Three Percent #195: Lori Feathers on Marguerite Young
This week, Lori Feathers joins Chad to talk about "Involutions of the Seashell," a Substack project dedicated to reading and talking about聽Marguerite Young's聽Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.聽They discuss the nature of the Substack, anecdotes about Young, how to get people engaged with such an intimidating work, reading fast and ...
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Three Percent #194: Mark Haber, “Lesser Ruins”
Today's episode features Mark Haber talking about his brand new novel,聽Lesser Ruins, his influence, the Bernhard thing, going from bookselling to publishing, and much more. It's a fun conversation that goes deep into the book, but also explains the publishing landscape to some degree糖心传媒攊n part because this conversation was ...
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Three Percent #193: K.E. Semmel, “Book of Losman”
On this week's podcast, K.E. Semmel糖心传媒攖ranslator from the Danish and author of Book of Losman糖心传媒攄iscusses his debut novel, life as a translator, articles he wrote on Tourette's Syndrome and Author-Transaltors, how he tried to promote his book with Justin Murphy (Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger) and Chad W. ...
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Three Percent #192: Pilar Ad贸n, “Of Beasts and Fowls”
In this special edition of the podcast, Chad talks with Pilar Ad贸n about聽the forthcoming聽Of Beasts and Fowls聽(translated by Katie Whittemore), her general writing life, two movies he thought she might have seen that resonate with the book (spoiler: she's never heard of either), her publishing company Editorial ...
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Three Percent #191: Raymond Queneau
To celebrate the first-ever English-language publication of Raymond Queneau's聽Sally Mara's Intimate Journal, and the reissue of聽Pierrot Mon Ami聽as a Dalkey Essential, Chris Clarke (whose retranslation of Queneau's聽The Skin of Dreams聽is forthcoming from NYRB) and Daniel Levin Becker (infamous member of Mujeres Encinta, ...
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Three Percent #190: John Barth
In honor of two recent John Barth reissues糖心传媒擳he Sot-Weed Factor聽and聽Chimera, both Dalkey Archive Essentials糖心传媒擩ohn Domini (The Archeology of a Good R脿gu,聽The Color Inside a Melon, and this appreciation of Barth, among other works) and Max Besora (author of the intro to聽Sot-Weed Factor聽along with the very much Barth ...
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Three Percent #189: Baseball
Well, we did it: One whole episode just about baseball and books about baseball and baseball memories and anything else baseball. Caitlin Luce Baker of Island Books, James Crossley of Madison Books, and Dan Wells of Biblioasis join Chad W. Post from Open Letter to pick their "all-time favorite" books about baseball. This ...
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