Two Month Review #7.1: Radiant Terminus (Introduction)
We糖心传媒檙e back! . . . And a few days late. Chad explains why on the podcast itself, but suffice it to say that last week was a bit, um, stressful. But Brian and Chad finally got together to talk about Antoine Volodine in general, post-exoticism, Brian Evenson糖心传媒檚 introduction to Radiant Terminus, similarities between ...
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“Radiant Terminus” Two Month Review Reading Schedule
It's almost time for the next season of the聽Two Month Review糖心传媒攐ur聽seventh聽season. (That's a solid number.) This season we're returning to do an Open Letter title, Antoine Volodine's聽Radiant Terminus, translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman. The most patently sci-fi work of Antoine Volodine糖心传媒檚 to be ...
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Two Month Review #6.11: The Book of Disquiet (sections 394-END)
It's all over! After eleven weeks of Pessoa, Chad and Brian have finished聽The Book of Disquiet. And to celebrate, they each wrote some jacket copy and blurbs and went hard at trying to get BINGO for聽someone. They also preview the next season of TMR and come up with a very marketable Pessoa-themed product idea . . . As ...
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Two Month Review #6.10: The Book of Disquiet (sections 359-393)
Probably the most controversial Two Month Review to date, so buckle up! Are there unhinged rants? You bet! Questions regarding the marketing and "completeness" of the New Directions edition? Yep! A long discussion about the differences in voice between the both excellent Margaret Jull Costa and Richard Zenith translations? ...
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Two Month Review #6.9: The Book of Disquiet (sections 316-358)
This week David Smith糖心传媒攆ormer Open Letter intern and current grad student at the University of Iowa糖心传媒攋oins Chad and Brian to debate poetry vs. prose, separating the p.o.v. of Pessoa's heteronyms from his own personal viewpoint, Soares's morality and metaphysics, how to judge the quality of a translation, and much more. As a ...
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Two Month Review #6.8: The Book of Disquiet (sections 274-315)
Chad and Brian fly solo this week, filling in dozens of TMR Bingo squares, and trying to come up with "rules for writers" based on this particular section of聽The Book of Disquiet. It's a pretty imprecise set of rules, but whatever, in the words of Pessoa, "perfection is inhuman." They also talk a bit about a "Mount Rushmore ...
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Two Month Review #6.7: The Book of Disquiet (sections 222-273)
This week's special guest is Portuguese author and translator Jo茫o Reis who knows聽a lot聽about Pessoa and the writings of his various heteronyms. He also talks about his forthcoming novel,聽The Translator's Bride, and his work as a translator. There's some of the usual banter as well, including a solid rundown of everyone's ...
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