Latest Threepercent Podcast Episodes
BONUS EPISODE: Interview with Jonathan Dunne
Three Percent Podcast - January 23, 2019 13:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAs part of this month's ongoing series of posts about literature from Spain, I talked to author, translator, and publisher Jonathan Dunne, whose Small Stations Press has produced more translations of Galician literature into English than anyone else. On this bonus episode of the Three Percent Po...
Three Percent #152: Seven (Or So) Insights
Three Percent Podcast - January 16, 2019 13:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsGetting back on schedule for the new year, Chad and Tom convene to talk about two articles: "7 Publishing Insights Revealed by Last Year's Top 100 Bestselling Books," and "Virginia Woolf? Snob! Richard Wright? Sexist! Dostoyevsky? Anti-Semite!" They also talk a bit about YA books and the precipi...
2MR: THE BOOK OF DISQUIET Sections 394-END
Three Percent Podcast - December 21, 2018 20:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsIt's all over! After eleven weeks of Pessoa, Chad and Brian have finished The Book of Disquiet. And to celebrate, they each wrote some jacket copy and blurbs and went hard at trying to get BINGO for someone. They also preview the next season of TMR and come up with a very marketable Pessoa-theme...
Three Percent #151: A Time for Gifting
Three Percent Podcast - December 19, 2018 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAfter a long conversation about a rather strange Rochester gathering of arts organizations, Chad and Tom get down to business: recommending their favorite books of 2018. Except, rather than just make a list, they decide which of their friends or relatives should receive each of these titles. The...
2MR: THE BOOK OF DISQUIET Sections 359-393
Three Percent Podcast - December 13, 2018 21:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsProbably the most controversial Two Month Review to date, so buckle up! Are there unhinged rants? You bet! Questions regarding the marketing and "completeness" of the New Directions edition? Yep! A long discussion about the differences in voice between the both excellent Margaret Jull Costa and ...
2MR: THE BOOK OF DISQUIET Sections 316--358 with David Smith
Three Percent Podcast - December 06, 2018 21:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week David Smith—former Open Letter intern and current grad student at the University of Iowa—joins Chad and Brian to debate poetry vs. prose, separating the p.o.v. of Pessoa's heteronyms from his own personal viewpoint, Soares's morality and metaphysics, how to judge the quality of a trans...
Three Percent #150: Canadian Publishing
Three Percent Podcast - December 05, 2018 13:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week, Kevin Williams of Talonbooks out of Vancouver, British Columbia joins Tom and Chad to talk about the state of publishing in Canada. He recaps his career in the book business—as a bookseller, distributor, agent, and publisher—and provides a lot of insight into the Canadian funding stru...
2MR: THE BOOK OF DISQUIET Sections 274-315
Three Percent Podcast - November 24, 2018 13:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsChad and Brian fly solo this week, filling in dozens of TMR Bingo squares, and trying to come up with "rules for writers" based on this particular section of The Book of Disquiet. It's a pretty imprecise set of rules, but whatever, in the words of Pessoa, "perfection is inhuman." They also talk...
Three Percent #149: I Have Some Advice
Three Percent Podcast - November 20, 2018 18:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsLIVE PODCAST! Well, sort of. Tom was in Rochester, so he and Chad recorded a spontaneous podcast while being in the same room as one another. (And with eight-month-old Aleks, who makes an appearance.) They talk about bookstores Tom visited on this trip, the National Book Awards, and J Franz's no...
2MR: THE BOOK OF DISQUIET Sections 222-273 with João Reis
Three Percent Podcast - November 20, 2018 16:58 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week's special guest is Portuguese author and translator João Reis who knows a lot about Pessoa and the writings of his various heteronyms. He also talks about his forthcoming novel, The Translator's Bride, and his work as a translator. There's some of the usual banter as well, including a ...
Three Percent #148: The Hottest Trend
Three Percent Podcast - November 14, 2018 13:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsSticking more or less to their biweekly schedule, Chad and Tom reconvene to talk about a couple recent articles, the challenges of being a literary nonprofit, interesting books they're reading, humblebrags about the Words Without Borders and PEN galas, and more. Surprising lack of sports talk th...
2MR: THE BOOK OF DISQUIET Sections 174-221 with Anastasia Nikolis
Three Percent Podcast - November 08, 2018 13:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week's podcast goes off the rails pretty quickly, and includes a hungover dismissal of this version of The Book of Disquiet, the phrase "reclaim some of the douchery" is spoken, there is a lot of laughter, a discussion about the tensions between trying to read this as poetry vs. the expecta...
2MR: THE BOOK OF DISQUIET Sections 131-173
Three Percent Podcast - November 07, 2018 03:34 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week Chad and Brian come to some conclusions about the Vicente Guedes part of The Book of Disquiet and get very excited about the more "mature, sophisticated" writings of Bernardo Soares. They both love this new voice and dig into what separates the heteronyms and their philosophies on life...
Three Percent #147: Helping Listeners One Translation Heuristic at a Time
Three Percent Podcast - October 30, 2018 14:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week's episode is mostly inspired by an email from a listener about evaluating translations, and although Tom and Chad don't provide the hardest and fastest rules, they do have an interesting conversation about how they read and judge translated books. They also follow up on a few different...
2MR: THE BOOK OF DISQUIET Sections 82-130 with Anthony Blake
Three Percent Podcast - October 26, 2018 12:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsBINGO! That's the theme of today's episode, which includes a Twin Peaks reference, awkward introduction, LitHub reference, and many other squares on the recently released Two Month Review bingo cards. It's explained in full at that post and on the podcast, but every week, the first person to e...
2MR: THE BOOK OF DISQUIET Sections 40-81 with Jerónimo Pizzaro
Three Percent Podcast - October 19, 2018 12:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsJerónimo Pizzaro—editor of the "complete edition" of The Book of Disquiet published by New Directions—is the special guest on this week's Two Month Review. He discusses his history with Pessoa, how this volume came to be, the next three volumes in the New Directions project, how to approach The ...
Three Percent #146: The Conspiracy Theory Episode
Three Percent Podcast - October 16, 2018 19:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAn all-banter episode that touches on an array of topics, from ranking ideas on how to save indie bookstores, to The Great American Read's (embarrassing) top 10 vote getting books (are we sure Outlanders doesn't include people riding on dragons?), the Frankfurt Book Fair, self-censorship, QAnon ...
2MR: THE BOOK OF DISQUIET Sections 1-39 with Thomas Flynn
Three Percent Podcast - October 11, 2018 20:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis is one of the most Two Month Review podcasts yet. Chad, Brian, and Tom Flynn (Volumes Books in Chicago) come together to discuss the first forty-six pages (sections 1-39) of the complete version of Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet. In addition to breaking down the philosophy and liter...
2MR: THE BOOK OF DISQUIET Introduction with Declan Spring of New Directions
Three Percent Podcast - October 08, 2018 19:39 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThe Two Month Review is back! This season we'll be reading the New Directions publication of The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa, one of the greatest works of literature (or poetry?) from the past century. To kick things off Declan Sprin...
Three Percent #145: Lobbying for No Celebrities
Three Percent Podcast - October 03, 2018 12:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsIn response to a listener email, Tom expands on his comments from last podcast about the American Booksellers Association. Chad shares some data about genre works in translation and wonders about adding this to the Translation Database. He also has some curious info about Icelandic books in tra...
2MR: FOX Bonus Episode with Dubravka Ugresic!
Three Percent Podcast - September 21, 2018 20:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsDubravka Ugresic is in Rochester for Open Letter's tenth anniversary celebration, so she got together with Chad and Brian to talk about how she wrote Fox, Melania-related tourism, the two story points that launched the book, her writing process, and more! As always, Fox (and all the previous T...
Three Percent #144: The Perfect Publishing Award
Three Percent Podcast - September 19, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWere the National Book Award longlists announced last week? Do Chad and Tom have opinions? YES AND YES. That conversation leads into talking about Penguin Random House, the "perfect publishing house," and then into a frank discussion about the future of small press publishing and the challenges ...
2MR: FOX by Ugresic ("The Fox's Widow") with Ryan Chapman!
Three Percent Podcast - September 07, 2018 20:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsRyan Chapman (Conversation Sparks, Riots I Have Known) came on this week to talk about the final section of Dubravka Ugresic's Fox. They discuss "business class vs. economy class" writers, authenticity and performing in the role of a writer, Franzen, the overall genius of Ugresic's writing, and ...
Three Percent #143: The Cocky Pod
Three Percent Podcast - September 05, 2018 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week, Chad and Tom return to basics--more book talk than industry talk, a promise to release a new episode every other Wednesday--but start off with something that's very, very Three Percent: #Cockygate. Although the #Cockygate lawsuit is interesting in its own right, it's the breakdown of...
2MR: FOX by Ugresic ("Little Miss Footnote") with Caitlin Luce Baker!
Three Percent Podcast - August 30, 2018 18:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsCaitlin Luce Baker from University Bookstore in Seattle joined Chad and Brian to talk about the "Little Miss Footnote" section of Dubravka Ugresic's Fox. They touch on Dorothy Leuthold, Vladimir Nabokov, and much more, including a very subtle weaving of references that you'll definitely want to ...
2MR: FOX by Ugresic ("The Theocritus Adventure") with Anthony Blake!
Three Percent Podcast - August 16, 2018 18:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis episode, Chad and Brian are joined by the newest Open Letter employee--Anthony Blake! He joins in on a really fun episode about Russian avant-garde literature, connections between the fourth part of Fox and the very earliest sections of the book, footnotes, invented novels, how to smuggle l...
Three Percent #142: The Great American Podcast
Three Percent Podcast - August 10, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsBack from their respective vacations, Chad and Tom talk about PBS's "Great American Read," the NEA's "Big Read," building a sustainable publishing model that puts readers first, the attempt to address the direct-to-consumer discount problem, books that they've recently read, and ones Tom refuses...
2MR: FOX by Ugresic ("The Devil's Garden") with Pete Mitchell!
Three Percent Podcast - August 09, 2018 17:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsPete Mitchell—who wrote this great review of Fox for Asymptote—joined Chad and Brian this week to talk about the heartbreaking (and semi-profane) ending to "The Devil's Garden," the third part of Dubrakva Ugresic's latest novel. From the idea of a small ping singling one's eventual crack-up to p...
2MR: FOX by Ugresic ("The Devil's Garden") with George Carroll!
Three Percent Podcast - August 02, 2018 17:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsIn this week's Two Month Review, Brian drops some excellent knowledge about why this chapter is called "The Devil's Garden," opening a window into Ugresic's genius, guest George Carroll talks about his time in Kolkata, and Chad says a bunch of mildly entertaining things about camping and landmin...
2MR: FOX by Ugresic ("A Balancing Art") with Ellen Elias-Bursać!
Three Percent Podcast - July 19, 2018 19:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAfter a two week hiatus due to technical difficulties trying to record from Dublin, the Two Month Review is back! Chad and Brian are joined by translator Ellen Elias-Bursać to talk about her favorite section of the novel--"A Balancing Art." They discuss the various viewpoints presented in this c...
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