{"id":424682,"date":"2019-08-22T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T12:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?p=424682"},"modified":"2019-08-22T09:09:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T13:09:05","slug":"tmr-9-05-monsterhuman-by-kjersti-skomsvold-pgs-180-225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2019\/08\/22\/tmr-9-05-monsterhuman-by-kjersti-skomsvold-pgs-180-225\/","title":{"rendered":"TMR 9.05: Monsterhuman by Kjersti Skomsvold (pgs 180-225)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Flynn from Volumes opens up today&#8217;s episode with a reading from Brian&#8217;s first book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/products\/joytime-killbox\">Joytime Killbox<\/a>. Then, along with Chad, they break down the rest of &#8220;The Human School&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Monsterhuman<\/em>, talk about how much they love Skomsvold&#8217;s voice and sense of humor, look at the way in which she starts playing with first- and third-person narration in the opening bits of &#8220;The Herring Factory,&#8221; and crap on Ben Lerner a little bit. Good fun!<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s music is &#8220;Please Take Me With You&#8221; by Broken Social Scene.<\/p>\n<p>Next episode will cover pages 226-274 and will be livestreamed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JhixWQ04V_M\">YouTube<\/a> next Wednesday. (All of our past episodes are available on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCicUncIFZZEdqt8pka0U05g?view_as=subscriber\">YouTube channel<\/a> in case you want to catch up on anything.) You can find the complete reading schedule <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2019\/07\/19\/season-9-of-the-two-month-review-monsterhuman-by-kjersti-skomsvold\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Season 10 will be the first English-language title to be included, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsd.com\/9781771963077\/ducks-newburyport\/\"><em>Ducks, Newburyport\u00a0<\/em>by Lucy Ellmann<\/a>, which was just named to the Booker Longlist.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/open_letter\">Open Letter,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadwpost\">Chad Post,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianWood_\">Brian Wood<\/a> for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Also, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomaskflynn\">Tom<\/a> on Twitter, and buy some books from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volumesbooks.com\/\">Volumes<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>And be sure to preorder Brian&#8217;s book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/products\/joytime-killbox\"><em>Joytime Killbox<\/em><\/a>, which is coming out this fall from BOA Editions.<\/p>\n<p>You can find all the Two Month Review posts by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/category\/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> It really helps people to discover the podcast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/10947566\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ffaf46\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Flynn from Volumes opens up today&#8217;s episode with a reading from Brian&#8217;s first book, Joytime Killbox. 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