Two Month Review
252 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsEach “season” of Two Month Review highlights a new and amazing work of world literature, reading it slowly over the course of eight to nine episodes. Featuring a rotating set of literary guests—from authors to booksellers, critics, and translators—each episode recaps a short section of the book and uses that as a springboard for a fun (and often irreverent) discussion about literature in a general sense, pop culture, reading approaches, and much more. Talking about great books doesn't need to be deadly serious, and 2MR makes it fun to everyone (even if you’re not reading along).
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TMR 21.8: "MOON IS A MENACE" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
January 26, 2024 16:37 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBWe'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 structure of the book is revisited. As are all the ideas of mirrors and patrimony, assassins and conspiracy theories. Note: Information about the "Opening the Channel" translation and creative flow retreat being organized by former co-host Katie Whittemore discussed on this episode is available here. This week's music is from Jodie Foster's Army. ...
TMR 21.7: "Taro Tsujimoto" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
January 19, 2024 14:17 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBThe threads all come together in this week's section as the book barrels toward its conclusion. On this episode, Chad describes his visualization of the book's structure, Tim Hortons and Dunkin Donuts get crapped on, 2333 gets a new meaning, the Moonies make an appearance, as does Ronald Reagan (boo, hiss), Philip Roth, and PDK. Also, a Sleeper Awakes. Just remember, dreams are everything that's not online. Note: Information about the "Opening the Channel" translation and creative flow ret...
TMR 21.6: "Interview with a Mirror" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
January 12, 2024 20:34 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBKorean food, Grocery Games, VCR tapes, screenplays, gazebos, a thumb drive, Amsterdam, and the statement, "TRANSLATION IS A LONG CON." This week's music is "I'll Be Your Mirror" by Velvet Underground. You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel and you can support us at Patreon and get bonus content before anyone else, along with other rewards, the opportunity to easily communicate with the hosts, etc. And please subcribe and rate us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or w...
TMR 21.5: "A-Bomb Destroys Downtown Buffalo" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
January 08, 2024 17:31 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBThe connections proliferate and the threading together of the three sections continues. Interactive rights to 2333 are finally, properly sold; the mystery surrounding Echo grows; and The Buffalo Evening News brings the concept of "fake news" to a whole new level. That and more in this week's episode. This week's music is "Simulation Swarm" by Big Thief. You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel and you can support us at Patreon and get bonus content before anyone e...
TMR 21.4: "The Second Bae" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
January 02, 2024 19:53 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBBrian's back and everyone is (mostly) healthy. They talk about Korean history, double (or triple) agents, the idea of history as coincidence or plot, North and South Korea, and more. This week's music is "Two States" by Pavement. You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel and you can support us at Patreon and get bonus content before anyone else, along with other rewards, the opportunity to easily communicate with the hosts, etc. And please subcribe and rate us on ...
TMR 21.3: "Wildwording" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
December 23, 2023 15:02 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBProtect 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 elements of the book—the 2333 game, the louse, wildwording—to Kaija Straumanis amid coughing fits and a dissolving brain. He also shares the most bizarre dream he's ever had, which is something else. This week's music is "Gospel for a New Century" by Yves Tumor. Whose 2023 album, Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply...
TMR 21.2: "2333" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
December 15, 2023 13:38 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBFrom 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 ASS black satchel, the assassinations we don't learn much about in high school, Hegemon, more KPG connections, and the (not great) alt-newspaper of the week. This week's music is "Something Soon" by Car Seat Headrest. You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel and you can support us at Patreon and get bonus content befor...
TMR 21.1: "What Is History?" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
December 08, 2023 13:24 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBSeason 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 the opening party scene in Same Bed Different Dreams. Chad and Brian talk about what's real and not in both the party scene and the "Dream One" section about the Korean Provisional Government, and start picking out various echos or motifs in the text—some of which won't come to fruition for several episodes . . . This week's music is "Debr...
TMR 20.8: "Making It Up As We Goes Along" [MULLIGAN STEW]
November 10, 2023 14:35 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBBrian 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, banter about possible titles for next season, get a little strange, and analyze what works and doesn't work about the AI generated jacket copy. (Oh, metaphors.) This week's music is "Web in Front" by Archers of Loaf. ("And there's a chance that things could get weird" is basically the thesis statement for this podcat.) You can find all previous se...
TMR 20.7: "Ambidextriprestigigit!" [MULLIGAN STEW]
November 03, 2023 13:32 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBBrian sings! Pynchon is made fun of! Lamont totally goes off the rails but really really really wants that corset! Rich art collectors are absurd! This week's music is Car Seat Headrest cover of "We Looked Like Giants." You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel and you can support us at Patreon and get bonus content before anyone else, along with other rewards, the opportunity to easily communicate with the hosts, etc. And please rate us—wherever you get your podca...
TMR 20.6: "Nameless Shamelessness" [MULLIGAN STEW]
October 31, 2023 20:15 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBChad 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 are worse than Lamont's) and enjoy the laughs, the literary contortions, and the next chapter of Lamont's ongoing mental breakdown. This week's music is "U&ME" by alt-j. You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel and you can support us at Patreon and get bonus content before anyone else, along with other rewards, the opp...
TMR 20.5: "Bubble in My Fizziness" [MULLIGAN STEW]
October 13, 2023 14:40 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBWacky Aphorisms vs. Cowboy Clichés. A title change that indicates a change in attitude. A bizarre publisher's catalog. The Red Swan. More letters! This section of Mulligan Stew is jam packed with fun riffs, more evidence of the intricate construction underlying this book, paranoia, puzzle pieces, and anger. This week's music is "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce. You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel and you can support us at Patreon and get bonus content befo...
TMR 20.4: "The Sweat of Love" [MULLIGAN STEW]
October 06, 2023 13:56 - 1 hour - 56.1 MB"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 Play Restored: The Masque of Fungo" (thanks to Tyrus Miller's piece in the Review of Contemporary Fiction), but this is surrounded by Nobel Prize talk, a breakdown of Lamont's incredibly cringey letter to Lorna Flambeaux, her terrible poetry, and many, many laughs—all with special guest Tom Flynn (Lost in Redonda). This week's music is "Cris...
TMR 20.3: "Drunken Condition of Both Teams" [MULLIGAN STEW]
September 29, 2023 18:14 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBThis section of Mulligan Stew is particularly wild, featuring a western populated by Irishmen speaking in bad accents (and worse accents in The Club Zap), a long rambling set of hypotheticals about why the police haven't arrived to find Ned's body (spoiler: Halpin hasn't called them), a drunken baseball game featuring famous authors and famous brands of booze, and the mathematical answer to the question "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"(A: 0, 1/2, or 1 ...
TMR 20.2: "THE ULTIMATE IN BIZARRE BEAUTY!!" [MULLIGAN STEW]
September 25, 2023 20:07 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBLoveletters galore! Lists without context! Repurposing life for fiction! More puzzles! Terrible book reviews! An insufferable, pretentious elementary school essay! This episode has it all—and more! (As Lamont would say.) This week's music is "All Your Fails" by Kevin Drew. You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel and you can support us at Patreon and get bonus content before anyone else, along with other rewards, the opportunity to easily communicate with the hosts...
TMR 20.1: "Then You Do Not Approve of Nabokov?" [MULLIGAN STEW]
September 08, 2023 15:07 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBChad 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 rejection letters—and near batshit reader's report—prefacing the book, to all the bad writing about the "flawless blue" sky, to the ever-changing dialog tags in Anthony Lamont's detective novel, to the New York Yankees, this episode is a hodgepodge of jokes and observations, and instant love for this wondrous, wooly masterpiece. This week's musi...
TMR 19.12: "Fill Up with Karmas" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
August 04, 2023 13:30 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBBrian 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??? Chad and Brian debate that along with concepts of time in fiction, the Karmas, the wetness of Latvian meat, Melvill and Mulligan Stew. Fun is had as this long, amazing Fresán journey comes to a close . . . This week's music is "Big Sky" by The Kinks—a throwback to TMR season one. Stay tuned for the Mulligan Stew schedule, which will drop ...
TMR 19.11 "Exit and No Return and Gone Forever" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
July 29, 2023 12:19 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBKaija Straumanis guest stars on this episode in which we discuss brain tumors, memory loss, the true story behind the story of The Impossible Story sending the exwriter into exile, whether of not Saint George is a saint (and dragons), paternity, and the next Fresán book to come out from Open Letter, Melvill. This week's music is "UFO" by Veps. Next week we'll be finishing the book (full schedule), and you can watch it live here, or by subscribing to our YouTube channel. You can purchas...
TMR 19.10: "The Fine Art of Leaving Something Out" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
July 21, 2023 07:41 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBFor 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 chunk of Part II of The Remembered Part. Illness, heartbreak, mental anguish, suicide, Ella, and a mission. It's all in this episode. This week's music is "Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)" by Concrete Blonde Next week we'll be covering pages 644-700 (full schedule), and you can watch it live here, or by subscribing to our YouTube channel. Yo...
TMR 19.9: "The Dream of the Invention of the Memory, Etc." [THE REMEMBERED PART]
July 15, 2023 05:34 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBVeeeeekingdor!!!!! This week's episode is pretty wild, with stories of Riga FC, stoic faces, Fresán's visit to the University of Rochester, Kurt Vonnegut, Andrei The Untranslated (follow his blog!, support his Patreon!), the purpose of book readings and the most uncomfortable ones, time and fiction, and much more! And visit Three Percent on Tuesday to find out what book we'll be reading in season twenty!! This week's music is "Malachi" by Grouplove. Next week we'll be covering pages 56...
TMR 19.8: "Notes for a Theory of the Fabric of Memory" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
July 07, 2023 12:30 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBBrian is back and Chad flubs the intro, so things are basically as they should be . . . They talk about fragmentation, big flawed double albums (and why they're so intriguing), how comedy works, Hey Uncle Walrus vs. Uncle Hey Walrus, memory and the losing of it, and much more. This week's music is "1979" and 'Tonight, Tonight" from the Smashing Pumpkins' flawed double album. (A topic in this episode!) Next week we'll be covering pages 490-563 (full schedule), and you can watch it live...
TMR 19.7: "The Good Rememberer (A How-To Guide)" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
June 30, 2023 11:19 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBFormer 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 to flights of prose, all of the wind in this book, what it means to fall, dogs, and much much more. It's a comprehensive, deep look into what it takes to be a good reader, Ricardo Piglia's "The Last Reader" and the paradoxes at the center of this novel. This week's music is "These Things Will Come to Be" by DJ Seinfeld, all for the outro bit of...
TMR 19.6: "The Impossibility of Painting with Watercolors in the Rain" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
June 26, 2023 07:53 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBChad 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?" discussion, and talk about the articles about Fresán in the new issue of Latin American Literature Today. And at the very, very end, Chad makes a startling admission. This week's music is "Life Worth Missing" by Car Seat Headrest. Next week we'll be covering pages 355-421 (full schedule), and you can watch it live here, or by subscribing to ou...
TMR 19.5: "The Burning Gaze of Vladimir Nabokov" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
June 18, 2023 13:34 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBSeparated by 10 hours—like podcasting jet lag?—Chad and Brian work through some observations and rants (specifically about a shitty NY Times list of the best American books between 1981 and 2006, which consists almost entirely of Philip Roth and John Updike and only two books by women), about this section of The Remembered Part. Chad argues for being willing to be confused while reading and they discuss whether or not Fresán's works are confusing. There's also the usual amount of banter and ...
TMR 19.4: "Read like Dracula and write like Frankenstein!" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
June 09, 2023 12:58 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBFrom 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 thoughts. Bit more plot dropped into this section of Fresán/Vanderhyden's book, but there's also a lot about IKEA, his death and rebirth, his insincerity, and his loathsome success. This week's music is "Adore Adore Adore" by Sprints. Next week we'll be covering pages 204-281 (full schedule), and you can watch it live here, or by subscribin...
TMR 19.3: "DREAM + MEMORY = INVENTION" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
June 02, 2023 14:47 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBKaija Straumanis pinch hits this week for a discussion about Lost, airplanes, the past and nostalgia, writers vs. narrators, autofiction, how hard it is to sustain a rant, ghosts, pop culture references, where we are in Fresán's trilogy, and much more. The Remembered Part keeps gathering steam, and you'll want to catch up after listening to this so that you can be there for the explosive conclusion to one of the century's greatest literary trilogies. This week's music is "Tropic Morning Ne...
TMR 19.2: "Now That Everything That Has To Happen Has Happened" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
May 29, 2023 14:00 - 54 minutes - 50.5 MBAnd they're off! Brian and Chad start remembering all that they're supposed to remember about the first two volumes of the trilogy (green cows!) and get oriented with the ex-Writer on the plane (and in the desert reading and burning Ada, or Ardor), fall right back into Fresan's humor, cynicism, bits on love, and everything else! This week's music is "Airplane Rider" by Air Miami. Next week we'll be covering pages 82-143 (full schedule), and you can watch it live by subscribing to our Yo...
TMR 19.1: Where Are We At? [THE REMEMBERED PART]
May 11, 2023 18:31 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBMaybe 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 volumes of the trilogy, ideas about what to maybe expect (Dracula + Proust), peppered with the usual amount of jokes and antics. This week's music is "Pontius Pilate's Home Movies" by The New Pornographers. Next week we'll be covering pages 1-82 (full schedule), and you can watch it live by subscribing to our YouTube channel. You can purchase...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 22: "The Dream Ends" [THE DREAMED PART]
May 09, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: Rodrigo Fresán himself joins Chad and Brian to talk about phones, Riverdale, Ada or Ardor, Dracula, the world-building in Fresán's oeuvr...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 21: "IKEA" [THE DREAMED PART]
May 09, 2023 13:04 - 53 minutes - 49 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week's episode is quite possibly the wildest one yet . . . Chad paid a BookTuber for some promotional love and, well, you'll have t...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 20: "Living in Pandemica" [THE DREAMED PART]
May 08, 2023 19:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week, Chad and Brian talk about the desires of readers, the "middle mind," writing without a hook, Nabokov's "The Vane Sisters," th...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 19: "This Is a Bullshot" [THE DREAMED PART]
May 08, 2023 12:29 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: In his most dangerous gag to date, Chad drinks a giant bullshot as he, Brian Wood, and special guest Carlos Labbé talk about Nabokov's T...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 18: "The Past Is a Broken Toy That Everyone Fixes in His Own Way" [THE DREAMED PART]
May 07, 2023 23:30 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week's episode brings us back to The Writer, unable to sleep, living near where Penelope's house burned down (see: The Invented Par...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 17: "Adaptations" [THE DREAMED PART]
May 07, 2023 19:23 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: Chad and Brian go deep into the underlying structure of the second section of Fresan's The Dreamed Part, talking about Penelope's story,...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 16: "Wuthering Heights Is Weird" [THE DREAMED PART]
May 01, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: Chad reaches a new quarantine low at the beginning of this week's episode (highly recommend checking out the video version), but aft...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 14: "Tulpas" [THE DREAMED PART]
April 28, 2023 13:11 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This episode got off to a rough start, with Chad losing his shit over the May IndieNext list [ed. note: he still has not recovered] befo...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 14: "What We Talk About When We Talk About Dreaming" [THE DREAMED PART]
April 27, 2023 13:10 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: Aside from talking about how we're all about five days away from becoming Howard Hughes, Chad, Brian, and special guest Derek Maine talk...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 13: "Who Dreams the Dreamer" [THE DREAMED PART]
April 26, 2023 13:10 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: Chad, Brian, and special guest Mark Haber tried their damnedest to bring some levity to our current crisis on this week's episode. They ...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 12: THE DREAMED PART ["We Remember Everything"]
April 25, 2023 13:08 - 29 minutes - 27.6 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: In this week's preview episode for Season 11 of the Two Month Review--featuring The Dreamed Part by Rodrigo Fresán and Will Vanderhyden-...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 11: The Author Himself!
April 24, 2023 13:01 - 2 minutes - 2.29 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: As a special bonus episode, both Rodrigo Fresán and Will Vanderhyden joined Chad and Brian to talk about The Invented Part as a whole, t...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 10: THE INVENTED PART [Pgs. 441-552]
April 21, 2023 13:38 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: We did it! After two months, eleven episodes, and a half dozen different guests, Brian and Chad finished their discussion of Rodrigo Fre...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 9: THE INVENTED PART [Pgs. 405-440]
April 20, 2023 13:28 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: It's another 2MR review with just Chad and Brian! Similar to the previous guest-less episode, this one goes a bit off the rails . . . Al...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 8: THE INVENTED PART [Pgs. 361-404]
April 19, 2023 13:23 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: On this week's Two Month Review, Tom Roberge from Riffraff and the Three Percent Podcast joins Chad and Brian talk about 2001: A Space O...
TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 7: THE INVENTED PART [Pgs. 301-360]
April 18, 2023 13:17 - 41 minutes - 38 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: On this week's Two Month Review, Chad and Brian talk about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tender Is the Night, puzzles, how to properly introdu...
Fresán Relisten Ep. 6: The Invented Part [Pgs. 231-300]
April 17, 2023 13:08 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week, Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, Chronic City) joins Chad and Brian to talk about The Writer's trip to a hospital, wher...
Fresán Relisten Ep. 5: The Invented Part [Pgs. 208-230]
April 14, 2023 13:10 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week, Speculative Fiction in Translation founder and Best Translated Book Award judge Rachel Cordasco joins Chad and Brian to talk...
Fresán Relisten Ep. 4: The Invented Part [Pgs. 99-207]
April 13, 2023 13:06 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week's episode is all about Penelope and her experiences with the Karmas. (And a Big Green Cow.) A lot of the Odyssey, Wuthering H...
Fresán Relisten Ep. 3: The Invented Part [Pgs. 46-98]
April 12, 2023 19:32 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week, author and journalist Mark Binelli joins Chad and Brian to discuss the first part of the second section of Rodrigo Fresán's ...
Fresán Relisten Ep. 2: The Invented Part [Pgs. 1-45]
April 12, 2023 13:04 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week, Jeremy Garber from Powells Books joins Chad and Brian to discuss the first section of Rodrigo Fresán's The Invented Part. Th...
Fresán Relisten Ep. 1: The Invented Part [Introduction]
April 11, 2023 20:32 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBWelcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. This was our first actual TMR episode (not counting the one that introduced the concept), and wow man wow we've come a long way! Here are the show notes from the original airing: Tra...