TMR 16.12: “Senselessness” [2666]
Chad and Brian talk about more vampires, about semen, about senseless scene after senseless scene, about WWII, about masterpieces and mediocre writing, about publisher laments, and about other things. This week's music is "Damn These Vampires" by The Mountain Goats. (The Jordan Lake Sessions version, specifically.) If ...
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TMR 16.11: “Hello, Big German” [2666]
We're in the home stretch, as Archimboldi appears at last. Chad, Katie, and Brian discuss his origin story, vampires, seaweed, the nature of time, various echoes appearing in this final section, what Bola帽o might be saying about himself as a writer through Hans Reiter, and masturbation. Here's a link to the blog post ...
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TMR 16.10: “Three Men and a Congresswoman” [2666]
Chad and Brian tackle the braided narratives that close out "The Part About the Crimes," discussing Michel Butor's thoughts about detective novels (from聽Passing Time) and the "rules" laid out in 20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them聽against聽2666.聽Some interesting observations about what the core "mystery" of the book ...
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TMR 16.8: “Klaus Haas” [2666]
Chad and Katie go it alone on this special Thanksgiving episode, going deeper into "The Part About the Crimes," talking about Chris Andrews's critical book on Bola帽o's fiction (in particular the ideas about aimlessness and narrative identity), about Klaus Haas's arrest, about the failure糖心传媒攁nd disinterest糖心传媒攐f most police ...
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TMR 16.7: “The Next Dead Woman” [2666]
Chad, Brian, and Katie dive into "The Part About the Crimes," talking about the fact that the Penitent gets more detective time than all of the murdered women, about the seer, about ventriloquism, about Lalo Cura, and about the existence of Ciudad Ju谩rez in 2666.聽 This week's music is "Highlights of 100" by Kiwi ...
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TMR 16.6: “Fire, Walk With Me” [2666]
After Chad, Katie, and Brian finish recapping the end of "The Part About Fate"糖心传媒攊ncluding the聽Twin Peaks聽reference, representations of violence, the apocryphal Robert Rodriguez porno, blindness and impaired sight, and much more糖心传媒攖hey're joined by Dr. Andrew Martino, a massive Bola帽o fan who raises more questions and ...
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TMR 16.5: “DANGER MONEY FOOD STARS USEFULNESS” [2666]
In the first chunk of this week's episode, Brian, Chad, and Katie break down the first half of "The Part About Fate" and look specifically at Kessler's speech in the diner, the areas of exploitative capitalism, femicide and how it's everywhere, the idea of a system that kills, and much more. (They literally run out of time.) ...
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