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TMR 21.1: “What Is History?” [Same Bed Different Dreams]

Season 21 of the Two Month Review kicks off with a discussion of Taylor Swift and the demise of alt-weeklies, then segues into a long discussion about the opening party scene in Same Bed Different Dreams. Chad and Brian talk about what's real and not in both the party scene and the "Dream One" section about the Korean ...

TMR Season 21: Ed Park’s SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS

We're back! Due to a change in how one logs into University of Rochester hosted websites and services, I've been blocked from accessing this website for over a month now . . . But it's all resolved (still can't submit course adoptions to B&N College Stores—who happen to be on credit hold with our distributor 🙄—but ...

New Issues: Rattapallax and PEN America

After briefly lamenting the fact that there’s not a lot of places to turn to to learn about/gain exposure to international poetry, I opened my mail and found the new issue of Rattapallax, which, along with CALQUE and Circumference, is one of the best sources for poetry in translation. This particular issue kicks off by ...

The Invisible Library

Started in a post by Levi Stahl on Ivebeenreadinglately, the Invisible Library idea is catching on and now has it’s own website. Earlier this summer, inspired by book-filled novels by Graham Greene and Vladimir Nabokov, I hit upon the idea of using the Internet to start a catalog of books that exist only within ...