Special guest Rodrigo Fresán joins Brian, Chad, and Kaija to celebrate being on the��, talk about his novels, his career, the ideas he circles back to time and again, the idea of a writer creating their reader, what’s next for him, and much more.

Also: The books for Season 25 are announced at the very end.

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Stay tuned for the schedule and details about Season 25, coming in February 2025.

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Next episode will be next week at the regularly scheduled time and will cover the end of Rodrigo Fresán’s��.��You can find the full reading schedule��here.

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On the final episode of 2024, Chad, Brian, and Kaija talk about Nico C. and being unmoored from time, last words, footnotes and ellipses, some highlights from the past year, ice, and more.

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Next episode will be next week at the regularly scheduled time and will cover pages 189-245 of Rodrigo Fresán’s��.��You can find the full reading schedule��here.

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Lori Feathers (podcast,��, , and ) joins Chad and Kaija to talk about prizes—Melvill��is longlisted for the NBCC Greg Barrios Prize for Translated Literature!—the narrative structure of��Melvill, Nico C., and vampires. A lot of fun is had along the way.

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Next episode will be in TWO WEEKS and will cover pages 123-188 of Rodrigo Fresán’s .��You can find the full reading schedule here.

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With Melville’s��Fidèle��receding into the dark distance, we turn our attention to Rodrigo Fresán’s��Melvill, a bombastic book about Alan Melvill and Herman and the passing down of stories from one generation to the next. On this special episode, translator Will Vanderhyden joins Brian, Chad, and Kaija to talk about translating Fresán, about the style and word play found in his books, about the footnotes, about what’s to come. They also talk about the line connecting this to��Confidence-Man, and how to read footnotes. And about the interplay between two narratorial voices in this first part.

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Next episode will cover pages 62-123 of Rodrigo Fresán’s .��You can find the full reading schedule here.

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Chad, Brian, and Kaija venture into the darkness and turn off the light on Melville’s��The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, one of the oddest, most slippery books to be included in the Two Month Review. They talk about transcendentalism, self-reliance, Melville’s interludes, Jean Giono’s��, and more.

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Next episode will cover pages 1-61 of Rodrigo Fresán’s .��You can find the full reading schedule here.

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Opening with a couple of rants, this week’s podcast is spicy and also tries to make sense of a few of the more perplexing parts of the book. There’s a wonderful interlude in this section from the narrator themselves, and, apparently, nine jokes? And a magic trick involving coins. You’ll have to listen to understand.

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Next episode will cover all of of .��You can find the full reading schedule here.

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“Grifters Gonna Grift” merchandise coming soon! This episode exposes just how useful footnotes can be as we transition from dusk to darkness, with the confidence-men being replaced by the Cosmopolitan. Under Discussion: The WWE, how nothing ever changes, the New Adam, land ownership, stripping people of their “humanity,” cognative fallacies, peace pipes, and more.

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Next episode will cover Chapters 27-38 of .��You can find the full reading schedule here.

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Chad and Kaija go it alone this week, talking about some of the more uncomfortable parts of the book to read in 2024, the Goneril story and the “evil touch,” how almost every beat in this novel has a counterpart, the wonderful authorial intrusion discussing the “consistency” of characters, and, with glee in their hearts, the Herb-Doctor.

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Next episode will cover Chapters 20-26 of .��You can find the full reading schedule here.

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Next episode will cover Chapters 10-19 of��The Confidence-Man.��You can find the full reading schedule here.

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