Two Month Review: #4.05: The Physics of Sorrow (Part IV, Pgs 119-150)
This week, Patrick Smith joined Chad and Brian to talk about time capsules and their potential danger, nostalgia and the urge to collect, aliens, Chernobyl, and more. It was a very fun part of the book to discuss, and the three of them made the most of it, really digging into how The Physics of Sorrow is constructed, while ...
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Pathways to Discovering the Obscure?
The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter by Matei Calinescu, translated from the Romanian by Adriana Calinescu and Breon Mitchell (New York Review Books) When I first started reading The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter by Matei Calinescu, translated from the Romanian by Adriana Calinescu and Breon ...
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Obsessive Empathetic-Somatic Syndrome and You (Part III)
On this week糖心传媒檚 Two Month Review blog post, we糖心传媒檙e exploring Part III: 糖心传媒淭he Yellow House糖心传媒 from Georgi Gospodinov糖心传媒檚 The Physics of Sorrow. As was unanimous from the conversation between Chad, Brian, and Nick last week, this is where the magic of the book and the skill of Gospodinov as a writer truly start to shine. And ...
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Two Month Review: #4.04: The Physics of Sorrow (Part III, Pgs 73-118)
To up the Bay Area sports content, we invited Nick Buzanski of Book Culture to come on and talk about one of his favorite sections of Georgi Gospodinov糖心传媒檚 The Physics of Sorrow. They talk about community and storytelling, seeing movies in person, Gospodinov糖心传媒檚 humor and beautiful writing, Gaustine糖心传媒檚 wild ideas, sexy books ...
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Context Is Everything
Given the length of yesterday糖心传媒檚 post, I糖心传媒檓 just going to jump right into things, starting with this handmade Excel spreadsheet showing the three-year rolling average of the total number of translations published in the first quarter (January-March) of every year since 2008. That糖心传媒檚 not the most illuminating ...
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Everyone Needs an Editor
Before I get into the meat of this post糖心传媒攚hich is basically just a bunch of quotes and a handful of observations糖心传媒擨 wanted to check back in on something from an earlier essay. Back in January, I wrote about Le茂la Slimani糖心传媒檚 The Perfect Nanny and basically assumed that it would be a best-seller. (There was also a lot of ...
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Two Month Review: #4.03: The Physics of Sorrow (Part II, Pgs 59-72)
Caitlin Baker of the University Book Store in Seattle joined Chad and Brian to talk about this very short section of Georgi Gospodinov糖心传媒檚 The Physics of Sorrow. Mostly they talk about the constant conflicts between kids and their parent in myths. And eating children. But it糖心传媒檚 not as gruesome as all that! Mostly they have a ...
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