Latest Threepercent Podcast Episodes
TMR 19.9: "The Dream of the Invention of the Memory, Etc." [THE REMEMBERED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - July 15, 2023 05:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsVeeeeekingdor!!!!! 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 fict...
Three Percent #188: Baseball
Three Percent Podcast - July 05, 2023 15:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWell, we did it: One whole episode just about baseball and books about baseball and baseball memories and anything else baseball. Caitlin Luce Baker of Island Books, James Crossley of Madison Books, and Dan Wells of Biblioasis join Chad W. Post from Open Letter to pick their "all-time favorite" ...
TMR 19.7: "The Good Rememberer (A How-To Guide)" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - June 30, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsFormer 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 tak...
TMR 19.6: "The Impossibility of Painting with Watercolors in the Rain" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - June 26, 2023 21:02 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad 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 sta...
TMR 19.5: "The Burning Gaze of Vladimir Nabokov" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - June 18, 2023 13:47 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsSeparated 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 th...
TMR 19.4: "Read like Dracula and write like Frankenstein!" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - June 09, 2023 20:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsFrom 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 insin...
TMR 19.3: "DREAM + MEMORY = INVENTION" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - June 02, 2023 14:53 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsKaija 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, ...
TMR 19.1: Where Are We At? [THE REMEMBERED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - May 12, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsMaybe 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...
Three Percent #188: Cultural Support in Multilingual Spain [A Riveting Event]
Three Percent Podcast - April 25, 2023 17:16 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsIn this episode, Chad talks with Olga Castro (Univ. of Warwick), and translators Jacob Rogers (Galician), Mara Faye Lethem (Catalan), Robin Munby (Asturian), and Aritz Branton (Basque) about literatures from the official (and unofficial) languages of Spain, ways in which the regional governments...
TMR 18.10: "Looks Like a Lump of Shit to Me" [Ann Quin]
Three Percent Podcast - December 30, 2022 21:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThe final episode of this season focuses on The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments, focusing on the titular story/unfinished novel, along with a few other shorter pieces. The gang looks back at all of Ann Quin's books, speculate on what her career might have been had she lived another coupl...
TMR 18.9: "Your Name? Your Trauma?" [Ann Quin]
Three Percent Podcast - December 28, 2022 15:08 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad, Brian, and Kaija finish up their discussion of Tripticks, which basically devolves into reading out the funniest lines they can find from the this trippy-dippy, wild-ass ending. Some analysis is made of the deconstruction of male narratives, the Beats, the Dashiell Hammett of it all, and m...
TMR 18.8: "No. 1 X-Wife" [Ann Quin]
Three Percent Podcast - December 16, 2022 08:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsNIGHTRIPPER!!!!!!!!! This week's music is "Dirty Boots" by Sonic Youth. You can watch next week's discussion of Tripticks live on YouTube. (Reading schedule can be found here.) And you can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel. And you can support us at Patreon and get b...
TMR 18.7: "I Would Like To Exhaust the Limits of the Possible" [Ann Quin]
Three Percent Podcast - December 10, 2022 13:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsKaija Straumanis filled in for a domestically distressed Brian, and Chad went all psych0-philosophical on this week's episode, talking about schizoid personality splits, R. D. Laing, reading the various parts of Passages simultaneously, postulating wild hot takes, and saying "fuck off" to a wide...
TMR 18.5: "Reads Without Turning a Page" [Ann Quin]
Three Percent Podcast - December 01, 2022 13:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsKaija 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 dudes, symmetry in Three, Ann Quin's statement on threesomes, the ambiguity of the text, and much more. This week's music is "What Went Down" by Fo...
TMR 18.4: "Pursuit to the Point of Indiscretion" [Ann Quin]
Three Percent Podcast - November 18, 2022 20:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Bria dive into Three, discussing the humor of the dialogue, the poetic-cinematic techniques Quin employs, monogamy and marriage, whether or not L was a collaborationist or worse, the importance of the number three, the play-like elements of the books, anti-mimetic writing, and much more...
TMR 18.3: "Why This Eternal Escaping?" [Ann Quin]
Three Percent Podcast - November 11, 2022 20:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsDead dummies, drowned tramps, resolving the Oedipal complex, the forever incompleteness of the number "3," sex, the sea, slapstick comedy, irony, competing desires of domesticity versus the desire to escape, the beautiful ending and the reverse coda, and much more is discussed on this episode co...
TMR 18.2: "BUY BERG'S BEST HAIR TONIC" [Ann Quin]
Three Percent Podcast - November 07, 2022 13:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad 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 Berg/Greb is an incel, the humor found in the book, and more. (Inevitably there's a dig at Ohio somewhere in this recording.) This week's music ...
TMR 18.1: Who Was Ann Quin?
Three Percent Podcast - October 28, 2022 19:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThe 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 with an overview of who she was, the context of experimental British writing in the 1960s, how/why Quin has been underappreciated, some info on suppl...
TMR 17.7: "I Erased Your Face" [Eltit + Hahn]
Three Percent Podcast - June 17, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsKatie and Chad tackle this section alone, discussing the revolutionary background of the main characters, going off into Bernadine Dohrn, the SDS, the Weather Underground, and direct action. They also talk about the timeline—as far as they understand it—the challenges of translating legal terms,...
TMR 17.6: "The Letters Defeated You" [Eltit + Hahn]
Three Percent Podcast - June 13, 2022 13:10 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsIn addition to talking about the Trump/Tesla/Lockwood conspiracy theory, our hosts this week discuss "bone avalanches," how translators are paid, the global literary network available for "experimental" books translated into English, "runts," Lativa's obsession with MILF graffiti, "catching fire...
TMR 17.5: "Our Organicity" [Eltit + Hahn]
Three Percent Podcast - June 03, 2022 19:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad 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 spectrum, Tommy Pham slapping Joc Peterson, shit in the bed, and much more. This week's music is "It Was Us" by Arms and Sleepers. If you like what...
TMR 17.4: "I Watched the Death Machine" [Eltit + Hahn]
Three Percent Podcast - May 27, 2022 17:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsTechnical 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 Novel, the title and its translation, the body, trauma, touching eyeballs, and more. This week's music is "Monday" by The Regrettes. If you like w...
TMR 17.3: "Mónica & Carlos & Tony" [Eltit + Hahn]
Three Percent Podcast - May 19, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsIn lieu of a live episode, this week's TMR features interviews with Mónica Ramón Ríos and Carlos Labbé about their relationship with Diamela Eltit and her role in Chilean letters. That's followed by a conversation with Tony Malone (of Tony's Reading List) about the two books under discussion th...
TMR 17.2: "Pure Hatred" [Eltit + Hahn]
Three Percent Podcast - May 13, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsTechnical difficulties abound as Chad struggles to find reliable Wifi in Latvia. (While being recruited by the Russian mafia?) Katie and Brian take the lead this episode, discussing the next few chapters of Never Did the Fire, gendered adjectives and information, Marxist groups and analysis, an...
TMR 17.1: You Behaved Like a Dog
Three Percent Podcast - May 06, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsTMR is back, breaking down Daniel Hahn's translation diary, Catching Fire, alongside his translation of Never Did the Fire by Diamela Eltit. In this episode, they contextualize Eltit and this particular book, talk about intentional ambiguity, Franco and Pinochet, action vs. analysis, bad and ...
Three Percent #187: Is This The End?
Three Percent Podcast - April 29, 2022 13:05 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAfter 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 gone on over the past couple years, how much printing sucks right now, distribution issues, Fum d'Estampa, ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dir...
TMR 16.13: "Fürst Pückler" [2666]
Three Percent Podcast - January 03, 2022 13:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWe'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 family, the book being a "love letter to literature," the circular nature of the book, and James Joyce. This week's music is "Swoonn" by The Chemica...
TMR 16.12: "Senselessness" [2666]
Three Percent Podcast - December 27, 2021 19:39 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Brian talk about more vampires, about semen, about senseless scene after senseless scene, about WWII, about masterpieces and mediocre writing, about publisher laments, and about other things. This week's music is "Damn These Vampires" by The Mountain Goats. (The Jordan Lake Sessions v...
TMR 16.11: "Hello, Big German" [2666]
Three Percent Podcast - December 18, 2021 15:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWe're in the home stretch, as Archimboldi appears at last. Chad, Katie, and Brian discuss his origin story, vampires, seaweed, the nature of time, various echoes appearing in this final section, what Bolaño might be saying about himself as a writer through Hans Reiter, and masturbation. Here's...
TMR 16.10: "Three Men and a Congresswoman" [2666]
Three Percent Podcast - December 13, 2021 15:56 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Brian tackle the braided narratives that close out "The Part About the Crimes," discussing Michel Butor's thoughts about detective novels (from Passing Time) and the "rules" laid out in 20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them against 2666. Some interesting observations about what the cor...
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