{"id":433022,"date":"2020-07-16T10:51:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T14:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?p=433022"},"modified":"2020-07-16T10:51:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T14:51:32","slug":"tmr-12-7-heroes-and-mercenaries-four-by-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2020\/07\/16\/tmr-12-7-heroes-and-mercenaries-four-by-four\/","title":{"rendered":"TMR 12.7: “Heroes and Mercenaries” [FOUR BY FOUR]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katie Whittemore joins on this episode to refute a list of crazy fan theories about\u00a0Four by Four,\u00a0<\/em>and to talk about the difficulties of translating a book in which there’s really no where to hide. Chad also shares some new, bad, jacket copy, and makes a pitch for one of Katie’s next books to come out:\u00a0World’s Best Mother\u00a0<\/em>by Nuria Labari. Very fun, loose, enjoyable episode putting to bed a book that is, ultimately, quite unnerving.<\/p>\n

This week’s musical four-by-four reference is from Malibu Ken in his appropriately creepy “Acid King.”<\/p>\n

If you’d prefer to watch<\/em> the conversation, you can find it on YouTube<\/a> along with all our past episodes<\/a>.\u00a0Next week we’ll move on to The Book of Anna<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Carmen Boullosa and Samantha Schnee. Get your copy today<\/a>! We’ll discuss part one, \u201cAnna\u2019s Sergei and Anya\u2019s City\u201d (pgs 1-73), next Wednesday, July 22nd, and you can watch live here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Follow Open Letter,<\/a> Chad Post,<\/a> and Brian Wood<\/a> for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests.<\/p>\n

Be sure to order Brian’s book, Joytime Killbox<\/em><\/a>, which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. And you can get 20% off Four by Four<\/em><\/a> by using the code 2MONTH at checkout. (Offer only good in the U.S., since we can’t ship overseas, but to be honest, we can’t ship right now! Order it from Bookshop.org<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

You can also support this podcast and\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>of Open Letter’s activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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