Latest Threepercent Podcast Episodes
TMR: CoDex 1962: "I'm a Sleeping Door" (Part II)
Three Percent Podcast - July 05, 2019 19:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThings start to come clear in this penultimate episode of this season of the Two Month Review. We get a new story about Joséf's birth, along with some absolutely incredible writing by Sjón. Lots of parallels and mirroring in this section, and the discussion helps set up next week's conclusion. ...
BONUS EPISODE: Becky Crook
Three Percent Podcast - July 03, 2019 13:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAs part of "Norwegian Month" here at Three Percent, translator Becky Crook (The Black Signs, Monsterhuman, Silence: In the Age of Noise, and many more) came on the podcast to talk about her first cover letter, in which ways she's become a better translator over the past half-decade, what to watc...
TMR: CoDex 1962: "I'm a Sleeping Door" (Part I)
Three Percent Podcast - July 01, 2019 12:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWe're into the homestretch! Today episode, featuring special guest Katie Whittemore, kicks off the discussion of the third and final volume of Sjón's CoDex 1962, "I'm a Sleeping Door: A Science-Fiction Story." More origin myths in this volume, ranging from the epic and literary, to the mundane a...
Three Percent #163: What Do You Want
Three Percent Podcast - June 26, 2019 19:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Tom talk about a number of interrelated issues related to the costs of bookstore ownership and being a bookseller. They talk about the recent letter from Chris Doeblin at Book Culture, The Book Diaries, Human Rights for Translators, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Int...
BONUS EPISODE: Ben Lindbergh on "The MVP Machine"
Three Percent Podcast - June 25, 2019 19:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsIn this special bonus episode, Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer and Effectively Wild talks with Chad about his new book, The MVP Machine. They talk about the premise of the book—how player development is the new "Moneyball" and is being driven by players and technology—about the process of co-writi...
TMR: CoDex 1962 (Pgs 303-343)
Three Percent Podcast - June 21, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week, Tobias Carroll joined Chad and Brian to talk about werewolves, puns that don't exactly work in translation, evil baseball card shop owners, weird Masonic rituals, Party Down South, and Fred Durst and John Travolta's The Fanatic. They also have a lot of praise for Sjón and the wild, fu...
TMR: CoDex 1962 (Pgs 257-302)
Three Percent Podcast - June 19, 2019 16:19 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week's episode covers a lot of ground, from disturbing American racism circa 1917 to codswallop; from werewolves to parliamentary fights, from ghosts to crime/heist narratives. It's a really fun episode that has a good take on this section of the book mixed with some really fun segues and d...
Three Percent #162: I Am a Wild Rose
Three Percent Podcast - June 12, 2019 12:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Tom are joined by Mark Haber from Brazos Bookstore and author of the forthcoming Reinhardt's Garden (October 1, Coffee House Press). They talk a bit about Translation Bread Loaf (two thumbs up) and about a special poster for anyone who buys the First 100 from Open Letter, before trying ...
Three Percent #161: Will a French Book Win the BTBA?
Three Percent Podcast - May 28, 2019 12:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Tom took some time off on Memorial Day to bring you this little podcast about the Best Translated Book Award finalists (winner will be announced at 5pm on 5/29 at BEA/NYRF, and there will be an informal afterparty at The Brooklyneer on Houston starting at 7), about the Man Booker Intern...
Three Percent #160: Double Controversy
Three Percent Podcast - May 15, 2019 12:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsOne of the calmest podcasts to date featuring two controversial topics: the new Open Letter cover design, and the side-effects of suddenly doubling (or quadrupling) the number of translations published every year. In terms of recommendations, this week Chad is all about the completely wild Br...
TMR: CoDex 1962 (Pgs 58-109)
Three Percent Podcast - May 10, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad's just back from a 7 hour train ride. Brian is inebriated. Tom Flynn is . . . Tom Flynn? It's a classic episode of the Two Month Review about horny avenging angels, chamber pot dumps, how many books actually last for a hundred years, the name "Karl," whatever Bumble is, and much more. A fun...
Three Percent #159: Publishing in 2025?
Three Percent Podcast - May 01, 2019 12:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Tom are back to talk about Independent Bookstore Day (and Free Comic Book Day and Record Store Day), the Indie Playlist Initiative, fascists storming Politics & Prose, Alex Shephard's Mueller Report article, how much money Stanford (the Duke of the West?) is wasting on their crappy fo...
TMR: CoDex 1962 (Introduction)
Three Percent Podcast - April 26, 2019 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThe new season of the Two Month Review kicks off with a pretty wide-ranging discussion. Sure, there is a bit about Sjón (pronounced SYOHN, which is not how Chad says it) and a few things about his earlier books and CoDex 1962, but a good part of this introductory episode is about patterns in nar...
Three Percent #158: 2019 Best Translated Book Award Longlists
Three Percent Podcast - April 17, 2019 12:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsBest Translated Book Award fiction judge Kasia Bartoszynska joins Chad and Tom to talk about the recently released longlists. After providing some insight into the committee's thinking and discussions (and confirming that Chad had no knowledge of the lists beforehand, while not 100% confirming ...
BONUS EPISODE: Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Sean Bye on Polish Reportage
Three Percent Podcast - April 11, 2019 19:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAs part of Nonfiction in Translation Month at Three Percent, Polish translators Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Sean Bye came on the podcast to explain Polish Reportage, talk about some key figures and forthcoming books, and more or less introduce Open Letter's new nonfiction line. Some of the tit...
Three Percent #157: Post-Portland AWP
Three Percent Podcast - April 03, 2019 12:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsOn this atypically subdued episode, Chad recounts some of his adventures in Portland at the AWP conference, and speculates about why this was his favorite one to date. Tom helps illuminate some of the mysteries behind IndieBound and what might be next for independent stores trying to capture som...
2MR: Radiant Terminus (Chapters 39-END)
Three Percent Podcast - March 22, 2019 20:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Brian finish off Radiant Terminus and talk about possible interpretation of the ending, whether anyone came out of this book OK, the balance between humor and horror, written vs. oral culture, possible readings or approaches to the novel, and a desire for a "Post-Exotic" journal. They...
Three Percent #156: The Netflix of Titles
Three Percent Podcast - March 19, 2019 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsOn this week's podcast, Chad and Tom talk laugh about how HarperVia conceives of itself, praise this year's National Book Award for Translation judges, give some spotty analysis of the Man Crankstart (?) Booker International longlist, the idea of an International Writers Hall of Fame (vote he...
2MR: Radiant Terminus (Chapters 27-38)
Three Percent Podcast - March 15, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis is a jam-packed episode as Rachel Crawford joins Brian and Chad to talk about Kronauer's "trial," Hannko and Samiya in the Taiga, the lasting impact of PTSD, the post-post-apocalyptic world, Russian literature and French minimalism, New Jersey, and more. This is the penultimate episode of s...
BONUS EPISODE: Interview with Edwin Frank of NYRB
Three Percent Podcast - March 14, 2019 17:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsFollowing a trip to India to speak at the Seagull School of Publishing, Edwin Frank sat down to talk about Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries and NYRB's overall editorial history, including surprise hits, books he wishes more people read, and much more. A brilliant reader, publisher, and thinker, this ...
2MR: Radiant Terminus (Chapters 20-26)
Three Percent Podcast - March 13, 2019 19:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Brian go it alone through Kronauer's "night of amok" as he attempt to murder Solovyei for his myriad crimes. Then they enter into part four of the book, "Taiga," which is a collection of "narracts" set some seven hundred (or a thousand?) years in the future. Hannko is recreating the fem...
BONUS EPISODE: Interview with Nick During of NYRB
Three Percent Podcast - March 07, 2019 16:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsTo supplement NYRB month on Three Percent, Chad and Anthony talked to Nick During, publicist for New York Review Books, about the marketing of Anniversaries by Uwe Johnson, the struggles to get attention for reprints, Henry Green's eternal rediscovery, and much more. (Including Nick's ratings of...
Three Percent #155: All Statistics Are Baseball Statistics
Three Percent Podcast - March 06, 2019 13:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAfter a brief foray into Baseball Prospectus 2019 and Power Ball by Rob Neyer, Chad and Tom get down to business, analyzing Chad's statistically-based, very lukewarm take on translation production in 2018. They come up with innumerable, very rational reasons for the dip in translations that tend...
2MR: Radiant Terminus (Chapters 17-19)
Three Percent Podcast - March 01, 2019 14:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWith just Chad and Brian on this week's episode, the show turns almost full superhero. We get Chad's weirdly specific—and unnerving—Volodine-influenced dream. We get to see Samiya Schmidt transform into a raging version of Captain Marvel/Banshee. We get to see Kronauer assume his role as the one...
2MR: Radiant Terminus (Chapters 14-16)
Three Percent Podcast - February 22, 2019 13:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsTobias Carroll (Transitory, Reel) joins Chad and Brian to talk about the latest installment of Radiant Terminus. These three chapters get wild, as Schulhoff (who mysteriously disappeared shortly after his marriage to Hannko, Solovyei's daughter) returns and tries to get Ilyushenko to kill him. A...
Three Percent #154: Celebrity Translators
Three Percent Podcast - February 19, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAfter an update about Chad's computer files and subscriptions, Tom talks about Amazon leaving NYC and they both get into a long discussion about translator Molly Ringwald (who you might also recognize from Riverdale). Chad tries to order a book from IndieBound (where do these books process from?...
2MR: Radiant Terminus (Chapters 9-13)
Three Percent Podcast - February 15, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsRhett McNeil joins Chad Post and pinch-hitter Kaija Straumanis to talk about the first half of part two of Radiant Terminus, "Ode to the Camps." From recounting Chad's latest Volodine-inflected dream to a discussion of the ways various ideologies (fairy tales, anarcho-capitalism, Marxism-Leninis...
Three Percent #153: Winter Beats and Breaks
Three Percent Podcast - February 05, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAt the top of this episode, Tom explains why he and Chad fell off the biweekly schedule for a bit, but then they come back strong, talking about Winter Institute, the Independent Publishers Caucus, minimum wage, this wild New Yorker article that doesn't quite do enough, but makes Chad angry, and...
2MR: Radiant Terminus (Chapters 1-3)
Three Percent Podcast - February 01, 2019 13:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsFrom Tarkovsky to Jessica Jones, this week's episode covers a lot of ground. Anthony and Chad are joined by Hailey Dezort to walk through the first three chapters of Antoine Volodine's Radiant Terminus. There's a lot to unpack, from the plant names, to the nature of men, to horrible fathers, to ...
2MR: Radiant Terminus (Introduction)
Three Percent Podcast - January 29, 2019 12:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWe’re back! . . . And a few days late. Chad explains why on the podcast itself, but suffice it to say that last week was a bit, um, stressful. But Brian and Chad finally got together to talk about Antoine Volodine in general, post-exoticism, Brian Evenson’s introduction to Radiant Terminus, simi...
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