{"id":307076,"date":"2017-10-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/10\/05\/two-month-review-2-9-fourteen-fifteenth-book-16-notebook-tomas-jonsson-bestseller-pages-306-360\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:06:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:06:37","slug":"two-month-review-2-9-fourteen-fifteenth-book-16-notebook-tomas-jonsson-bestseller-pages-306-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/10\/05\/two-month-review-2-9-fourteen-fifteenth-book-16-notebook-tomas-jonsson-bestseller-pages-306-360\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Month Review #2.9: fourteen, fifteenth book, 16. notebook (T\u00f3mas J\u00f3nsson, Bestseller, Pages 306-360)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Icelandic novelist and poet K\u00e1ri Tulinius joins Chad and Lytton this week to talk about three of the darkest sections of <em>T\u00f3mas J\u00f3nsson, Bestseller<\/em> and the history of this novel&#8217;s reception in Iceland. They also talk about the recent scandal that brought down the Icelandic government&#8212;and how it ties into <i>T\u00f3mas J\u00f3nsson<\/i>&#8212;about why the book was out of print in Iceland for a couple of decades after its initial release, the way this book is scarily prescient, and much more. <\/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>You can read an excerpt from K\u00e1ri&#8217;s latest novel (translated by Larissa Kyzer) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsandworldsmagazine.com\/current-issue-aktuelle-ausgabe\/prose-prosa\/k%25C3%25A1ri-tulinius\/\"><em>Words and Worlds<\/em><\/a> and can find his archived <em>Grapevine<\/em> articles <a href=\"https:\/\/grapevine.is\/author\/kari-tulinius\/\">here.<\/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\/5808450\/height\/90\/width\/380\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ffb255\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"380\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icelandic novelist and poet K\u00e1ri Tulinius joins Chad and Lytton this week to talk about three of the darkest sections of T\u00f3mas J\u00f3nsson, Bestseller and the history of this novel&#8217;s reception in Iceland. They also talk about the recent scandal that brought down the Icelandic government&#8212;and how it ties into T\u00f3mas J\u00f3nsson&#8212;about why the book [&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":[6476,66216,66536,18236,1646,66136,66196],"class_list":["post-307076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-two-month-review","tag-chad-post","tag-gudbergur-bergsson","tag-kari-tulinius","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\/307076","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=307076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308446,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307076\/revisions\/308446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}