Three Percent Podcast

Three Percent Podcast


Latest Episodes

TMR 24.4: "How Unreal All This Is!" [Confidence-Man]
November 29, 2024

[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to feed. The other one will be going away in the near future.] Opening with a couple of rants, this week's podcast is spicy and also trie

TMR 24.3: "You Are a Punster" [Confidence-Man]
November 22, 2024

[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to feed. The other one will be going away in the near future.] "Grifters Gonna Grift" merchandise coming soon! This episode exposes just

TMR 24.2: "Trust Me, Nature Is Health" [Confidence-Man]
November 15, 2024

[Note: If you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, please resubscribe to feed. The other one will be going away in the near future.] Chad and Kaija go it alone this week, talking about some of the more uncom

TMR 24.1: "May I Ask if You Have Confidence?" [Confidence-Man]
November 07, 2024

Not the happiest day in which to record a podcast, but Chad, Brian, and Kaija speak their fears and then dive into Melville'sConfidence-Man, talking about grifters, the value of footnotes, and just h

TMR Supplement #2: "Joytime Killbox" by Brian Wood
November 01, 2024

After referencing on hundreds of TMR episodes, we finally break it down with the author himself! Conversation includes ideas about short stories and how they function, the nature of endings, and how

Three Percent #195: Lori Feathers on Marguerite Young
October 18, 2024

This week, Lori Feathers joins Chad to talk about "," a Substack project dedicated to reading and talking aboutMarguerite Young's.They discuss the nature of the Substack, anecdotes about Young, how

TMR Supplement #1: "Dear Dickhead" by Virginie Despentes & Frank Wynne
October 16, 2024

On the first ever one-off episode of the Two Month Review, Chad breaks down Virginie Despentes's Dear Dickhead for Kaija and Brian, a novel about . . . well, just listen. (It'll be more fun if you don

Three Percent #194: Mark Haber, "Lesser Ruins"
October 09, 2024

Today's episode features Mark Haber talking about his brand new novel,, his influence, the Bernhard thing, going from bookselling to publishing, and much more. It's a fun conversation that goes deep

Three Percent #193: K.E. Semmel, "Book of Losman"
September 18, 2024

On this week's podcast, Kyle Semmeltranslator from the Danish and author ofdiscusses his debut novel, life as a translator, articles he wrote on Tourette's Syndrome and Author-Transaltors, how he t

Three Percent #191: Pilar Adón, "Of Beasts and Fowls"
September 09, 2024

In this special edition of the podcast, Chad talks with Pilar Adn aboutthe forthcoming(translated by Katie Whittemore), her general writing life, two movies he thought she might have seen that res