Three Percent Podcast

The Three Percent Podcast is a weekly(ish) conversation about new books, the publishing scene, inter

Episodes

Total: 416

Brian and Chad break down the ending of Mulligan Stew, discuss how this is one of maybe 2-3 endings

Brian sings! Pynchon is made fun of! Lamont totally goes off the rails but really really really want

Chad had a night before this recording, so ignore him, but pay attention to the worst possible smut

Wacky Aphorisms vs. Cowboy Clichés. A title change that indicates a change in attitude. A bizarre pu

"I SUCK!" Kicking off with an "erotic" "poem," this week's episode is nuts from the very start. Ther

This section of Mulligan Stew is particularly wild, featuring a western populated by Irishmen speaki

To celebrate the first-ever English-language publication of Raymond Queneau's Sally Mara's Intimate

Loveletters galore! Lists without context! Repurposing life for fiction! More puzzles! Terrible book

Three Percent #190: John Barth

2023/9/12

In honor of two recent John Barth reissues—The Sot-Weed Factor and Chimera, both Dalkey Archive Esse

Chad and Brian kick off the new season in near hysterics over the first little chunk of Gilbert Sorr

Brian returns to help breakdown the ending to Rodrigo Fresán's "Part Triptych." Is it earned? Is it

For the first time in the history of the Two Month Review, Chad had to go it alone. He stuck in ther

Veeeeekingdor!!!!! This week's episode is pretty wild, with stories of Riga FC, stoic faces, Fresán'

Three Percent #188: Baseball

2023/7/5

Well, we did it: One whole episode just about baseball and books about baseball and baseball memorie

Former TMR guest Patrick Smith returns to discuss his reread of the first two volumes of the trilogy

Chad and Kaija break down the final bit of the first part of the third volume in Fresán's trilogy (p

Separated by 10 hours—like podcasting jet lag?—Chad and Brian work through some observations and ran

From Nobel Prize favorites to Proust to competitive cliques on the mountain, this week's episodes is

Kaija Straumanis pinch hits this week for a discussion about Lost, airplanes, the past and nostalgia

Maybe not the most informative of recaps, but Brian and Chad discuss what the love about Fresán's wr