Three Percent #120: Crime and Concept Stores

It’s been a few weeks since the last podcast, but Chad and Tom are back with a over-stuffed episode that starts with a recap of recent events before turning to Barnes & Noble’s plans for their concept stores followed by a lengthy discussion about international crime authors.

Here’s a complete list of articles, authors, and books discussed in this episode:

What Barnes & Noble Doesn’t Get about Independent Bookstores by David Sax;

The 2016 Neustadt Prize (and corresponding article by Chad);

The Point Reyes Indiegogo;

East Bay Booksellers;

Rage by Zygmunt Miłoszewski, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones;

Giorgio Scerbanenco;

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Martin Beck series;

Wolf Haas;

Melville House International Crime Series;

The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura, transalted from the Japanese by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates;

Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama, translated from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies;

The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang;

The Hermit by Thomas Rydahl, translated from the Danish by K.E. Semmel;

And finally, this is the addiction network commercial that Chad was going on about.

This week’s music is “Dis Generation” from We Got it from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service, the new—and final—album by A Tribe Called Quest.

Also, just a reminder, since we changed our podcast feed, you may need to unsubscribe and resubscribe to the correct feed in iTunes at that link, or right here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/three-percent-podcast/id434696686

Or, you can just put this feed link into whichever is your podcast app of choice:
http://threepercent.libsyn.com/rss

As always, feel free to send any and all comments or questions to: threepercentpodcast@gmail.com.

And if you like the podcast, tell a friend and rate us or leave a review on iTunes!