podcast – Three Percent

Three Percent #67: The Tom Podcast

Chad Post — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:06:29 +0000

From the choice of the opening song—“Royals” by Lorde—to the main topic of great midwestern bookstores and Wisconsin’s beer culture, this podcast is All Ģ��ý Tom. And it’s fantastic. Mostly because we get to talk about a lot of great bookstores.

Some of the stores mentioned in this podcast are:

(Winnetka, IL)
(Milwaukee, WI)
(Chicago, IL)
(St. Paul, MN)
(Ann Arbor, MI)
(Minneapolis, MN)
(St. Paul, MN)
(Madison, WI)
(Grand Rapids, MI)

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Three Percent #60: BEA and Sucking

Chad Post — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:13:10 +0000

This post-BookExpo America podcast (with special guest, Bromance Will/Will Evans, the man behind Deep Vellum Press) is all about the good and bad of the country’s largest trade show for publishing. Mostly, it’s a series of rants—not necessarily about the show itself, but about the crap that craps it all up. From tech-speak nonsense to Mitch “Fucking” Albom, this is one of the funniest and most fiery podcasts we’ve recorded to date.

The opening and closing music is from the new Baths album, Obsidian. (Which is, to date, probably my favorite album of 2013—especially the second half.)

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Three Percent #20: Everyone in the World Writes in English

Chad Post — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:25:35 +0000

In this week’s podcast, Tom and I talk about the strange cases of books/authors that most people don’t think of as having been translated. (Not to give away too much, but we start with Haruki Murakami.) From there, we talk about which authors are most associated with particular countries, the pros and cons of shelving authors by country, and how book discovery does (and might not) work.

And shockingly, we didn’t talk about baseball or the St. Louis Cardinals at all. Seriously.

This week’s music is “Got it All [This Can’t Be Living Now]”: by the oddly punctuated Portugal. The Man.

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More on the Occupy Movement [N+1 Podcast]

Chad Post — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:00:00 +0000

The other day I discovered the N+1 podcast and expressed a public hope that they would dedicate a whole episode to discussing the Occupy Movement. (Again, for anyone who missed it, you should definitely )

Well, fast forward, like, two days and N+1 has now posted a special podcast available online, through iTunes, etc.

Enjoy!

N+1 Podcast

Chad Post — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:15:44 +0000

I totally missed the launch of this, but apparently N+1 now has a podcast, the

Carla Blumenkranz, n+1 editor and contributor, discusses her piece “Captain Midnight.” This unusual portrait follows a young Gordon Lish in the early ’60s as he searches for new talent and struggles to start his career as a great editor and name in American literature. Siddhartha Deb, author of the recently published The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India, offers insight into the illusion of wealth and class disparities in globalized India. He also reads from his short story “The Mouse” an eerie tale of offices, academe, and experimentation.

Hopefully they’ll do an upcoming podcast on the first issue of the “Occupy Wall Street Gazette.”

Three Percent #18: Occupy Everything

Chad Post — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:25:46 +0000

This week’s podcast is a mixed bag of stuff. Our main focus is on book events—why from a publisher’s perspective they can be frustrating, what makes them interesting (or not), etc. But we also talk a bit about Occupy Wall Street and books that we hope are in the OWS library.

Oh, and as can only be expected, we talk about the St. Louis Cardinals and the World Series. (This post would’ve been up earlier, but it’s taking a while to recover from last night’s loss . . . Which, in all respects, was an INCREDIBLE game.)

Anyway, the first line of the podcast sums it all up and provides a perfect preview of what to expect.

The music this week is from Grouplove’s Never Trust a Happy Song. It reminds Nate of listening to “120 Minutes” in his youth, and feeling sort of nostalgically sad. I think it’s pretty catchy.

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Three Percent #12: Lawsuits and Million Dollar Ideas

Chad Post — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:23:56 +0000

For this week’s podcast we decided to talk about a few recent news items, starting with against Apple that “alleges that the publishers and Apple colluded to increase prices for popular e-book titles to boost profits and force e-book rival Amazon to abandon its pro-consumer discount pricing.” Yep.

From there we drift off to talk about a range of things, including a million dollar idea to develop a Spotify for books . . . (If you want to invest in this, just give me a call. Please.)

We also touch on about Dubai’s Dar-El Shams Books opening up a U.S. branch in Boston and the total insanity of doing “market research” for books.

Overall, it’s a pretty solid podcast . . . And if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for future podcasts, please email me at chad.post[at]rochester.edu.

This week’s music is from the Handsome Furs excellent new album, Sound Kapital.

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Three Percent #10: So Long, Borders!

Chad Post — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:01:12 +0000

We’re finally back from our respective vacations, and back to podcasting. The big news from when we were gone was the liquidation and ultimate demise of Borders, so this week we talked about bookselling. Ģ��ý the fallout of Borders closing down, about the big losers, about the possibilities for the resurgence of independent bookstores, and about ordering books on Esperanto.

This week’s song is by The Dodos, which seems maybe way too appropriate.

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