{"id":307376,"date":"2017-11-30T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/11\/30\/two-month-review-3-6-selected-stories-pgs-208-255\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:06:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:06:36","slug":"two-month-review-3-6-selected-stories-pgs-208-255","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/11\/30\/two-month-review-3-6-selected-stories-pgs-208-255\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Month Review #3.6: Selected Stories (pgs. 208-255)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After yelling at Skype a bunch, Chad, Brian, and special guest Tom Flynn of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volumesbooks.com\/\">Volumes Bookcafe<\/a> discuss the merits of some of Rodoreda&#8217;s final stories, especially &#8220;The Thousand Franc Bill,&#8221; &#8220;Paralysis,&#8221; and &#8220;The Salamander.&#8221; Then they manage to slightly diss groups upon groups of people&#8212;in a rather entertaining way. And they discuss the state of the short story collection and how stories are perceived by publishing execs and bookstores. They also preview next week&#8217;s book, <em>Death in Spring.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Both <em>Selected Stories<\/em> and <em>Death in Spring<\/em> are available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/\">Open Letter website,<\/a> and if you use 2MONTH at checkout, you&#8217;ll get 20% off. <\/p>\n<p>Feel free to comment on this episode&#8212;or on the book in general&#8212;either on this post, or at the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/group\/show\/216472-two-month-review\">GoodReads Group.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/open_letter\">Open Letter,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadwpost\">Chad Post,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianWood_\">Brian Wood,<\/a> and for more thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/volumesbooks\">Volumes Books<\/a> to keep up to date on all their events, staff picks, and general comments. <\/p>\n<p>And you can find all the Two Month Review posts by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?s=tag&amp;t=two-month-review\">clicking here.<\/a> And be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/two-month-review\/id1253564436\">leave us a review on iTunes!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The music for this season of Two Month Review is <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/74FIbLN_P_k\">Montseny<\/a> by Els Surfing Sirles.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5994337\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ffab30\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yelling at Skype a bunch, Chad, Brian, and special guest Tom Flynn of Volumes Bookcafe discuss the merits of some of Rodoreda&#8217;s final stories, especially &#8220;The Thousand Franc Bill,&#8221; &#8220;Paralysis,&#8221; and &#8220;The Salamander.&#8221; Then they manage to slightly diss groups upon groups of people&#8212;in a rather entertaining way. 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