TMR 24.4: "How Unreal All This Is!" [Confidence-Man]

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TMR 24.4: "How Unreal All This Is!" [Confidence-Man]

Nine jokes. Because laughter erases all wickedness.

Chad W. Post

Nov 27, 2024

Transcript

Opening with a couple of rants, this week's podcast is spicy and also tries to make sense of a few of the more perplexing parts of the book. There's a wonderful interlude in this section from the narrator themselves, and, apparently, nine jokes? And a magic trick involving coins. You'll have to listen to understand.

And here's the "Grifters Gonna Grift" t-shirt mentioned in this episode.

This week's music is "Jealousy" by Phantogram.

Next episode will cover all of of The Confidence-Man. You can find the full reading schedule here.

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Discussion about this podcast

Two Month Review

Each “season” of Two Month Review highlights a different new and amazing work of world literature, reading it slowly over the course of eight to nine episodes. Featuring a rotating set of literary guests—from authors to booksellers, critics, and translators—the individual episodes recap a short section of the book and use that as a springboard for a fun (and often irreverent) discussion about literature in a general sense, pop culture, reading approaches, and much more. Talking about great books doesn't need to be deadly serious, and the levity of 2MR makes it accessible to everyone (even if you’re not reading along).

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