Latest Threepercent Podcast Episodes
TMR 12.1 "Obituary" [CARS ON FIRE]
Three Percent Podcast - June 04, 2020 18:34 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsSeason 12 of the Two Month Review kicked off with Cristina Rodriguez from Deep Vellum Bookstore joining Chad and Brian to talk about the first section of Mónica Ramón Ríos and Robin Myers's Cars on Fire. They talk about The Gits, "Dead Men Don't Rape," the connections between academy and power s...
Three Percent #182: BTBA 2020 Readings
Three Percent Podcast - May 28, 2020 14:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsOn this special edition of the Three Percent Podcast, you can hear short readings of all fifteen finalists for this year's Best Translated Book Awards. You can find all of the titles here on Bookshop.org (fiction, poetry), and you can still RSVP to see the live awards ceremony on Friday, May 2...
TMR 11.11: "The Dream Ends" [THE DREAMED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - May 21, 2020 14:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsRodrigo Fresán himself joins Chad and Brian to talk about phones, Riverdale, Ada or Ardor, Dracula, the world-building in Fresán's oeuvre, the overall structure and focus of the triptych, what to read and watch in quarantine, and much more! If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can fi...
TMR 11.10: "IKEA" [THE DREAMED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - May 14, 2020 14:25 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week's episode is quite possibly the wildest one yet . . . Chad paid a BookTuber for some promotional love and, well, you'll have to watch/listen to see how that went. Then they talk about outsiders, Franco Moretti, autofiction, HE-IKEA (the Writer's nemesis), overblown rants about reading ...
Three Percent #181: Unraveling Women and Hard-Working Peasants
Three Percent Podcast - May 08, 2020 01:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsA bit of an experimental episode, Chad is joined by five indie booksellers to talk about the "new normal," fears of reopening, what booksellers are doing now, and—most importantly—actual books. The complete rundown of recommendations is below, but one note: please buy these titles from the books...
TMR 11.9: "Living in Pandemica" [THE DREAMED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - May 07, 2020 18:45 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week, Chad and Brian talk about the desires of readers, the "middle mind," writing without a hook, Nabokov's "The Vane Sisters," the one contribution Chad made to this book, vocal tics, cocaine, and much more. They both came in high energy on this episode, so sit back and enjoy all the joke...
TMR 11.8: "This Is a Bullshot" [THE DREAMED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - May 07, 2020 18:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsIn his most dangerous gag to date, Chad drinks a giant bullshot as he, Brian Wood, and special guest Carlos Labbé talk about Nabokov's Transparent Things, transparency as a concept, the wild bed that The Writer is insomniacing in, Uncle Hey Walrus's hypnosis gone awry, why quarantine time is so ...
TMR 11.7: "The Past Is a Broken Toy That Everyone Fixes in His Own Way" [THE DREAMED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - May 07, 2020 18:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week's episode brings us back to The Writer, unable to sleep, living near where Penelope's house burned down (see: The Invented Part), and living off the fortunes of Penelope's writings (RIP). There's a great bit in this section about FBI agent Johnny Dancer and Vladimir Nabokov, there's a ...
Three Percent #180: Bookfinity Is the Dumbest Name
Three Percent Podcast - April 24, 2020 01:41 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsStacie Williams joins Chad and Tom this week to talk about the role of sales reps at this moment in time and then, after she bolts, Chad and Tom poke fun at Bookfinity (which, really, WOW), the confused messaging of #BooksAreEssential as a hashtag, why bookshops shouldn't open, and how Publisher...
Three Percent #179: "Hey! What's New?"
Three Percent Podcast - April 17, 2020 01:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsHow is COVID-19 impacting bookstores, publishers, translators, and our general sanity? These are the questions Tom and Chad talk about on this episode—the first in a while, but also the longest ever—along with minor jokes, an appeal to authors and publishers to "read the room," a rant that will ...
TMR 11.6: "Adaptations" [THE DREAMED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - April 16, 2020 17:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Brian go deep into the underlying structure of the second section of Fresan's The Dreamed Part, talking about Penelope's story, her relationship to her parents and the Karmas, and the moment in which she lost her son. We finally get to read about her wrecking house (literally) and see h...
TMR 11.5: "Wuthering Heights Is Weird" [THE DREAMED PART}
Three Percent Podcast - April 10, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad reaches a new quarantine low at the beginning of this week's episode (highly recommend checking out the video version), but after a lot of banter and deep dives into international speculative fiction, The Invention of Morel, Lost, and more, Chad and special guest Rachel Cordasco break down ...
TMR 11.5: "Wuthering Heights Is Weird" [THE DREAMED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - April 10, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad reaches a new quarantine low at the beginning of this week's episode (highly recommend checking out the video version), but after a lot of banter and deep dives into international speculative fiction, The Invention of Morel, Lost, and more, Chad and special guest Rachel Cordasco break down ...
TMR 11.4: "Tulpas" [THE DREAMED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - April 09, 2020 14:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis episode got off to a rough start, with Chad losing his shit over the May IndieNext list [ed. note: he still has not recovered] before Streamyard crashed and the whole episode had to be recorded. In the new, much calmer episode, Chad, Brian, and special guest Patrick Smith talk about tulpas,...
TMR 11.3: ""What We Talk About When We Talk About Dreaming" [THE DREAMED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - March 26, 2020 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAside from talking about how we're all about five days away from becoming Howard Hughes, Chad, Brian, and special guest Derek Maine talk about dreams vs. rationality, Nabokov and Bob Dylan, dream lovers and MTV videos, Twin Peaks and fantasy baseball. (OK, not the last one.) It's a fun podcast, ...
TMR 11.2: "Who Dreams the Dreamer" [THE DREAMED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - March 25, 2020 21:45 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad, Brian, and special guest Mark Haber tried their damnedest to bring some levity to our current crisis on this week's episode. They laughed a lot while discussing Chad's surprisingly dull dream city, the way The Dreamed Part just drops you right into the flow, dream logic, how Fresan is the ...
TMR 11.1: "We Remember Everything" [THE DREAMED PART]
Three Percent Podcast - March 06, 2020 21:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsIn this week's preview episode for Season 11 of the Two Month Review--featuring The Dreamed Part by Rodrigo Fresán and Will Vanderhyden--Chad and Brian try their best to recall details from the plot of The Invented Part, the first book in the trilogy. They do . . . well, question mark? As cracke...
Three Percent #178: This Podcast Is Not Contagious
Three Percent Podcast - March 03, 2020 00:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsToday's episode is all about small presses. Chad and Tom breakdown, discuss, elaborate on, and praise, Matvei Yankelevich's recent Poetry post 'The New Normal: How We Gave Up the Small Press." This is a rather wide-ranging conversation about grant applications, distribution for small presses, AW...
Three Percent #177: Eight Books
Three Percent Podcast - February 19, 2020 17:14 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAfter a bit of banter about how baseball front offices might be as bad at naming things as book people, and a plug for Paul Vidich's The Coldest Warrior, Chad and Tom each draft four forthcoming books from a total of eight different presses that they've both agreed to read and discuss in future ...
Three Percent #176: Dirty Bookshop
Three Percent Podcast - February 04, 2020 15:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAfter a bit of a hiatus, Chad and Tom return to talk about the two biggest things to happen during Winter Institute: The American Dirt controversy and the launch of Bookshop.org. If you haven't been following the American Dirt debacle, here are a couple pieces to read: Laura Miller's piece in S...
Three Percent #175: Biggest News Stories of 2019
Three Percent Podcast - January 07, 2020 17:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsOn this week's episode, Chad and Tom discuss Tom's recent piece on Jean-Patrick Manchette for LARB and talk about which of his books are best to start with, and why there haven't been more breakout international noir authors. Then they pivot to this Publishers Weekly article on the "Top News S...
TMR 10.14: "We Made it to the End" [DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT]
Three Percent Podcast - January 06, 2020 22:53 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWe did it! Chad and Brian reflect on the somewhat surprising ending to Ducks, Newburyport and reflect on all 1,000+ of its glorious pages in the season finale to this Two Month Review. They debate whether the book is hopeful or pessimistic, the way in which its solipsism infects the reader's way...
TMR 10.13: "Dogs" [DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT]
Three Percent Podcast - December 26, 2019 21:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsElizabeth DeMeo (assistant book editor at Tin House) joins Chad and Brian in the penultimate episode of this season of the Two Month Review. They talk family therapy. They talk about the Jim's encounter with the lioness. They make predictions about how the book will end. They debate whether it's...
TMR 10.12: "Gone Missing" [DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT]
Three Percent Podcast - December 23, 2019 13:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Brian go it alone on pages 777-862, talking about Galley Beggar's "go fund me" campaign, hardcovers vs. paperbacks, Stacy, what makes something Kafkaesque, the narrator's stasis, and much more. This week's music is "The Surprise Knock" by The New Pornographers. If you'd prefer to wa...
TMR 10.11: "Establish Justice" [DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT]
Three Percent Podcast - December 16, 2019 21:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week, Chad is joined by Rebecca Hussey (BookRiot) and Josh Cook (Porter Square Books, An Exaggerated Murder) to talk about pages 700-776 of Ducks, Newburyport. They make comparisons to any number of modernist authors (Proust, Woolf, Joyce), discuss mother-daughter relationships, "mom shamin...
TMR 10.10: "A List of Definites" [DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT]
Three Percent Podcast - December 13, 2019 21:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsJeremy Kitchen (Chicago Public Library, Eye 94) joins Chad and Brian to talk about "a list of definites" about the future, the (pretty silly) controversy surrounding Lucy Ellmann's recent Guardian interview, the way the themes of Duck, Newburyport make it difficult for some people to read, the ...
Three Percent #174: Devil's Bargains
Three Percent Podcast - December 10, 2019 16:35 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Tom play a short game on this podcast—when Tom isn't ranting about Amazon. They also discuss Bookshop, when the decade officially ends, favorite translations of the past ten years, Chad's upcoming hiatus from writing for Three Percent, and much more. Next episode Chad and Tom will d...
TMR 10.9: "Pattern Recognition" [DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT]
Three Percent Podcast - November 28, 2019 16:45 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Brian deliver a true Thanksgiving treat in this episode, digging in deep to the narrative patterns in the book, the way Ellmann constructs the narrator's subjectivity, how the novel is a radical call to action, how some facts aren't really facts, terrible new slang terms, save the turtl...
TMR 10.8: "Real Life Is Sad" [DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT]
Three Percent Podcast - November 28, 2019 16:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAnother late night conversation about Ducks, Newburyport! This week, P.T. Smith joins to discuss illness, the verbal virtuosity in this novel, sadness, relationships between parents and kids, and much more. Lots of quotes are read throughout this episode, and in honor of Lucy Ellmann's stated li...
BONUS EPISODE: Charco Press
Three Percent Podcast - November 21, 2019 21:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsFounded in 2016 with their first releases coming in late 2017, Charco Press is one of the most recent additions to the growing number of publishing houses focused on literature in translation. And although they've established a solid reputation in the UK, they just started distributing their boo...
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