Three Percent Podcast

In this week's podcast we talk about the forthcoming World Cup of Literature and about some of the summer books that we're both looking forward to reading. Almost all are translations; a few are authors you may have already heard of (Knausgaard); and others will be new to a lot of listeners. In our "Rants and Raves" section, Chad raves about a poem (?!--seriously, but it's a really depressing one), and Tom takes down a particular aspect of the Internet.    And don't forget that we have a dedicated podcast email address now, so send your own podcast-related rants, raves, and ideas to threepercentpodcast@gmail.com.   UPDATE   Michael Orthofer succinctly corrected all the bull I said about where the World Cup teams come from and how all that works. So, to clarify:   "First: League strength has NOTHING to do with this (would be perverse if it did, since many leagues are filled with foreign players . . . )   "Second: FIFA has six geographic confederations -- the European one is UEFA, North/Central America CONCACAF