Three Percent Podcast

In this week's podcast, tom and Chad preview some forthcoming books they're excited about. Having done no solid research, Chad's contributions are questionable at best, especially when he talks about _Panthers in the Hole_ in relation to the COUNTRY of Angola instead of the prison that goes by the same name.

Nevertheless, they have a number of books to whet your appetite, such as one from Arno Schmidt, and the new Krasznahorkai.

This week's music is the new single by Dan Deacon, "Change Your Life (You Can Do It)."

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After an extended hiatus, Chad and Tom are back to discuss a slew of things that happened over the past couple months. These include Book Marks, what's going to happen to B&N, and Tim Parks's article on The Vegetarian. They also talk about some books they've read recently--including Zero K, which neither of them liked--before ending with a major announcement from Tom.

It's worth mentioning that Alex Shephard wrote a couple of the articles discussed on this podcast, including one on Book Marks and one on B&N.

Also worth noting that there's a glaring lack of sports talk in this podcast.

Here are the books discussed this week:

• I Love Dick by Chris Krause
• The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
• Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marías
• The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera
• The Island of Point Nemo by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblés
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
• Screamin' Jay Hawkins' All-Time Greatest Hits by Mark Binelli
• Zero K by Don DeLillo

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This week's podcast opens with Chad and Tom discussing the 2016 Best Translated Book Award winners and their thoughts on how to evaluate books for the prize. Then, in a separately recorded podcast, Chad and visiting guest George Carroll talk with Juan Villoro about his new book on soccer, God Is Round.

Also, due to summer travel and other obligations, it looks like the podcast will go on a short hiatus. In the meantime, you can catch up on past episodes, and/or read a bunch of great books in translation. (Especially Open Letter titles!)

This week's music is "1804" by The Range.

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In this week's podcast Tom and Chad talk about the recently

Additional articles and books discussed include, Porochista

They also discussed switching up the RTWCS as a whole, with

This week's music is "A Tale Told by an Idiot" by John Congleton

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In this week's podcast, Chad and Tom read through all

Next week they'll be discussion the Reading the World Book Club

This week's music is "Don't

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This week's podcast feels like one straight out of 2011, with Chad getting angry about all sorts of things and just letting loose. The starting point for their discussion is the three-part series Tim Parks wrote for the New York Review of Books (part one, part two, part three), but they go on to talk about JellyBooks and what "moneyball" is, and then discuss a series of book covers.

This week's music is "Buggin' Out" by A Tribe Called Quest. (RIP Phife Dawg. Tribe is has always been, and will forever be, the shit.)

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This week, Tom and Chad discuss the two Reading the World Book Club books for February: On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa (New Directions), and Monospace by Anne Parian, translated from the French by Emma Ramadan (La Presse). Admittedly, neither of them know much about contemporary poetry, but they do try their best when talking about Parian and how to approach her collection. On the Edge plays to both of them though, with it's bleak, despairing outlook on life, and the way it sort of wallows in tragedy.

Tom also wants all listeners to know that he and Chad DID NOT record the podcast shirtless.

There should be a regular, rambling podcast up in between this one an the next RTWBC-centric one, but either way, the two books they're reading in March are The Vegetarian  by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith (Crown), and Diorama by Rocío Cerón, translated from the Spanish by Anna Rosenwong (Phoneme Media). You can join in by sending all your questions and comments to [email protected].

This week's music is "Nobody Dies" by Thao & The Get Down Stay Down.

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Adrian Nathan West joined this week's podcast to talk about Marianne Fritz and his translation of The Weight of Things, the first novel in the recently launched Reading the World Book Clubs. Additionally, we talked about Twelve Stations by Tomasz Różycki (the RTWBC poetry selection this month), the ABA Winter Institute, this great article about Chris Jackson and how he's building a black literary movement, and an awful article in Wired by Steve Rushin in which he imagines Super Bowl 100. (There's some static in this one that pops up a bit. Nothing too bad, but, unfortunately, we couldn't edit all of it out. Not to worry, though, we're getting a fix ASAP for the mic glitch.)

Because the Wired piece isn't online, I want to share a few paragraphs so that we can collectively wallow in the crap:

"For its centennial Super Bowl, the NFL returned to its favorite host city, Las Vegas, which first staged the title game 45 years ago. Super Bowl LV shared its initials with Las Vegas but also with Louis Vuitton, the luxury brand that paid handsomely to cover game balls in its handbag leather, embossed with its famous logo. And though that game is now ancient history, 2021 remains important as the year the NFL--following the lead of the rest of the country--abandoned its nominal objections to sports gambling and awarded Steve Wynn the expansion franchise that became the Las Vegas Centurions. [. . .]

"Barcelona brought its usual continental flair to the Super Bowl, running a variation of the Left Bank offense made popular in Paris in the 2030s, and it took a 7-0 lead on a leaping catch by All-Pro receiver Michael Davis, whose 60-inch vertical from a natural surface is among the best in the league and whose knees are among the highest-rated by J.D. Power and Associates."

And there's so so much more to hate on . . . CTE cured by Harvard! People watching from Mars! Ref-bots! Biometric ticketing technology! Ugh. I just pissed off Nate and Kaija by reading too much of this garbage aloud.

This week's music is "Let it Happen" by Tame Impala.

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In a sort of role-reversal, Tom does most of the ranting in this podcast, partially inspired by this article entitled "Damn, You're Not Reading Any Books by White Men This Year? That's So Freakin Brave and Cool." They also discuss some women in translation stats, Philip Pullman's decision to pull out as a patron of the Oxford Literary Festival, and the NBCC Book Award Finalists.

There is some specific book talk as well, mostly about The Weight of Things, The Argonauts, and The Story of My Teeth.

This week's music is "Oh Donna" by Library Voices.

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This week Chad and Tom talk about a Guardian article about how indie presses are doing the work discovering new authors for the big commercial houses. Then, they talk about all the year-end lists Chad's been creating for Three Percent and end by raving about champagne bottle sizes and ranting about book cover coverage.

This week's season appropriate music is "White Christmas," performed by Bad Religion.

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