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TMR 32.6: “A Tolerable Straight Line” [Tristram Shandy]
TMR 32.6: “A Tolerable Straight Line” [Tristram Shandy]
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Each “season” of Two Month Review highlights a different new and amazing work of world literature, reading it slowly over the course of eight to nine episodes. Featuring a rotating set of literary guests—from authors to booksellers, critics, and translators—the individual episodes recap a short section of the book and use that as a springboard for a fun (and often irreverent) discussion about literature in a general sense, pop culture, reading approaches, and much more. Talking about great books doesn't need to be deadly serious, and the levity of 2MR makes it accessible to everyone (even if you’re not reading along).
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- TMR 32.6: “A Tolerable Straight Line” [Tristram Shandy] · 58 minHarold Rogers (Tropicália) comes on to talk about his new novel, Humpty Dumpty, and Laurence Sterne’s influence on his writing. After that, the conversation turns to how best to…
- TMR 32.5: “So Often Has My Judgment Deceived Me in My Life” [Tristram Shandy] · 53 minKicking off this week’s episode is a little game of which came first: a well-known invention, or Volumes I & II of Tristram Shandy. After that, Kaija, Brian, and Chad discuss…
- TMR 32.4: “Zounds!” [Tristram Shandy] · 47 minBrian’s off-grid, so Chad and Kaija take on Volume IV of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by themselves. They start by bantering about the…
- TMR 32.3: “The Subordination of Fingers and Thumbs To ******” [Tristram Shandy] · 55 minOn this week’s episode, which covers Volume III of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Brian shares some weird stuff about geese from Rabelais…
- TMR 32.2: “This Requires Explanation” [Tristram Shandy] · 1 u 2 minKaija’s jet-lagged but back, ready to digress and digest double entendres with Chad and Brian. Along with recapping this volume of Tristram Shandy—Toby and Trim’s plan, the…
- TMR 32.1: “Masterstroke of Digressive Skill” [Tristram Shandy] · 59 minKaija (“Medically Confirmed Sleepyhead,” her words) was asleep for the recording of this, so you only get Chad and Brian this week. They introduce Laurence Sterne’s The Life and…
- TMR: Summer Reading · 55 minInstead of breaking down any books this episode, Kaija, Brian, and Chad talk about some of the books they read this past summer, including a few Nabokov titles, Big Bang by David…
- TMR 31.8: "A Humanizing of Human Beings" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice] · 55 minThis week, Kaija, Chad, and Brian talk about how well Morgner landed the plane, the ethics of recommending books to bar patrons, what the second and third volumes of this trilogy…
- TMR 31.7: "Morgenstern or Mohrenfern or Whatever" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice] · 50 minThis week, Brian, Kaija, and Chad talk about the unknown world of references Morgner is playing with, picaresque novels, the joys of writing tedious prose, the American…
- TMR 31.6: "Our Children Are Not Our Possessions" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice] · 50 minThis week’s episode opens with some World Cup talk, before diving into the “Sixth Intermezzo” and first half of “Book Eleven.” According to Brian, “family” is the best way to sum…
- TMR 31.5: "I Could Have Been The Conductor of a Shawm Band" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice] · 54 minCovering two sections of the novel—the “Fifth Intermezzo” and “Book Ten”—this episode of TMR starts by discussing how life didn’t turn out how Oskar Pakulat had hoped, and then…
- TMR 31.4: "When I Was a Barge" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice] · 1 u 1 minThis week, Kaija, Brian, and Chad talk about the various levels of narration to this book and the interplay between the “books” and the “intermezzos.” They also end up comparing…
- TMR 31.3: "Eating Is an Act of Consciousness" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice] · 1 u 2 minIn an episode as scattered as the book itself, Brian, Chad, and Kaija spend this week wrestling with the wild fragmentation of Morgner’s novel. They talk about co-opting stories…
- TMR 31.2: "You're Just Not Used to Being Treated Like a Lady" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice] · 55 minOn this episode, Chad admits to Brian and Kaija that he’s been wrong about something for decades . . . or has he? After that, they discuss the story of Jonah and the whale and…
- TMR 31.1: "I Had to Sleep for 808 Years" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice] · 53 minThe new season kicks off by talking about what compelled Kaija to select The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by her Minstrel Laura, which didn’t get much…
- TMR 30.8: "The Fatherland or Death!" [I the Supreme] · 1 u 6 minOn the final episode of this season of the Two Month Review, librarian, book reviewer, passionate reader, and Open Letter intern, Joseph Alcala joins Chad, Brian, and Kaija to…
- TMR 30.7: "I Should Like to See You Do What I Do!" [I the Supreme] · 51 minChad is still battling post-COVID brain fog, but he and Kaija make a solid go of it, talking about the brilliance of Roa Bastos’s voice, and reflecting on just how flimsy the…
- TMR 30.6: "Second-Rate Attilas of the Disunited Provinces" [I the Supreme] · 43 minChad has Covid, giving this episode a feverish quality—and making it even more entertaining than usual? Regardless, he’s joined by Kaija and Brian and they talk about their…
- TMR 30.5: "I Am Highly Optimistic But Not Amnesiac" [I the Supreme] · 1 u 9 minCarlos Labbé (Navidad & Matanza, The Murmuration) joins Chad and Kaija to talk about his experience reading Yo el Supremo in college, influences on this period of “el Boom,”…
- TMR 30.4: "Construction of the Super-Race by Means of Nutrition" [I the Supreme] · 56 minSometimes a pen is just a pen, and sometimes it’s a magical object that might contain all of Dr. Francia’s madness. Although this week’s episode covers pages 166–216, most of the…
