favorite books of 2013 – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:45:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Three Percent #68: A Few Good Books from 2013 /College/translation/threepercent/2014/01/13/three-percent-68-a-few-good-books-from-2013/ /College/translation/threepercent/2014/01/13/three-percent-68-a-few-good-books-from-2013/#respond Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:30:00 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2014/01/13/three-percent-68-a-few-good-books-from-2013/ Rather than do our normal “favorite books of XXXX” podcast, we decided to focus on four books from last year that we really liked: Thomas Pynchon’s BLEEDING EDGE, Javier Marias’s THE INFATUATIONS, Keith Ridgway’s HAWTHORN & CHILD, and Arnon Grunberg’s TIRZA. (Chad also snuck in a reference to Julia Deck’s VIVIANE, which is coming out in April.)

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Then things devolved—as is probably expected by now—into talking about the demise of Bookish.

Additionally, we each wrote a special post to go along with this podcast. You can get to Tom’s here, and Chad’s here.

This week’s music is by Múm.

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