Latest Threepercent Podcast Episodes
Three Percent #173: The Poetry in Translation Episode
Three Percent Podcast - November 19, 2019 16:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAnastasia Nikolis (poetry editor for Open Letter Books) and Emma Ramadan (translator, co-owner of Riffraaff) join Chad and Tom to breakdown ALTA 42, talk about poetry in translation, and go on a handful of minor rants—and one major one. (Thanks, Emma!) The Sarah Dessen controversy pops up, as d...
TMR 10.7: "Blossom, Stasis, Spiral, Whoa" [DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT]
Three Percent Podcast - November 15, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week's Two Month Review was recorded pretty late (on the east coast), so things are a bit loopy. Nevertheless, James Crossley from Madison Books joins Chad and Brian to talk about pages 429-487 of Ducks, Newburyport. They talk a bit about the cultural references in this section—the old movi...
TMR 10.6: "The Simple Things" [DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT]
Three Percent Podcast - November 08, 2019 21:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Brian break format a bit and discuss a number of the concerns, anxieties, and social issues that the narrator of Duck, Newburyport thinks about. From spiders to Morning Routine videos, active shooter situations to Trump feeling up Kurt Suzuki, this episode is a deep, yet funny, dive int...
Three Percent #172: ALTA 42 Preview
Three Percent Podcast - November 04, 2019 16:13 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsA bit of a disorienting podcast for anyone not attending ALTA, but in this episode, Chad addresses the recent ALTA book fair controversy, and then they go over the general schedule, highlighting a number of interesting-sounding panels, previewing some off-site events, and recommending non-ALTA ...
TMR 10.5: "The Buzz Must Go On" [DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT]
Three Percent Podcast - November 01, 2019 12:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsLori Feathers of Interabang Books in Dallas joined Chad and Brian for this special episode to talk about the destruction of her bookstore, what's next for Interabang, and information about how you can help. (Answer: Order Joytime Killbox and The Dreamed Part from their website.) Then they talk a...
TMR 10.4: "Is it Translatable" [Ducks, Newburyport]
Three Percent Podcast - October 25, 2019 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsRhett McNeil (translator of Machado de Assis, Gonçalo Tavares, Antonio Lobo Antunes, and more) joins Chad and Brian to talk about the way in which Ducks, Newburyport is less of a single-sentence and more of a never-ending list, about how it is and isn't like Ulysses, about time in the novel, abo...
Three Percent #171: Can We Go a Week Without an Award Controversy?
Three Percent Podcast - October 22, 2019 15:49 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week's podcast is about two kerfuffles: the Booker Prize one and the one between King County Library and Macmillan. There's also some discussion as to why UK book culture allows for critique and small voices to be heard (vs. the American way in which everything is fine), Chad goes on and ...
TMR 10.3: "How Do I Promote This?" [Ducks, Newburyport]
Three Percent Podcast - October 18, 2019 20:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsVanessa Stauffer from Biblioasis came on this episode to talk about the Booker Prize, about the jacket copy she wrote for the Ducks galley, about types of moms, about things in the book that pay off and mysteries that remain mysteries, about the ways in which Ellmann is breaking form and the str...
TMR 10.2: "The Fact That" [Ducks, Newburyport]
Three Percent Podcast - October 11, 2019 20:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsDue to an unforeseen illness, Chad and Brian ended up going this one alone, and focus mostly on the way that "the fact that" functions, both in building the character and impacting the reader. Chad asks Brian some craft questions, they debate what makes a book "difficult" (and whether this is di...
Three Percent #170: Don't Give a Million Dollars to a Fascist
Three Percent Podcast - October 10, 2019 15:36 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis podcast comes in HOT. Lots of talk about how Peter Handke doesn't deserve any award, much less the Nobel Prize. (And if you don't know why, just listen for his quote at the end denying Serb atrocities at Srebrenica by saying "You can stick your corpses up your arse.") Then things transition...
TMR 10.1: "Brave Publishing" [Ducks, Newburyport]
Three Percent Podcast - October 04, 2019 20:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThe tenth season of the Two Month Review gets underway with special guest Dan Wells of Biblioasis talking about how they came to publish Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport, and the risks involved in doing a 1,020-page book. They also introduce Ellmann--who has one of the greatest bios ever--and t...
TMR: Monsterhuman by Kjersti Skomsvold (pgs 407-448)
Three Percent Podcast - September 27, 2019 20:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAnd just like that, season nine of the Two Month Review comes to an end. But first, we have a very nice discussion with Kjersti Skomsvold herself about Monsterhuman, trends in Norwegian writing, autofiction vs. creative nonfiction vs. memoir, authors to read, and much more. (Spoiler: She's just ...
Three Percent #169: Year Two of the NBA for Translated Literature
Three Percent Podcast - September 23, 2019 16:19 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAfter an update from Chad about his trip to London and Amsterdam, he and Tom break down the National Book Award for Translated Literature longlist, exposing their general ignorance along the way. (They've read, combined, like two of the ten titles?) Also, sure are a lot of Penguin Random House ...
TMR: Monsterhuman by Kjersti Skomsvold (pgs 360-406)
Three Percent Podcast - September 23, 2019 13:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsTranslator Becky Crook comes on this week's podcast to talk about the process of working on Monsterhuman, all the things that she couldn't quite get in there, ones she's very proud of, the reasons why she thinks the book works, and much much more! Only one episodee left! You can watch the Wedn...
TMR: Monsterhuman by Kjersti Skomsvold (pgs 316-360)
Three Percent Podcast - September 13, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week, Brian is AWOL BUT Patrick Smith brings his A-game. He and Chad talk about the self-conscious humor in Monsterhuman, awkward interactions, the shape and evolution of the narrative as a whole, some info about The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am, and much more. A very fun episode that op...
TMR: Monsterhuman by Kjersti Skomsvold (pgs 275-316)
Three Percent Podcast - September 09, 2019 13:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAlthough this episode isn't as funny as last week's discussion of "lay-down Sally," it does get into some of Brian's neuroses about his forthcoming book, which is entertaining. They talk a lot about Skomsvold's humor, about the creepy ways in which various photographers and interviewers treat he...
Three Percent #168: The 6% Improvement
Three Percent Podcast - September 04, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsOn this episode, Chad shares some interesting data about the number of books by women in translation before and after the creation of Women in Translation Month, Tom talks about the most recent Amazon controversy, they breakdown the National Translation Award for Prose Longlist (they'll talk po...
TMR: Monsterhuman by Kjersti Skomsvold (pgs 226-274)
Three Percent Podcast - August 30, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsCaitlin Baker from Island Books joins Chad and Brian this week to talk about "The Herring Factory" from Kjersti Skomsvold's Monsterhuman. After a strong pitch for nominating Brian for "Best Local Author" in City Paper's annual Best of Rochester voting, they get into the book itself, talking abo...
TMR: Monsterhuman by Kjersti Skomsvold (pgs 180-225)
Three Percent Podcast - August 26, 2019 20:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsTom Flynn from Volumes opens up today's episode with a reading from Brian's first book, Joytime Killbox. Then, along with Chad, they break down the rest of "The Human School" from Monsterhuman, talk about how much they love Skomsvold's voice and sense of humor, look at the way in which she start...
Three Percent #167: We Could All Do Better
Three Percent Podcast - August 22, 2019 14:56 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsMeytal Radzinski (@biblibio, founder of Women in Translation Month) joins Chad and Tom to talk about Women in Translation Month, depressing statistics, Virginie Despentes, nonfiction in translation, hopes for the future, and much more. As always, feel free to send any and all comments or ques...
TMR: Monsterhuman by Kjersti Skomsvold (pgs 144-180)
Three Percent Podcast - August 16, 2019 19:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsEven though the first few seconds ("On today's Two Month Review we'll be talking about . . . ") got cut off, Chad gives his most professional podcast introduction to date, before he and Brian talk about the Nansen Academy, the cyclical nature of chronic illness, the idea of plot points vs. event...
TMR: Monsterhuman by Kjersti Skomsvold (pgs 92-143)
Three Percent Podcast - August 15, 2019 20:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsIn this episode, Chad and Brian applaud Kjersti for not getting back together with her ex-boyfriend, talk about circular structures, about the evolution of her written voice, about Antony and the Johnsons, the myth-making behind Babe Ruth, and much more. This week's music is "Patterns Prevail"...
TMR: Monsterhuman by Kjersti Skomsvold (pgs 46-92)
Three Percent Podcast - August 14, 2019 18:50 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsOne of the funniest TMR episodes in weeks, Chad and Brian crack each other up over writerly anxieties, the sharp wit Kjersti displays in this section, the White Claw Phenomenon, writer vs. author vs. journaler, Kjersti's distain for bad poetry (and TV) about chronic fatigue syndrome, pop culture...
Three Percent #166: Women in Translation Month 2019
Three Percent Podcast - August 06, 2019 17:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Tom drop a number of recommendations for Women in Translation month, some that they've read, some that they're planning on reading. They also discuss possible infographics that Three Percent can produce over the course of the month (if you have any other suggestions, please email), and ...
BONUS EPISODE: Annette Orre
Three Percent Podcast - July 30, 2019 12:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWe finish up Norwegian Month at Three Percent by talking to Annette Orre of the Oslo Literary Agency. We talk trends, 1,000-page books, The History of Bees, Norway being the Guest of Honor at Frankfurt, using a "die" to rate all products from books to cheese, and much much more. This episode'...
TMR: Monsterhuman by Kjersti Skomsvold (pgs 1-45)
Three Percent Podcast - July 29, 2019 19:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThe new season of the Two Month Review starts here! Through the end of September we'll be discussing Kjersti Skomsvold's Monsterhuman, translated from the Norwegian by Becky L. Crook. Marius Hjeldnes from Cappelen Damm joins Chad and Brian to provide a bit of background on Skomsvold, on trends i...
BONUS EPISODE: John Erik Riley
Three Percent Podcast - July 25, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsTo celebrate Norwegian Month at Three Percent, Chad talked with John Erik Riley, author, photographer, editor of Norwegian literature for Cappelen Damm, and member of the "Blindness Circle." They talk about current trends in Norwegian literature, American comparisons for various authors, a coupl...
Three Percent #165: Disorder in the Book Shelves
Three Percent Podcast - July 23, 2019 19:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis episode of the Three Percent Podcast never gets to its actual topic, but includes minor disagreements about ebooks in libraries and its impact on ebook revenu, more questions about Book Culture's situation, a general sense of malaise, trying to make sense of Dean Koontz, Audible's "Caption"...
TMR: CoDex 1962: "I'm a Sleeping Door" (Part III)
Three Percent Podcast - July 15, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWe did it! Chad and Rachel Cardasco (with an assist from Tom Flynn of Volumes) talk about the last sections of Sjón's CoDex 1962. It's been quite the season and they bring it home in old school TMR style with a lot of Twin Peaks talk, many many digressions, acknowledging motifs and ideas that ma...
Three Percent #164: Rapid Expansion
Three Percent Podcast - July 10, 2019 12:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad shares his stupid dreams, Tom questions translators who work for AmazonCrossing and then want indie bookstores to help them out, and they both marvel over Deep Vellum's acquisition of Phoneme Media and A Strange Object (and the launching of the La Reunion imprint). It's a short episode, but...
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