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Three Percent #195: Lori Feathers on Marguerite Young

Chad Post — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:00:28 +0000

This week, Lori Feathers joins Chad to talk about “,” a Substack project dedicated to reading and talking about��Marguerite Young’s��.��They discuss the nature of the Substack, anecdotes about Young, how to get people engaged with such an intimidating work, reading fast and slow, and much more.

You can also hear more from Lori on the “Across the Pond” podcast (, ).

The music on this episode is “” by Colourmusic.

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Three Percent #194: Mark Haber, “Lesser Ruins”

Chad Post — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 18:35:10 +0000

Today’s episode features Mark Haber talking about his brand new novel,��, his influence, the Bernhard thing, going from bookselling to publishing, and much more. It’s a fun conversation that goes deep into the book, but also explains the publishing landscape to some degree—in part because this conversation was recorded as part of Chad’s “Intro to Literary Publishing” class.

Couple other notes about this episode: In addition to��, Mark talks about��by Rodrigo Fresán, and��by Alex Higley.

And for anyone who’d like to listen to “Marcel’s Mix” while reading��Lesser Ruins, you can find it .

The music on this episode is “” by Felipe Gordon. (Also found on .)

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Three Percent #193: K.E. Semmel, “Book of Losman”

Chad Post — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:00:12 +0000

On this week’s podcast, K.E. Semmel—translator from the Danish and author of —discusses his debut novel, life as a translator, articles he wrote on Tourette’s Syndrome and Author-Transaltors, how he tried to promote his book with Justin Murphy () and Chad W. Post.

The music on this episode is “” by Rich Aucoin. (Would’ve chosen a Bob Dylan song in Kyle’s honor, but not after he told me how much Dylan’s people wanted to charge him for using a line or two as an epigraph. I can not afford a lawsuit.)

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Three Percent #192: Pilar Adón, “Of Beasts and Fowls”

Chad Post — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:44:59 +0000

In this special edition of the podcast, Chad talks with Pilar Adón about��the forthcoming��(translated by Katie Whittemore), her general writing life, two movies he thought she might have seen that resonate with the book (spoiler: she’s never heard of either), her publishing company , and more!

As a special promo for Three Percent Podcast fans, use the code PILAR at check out and get 20% off��.��

The music on this episode is “” by Florence + The Machine.

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Three Percent #191: Raymond Queneau

Chad Post — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:08:16 +0000

To celebrate the first-ever English-language publication of Raymond Queneau’s��, and the reissue of��as a Dalkey Essential, Chris Clarke (whose retranslation of Queneau’s��is forthcoming from NYRB) and Daniel Levin Becker (infamous member of , member of the Oulipo, and author of ) joined Chad to talk all things Queneau. They discuss the books, the two major divisions of Oulipian writing, the process of retranslation, the joy of reading these books, and much more.

The music on this episode is “” by Queneau’s good friend, Boris Vian.

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Three Percent #190: John Barth

Chad Post — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:29:08 +0000

In honor of two recent John Barth reissues—��and��, both Dalkey Archive Essentials— (,��, and , among other works) and Max Besora (author of the intro to��Sot-Weed Factor��along with the very much Barth inspired��) joined Chad W. Post to talk about these two titles and Barth’s overall impact on the literary scene. It’s a long, interesting conversation with a Spanish superfan and a former student of Barths. Well worth the listen!

The music on this episode is “” by . (Who knew this existed??)

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Three Percent #189: Baseball

Chad Post — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:00:46 +0000

Well, we did it: One whole episode just about baseball and books about baseball and baseball memories and anything else baseball. Caitlin Luce Baker of Island Books, James Crossley of Madison Books, and Dan Wells of Biblioasis join Chad W. Post from Open Letter to pick their “all-time favorite” books about baseball.

This week’s music is “” and “” by The Baseball Project.

Caitlin’s Picks:

��by Jonathan Fraser Light

by David James Duncan

by Jim Bouton

by Robert K. Adair

Alan Nathan’s blog,

by Ron Shelton

��by Marcos Bretón and José Luis Villegas

by John Helyar

Dan’s Picks:

by John R. Tunis

by Mark Kingwell

by Heidi LM Jacobs

James’s Picks:

& by Pat Jordan

by Andrew Forbes

by Eric Rolfe Greenberg

by Kadir Nelson

by Donald Hall

Chad’s Picks:

by Derek Jeter

by Robert Coover

by Rick Ankiel

(film)

by Ivan Felt and Harris Conklin

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Three Percent #188: Cultural Support in Multilingual Spain [A Riveting Event]

Chad Post — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 05:15:42 +0000

In this episode, Chad talks with Olga Castro (Univ. of Warwick), and translators Jacob Rogers (Galician), Mara Faye Lethem (Catalan), Robin Munby (Asturian), and Aritz Branton (Basque) about literatures from the official (and unofficial) languages of Spain, ways in which the regional governments support translation from these languages, the burden of pitching, challenges and joys, books you should know about, and much more.

This week’s music is “We Will Live for Ages” by Hjaltalín.

Things we discussed that you should check out:

The Spanish issue of ;

, for access to Basque literature;

A recording of��.

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Three Percent #187: Is This The End?

Chad Post — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:43:46 +0000

After a two-year hiatus, Chad and Tom are back! In this episode—maybe the final one of this particular scope and format—they talk about what’s gone on over the past couple years, how much printing sucks right now, distribution issues, Fum d’Estampa,��by Sesshu Foster and Arturo Ernesto Romo,��by Mark McGurl,��by David Peace,��by Kaoru Takamura, Jon Fosse, Dalkey Archive’s impending relaunch, and more.

This week’s music is “Always Together With You” by Spiritualized.

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Three Percent #186: Italian Science Fiction

Chad Post — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 15:41:32 +0000

In this special episode, Chad talks with Rachel Cordasco about a new Three Percent project focusing on translators as curators. Over the course of the next month, we’ll be posting a number of different types of posts—excerpts, profiles, readings, shorter podcasts, movie clips—using the five works of Italian science fiction Rachel selected as the starting point.

In case it gets lost in the podcast, here are the five books in Rachel Cordasco’s “Italian Science-Fiction Collection”:

Cancerqueen by Tommaso Landolfi (tr Raymond Rosenthal)(1971)
Storie naturali (1966, as by Damiano Malabaila) and Vizio di forma ��(1971)

selections from both in The Sixth Day and Other Tales (tr Raymond Rosenthal, 1990)
full translations of these & all Levi titles in (2015), w/ the two collections above tr Jenny McPhee

by Francesco Verso (tr Sally McCorry) (2015)
by Clelia Farris (tr Rachel Cordasco and Jennifer Delare) (2020)
by Giacomo Sartori (tr Frederika Randall) (2021)

Stay tuned for more information about these titles and other related books.

This episode’s music is “” by Daft Punk.