#114: BTBA Shortlists, The Vegetarian, Diorama

In this week's podcast Tom and Chad talk about the recentlyreleased Best Translated Book Award shortlists, beforemoving on to discussion of the two Reading the World ConversationSeries books for April: The Vegetarian by Han Kang and Diorama by Rocío Cerón. Additional articles and books discussed include, PorochistaKhakpour's review of The Vegetarian in the NYTimes, Don DeLillo's Zero K, Gabriella Coleman'sHacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy, and A.J. Somerset'sArms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun. They also discussed switching up the RTWCS as a whole, withDirty Dust and Graveyard Clay--two translationsof the same book by Máirtín Ó Cadhain--in May, followed by LiuXia's Empty Chairs in June. This does deviate fromthe plan posted here a few months ago, but given the struggleswe've had keeping up--and the opportunity to look at twotranslations of the same book--it seemed worthwhile to shift thingsa bit, alternating from fiction to poetry each month, and givingeveryone participating a little bit more time to read. This week's music is "A Tale Told by an Idiot" by John Congletonand the Nighty Nite. Also, just a reminder, since we changed our podcast feed, youmay need to unsubscribe and resubscribe to the correct feed in iTunes at that link, orright here:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/three-percent-podcast/id434696686 Or, you can just put this feed link into whichever is yourpodcast app of choice:http://threepercent.libsyn.com/rss And, as always, feel free to send any and all comments orquestions to [email protected]. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit threepercentproblem.substack.com