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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 14: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Dreaming” [THE DREAMED PART]

Chad Post — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:10:04 +0000

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we’ll be reissuing an episode a day from the��The Invented Part��Ի��The Dreamed Part��seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on��The Remembered Part.

Here are the show notes from the original airing:

Aside from talking about how we’re all about five days away from becoming Howard Hughes, Chad, Brian, and special guest Derek Maine talk about dreams vs. rationality, Nabokov and Bob Dylan, dream lovers and MTV videos,��Twin Peaks��and fantasy baseball. (OK, not the last one.) It’s a fun podcast, a minor distraction that hopefully adds a bit of joy into the world. So enjoy!

If you’d prefer to��watch��the conversation, you can find it on��along with��. You can watch April 1st episode (covering pages 112-155)��. And you can discuss this book at the reactivated Goodreads��.

You can purchase each of the books in the trilogy separately (,��,��, OR, if you don’t have them and are ready for the reading event of 2023, then get��for $40—approximately 30% off.

You can find all previous seasons of TMR on our��aaand you can support us at��and get bonus content before anyone else, along with other rewards, the opportunity to easily communicate with the hosts, etc. And please rate us—wherever you get your podcasts!

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TMR 11.2: “Who Dreams the Dreamer” [THE DREAMED PART]

Chad Post — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:15:28 +0000

Chad, Brian, and special guest Mark Haber tried their damnedest to bring some levity to our current crisis on this week’s episode. They laughed��a lot��while discussing Chad’s surprisingly dull dream city, the way��The Dreamed Part just drops you right into the flow, dream logic, how Fresan is the exception that proves the rule, and Chad’s quarantine situation.

If you’d prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on along with . You can watch March 25th episode (covering pages 57-111) . And you can discuss this book at the reactivated Goodreads .

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Be sure to order Brian’s book, , which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. And you can get 20% off��by using the code 2MONTH at checkout.

You can also support this podcast and��all��of Open Letter’s activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the .

You can find all the Two Month Review posts by clicking here. And be sure to It really helps people to discover the podcast.

TMR 11.1: “We Remember Everything” [THE DREAMED PART]

Chad Post — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 20:59:17 +0000

In this week’s preview episode for Season 11 of the Two Month Review–featuring��The Dreamed Part��by Rodrigo Fresán and Will Vanderhyden–Chad and Brian try their best to recall details from the plot of��The Invented Part, the first book in the trilogy. They do . . . well, question mark? As cracked out as their descriptions might seem, you’re in for a really fun season and a really fun book from one of the best Spanish writers of his generation.

This week’s music is “My Friend” by Dan Deacon. (In part because Chad thought the lyrics were “I’m alive, I’m dreaming,” but he was wrong.)

If you’d prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on along with . You can watch March 18th episode (covering pages 1-57) . And you can discuss this book at the reactivated Goodreads .

Follow and for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests.

Be sure to order Brian’s book, , which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. And you can get 20% off��by using the code 2MONTH at checkout.

You can also support this podcast and��all��of Open Letter’s activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the .

You can find all the Two Month Review posts by clicking here. And be sure to It really helps people to discover the podcast.

Season 11 of the Two Month Review: “The Dreamed Part” by Rodrigo Fresán

Chad Post — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 20:41:30 +0000

After a slightly longer hiatus than expected, the is coming back! In fact, we’re coming back . We’ll be recording an introductory episode in which Chad and Brian combine their weakened, time-ravaged memories to recap , the first volume in Rodrigo Fresán’s trilogy (and the subject of the first ever season of TMR) before launching into the second volume,��, both translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden. (The third volume, The Remembered Part, is forthcoming, but it’s the longest, so it’s going to take Will a minute to get this done.)

If you want to read along, you can get a copy of��from your local bookstore, online retailers, or directly from our website. If you use the code “2Month” at checkout, you’ll get 20% off. (BUT, if you order now, the book is only $10 as part of our #NoAWP2020 sale. ALL of our books are $10 for one, $20 for three through this weekend. So go wild!)

Here’s the jacket copy for��The Dreamed Part:

Following his failure to break into the Hadron Collider and merge with the so-called “God particle,” The Writer from��The Invented Part��can no longer write or sleep. Instead, he lies awake, imagining and reimagining key moments of his life, spinning out a series of insomniac visions every bit as thought-provoking as they are dreamlike. A mysterious foundation dedicated to preserving dreams, suddenly invaluable in the wake of the dream-eradicating White Plague; a psycho-lyrical-photophobic terrorist; an electric and mercurial lullaby; three lunatic sisters (and an eclipsed brother) who write from the darkest side of the most wuthering lunar heights; a hallucinating prisoner and a hallucinatory family; a genius addicted to butterflies and an FBI agent addicted to that genius; a looney and lysergic uncle and parents who model but are not model parents; a revolutionary staging of Shakespeare for the children of chic guerrillas; a city of sleepless bookshops; and a writer who might be 100 years old. Or not.

With characteristic wit, careening style, and array of cultural references, high and low and everything in between—from Shakespeare, the Brontë sisters, and Vladimir Nabokov to Talking Heads, superhero movies, and Rick and Morty—the second volume of Fresán’s trilogy is one of the most ambitious, unique, and entertaining novels of our time.

And now, the most important part, this season’s schedule:

March 5: Introduction

March 19: “That Night (Footnotes for an Encyclopedia of Sleepwalkers)” (pgs 1-57)

March 26: “That Night (Footnotes for an Encyclopedia of Sleepwalkers)” (pgs 57-111)

April 2: “The Other Night (Irrational Catalog for an Exhibition of Restless Shadows” (pgs 112-155)

April 9: “The Other Night (Irrational Catalog for an Exhibition of Restless Shadows” (pgs 156-202)

April 16: “The Other Night (Irrational Catalog for an Exhibition of Restless Shadows” (pgs 202-254)

April 23: “Tonight (Manual of Last Rites for Waking Dreamers)” (pgs 255-307)

April 30: “Tonight (Manual of Last Rites for Waking Dreamers)” (pgs 307-362)

May 7: “Tonight (Manual of Last Rites for Waking Dreamers)” (pgs 362-424)

May 14: “Tonight (Manual of Last Rites for Waking Dreamers)” (pgs 424-487)

May 21: “Tonight (Manual of Last Rites for Waking Dreamers)” (pgs 487-539)

As always, we’ll record these LIVE on YouTube, so that you can interact, ask questions, get to know the various places where we live and/or work, come to the realization that my preferred mode of dress is a hoodie and a hat, etc. The podcast version will drop on all the Thursdays listed above, and is available from wherever you get your podcasts. (Except maybe Spotify? I need to figure that out . . .)

If you haven’t listened to the season on��The Invented Part, you’re totally missing out. That was a wild, entertaining, amazing season over the course of which Brian and I figured out our groove and how to do this podcast. Every episode–and every post that I wrote for this–can be found here.

I’m really looking forward to this season and hope you’ll all join in and read along!!