Podcast Episodes

TMR 18.1: Who Was Ann Quin?

The eighteenth season of the Two Month Review is all about Ann Quin's books—all four novels and her collected stories and fragments—and starts off wi…

3 years, 8 months ago

TMR 17.8: "On This Bed, On This Same Mattress" [Eltit + Hahn]

In the final episode of this season of the Two Month Review, Brian, Chad, and Katie debate whether or not our narrator is in limbo, whether or not th…

4 years ago

TMR 17.7: "I Erased Your Face" [Eltit + Hahn]

Katie and Chad tackle this section alone, discussing the revolutionary background of the main characters, going off into Bernadine Dohrn, the SDS, th…

4 years, 1 month ago

TMR 17.6: "The Letters Defeated You" [Eltit + Hahn]

In addition to talking about the Trump/Tesla/Lockwood conspiracy theory, our hosts this week discuss "bone avalanches," how translators are paid, the…

4 years, 1 month ago

TMR 17.5: "Our Organicity" [Eltit + Hahn]

Chad and Brian go it alone and discuss "navel gazing" novels, books that entertain vs. ones about the prose, where Eltit's novel resides on that spec…

4 years, 1 month ago

TMR 17.4: "I Watched the Death Machine" [Eltit + Hahn]

Technical difficulties are kept to a minimum on this week's episode, as Chad, Brian, and Katie talk about the advancement of plot, the French New Nov…

4 years, 1 month ago

TMR 17.3: "Mónica & Carlos & Tony" [Eltit + Hahn]

In lieu of a live episode, this week's TMR features interviews with Mónica Ramón Ríos and Carlos Labbé about their relationship with Diamela Eltit an…

4 years, 2 months ago

17.2: "Pure Hatred" [Eltit + Hahn]

Technical difficulties abound as Chad struggles to find reliable Wifi in Latvia. (While being recruited by the Russian mafia?)  Katie and Brian take …

4 years, 2 months ago

TMR 17.1: "You Behaved Like a Dog"

TMR is back, breaking down Daniel Hahn's translation diary, Catching Fire, alongside his translation of Never Did the Fire by Diamela Eltit. 

In this…

4 years, 2 months ago

TMR 16.13: "Fürst Pückler" [2666]

We've reached the end of 2666 and Chad, Katie, and Brian convene to talk about how amazing the ending is, publishers protecting authors, love and fam…

4 years, 6 months ago