Podcast Episodes

TMR 19.12: "Fill Up with Karmas" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

Brian returns to help breakdown the ending to Rodrigo Fresán's "Part Triptych." Is it earned? Is it sincere?? Is this all a Jacob's Ladder scenario??…

2 years, 8 months ago

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TMR 19.11 "Exit and No Return and Gone Forever" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

Kaija Straumanis guest stars on this episode in which we discuss brain tumors, memory loss, the true story behind the story of The Impossible Story s…

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TMR 19.10: "The Fine Art of Leaving Something Out" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

For the first time in the history of the Two Month Review, Chad had to go it alone. He stuck in there, didn't get too crazy, and covered the last chu…

2 years, 9 months ago

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TMR 19.9: "The Dream of the Invention of the Memory, Etc." [THE REMEMBERED PART]

Veeeeekingdor!!!!! This week's episode is pretty wild, with stories of Riga FC, stoic faces, Fresán's visit to the University of Rochester, Kurt Vonn…

2 years, 9 months ago

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TMR 19.8: "Notes for a Theory of the Fabric of Memory" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

Brian is back and Chad flubs the intro, so things are basically as they should be . . . They talk about fragmentation, big flawed double albums (and …

2 years, 9 months ago

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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 Fresán's writing inspires him, hanging on t…

2 years, 9 months ago

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TMR 19.6: "The Impossibility of Painting with Watercolors in the Rain" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

Chad and Kaija break down the final bit of the first part of the third volume in Fresán's trilogy (phew), revisit the "is this difficult to read?" di…

2 years, 9 months ago

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TMR 19.5: "The Burning Gaze of Vladimir Nabokov" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

Separated by 10 hours—like podcasting jet lag?—Chad and Brian work through some observations and rants (specifically about a shitty NY Times list of …

2 years, 10 months ago

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TMR 19.4: "Read like Dracula and write like Frankenstein!" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

From Nobel Prize favorites to Proust to competitive cliques on the mountain, this week's episodes is almost as sprawling as the ex-writer's airplane …

2 years, 10 months ago

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TMR 19.3: "DREAM + MEMORY = INVENTION" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

Kaija Straumanis pinch hits this week for a discussion about Lost, airplanes, the past and nostalgia, writers vs. narrators, autofiction, how hard it…

2 years, 10 months ago

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Podcast Episodes

TMR 19.12: "Fill Up with Karmas" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

TMR 19.11 "Exit and No Return and Gone Forever" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

TMR 19.10: "The Fine Art of Leaving Something Out" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

TMR 19.9: "The Dream of the Invention of the Memory, Etc." [THE REMEMBERED PART]

TMR 19.8: "Notes for a Theory of the Fabric of Memory" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

TMR 19.7: "The Good Rememberer (A How-To Guide)" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

TMR 19.6: "The Impossibility of Painting with Watercolors in the Rain" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

TMR 19.5: "The Burning Gaze of Vladimir Nabokov" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

TMR 19.4: "Read like Dracula and write like Frankenstein!" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

TMR 19.3: "DREAM + MEMORY = INVENTION" [THE REMEMBERED PART]

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