TMR 24.5: "Very Charming." [Confidence-Man]

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TMR 24.5: "Very Charming." [Confidence-Man]

The lights go out on the Fidèle

Chad W. Post

Dec 05, 2024

Transcript

Chad, Brian, and Kaija venture into the darkness and turn off the light on Melville's The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, one of the oddest, most slippery books to be included in the Two Month Review. They talk about transcendentalism, self-reliance, Melville's interludes, Jean Giono's Melville, and more.

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

Next episode will cover pages 1-61 of Rodrigo Fresán's Melvill. You can find the full reading schedule here.

This week's music is "The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness" by The National.

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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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