Three Percent Podcast

Adrian Nathan West joined this week's podcast to talk about Marianne Fritz and his translation of The Weight of Things, the first novel in the recently launched Reading the World Book Clubs. Additionally, we talked about Twelve Stations by Tomasz Różycki (the RTWBC poetry selection this month), the ABA Winter Institute, this great article about Chris Jackson and how he's building a black literary movement, and an awful article in Wired by Steve Rushin in which he imagines Super Bowl 100. (There's some static in this one that pops up a bit. Nothing too bad, but, unfortunately, we couldn't edit all of it out. Not to worry, though, we're getting a fix ASAP for the mic glitch.)   Because the Wired piece isn't online, I want to share a few paragraphs so that we can collectively wallow in the crap:   "For its centennial Super Bowl, the NFL returned to its favorite host city, Las Vegas, which first staged the title game 45 years ago. Super Bowl LV shared its initials with Las Vegas but also with Louis Vuitton, the l