{"id":425582,"date":"2019-09-12T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?p=425582"},"modified":"2019-09-12T13:43:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:43:02","slug":"tmr-9-08-monsterhuman-by-kjersti-skomsvold-pgs-316-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2019\/09\/12\/tmr-9-08-monsterhuman-by-kjersti-skomsvold-pgs-316-360\/","title":{"rendered":"TMR 9.08: Monsterhuman by Kjersti Skomsvold (pgs 316-360)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Brian is AWOL BUT Patrick Smith brings his A-game. He and Chad talk about the self-conscious humor in\u00a0<em>Monsterhuman<\/em>, awkward interactions, the shape and evolution of the narrative as a whole, some info about\u00a0<em>The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am<\/em>, and much more. A very fun episode that opened as awkwardly as ever . . .<\/p>\n<p>Only two episodes left! And because Chad&#8217;s going to be in London for a week, we&#8217;ll be broadcasting one more<em>\u00a0<\/em>episode on YouTube this week. (The audio podcast version will release as usual on Thursday 9\/19.) That said, here are links to the final two YouTube streams: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z6F3vaZi-to\">Thursday, September 12<\/a> (pgs 360-406), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5_8SA7IEma4\">Wednesday, September 25<\/a> (pgs 407-448).<\/p>\n<p>Also, all of our past episodes are available on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCicUncIFZZEdqt8pka0U05g?view_as=subscriber\">YouTube channel<\/a> in case you want to catch up on anything.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s music is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ktPWNGdZZys\">Rayrunner<\/a>&#8221; by Hallelujah the Hills.<\/p>\n<p>Season 10 will be the first English-language title to be included, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsd.com\/9781771963077\/ducks-newburyport\/\"><em>Ducks, Newburyport\u00a0<\/em>by Lucy Ellmann<\/a>, which was just named to the Booker SHORTLIST!!<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/open_letter\">Open Letter,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadwpost\">Chad Post,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianWood_\">Brian Wood<\/a> for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. And follow Patrick on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTSmith_Vt\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/green_mountain_rambler\/\">Instagram<\/a> for hot takes and pictures of Vermont bookstores.<\/p>\n<p>And be sure to preorder Brian&#8217;s book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/products\/joytime-killbox\"><em>Joytime Killbox<\/em><\/a>, which is coming out this fall from BOA Editions.<\/p>\n<p>You can find all the Two Month Review posts by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/category\/two-month-review\/\">clicking here.<\/a> And be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/two-month-review\/id1253564436\">leave us a review on iTunes.<\/a> It really helps people to discover the podcast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/11198543\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ffaf46\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Brian is AWOL BUT Patrick Smith brings his A-game. 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A very fun episode that opened as awkwardly as ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":401712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67426],"tags":[69272,69302,69312,52096],"class_list":["post-425582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-two-month-review","tag-becky-crook","tag-kjersti-skomsvold","tag-monsterhuman","tag-p-t-smith"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425582","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=425582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425602,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425582\/revisions\/425602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}