{"id":306946,"date":"2017-09-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/09\/14\/two-month-review-2-6-ix-class-a-tenth-composition-book-tomas-jonsson-bestseller-pages-200-238\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:06:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:06:37","slug":"two-month-review-2-6-ix-class-a-tenth-composition-book-tomas-jonsson-bestseller-pages-200-238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/09\/14\/two-month-review-2-6-ix-class-a-tenth-composition-book-tomas-jonsson-bestseller-pages-200-238\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Month Review #2.6: IX. class A, tenth composition book (T\u00f3mas J\u00f3nsson, Bestseller, Pages 200-238)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week Norwegian translator and <span class=\"caps\">ALTA<\/span> Fellowship recipient David Smith joins Chad and Lytton to talk about the next forty pages of <em>T\u00f3mas J\u00f3nsson, Bestseller.<\/em> The two sections covered this week are wildly different from one another, opening with a much more fragmented, poetic bit then transitioning through a hilarious, yet creepy, moment in which T\u00f3mas pees all over the laundry room into a more straightforward section&#8212;but one that still brings out all the wild contradictions in T\u00f3mas&#8217;s character and this book itself. This week&#8217;s episode also includes Chad reading a section that&#8217;s perfect for a voiceover movie trailer. (And yes, he reads it in <em>exactly<\/em> that voice.)<\/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. <\/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\/5739704\/height\/90\/width\/380\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ffa94b\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"380\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Norwegian translator and ALTA Fellowship recipient David Smith joins Chad and Lytton to talk about the next forty pages of T\u00f3mas J\u00f3nsson, Bestseller. The two sections covered this week are wildly different from one another, opening with a much more fragmented, poetic bit then transitioning through a hilarious, yet creepy, moment in which [&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":[6476,66436,66216,18236,1646,66136,66196],"class_list":["post-306946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-two-month-review","tag-chad-post","tag-david-smith","tag-gudbergur-bergsson","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\/306946","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=306946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308496,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306946\/revisions\/308496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}