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TMR 16.13: “Fürst Pückler” [2666]

Chad Post — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:21:47 +0000

We’ve reached the end of��2666 and Chad, Katie, and Brian convene to talk about how amazing the ending is, publishers protecting authors, love and family, the book being a “love letter to literature,” the circular nature of the book, and James Joyce.

This week’s music is “Swoonn” by The Chemical Brothers.

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We’ll be back soon with season 17.

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TMR 16.12: “Senselessness” [2666]

Chad Post — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 19:39:01 +0000

Chad and Brian talk about more vampires, about semen, about senseless scene after senseless scene, about WWII, about masterpieces and mediocre writing, about publisher laments, and about other things.

This week’s music is “Damn These Vampires” by The Mountain Goats. (The Jordan Lake Sessions version, specifically.)

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TMR 16.11: “Hello, Big German” [2666]

Chad Post — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 15:04:35 +0000

We’re in the home stretch, as Archimboldi appears at last. Chad, Katie, and Brian discuss his origin story, vampires, seaweed, the nature of time, various echoes appearing in this final section, what Bolaño might be saying about himself as a writer through Hans Reiter, and masturbation.

Here’s a link to the Katie references in this episode.

This week’s music is “Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)” by Concrete Blonde.

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TMR 16.10: “Three Men and a Congresswoman” [2666]

Chad Post — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:55:50 +0000

Chad and Brian tackle the braided narratives that close out “The Part Ģ��ý the Crimes,” discussing Michel Butor’s thoughts about detective novels (from��Passing Time) and the “rules” laid out in 20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them��against��2666.��Some interesting observations about what the core “mystery” of the book really is, questions about the chronology of the four parts so far, and some speculation about what’s to come. And some My Little Pony talk. Just because.

Also, this week’s episode is sponsored by the , a social audio platform where you can listen to experts talking about a wide range of topics. You can download the app and follow Chad at , and this Wednesday, December 15th at 7pm Eastern, he will give a talk about getting started in publishing.

This week’s music is “End of the Night” by A Place to Bury Strangers. (Not sure there’s a better title + band name more fitting for “The Part Ģ��ý the Crimes.”)

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TMR 16.8: “Klaus Haas” [2666]

Chad Post — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:53:39 +0000

Chad and Katie go it alone on this special Thanksgiving episode, going deeper into “The Part Ģ��ý the Crimes,” talking about Chris Andrews’s critical book on Bolaño’s fiction (in particular the ideas about aimlessness and narrative identity), about Klaus Haas’s arrest, about the failure—and disinterest—of most police and detectives in Santa Teresa, and about how to read this particular section of the book.

This week’s music is “Interior People” by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.

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TMR 16.7: “The Next Dead Woman” [2666]

Chad Post — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 19:09:07 +0000

Chad, Brian, and Katie dive into “The Part Ģ��ý the Crimes,” talking about the fact that the Penitent gets more detective time than all of the murdered women, about the seer, about ventriloquism, about Lalo Cura, and about the existence of Ciudad Juárez in 2666.��

This week’s music is “Highlights of 100” by Kiwi Jr.

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TMR 16.6: “Fire, Walk With Me” [2666]

Chad Post — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 02:22:18 +0000

After Chad, Katie, and Brian finish recapping the end of “The Part Ģ��ý Fate”—including the��Twin Peaks��reference, representations of violence, the apocryphal Robert Rodriguez porno, blindness and impaired sight, and much more—they’re joined by Dr. Andrew Martino, a massive Bolaño fan who raises more questions and observations as the group read heads into “The Part Ģ��ý the Crimes.”

This week’s music is “Three and a Half Feet High and Rising” by El Ten Eleven.

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TMR 16.5: “DANGER MONEY FOOD STARS USEFULNESS” [2666]

Chad Post — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 13:19:21 +0000

In the first chunk of this week’s episode, Brian, Chad, and Katie break down the first half of “The Part Ģ��ý Fate” and look specifically at Kessler’s speech in the diner, the areas of exploitative capitalism, femicide and how it’s everywhere, the idea of a system that kills, and much more. (They literally run out of time.) Then, Chad and Katie are joined by Natasha Wimmer to discuss her translation, how she came to Bolaño, what she’s learned about translating over the years, and how she approached this particular section of the novel.

This week’s music is “91” by Bleachers.

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TMR 16.4: “Ramon Llull and His Fantastic Machine” [2666]

Chad Post — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 17:32:34 +0000

This two-part episode opens with Katie, Brian, and Chad talking about madness, the pursuit of knowledge, what great authors “struggle against,” and much more. Then, Chad and Katie are joined by Emily Hall (The Longcut) to discuss the art works on the covers of the three-volume edition of��2666, along with Duchamp, Amalfitano’s “readymade,” and more.

Here are links to a number of the artworks that Emily references throughout the discussion:

Cy Twombly.��(1955)

Albertus Seba’s

Frederick Ruysch’s

Marcel Duchamp. (Unhappy Readymade, 1919)

This week’s music is “Walking at a Downtown Pace” by Parquet Courts.

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TMR 16.3: “El Cerdo” [2666]

Chad Post — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:43:27 +0000

One of the brainiest TMRs to date, this episode talks a lot about doubles and mirrors in��2666, religious iconography, coincidence vs. fate, disappearances and vanishing, the creeping horror found in this novel, the abyss and the void, musicals, and much more. Brian, Chad, and Katie cover the entirely of “The Part Ģ��ý the Critics” and will do all of “The Part Ģ��ý Amalfitano” next episode. Enjoy!

This week’s music is from Kunzite.

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