{"id":306836,"date":"2017-08-31T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/08\/31\/two-month-review-2-4-fifth-composition-book-vi-tomas-jonsson-bestseller-pages-69-139\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:06:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:06:37","slug":"two-month-review-2-4-fifth-composition-book-vi-tomas-jonsson-bestseller-pages-69-139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/08\/31\/two-month-review-2-4-fifth-composition-book-vi-tomas-jonsson-bestseller-pages-69-139\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Month Review #2.4: fifth composition book, VI. (T\u00f3mas J\u00f3nsson, Bestseller, Pages 69-139)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Jacob Rogers&#8212;translator from the Galician and bookseller at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaprops.com\/\">Malaprop&#8217;s<\/a> in Asheville, North Carolina&#8212;joins Chad and Lytton to talk about T\u00f3mas J\u00f3nsson&#8217;s next two &#8220;composition books.&#8221; Included in these sections are a long bit about the &#8220;board&#8221; and the general hierarchy of T\u00f3mas&#8217;s dining hall, the ways in which he&#8217;s both an insider and someone on the fringes, and the role of the U.S. military base in Iceland&#8217;s overall development. These sections are crucial in fleshing out both T\u00f3mas&#8217;s character and that of Iceland as a whole, while adding a lot of interesting&#8212;and funny&#8212;details about his everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to comment on this episode&#8212;or on the book in general&#8212;either on this post, or at the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/group\/show\/216472-two-month-review\">GoodReads Group.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>T\u00f3mas J\u00f3nsson, Bestseller<\/em> is available at better bookstores everywhere, and you can also order it directly from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/products\/tomas-jonsson-bestseller\">Open Letter,<\/a> where you can get 20% off by entering 2MONTH in the discount field at checkout. <\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/open_letter\">Open Letter,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadwpost\">Chad Post,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lyttonjsmith?lang=en\">Lytton Smith,<\/a> and for more thoughts and information about upcoming guests. You can also follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Malaprops\">Malaprop&#8217;s<\/a> on Twitter, and Jacob on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bilbyography\/\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And you can find all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?s=tag&amp;t=two-month-review\">Two Month Review<\/a> posts by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?s=tag&amp;t=two-month-review\">clicking here.<\/a> Please rate us on iTunes and\/or leave a review!<\/p>\n<p>The music for this season of Two Month Review is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LHi8Oc753LU\">Long Year<\/a> by The Anchoress. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5691285\/height\/90\/width\/380\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ffa73d\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"380\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Jacob Rogers&#8212;translator from the Galician and bookseller at Malaprop&#8217;s in Asheville, North Carolina&#8212;joins Chad and Lytton to talk about T\u00f3mas J\u00f3nsson&#8217;s next two &#8220;composition books.&#8221; Included in these sections are a long bit about the &#8220;board&#8221; and the general hierarchy of T\u00f3mas&#8217;s dining hall, the ways in which he&#8217;s both an insider and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67426],"tags":[6476,66216,66376,18236,1646,66136,66196],"class_list":["post-306836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-two-month-review","tag-chad-post","tag-gudbergur-bergsson","tag-jacob-rogers","tag-lytton-smith","tag-review","tag-tomas-jonsson-bestseller","tag-two-month-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308546,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306836\/revisions\/308546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}