Podcast Episodes
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TMR 29.7: "Men Are Tormented by Men" [The Tunnel]
Lori Feathers (Interabang Books, Big Book Project) joins Kaija, Chad, and Brian to talk about “The First Winter of My Married Life” in which Kohler a…
7 months ago
![TMR 29.6: "Welcome to History" [The Tunnel]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/180711860/cee8687d9a142e5d99b1c80aa2fb65c5.jpg)
TMR 29.6: "Welcome to History" [The Tunnel]
Chris Via of Leaf by Leaf joins Kaija, Brian, and Chad on this episode to talk about “Why Windows Are Important to Me.” They discuss Chris’s ten-hour…
7 months, 1 week ago
![TMR 29.5: "Historians Make History" [The Tunnel]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/179451946/cee8687d9a142e5d99b1c80aa2fb65c5.jpg)
TMR 29.5: "Historians Make History" [The Tunnel]
Covering the “Mad Meg” section (pgs 214–282), Chad, Kaija, and Brian talk about the juxtaposition of Kohler’s childhood Sunday drives with the bombas…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
![TMR 29.4: "What Principle Is Not a Prejudice?" [The Tunnel]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/178798828/cee8687d9a142e5d99b1c80aa2fb65c5.jpg)
TMR 29.4: "What Principle Is Not a Prejudice?" [The Tunnel]
As Kohler begins to dig his actual tunnel, Chad, Kaija, and Brian talk about Culp as a sort of döppelganger, complicity, the symbolism of a tunnel, l…
8 months ago
![TMR 29.3: "I Think He Was Loud Because He Was Alone" [The Tunnel]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/178204291/cee8687d9a142e5d99b1c80aa2fb65c5.jpg)
TMR 29.3: "I Think He Was Loud Because He Was Alone" [The Tunnel]
This week Chad, Brian, and Kaija talk about the midwest as hell, locusts and tornados, one’s family and attempts to escape it, forms of love found in…
8 months, 1 week ago
![TMR 29.2: "Our Proper Bliss Depends on What We Blame" [The Tunnel]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/177392416/cee8687d9a142e5d99b1c80aa2fb65c5.jpg)
TMR 29.2: "Our Proper Bliss Depends on What We Blame" [The Tunnel]
On this week’s episode, Ted Morrissey (author, creator of The Tunnel at 25) joins Kaija, Brian, and Chad to talk about “Koh Whistles Up a Wind” and h…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
![TMR 29.1: "We Must Study the Fascism of the Heart" [The Tunnel]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/176951087/cee8687d9a142e5d99b1c80aa2fb65c5.jpg)
TMR 29.1: "We Must Study the Fascism of the Heart" [The Tunnel]
For this season of the Two Month Review, we’re leaving the sunny, paranoid skies of Pynchon’s California behind in favor of William Frederick Kohler’…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
![TMR 28.6: "Preparation H" [Vineland]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/175124066/cee8687d9a142e5d99b1c80aa2fb65c5.jpg)
TMR 28.6: "Preparation H" [Vineland]
Peter Coviello (Vineland Reread) joins Kaija, Brian, and Chad to talk about the ending of Vineland, how it compares to One Battle After Another, what…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
![TMR 28.5: "Is This The Start of a Cheap Romance" [Vineland]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/174529891/cee8687d9a142e5d99b1c80aa2fb65c5.jpg)
TMR 28.5: "Is This The Start of a Cheap Romance" [Vineland]
For the penultimate episode of this season, Andrew Merritt of the Life on Books podcast joined Chad and Kaija to talk about the original arrangment b…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
![TMR 28.4: "The People's Republic of Rock and Roll" [Vineland]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/173947024/cee8687d9a142e5d99b1c80aa2fb65c5.jpg)
TMR 28.4: "The People's Republic of Rock and Roll" [Vineland]
Chad, Brian, and Kaija try to start out on a light note—goofing on the Phoenix children’s names—but things get deadly serious (pun intended) when the…
9 months, 4 weeks ago