Three Percent Podcast

In the penultimate episode of this season, there’s a lot of talk about Melville’s relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne as we get more of Melville’s life as he bounces through time, writes Moby-Dick and the creation of “its own kind of reader: an inexhaustible reader. A reader that didn’t yet exist . . .” The "Grifters Gonna Grift [https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/68870644-confidence-man-grifters-gonna-grift]" t-shirt is still available and still sexy. Next episode will be next week at the regularly scheduled time and will cover the end of Rodrigo Fresán's Melvill [https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/melvill-1]. You can find the full reading schedule here [https://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/2024/10/23/tmr-season-24-the-confidence-man-by-melville-mevill-by-rodrigo-fresan/]. This week's music is "Vertigo [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rvGluuO2EA]" by FM Belfast. You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS9HSoazFgc] and on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5XJytvaTeZSPX3jgtQWQn0?si=17f3837296d44d4c], etc. Please rate and review! It helps more than you know. Follow Open Letter, [https://twitter.com/open_letter] Two Month Review [https://twitter.com/TwoMonthReview], Chad Post, [https://bsky.app/profile/chadwpost.bsky.social] Kaija Straumanis [https://twitter.com/kmstraumane], and Brian Wood [https://twitter.com/BrianWood_] for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests.

[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to this [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238] feed. And this one [https://open.spotify.com/show/2TYhaWf5VI6OdNOECTYvoK?si=a4622c6cbccf45de] if you listen on Spotify. The others will be going away in the near future.] On the final episode of 2024, Chad, Brian, and Kaija talk about Nico C. and being unmoored from time, last words, footnotes and ellipses, some highlights from the past year, ice, and more. The "Grifters Gonna Grift [https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/68870644-confidence-man-grifters-gonna-grift]" t-shirt is still available and still sexy. Next episode will be next week at the regularly scheduled time and will cover pages 189-245 of Rodrigo Fresán's Melvill [https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/melvill-1]. You can find the full reading schedule here [https://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/2024/10/23/tmr-season-24-the-confidence-man-by-melville-mevill-by-rodrigo-fresan/]. This week's music is "Water [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpvGu3szE24]" by Ra Ra Riot. You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS9HSoazFgc] and on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5XJytvaTeZSPX3jgtQWQn0?si=17f3837296d44d4c], etc. Please rate and review! It helps more than you know. Follow Open Letter, [https://twitter.com/open_letter] Two Month Review [https://twitter.com/TwoMonthReview], Chad Post, [https://bsky.app/profile/chadwpost.bsky.social] Kaija Straumanis [https://twitter.com/kmstraumane], and Brian Wood [https://twitter.com/BrianWood_] for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests.

[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please subscribe to this [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238] feed.] Lori Feathers (Across the Pond [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/across-the-pond/id1557842312] podcast, Involutions of the Seashell [https://missmacintosh.substack.com/], Interabang Books [https://interabangbooks.com/], and Republic of Consciousness Prize USA [https://www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/]) joins Chad and Kaija to talk about prizes—Melvill is longlisted for the NBCC Greg Barrios Prize for Translated Literature!—the narrative structure of Melvill, Nico C., and vampires. A lot of fun is had along the way. The "Grifters Gonna Grift [https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/68870644-confidence-man-grifters-gonna-grift]" t-shirt is still available and still sexy. Next episode will be in TWO WEEKS and will cover pages 123-188 of Rodrigo Fresán's Melvill [https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/melvill-1]. You can find the full reading schedule here [https://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/2024/10/23/tmr-season-24-the-confidence-man-by-melville-mevill-by-rodrigo-fresan/]. This week's music is "WHALE [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1KCsOT1VaM]" by Yellow Ostrich. You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS9HSoazFgc] and on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5XJytvaTeZSPX3jgtQWQn0?si=17f3837296d44d4c], etc. Please rate and review! It helps more than you know. Follow Open Letter, [https://twitter.com/open_letter] Two Month Review [https://twitter.com/TwoMonthReview], Chad Post, [https://bsky.app/profile/chadwpost.bsky.social] Kaija Straumanis [https://twitter.com/kmstraumane], and Brian Wood [https://twitter.com/BrianWood_] for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. The large image associated with this post is AI generated.

[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to this [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238] feed. The other one will be going away in the near future.] With Melville's Fidèle receding into the dark distance, we turn our attention to Rodrigo Fresán's Melvill, a bombastic book about Alan Melvill and Herman and the passing down of stories from one generation to the next. On this special episode, translator Will Vanderhyden joins Brian, Chad, and Kaija to talk about translating Fresán, about the style and word play found in his books, about the footnotes, about what's to come. They also talk about the line connecting this to Confidence-Man, and how to read footnotes. And about the interplay between two narratorial voices in this first part. Also mentioned are this interview with Fresán on Between the Covers [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rodrigo-fres%C3%A1n-melvill/id583648001?i=1000679718504], this one with Will Vanderhyden on Beyond the Zero [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/melvill-by-rodrigo-fres%C3%A1n-with-will-vanderhyden/id1578980767?i=1000677747590], and this new Fresán story ("Music to Destroy Worlds" (An Exoeriment)") in  [https://southwestreview.com/volume-109-number-3/music-to-destroy-worlds-an-experiment/]Southwest Review [https://southwestreview.com/volume-109-number-3/music-to-destroy-worlds-an-experiment/].  And here's where you can get your own "Grifters Gonna Grift [https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/68870644-confidence-man-grifters-gonna-grift]" t-shirt mentioned in this episode. Next episode will cover pages 62-123 of Rodrigo Fresán's Melvill [https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/melvill-1]. You can find the full reading schedule here [https://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/2024/10/23/tmr-season-24-the-confidence-man-by-melville-mevill-by-rodrigo-fresan/]. This week's music is "Sink or Swim [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QEVHzUsV2A]" by Young Fathers. You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS9HSoazFgc] and on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5XJytvaTeZSPX3jgtQWQn0?si=17f3837296d44d4c], etc. Please rate and review! It helps more than you know. Follow Open Letter, [https://twitter.com/open_letter] Two Month Review [https://twitter.com/TwoMonthReview], Chad Post, [https://bsky.app/profile/chadwpost.bsky.social] Kaija Straumanis [https://twitter.com/kmstraumane], and Brian Wood [https://twitter.com/BrianWood_] for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests.

[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to this [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238] feed. The other one will be going away in the near future.] Chad, Brian, and Kaija venture into the darkness and turn off the light on Melville's The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, one of the oddest, most slippery books to be included in the Two Month Review. They talk about transcendentalism, self-reliance, Melville's interludes, Jean Giono's Melville [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9781681371375], and more.  And here's the "Grifters Gonna Grift [https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/68870644-confidence-man-grifters-gonna-grift]" t-shirt mentioned in this episode. Next episode will cover pages 1-61 of Rodrigo Fresán's Melvill [https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/melvill-1]. You can find the full reading schedule here [https://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/2024/10/23/tmr-season-24-the-confidence-man-by-melville-mevill-by-rodrigo-fresan/]. This week's music is "The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O6duDDkhis]" by The National.  You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS9HSoazFgc] and on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5XJytvaTeZSPX3jgtQWQn0?si=17f3837296d44d4c], etc. Please rate and review! It helps more than you know. Follow Open Letter, [https://twitter.com/open_letter] Two Month Review [https://twitter.com/TwoMonthReview], Chad Post, [https://bsky.app/profile/chadwpost.bsky.social] Kaija Straumanis [https://twitter.com/kmstraumane], and Brian Wood [https://twitter.com/BrianWood_] for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests.