Podcast Episodes

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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago

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

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"Grifters Gonna Grif…

1 year, 7 months ago

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TMR 24.2: "Trust Me, Nature Is Health" [Confidence-Man]

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Chad and Kaija go it…

1 year, 8 months ago

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Welcome! And New TMR Episode

Hello!

I meant to write a proper post welcoming you to the Three Percent substack earlier this week, but have been too anxious and distressed to do it…

1 year, 8 months ago

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TMR 24.1: "May I Ask if You Have Confidence?" [Confidence-Man]

Not the happiest day in which to record a podcast, but Chad, Brian, and Kaija speak their fears and then dive into Melville's Confidence-Man, talking…

1 year, 8 months ago

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