my head is an animal – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the URochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:45:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Three Percent #33: The Spaz and the Straight Man /College/translation/threepercent/2012/03/30/three-percent-33-the-spaz-and-the-straight-man/ Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:11:22 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2012/03/30/three-percent-33-the-spaz-and-the-straight-man/ In this week’s podcast, we talk about the future of book reviewing, focusing on a few central questions: who reads book reviews? (A: definitely not my students), what is the function of the book review in today’s world?, is there a website/app that would be the ideal book review platform? We also digress into sports talk (as we do), with Tom explaining how he just found out about the new MLB playoff setup while I predict the winners of the Champions League quarterfinals. (A: Chelsea, Bayern Munchen, Barcelona, and Real Madrid.)

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This week’s music is Of Monsters and Men’s which is off my new favorite album of the moment, My Head Is an Animal. You can actually stream the entire album via

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