Latest Threepercent Podcast Episodes
TMR 22.10: "Butterfly Coma" [Praiseworthy]
Three Percent Podcast - May 13, 2024 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsPraiseworthy ends with some praise, a bit of exhaustion, questions about satire and the ending, and a dirty phrase Chad can't quit competing. Then there's the TMR Class Draft in which Chad, Kaija, and Brian each selected five previous TMR titles to create imaginary classes: "Dismal Lady Stuff," ...
TMR 22.9: "One Donkey at a Time" [Praiseworthy]
Three Percent Podcast - May 06, 2024 21:20 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsLike 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. They do learn some things about donkeys and mules though! And they set up next week's game: each co-host will draft five books from the twenty-t...
TMR 22.8: "Madder Than White Heat" [Praiseworthy]
Three Percent Podcast - April 29, 2024 13:15 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsLittle discussion of Priaseworthy in this episode. Instead there's a longer discussion about publishing, art, sales, how do these books get made?, favorite lines, future games, and much more. It's a 20,000 foot view of book culture with an emphasis on success, investment, and more. Enjoy! This...
TMR 22.7: "@CheapIllegalPeopleSmuggler" [Praiseworthy]
Three Percent Podcast - April 23, 2024 20:09 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsTalk of Australian cartoons—and not just Bluey—morphs into a look at several specific passages in Wright's Praiseworthy, discussion what makes the book "difficult" to read, the style of humor, what pushes us away from the text and then re-grabs out attention, and much more. This week's music i...
TMR 22.6: "Nuisance Bugger Donkeys" [Praiseworthy]
Three Percent Podcast - April 12, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad 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 their reading and the book's effectiveness. They also discuss Sam Rutter's New York Times review of the novel, addressing the difficulties of discus...
TMR 22.5: "Maximum Superhero Cop-God" [Praiseworthy]
Three Percent Podcast - April 05, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratings"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 for Aboriginal Sovereignty. There are lots of moths, discussion about acknowledging the land which we occupy as a good first step, and more about th...
TMR 22.4: "Devotion to Off-Grid Religions" [Praiseworthy]
Three Percent Podcast - March 29, 2024 20:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsEmmett Stinson (Murnane) joins Chad W. Post and Kaija Straumanis this week to educate us about Australian culture and literature and things we should keep in mind while reading Praiseworthy. He also participates in a round of the world-famous trivia game: "Australian Baseball Player or Indigenou...
TMR 22.3: "Tommyhawk!" [Praiseworthy]
Three Percent Podcast - March 22, 2024 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis episode could be titled, "Dead Bodies in Water," as Chad and Brian talk about the unfortunate situation in Rochester and the juxtaposition of Absolute Sovereignity trying to drown himself while his brother, Tommyhawk!, watches, doing nothing to save him. There's also more talk about Bluey, ...
TMR 22.2: "God Donkey" [Praiseworthy]
Three Percent Podcast - March 15, 2024 17:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsFrom discussion of Ohio and disturbing news about everyone's favorite Australian export, this episode skirts talking too deeply about Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy (New Directions, And Other Stories, Giramondo) to discuss challenges of getting into particular books, what the purpose of this pod...
TMR 22.1: "Kick the Haze in its Guts" [Praiseworthy]
Three Percent Podcast - March 05, 2024 18:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThe first episode of the new season of the Two Month Review—covering Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy (New Directions, And Other Stories, Giramondo)—start off with Chad crapping on golf, then rolls on into book design and books as objects, the pacing and rhythms of Wright's work, its humor, its ora...
TMR 21.8: "MOON IS A MENACE" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Three Percent Podcast - January 26, 2024 21:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWe'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 "Open...
TMR 21.7: "Taro Tsujimoto" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Three Percent Podcast - January 19, 2024 20:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThe 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 ...
TMR 21.6: "Interview with a Mirror" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Three Percent Podcast - January 13, 2024 13:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsKorean 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 P...
TMR 21.5: "A-Bomb Destroys Downtown Buffalo" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Three Percent Podcast - January 08, 2024 21:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThe 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 epi...
TMR 21.4: "The Second Bae" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Three Percent Podcast - January 02, 2024 21:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsBrian'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 channe...
TMR 21.3: "Wildwording" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Three Percent Podcast - December 23, 2023 15:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsProtect 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 ...
TMR 21.2: "2333" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Three Percent Podcast - December 15, 2023 20:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsFrom 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...
TMR 21.1: "What Is History?" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Three Percent Podcast - December 08, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsSeason 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" s...
TMR 20.8: "Making It Up As We Goes Along" [MULLIGAN STEW]
Three Percent Podcast - November 10, 2023 20:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsBrian 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, meta...
TMR 20.7: "Ambidextriprestigigit!" [MULLIGAN STEW]
Three Percent Podcast - November 03, 2023 20:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsBrian 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...
TMR 20.6: "Nameless Shamelessness" [MULLIGAN STEW]
Three Percent Podcast - October 31, 2023 20:28 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad 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 m...
TMR 20.5: "Bubble in My Fizziness" [MULLIGAN STEW]
Three Percent Podcast - October 13, 2023 19:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWacky 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...
TMR 20.4: "The Sweat of Love" [MULLIGAN STEW]
Three Percent Podcast - October 06, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratings"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 ...
TMR 20.3: "Drunken Condition of Both Teams" [MULLIGAN STEW]
Three Percent Podcast - September 29, 2023 20:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis 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 ...
Three Percent #191: Raymond Queneau
Three Percent Podcast - September 26, 2023 18:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsTo celebrate the first-ever English-language publication of Raymond Queneau's Sally Mara's Intimate Journal, and the reissue of Pierrot Mon Ami as a Dalkey Essential, Chris Clarke (whose retranslation of Queneau's The Skin of Dreams is forthcoming from NYRB) and Daniel Levin Becker (infamous mem...
TMR 20.2: “THE ULTIMATE IN BIZARRE BEAUTY!!” [MULLIGAN STEW]
Three Percent Podcast - September 25, 2023 20:10 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsLoveletters 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 p...
Three Percent #190: John Barth
Three Percent Podcast - September 12, 2023 14:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsIn honor of two recent John Barth reissues—The Sot-Weed Factor and Chimera, both Dalkey Archive Essentials—John Domini (The Archeology of a Good Ràgu, The Color Inside a Melon, and this appreciation of Barth, among other works) and Max Besora (author of the intro to Sot-Weed Factor along with th...
TMR 20.1: "Then You Do Not Approve of Nabokov?" [MULLIGAN STEW]
Three Percent Podcast - September 08, 2023 20:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad 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 dia...
TMR 19.12: "Fill Up with Karmas" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - August 04, 2023 19:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsBrian 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...
TMR 19.10: "The Fine Art of Leaving Something Out" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - July 21, 2023 07:47 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsFor 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 mu...
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