Three Percent #183: Sound on Sound on Sound
The first new Three Percent Podcast since May! This is an episode all about sound and curation鈥攊n books, in music. It's unlike all the previous episodes, featuring three readings and two interviews. Here are all the songs featured on this episode: Without Me Americana The Pull of You Impossible Weight Living ...
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Two Month Review: #4.09: The Physics of Sorrow (Part VIII: “An Elementary Physics of Sorrow”)
This week, Chad and Brian are joined by Stiliana Milkova from Oberlin College to talk about the final sections of The Physics of Sorrow: 鈥淎n Elementary Physics of Sorrow,鈥 鈥淓ndings,鈥 and 鈥淓pilogue.鈥 They talk about the structure of the novel as a whole, about Chad鈥檚 favorite page in the book, about aging and ...
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Death by Poetry and The Lies about Me
I have a litany of reasons for why I鈥檓 combining a few posts here and writing a shorter, more condensed, straightforward post than most of the others. Baby (always an excuse), other obligations鈥攕uch as the Best Translated Book Award longlists announcement and a bachelor party in which 鈥渨hat happens in Boiceville, stays ...
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Two Month Review: #4.08: The Physics of Sorrow (Part VII: “Global Autumn”)
This week, Rachel Cordasco from Speculative Fiction in Translation and the Wisconsin Historical Society Press joined Chad and Brian for a fun conversation about part VII of Georgi Gospodinov鈥檚 The Physics of Sorrow. They talked about how this book invokes a variety of memories, hotel rooms, Eastern European self-deprecating ...
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Two Month Review: #4.06: The Physics of Sorrow (Part V: “The Green House”)
In addition to ripping on Chad and the poor showing by the Michigan State Spartans in the NCAA Tournament, Brian Wood and Tom Flynn (from Volumes Bookcafe) discuss the morality of animals, how this section of The Physics of Sorrow focuses more on the 鈥渁nimal鈥 side of the minotaur, the mixture of lightness and sorrow in ...
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Gospodinov, the Curator; “The Physics of Sorrow,” the Time Capsule (Part IV, Pgs 119-150)
Last week, Chad, Brian, special guest Patrick Smith, and an insightful YouTube commentator discussed part IV of Georgi Gospodinov鈥檚 The Physics of Sorrow. This section, in many ways, brought us full circle to the nature of Gospodinov鈥檚 work by introducing us to the cultural phenomena of the time capsule, and the ...
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Obsessive Empathetic-Somatic Syndrome and You (Part III)
On this week鈥檚 Two Month Review blog post, we鈥檙e exploring Part III: 鈥淭he Yellow House鈥 from Georgi Gospodinov鈥檚 The Physics of Sorrow. As was unanimous from the conversation between Chad, Brian, and Nick last week, this is where the magic of the book and the skill of Gospodinov as a writer truly start to shine. And ...
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