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Rhett 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, about Ellmann’s playfulness, about entropy vs. eternal recurrence, and giving the middle finger to Strunk & White. They also play a short round of “Did this Happen in Florida or Ohio?”

If you’d prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on along with . (And this very funny 1 minute version where Chad’s computer went crazee.) Next week’s episode (up to page 360) will be broadcast live . And you can discuss this book at the reactivated Goodreads .

This week’s music is “” by Sharon Van Etten.

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