Podcast Episodes

TMR 25.2: "With My Pencil, I Wrote Myself into Being" [JAMES]

In this episode, Chad, Brian, and Kaija talk about the role of James as a writer, how long James will parallel Adventures of Huck Finn, the geography…

1 year, 2 months ago

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TMR 25.1: "Papa, why do we have to learn this?" [JAMES]

The 25th season of the Two Month Review will dive into two books related to the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starting with Percival Everett’s high…

1 year, 2 months ago

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TMR 24.10: "What Comes Next Is What Remains" [Melvill]

Special guest Rodrigo Fresán joins Brian, Chad, and Kaija to celebrate being on the Republic of Consciousness longlist, talk about his novels, his ca…

1 year, 3 months ago

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TMR 24.9: "I Hate Thinking about Thinking about Myself Like This" [Melvill]

In the penultimate episode of this season, there’s a lot of talk about Melville’s relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne as we get more of Melville’s …

1 year, 3 months ago

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TMR 24.8: "Fampiro" [Melvill]

Season 8 Episode 24

On the final episode of 2024, Chad, Brian, and Kaija talk about Nico C. and being unmoored from time, last words, footnotes and ellipses, some highli…

1 year, 3 months ago

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TMR 24.7: "The White Delirium" [Melvill]

Lori Feathers (Across the Pond podcast, Involutions of the Seashell, Interabang Books, and Republic of Consciousness Prize USA) joins Chad and Kaija …

1 year, 4 months ago

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TMR 24.6: "Liquidate It At Cost" [Melvill]

With Melville's Fidèle receding into the dark distance, we turn our attention to Rodrigo Fresán's Melvill, a bombastic book about Alan Melvill and He…

1 year, 4 months ago

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TMR 24.5: "Very Charming." [Confidence-Man]

Chad, Brian, and Kaija venture into the darkness and turn off the light on Melville's The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, one of the oddest, most sli…

1 year, 4 months ago

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TMR 24.4: "How Unreal All This Is!" [Confidence-Man]

Opening with a couple of rants, this week's podcast is spicy and also tries to make sense of a few of the more perplexing parts of the book. There's …

1 year, 4 months ago

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TMR 24.3: "You Are a Punster" [Confidence-Man]

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"Grifters Gonna Grif…

1 year, 5 months ago

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