Two Month Review

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...

Chad, Brian, and Kaija finish up their discussion of  Tripticks , which basically devolves into reading out the funniest lines they can find from the this trippy-dippy, wild-ass ending. Some analysis is made of the deconstruction of male narratives, the Beats, the Dashiell Hammett of it all, and more, but come prepared for some fun and laughs.  This week's music is " How Does the Story Go? " by Sp...

NIGHTRIPPPER!!!!!!!!!! This week's music is " Dirty Boots " by Sonic Youth. You can watch next week's discussion of Tripticks live on YouTube. (Reading schedule can be found here .) And you can find all previous seasons of TMR on our YouTube channel . And you can support us at Patreon and get bonus content before anyone else, along with other rewards, the opportunity to easily communicate with the...

Kaija Straumanis filled in for a domestically distressed Brian, and Chad went all psych0-philosophical on this week's episode, talking about schizoid personality splits, R. D. Laing, reading the various parts of Passages  simultaneously, postulating wild hot takes, and saying "fuck off" to a wide swath of bad actors. (Looking at you, Kanye.)  This week's music is " Outlook for the Future " by Inve...

This week, Brian, Chad, and Kaija discuss the first half of  Passages , arguable Quin's most poetic book, and definitely most experimental one to date. They talk about the way the two characters try to define themselves and create their identities, flow versus points, geometry and parallax, masks and threesomes, and more. It's a dense—yet fun—episode, much in keeping with the text itself! This wee...

Kaija Straumanis joins Chad and Brian this week to talk about orchids, hot takes ( did  S. sleep with L.?? how exactly did she die?), creepy British dudes, symmetry in  Three , Ann Quin's statement on threesomes, the ambiguity of the text, and much more.  This week's music is " What Went Down " by Foals. You can watch next week's discussion of Passage live on YouTube at 4pm ET on Thursday, Decembe...

Chad and Bria dive into  Three , discussing the humor of the dialogue, the poetic-cinematic techniques Quin employs, monogamy and marriage, whether or not L was a collaborationist or worse, the importance of the number three, the play-like elements of the books, anti-mimetic writing, and much more. It's a fun episode complete with dog barks, laughs, unanswered questions, and a decent amount of ins...

Dead dummies, drowned tramps, resolving the Oedipal complex, the forever incompleteness of the number "3," sex, the sea, slapstick comedy, irony, competing desires of domesticity versus the desire to escape, the beautiful ending and the reverse coda, and much more is discussed on this episode covering the whole of Ann Quin's Berg.  Now Chad and Brian move on to Quin's second novel,  Three , which...

Chad and Brian dive into the first half of Berg  this episode, mispronouncing words, talking about the literary scene Quin came out of, whether or not Berg/Greb is an incel, the humor found in the book, and more. (Inevitably there's a dig at Ohio  somewhere in this recording.)  This week's music is " When a Woman Is Around " byUnloved. You can watch next week's discussion of Berg live on YouTube a...

The eighteenth season of the Two Month Review is all about Ann Quin's books—all four novels and her collected stories and fragments—and starts off with an overview of who she was, the context of experimental British writing in the 1960s, how/why Quin has been underappreciated, some info on supplementary critical materials, and much more.  This week's music is " HaHaHome " by twen. You can watch ne...