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#38: Beautiful Song Is on the Radio, Is in the TV Shows
This week's podcast is a special Eurovision edition featuring resident Eurovision expert, Kaija Straumanis. We go through a bunch of the videos/songs…
14 years, 3 months ago
#37: No Offense
Tom and I were on fire during this week's podcast, talking about the PEN World Voices Festival and some interesting questions we were asked in an int…
14 years, 3 months ago
#36: A Couple Gin & Tonics Does NOT Make Me a Better Oulipian
(My initial plan was to create a title for this podcast that was actually an acrostic spelling out "Oulipo." The best I came up with was "Our Unique …
14 years, 4 months ago
#35: All You Need Is a Gun and a Girl
This week we completely avoid talking about Amazon and the Department of Justice to focus on genre books in translation. Tom's a big noir/thriller fa…
14 years, 4 months ago
#34: "These Creatures I Must Woo"
This week Tom and I welcomed Jeff Waxman of University of Chicago Press and 57th Street Books to the podcast to talk about different approaches to ma…
14 years, 5 months ago
#33: The Spaz and the Straight Man
In this week's podcast, we talk about the future of book reviewing, focusing on a few central questions: who reads book reviews? (A: definitely not m…
14 years, 5 months ago
#32: Everybody Loves a Bracket
With the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament getting underway this afternoon (I refuse to acknowledge the "First Four" games), Tom and I thought this wo…
14 years, 5 months ago
#31: We're All Winners, But Some Win Better Than Others
To celebrate tonight's announcements of the National Book Critic Circle Award winners, Tom and I decided to go through all six categories (fiction, n…
14 years, 5 months ago
#30: Half-Baked Literary Freak
In this week's podcast, Chad and Tom welcome Ed Nawotka, editor of Publishing Perspectives, to unpack the Best Translated Book Award fiction longlist…
14 years, 6 months ago