Two Month Review #2.10: 17, composition book (T贸mas J贸nsson, Bestseller, Pages 361-411)
Here it is—the infamous LIVE recording of the Two Month Review! Chad and Lytton travelled all the way to Brooklyn to record this episode as part of the “Taste of Iceland Festivities.” As a result, they recap the book as a whole and reflect on the speech from Iceland’s First Lady that prefaced the ...
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Two Month Review #2.9: fourteen, fifteenth book, 16. notebook (T贸mas J贸nsson, Bestseller, Pages 306-360)
Icelandic novelist and poet K谩ri Tulinius joins Chad and Lytton this week to talk about three of the darkest sections of T贸mas J贸nsson, Bestseller and the history of this novel’s reception in Iceland. They also talk about the recent scandal that brought down the Icelandic government—and how it ties into T贸mas ...
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Three Percent #133: From Catalonia to South Korea
After a bit of a hiatus, Chad and Tom are back to talk about Riffraff鈥檚 new location, break down Catalonian politics and the recent editorial gathering the Ramon Llull Institute put on in Barcelona, and somewhat pick apart this article about Deborah Smith鈥檚 translation of The Vegetarian. This week鈥檚 music is Day I ...
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Two Month Review #2.8: this is the eleventh book, my 12th composition book, book 13 (T贸mas J贸nsson, Bestseller, Pages 282-305)
CORRECTION: Throughout this podcast, we joke about having recorded the final episode of the season live at Spoonbill & Sugartown last weekend. This is a lie! The live event will take place THIS SATURDAY (September 30, 2017) as part of the Taste of Iceland events. Eliza Reid, Iceland’s First Lady, will start things ...
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Two Month Review #2.7: tenth composition book (T贸mas J贸nsson, Bestseller, Pages 238-281)
This week Patrick Smith (Best Translated Book Award judge, The Scofield) joins Chad and Lytton to talk about this incredibly powerful section of the book, which raises all sorts of topical ideas about adhering to national myths and the problems of masculinity. This is also the section where Hitler shows up, and where a ...
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Two Month Review #2.6: IX. class A, tenth composition book (T贸mas J贸nsson, Bestseller, Pages 200-238)
This week Norwegian translator and ALTA Fellowship recipient David Smith joins Chad and Lytton to talk about the next forty pages of T贸mas J贸nsson, Bestseller. The two sections covered this week are wildly different from one another, opening with a much more fragmented, poetic bit then transitioning through a hilarious, yet ...
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Two Month Review #2.5: t贸mas's seventh composition book, 8. (T贸mas J贸nsson, Bestseller, Pages 140-199)
This week author and translator Idra Novey joins Chad and Lytton to talk about one of the most challenging sections of the book so far. Not only is there a proliferation of children whose voices constantly interrupt T贸mas’s thoughts, but there are a few more unsettling bits that raise questions about what we should ...
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