Podcast Episodes
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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 …
1 year ago
![TMR 26.9: "The Two Women Kissed and Separated " [The Golden Notebook]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/166928738/c51e4fb6b6e3ea183da2e444f9bae634.jpg)
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 …
1 year ago
![TMR 26.8: "I No Longer Had a Sense of Time" [The Golden Notebook]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/165583390/108f7bf5c48ed307f355399679dfdbe0.jpg)
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…
1 year, 1 month ago
![TMR 26.7: "And What Is the Next Stage?" [The Golden Notebook]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/165302164/21eac6be83eb5a3fee76fe12afdcc221.jpg)
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…
1 year, 1 month ago
![TMR 26.6: "The Dream Marked a Change in Anna" [The Golden Notebook]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/164726769/c50fa26fd53d98258b06cb24c6371d25.jpg)
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…
1 year, 1 month ago
![TMR 26.5: "Everything Will Be As Usual, In Fact" [The Golden Notebook]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/164250335/cee8687d9a142e5d99b1c80aa2fb65c5.jpg)
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…
1 year, 1 month ago
![TMR 26.4: "You Can Be Very, Very Serious in a Musical" [The Golden Notebook]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/163629180/24c48b4665b477d4b8d597744429027a.jpg)
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…
1 year, 2 months ago
![TMR 26.3: "Literature Is Analysis After the Event" [The Golden Notebook]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/163138907/cee8687d9a142e5d99b1c80aa2fb65c5.jpg)
TMR 26.3: "Literature Is Analysis After the Event" [The Golden Notebook]
Chad, Kaija, and Brian finish off the first "part" of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook by looking at the Yellow Notebook (a novel called "The Shad…
1 year, 2 months ago
![TMR 26.2: "Mashopi Hotel" [The Golden Notebook]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/162635747/cee8687d9a142e5d99b1c80aa2fb65c5.jpg)
TMR 26.2: "Mashopi Hotel" [The Golden Notebook]
Brian returns this podcast to talk about his initial thoughts, especially as they relate to postmodernism and fragmentation. In the rest of the episo…
1 year, 2 months ago
![TMR 26.1: "Chaos, That's the Point" [The Golden Notebook]](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3210907/post/162042998/cee8687d9a142e5d99b1c80aa2fb65c5.jpg)
TMR 26.1: "Chaos, That's the Point" [The Golden Notebook]
This new season kicks off with a bit of an overview of Doris Lessing’s career and some of her fun quotes. Then, after getting into her 1971 introduct…
1 year, 2 months ago