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TMR 27.4: "Rag-Tag Shoulder Sack-Toting Gang" [Tomb of Sand]

After a blissful, quiet time in which Ma and Rosie Bua turn junk into Etsy projects, the chaos descends on Beti’s house—and the missing Buddha is fou…

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TMR 27.3: "And She Begins to Make Music" [Tomb of Sand]

This week, Chad, Brian, and Kaija discuss their various reactions to the end of Part I and opening of Part II. They also revisit the idea of “meeting…

9 months, 1 week ago

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TMR 27.2: "I Am the Wishing Tree" [Tomb of Sand]

A lot of this week’s discussion is about “meeting a book where it is” and looking at the literary strategies Geetanjali Shree & Daisy Rockwell use in…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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TMR 27.1: "Dude, Can't You Laugh?" [Tomb of Sand]

Chad, Kaija, and Brian start of the new season featuring Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree and translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell by looking …

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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TMR 26.9: "The Two Women Kissed and Separated " [The Golden Notebook]

Kaija, Brian, and Chad reach “The Golden Notebook” inside of The Golden Notebook, and discuss the ways in which this novel push back against various …

9 months, 4 weeks ago

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TMR 26.8: "I No Longer Had a Sense of Time" [The Golden Notebook]

On this, the penultimate episode of the season, Kaija and Chad talk about Anna’s dissociation and dissolution, Saul Green and who he really is, narra…

10 months, 1 week ago

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TMR 26.7: "And What Is the Next Stage?" [The Golden Notebook]

In this episode, Kaija, Chad, and Brian talk about the really awful men in this book, along with fragmentation, fractals, and postmodernism talk as t…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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TMR 26.6: "The Dream Marked a Change in Anna" [The Golden Notebook]

In this section, Chad, Brian, and Kaija go over "Free Women: 3," asking if anyone is truly free, along with the next excerpt from the "Black Notebook…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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TMR 26.5: "Everything Will Be As Usual, In Fact" [The Golden Notebook]

In this new episode covering up to page 352 of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, Chad, Brian, and Kaija talk about the difficulty in keeping the v…

11 months ago

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TMR 26.4: "You Can Be Very, Very Serious in a Musical" [The Golden Notebook]

Is The Golden Notebook just novels all the way down? Brian, Kaija, and Chad talk about the idea that the “Free Women” sections of the book are just a…

11 months, 1 week ago

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Podcast Episodes

TMR 27.4: "Rag-Tag Shoulder Sack-Toting Gang" [Tomb of Sand]

TMR 27.3: "And She Begins to Make Music" [Tomb of Sand]

TMR 27.2: "I Am the Wishing Tree" [Tomb of Sand]

TMR 27.1: "Dude, Can't You Laugh?" [Tomb of Sand]

TMR 26.9: "The Two Women Kissed and Separated " [The Golden Notebook]

TMR 26.8: "I No Longer Had a Sense of Time" [The Golden Notebook]

TMR 26.7: "And What Is the Next Stage?" [The Golden Notebook]

TMR 26.6: "The Dream Marked a Change in Anna" [The Golden Notebook]

TMR 26.5: "Everything Will Be As Usual, In Fact" [The Golden Notebook]

TMR 26.4: "You Can Be Very, Very Serious in a Musical" [The Golden Notebook]

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