Dec 29, 2014
On this week's podcast, Chad and Tom dish about the idea of a Translators Union, Dalkey's Korean literature series, and the Melville House edition of the "Torture Report," as well as a mini-rant about the Serial podcast, and a mini-rave about a dear friend who's passed.
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Dec 5, 2014
We're back! And, actually, now that Tom has a more regular schedule at Albertine we're planning on recording a new episode every other week. More great (sports) book talk! This week's episode centers around John O'Brien's BookBrunch article, "Don't Blame the Readers for Lack of Interest in Translations." It's a piece...
Nov 5, 2014
This week's podcast covers four major topics: Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, Michael Henry Heim and The Man Between, the upcoming ALTA Conference, and Atavist Books. And we barely talk about sports at all! But Tom does have a "rave" that includes a a particularily confusing cover.
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Oct 8, 2014
Finally, after weeks of putting this off, here is the long anticipated podcast about Roberto Bolaño's Little Lumpen Novelita. The reason it took so long to get to this was because of Tom's new job as the Deputy Director at Albertine, the most beautiful Franco-centric bookstore in New York (and/or the whole U.S.). We...
Sep 9, 2014
This week's podcast is mostly about a BBC article on Hieroglyph, a collaborative project between scientists and science-fiction writers that was inspired by the Neal Stephenson article "Innovation Starvation." Basically, this is a call to create fewer dystopian novels, and more positive sci-fi ideas that can help...