Two Month Review

And they're off! Brian and Chad start remembering all that they're supposed to remember about the first two volumes of the trilogy (green cows!) and get oriented with the ex-Writer on the plane (and in the desert reading and burning Ada, or Ardor ), fall right back into Fresan's humor, cynicism, bits on love, and everything else!  This week's music is "Airplane Rider" by Air Miami. Next week we'll...

Maybe not the most informative of recaps, but Brian and Chad discuss what the love about Fresán's writing, things they recall from the first two volumes of the trilogy, ideas about what to maybe expect ( Dracula  + Proust), peppered with the usual amount of jokes and antics. This week's music is " Pontius Pilate's Home Movies " by The New Pornographers. Next week we'll be covering pages 1-82 ( ful...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: Rodrigo Fresán himself joins Chad and...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week's episode is quite possibly...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week, Chad and Brian talk about t...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: In his most dangerous gag to date, Cha...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week's episode brings us back to...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: Chad and Brian go deep into the underl...

  Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: Chad reaches a new quarantine low at...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This episode got off to a rough start,...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: Aside from talking about how we're all...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: Chad, Brian, and special guest Mark Ha...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: In this week's preview episode for Sea...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: As a special bonus episode, both Rodri...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: We did it! After two months, eleven ep...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: It's another 2MR review with just Chad...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: On this week's Two Month Review, Tom R...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: On this week's Two Month Review, Chad...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week, Jonathan Lethem ( Motherles...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week,  Speculative Fiction in Tra...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week's episode is all about Penel...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week, author and journalist  Mark...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the  The Invented Part  and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on  The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week, Jeremy Garber from  Powells...

Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and  The Dreamed Part  seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. This was our first actual TMR episode (not counting the one that introduced the concept), a...

The final episode of this season focuses on  The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments , focusing on the titular story/unfinished novel, along with a few other shorter pieces. The gang looks back at all of Ann Quin's books, speculate on what her career might have been had she lived another couple decades, whether of not she should be taught in a creative writing class, and more.  This week's mus...