TMR 12.2 “Invocation” [CARS ON FIRE]
This week, M贸nica Ram贸n R铆os joins Chad and Brian to talk about her literary career, how she came to write聽Cars on Fire, Rutgers, some movies she's recently watched, how to read "Invocation," protests in Chile and NYC, and much much more. An incredibly interesting and informative episode that serves as an incredible guide ...
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TMR 12.1 “Obituary” [CARS ON FIRE]
Season 12 of the Two Month Review kicked off with Cristina Rodriguez from Deep Vellum Bookstore joining Chad and Brian to talk about the first section of M贸nica Ram贸n R铆os and Robin Myers's聽Cars on Fire.聽They talk about The Gits, "Dead Men Don't Rape," the connections between academy and power structures, how "timely" ...
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Season Twelve of the Two Month Review: “Cars on Fire,” “Four by Four,” and “The Book of Anna”
As announced during the last season of the聽Two Month Review, we're going to try something different this time around. Instead of focusing on a single, long book, we're going to cover three short ones糖心传媒攁ll written by Spanish female writers, all translated by women, and all released during the lockdown. First up糖心传媒攁nd ...
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TMR 11.11: “The Dream Ends” [THE DREAMED PART]
Rodrigo Fres谩n himself joins Chad and Brian to talk about phones,聽Riverdale,聽Ada or Ardor, Dracula, the world-building in Fres谩n's oeuvre, the overall structure and focus of the triptych, what to read and watch in quarantine, and much more! If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on YouTube along ...
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TMR 11.10: “IKEA” [THE DREAMED PART]
This week's episode is quite possibly the wildest one yet . . . Chad paid a BookTuber for some promotional love and, well, you'll have to watch/listen to see how that went. Then they talk about outsiders, Franco Moretti, autofiction, HE-IKEA (the Writer's nemesis), overblown rants about reading and phones, and much ...
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TMR 11.9: “Living in Pandemica” [THE DREAMED PART]
This week, Chad and Brian talk about the desires of readers, the "middle mind," writing without a hook, Nabokov's "The Vane Sisters," the one contribution Chad made to this book, vocal tics, cocaine, and much more. They both came in high energy on this episode, so sit back and enjoy all the jokes and enthusiasm. This ...
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TMR 11.8: “This Is a Bullshot” [THE DREAMED PART]
In his most dangerous gag to date, Chad drinks a giant bullshot as he, Brian Wood, and special guest Carlos Labb茅 talk about Nabokov's聽Transparent Things, transparency as a concept, the wild bed that The Writer is insomniacing in, Uncle Hey Walrus's hypnosis gone awry, why quarantine time is so crazy yet our dreams are ...
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