverman, who stirred up a lot of discussion last month when Slate published his piece, "Aga...
#44: The Exoticism of Fruit Machines
24 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week's podcast--the last before Tom goes off to visit the good people of Carolina--is a bit of a surprise. Tom told me he had a topic, but wanted...
#43: This Is Spoilers
03 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
I'm just back from family vacation, so this week we decided to take things easy and talk about The Dark Knight Rises (which we sort of spoil for anyon...
#42: There's a Chance that Things'll Get Weird
27 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Will Evans joins us to talk about contemporary Russian literature (READ THIS BOOK) and the Read Russia initiative at this year's BEA. (Sid...
#41: One Hundred Words or Fewer
20 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week's podcast (which was actually recorded weeks ago) features Ryan Chapman of The Penguin Press, who came on with us to discuss the fun marketi...
#40: You Owe Me Whiskey!
15 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's podcast, Tom and I talk about BookExpo America and its parties, in particular the rocking one that took place at the New Directions off...
#39: The King of Publishing
29 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's podcast, Tom and I talk about two related subjects: a New Yorker article about the translation of the first line of Camus' The Strange...
#38: Beautiful Song Is on the Radio, Is in the TV Shows
18 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week's podcast is a special Eurovision edition featuring resident Eurovision expert, Kaija Straumanis. We go through a bunch of the videos/songs ...
#37: No Offense
11 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Tom and I were on fire during this week's podcast, talking about the PEN World Voices Festival and some interesting questions we were asked in an inte...
#36: A Couple Gin & Tonics Does NOT Make Me a Better Oulipian
04 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
(My initial plan was to create a title for this podcast that was actually an acrostic spelling out "Oulipo." The best I came up with was "Our Unique L...
#35: All You Need Is a Gun and a Girl
27 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week we completely avoid talking about Amazon and the Department of Justice to focus on genre books in translation. Tom's a big noir/thriller fan...
#34: "These Creatures I Must Woo"
06 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week Tom and I welcomed Jeff Waxman of University of Chicago Press and 57th Street Books to the podcast to talk about different approaches to mar...
#33: The Spaz and the Straight Man
30 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's podcast, we talk about the future of book reviewing, focusing on a few central questions: who reads book reviews? (A: definitely not my...
#32: Everybody Loves a Bracket
15 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
With the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament getting underway this afternoon (I refuse to acknowledge the "First Four" games), Tom and I thought this wou...
#31: We're All Winners, But Some Win Better Than Others
08 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate tonight's announcements of the National Book Critic Circle Award winners, Tom and I decided to go through all six categories (fiction, no...
#30: Half-Baked Literary Freak
02 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's podcast, Chad and Tom welcome Ed Nawotka, editor of Publishing Perspectives, to unpack the Best Translated Book Award fiction longlist ...