Three Percent Podcast

After a bit of a hiatus, Tom Roberge and Chad W. Post are back to discuss what we mean when we say that a book is "difficult." They use a range of examples, from Finnegans Wake to Mrs. Dalloway to define a few different categories of reading "difficulty," such as, not being compelled, and having to read a book like a puzzle.    For a Three Percent podcast, this one is pretty serious, and even more interesting than usual. And for those who are interested, here's a list of all the books/artists discussed this week:   Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin Finnegans Wake by James Joyce The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolff P.T. Anderson's movies The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Hawthorne & Child by Keith Ridgway Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger A Wilderness of Error by Errol Morris