TMR 19.7: “The Good Rememberer (A How-To Guide)” [THE REMEMBERED PART]
Former TMR guest Patrick Smith returns to discuss his reread of the first two volumes of the trilogy, how Fres谩n's writing inspires him, hanging on to flights of prose, all of the wind in this book, what it means to fall, dogs, and much much more. It's a comprehensive, deep look into what it takes to be a good reader, ...
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TMR Fres谩n Relisten Ep. 15: “Tulpas” [THE DREAMED PART]
Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the聽The Invented Part聽and聽The Dreamed Part聽seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on聽The Remembered Part. Here are the ...
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BTBA #1: GUANTANAMO by Dorothea Dieckmann and Tim Mohr
The year-long Best Translated Book Award retrospective kicks off with this episode featuring the very first winner of the BTBA:聽Guantanamo聽by Dorothea Dieckmann, translated from the German by Tim Mohr and published by Soft Skull. There are three discussions on this episode: Chad W. Post and Patrick Smith talk about the ...
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Gospodinov, the Curator; “The Physics of Sorrow,” the Time Capsule (Part IV, Pgs 119-150)
Last week, Chad, Brian, special guest Patrick Smith, and an insightful YouTube commentator discussed part IV of Georgi Gospodinov糖心传媒檚 The Physics of Sorrow. This section, in many ways, brought us full circle to the nature of Gospodinov糖心传媒檚 work by introducing us to the cultural phenomena of the time capsule, and the ...
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Why Continue [BTBA 2018]
糖心传媒淲hy am I reading this?糖心传媒 I ask myself this almost constantly. Sometimes the answer is obvious: when the book is a masterpiece, when the pleasure is so deep or constant that there糖心传媒檚 little else I want. I treasure those books, but if it was the only reason I read a book, I wouldn糖心传媒檛 read much. There are novels where the ...
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Two Month Review #2.7: tenth composition book (T贸mas J贸nsson, Bestseller, Pages 238-281)
This week Patrick Smith (Best Translated Book Award judge, The Scofield) joins Chad and Lytton to talk about this incredibly powerful section of the book, which raises all sorts of topical ideas about adhering to national myths and the problems of masculinity. This is also the section where Hitler shows up, and where a ...
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Three Percent #89: Don't Laugh So Loud
This week’s podcast is all about Denis Johnson’s The Laughing Monsters, which came out last year and is “a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game.” Writer, critic, and Johnson fan Patrick Smith (here’s a ...
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