TMR 24.10: “What Comes Next Is What Remains” [Melvill]
[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to this feed. And this one if you listen on Spotify. The others will be going away in the near future.] Special guest Rodrigo Fres谩n joins Brian, Chad, and Kaija to celebrate being on the聽Republic of Consciousness longlist, talk about his novels, his career, ...
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TMR 24.9: “I Hate Thinking about Thinking about Myself Like This” [Melvill]
In the penultimate episode of this season, there鈥檚 a lot of talk about Melville鈥檚 relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne as we get more of Melville鈥檚 life as he bounces through time, writes聽Moby-Dick聽and the creation of 鈥渋ts own kind of reader: an inexhaustible reader. A reader that didn鈥檛 yet exist . . .鈥 The ...
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TMR 24.5: “Very Charming.” [Confidence-Man]
[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to this feed. The other one will be going away in the near future.] Chad, Brian, and Kaija venture into the darkness and turn off the light on Melville's聽The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, one of the oddest, most slippery books to be included in the Two Month ...
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TMR 24.3: “You Are a Punster” [Confidence-Man]
[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to this feed. The other one will be going away in the near future.] "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 ...
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TMR 24.1: “May I Ask if You Have Confidence?” [Confidence-Man]
Not the happiest day in which to record a podcast, but Chad, Brian, and Kaija speak their fears and then dive into Melville's聽Confidence-Man, talking about grifters, the value of footnotes, and just how modern and amazing Melville's prose is. They guess at who the "confidence man" might be, the burnt over district of western ...
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TMR Season 24: “The Confidence-Man” by Melville & “Mevill” by Rodrigo Fres谩n
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