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Three Percent Podcast

Mar 30, 2012

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 my students), what is the function of the book review in today's world?, is there a website/app that would be the ideal book review platform? We also digress into sports...


Mar 15, 2012

With the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament getting underway this afternoon (I refuse to acknowledge the "First Four" games), Tom and I thought this would be a good time to talk about the fact that we both picked the exact same Final Four (Kentucky, Missouri, UNC, and Ohio State) and that The Morning News's Tournament...


Mar 8, 2012

To celebrate tonight's announcements of the National Book Critic Circle Award winners, Tom and I decided to go through all six categories (fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism, and poetry) and pick out who we thought would win. Seeing that neither of us has read many of the finalists, this makes for...


Mar 2, 2012

In this week's podcast, Chad and Tom welcome Ed Nawotka, editor of Publishing Perspectives, to unpack the Best Translated Book Award fiction longlist that was announced this week. (Also, Harry Potter, the Oscars, and other fun miscellany all make random appearances.)