TMR 25.3: "If You're Not Making Mistakes, You're Not Learning" [James]

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TMR 25.3: "If You're Not Making Mistakes, You're Not Learning" [James]

Anxiety abounds, but James finally runs

Chad W. Post

Feb 28, 2025

Transcript

The most anxiety-filled section of James is under discussion this week, as we find out the horrific fate of Little George, and James is both beaten and then sold to a minstrel show. There are also questions raised about Huck that are quite intriguing, and a lot of masks, metaphors, and irony.

This week's music is "Ends Meet" by Panda Bear, mostly because his new album is called Sinister Grift, which is the most TMR album title imaginable.

Next week we’ll cover pages 124-185 (through the end of Part I) of James. You can find the complete reading schedule here.

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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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