May 29, 2012
In this week's podcast, Tom and I talk about two related subjects: a New Yorker article about the translation of the first line of Camus' The Stranger, and the PEN World Voices panel about "Reviewing Translations." There are also some digressions, mostly involving me apologizing for all sorts of things...
May 18, 2012
This week's podcast is a special Eurovision edition featuring resident Eurovision expert, Kaija Straumanis. We go through a bunch of the videos/songs participating in this year's competition and make fun of almost everything while also trying to come to understand why Eurovision is so compelling in its bizarreness....
May 11, 2012
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 interview for the Picador Book Room Tumblr. While talking about PEN WV, what is learned about a location from reading a book set there, what's lost and/or gained in...
May 4, 2012
(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 Lab Instigating Poetic Opportunities," which is decent, self-referential, and strange, but not perfect. Unfortunately, drinking didn't help me improve upon that, so ....