Two Month Review
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Each “season” of Two Month Review highlights a different new and amazing work of world literature, reading it slowly over the course of eight to nine episodes. Featuring a rotating set of literary guests—from authors to booksellers, critics, and translators—the individual episodes recap a short section of the book and use that as a springboard for a fun (and often irreverent) discussion about literature in a general sense, pop culture, reading approaches, and much more. Talking about great books doesn't need to be deadly serious, and the levity of 2MR makes it accessible to everyone (even if you’re not reading along).
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TMR 31.8: "A Humanizing of Human Beings" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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TMR 31.7: "Morgenstern or Mohrenfern or Whatever" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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TMR 31.6: "Our Children Are Not Our Possessions" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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TMR 31.5: "I Could Have Been The Conductor of a Shawm Band" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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TMR 31.4: "When I Was a Barge" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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TMR 31.3: "Eating Is an Act of Consciousness" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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TMR 31.2: "You're Just Not Used to Being Treated Like a Lady" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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TMR 31.1: "I Had to Sleep for 808 Years" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
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May 29, 2026 |
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TMR 30.8: "The Fatherland or Death!" [I the Supreme]
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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TMR 30.7: "I Should Like to See You Do What I Do!" [I the Supreme]
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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TMR 30.6: "Second-Rate Attilas of the Disunited Provinces" [I the Supreme]
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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TMR 30.5: "I Am Highly Optimistic But Not Amnesiac" [I the Supreme]
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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TMR 30.4: "Construction of the Super-Race by Means of Nutrition" [I the Supreme]
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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TMR 30.3: "Man Is an Idiot" [I the Supreme]
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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TMR 30.2: "Representation of Writing As Representation" [I the Supreme]
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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TMR 30.1: "They're Daring to Parody My Supreme Decrees Now" [I the Supreme]
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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TMR 29.12: "Writing Is Hiding From History" [The Tunnel]
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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TMR 29.11: "I Appreciate That Answer" [The Tunnel]
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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TMR 29.10: "Curve Him and Unnerve Him" [The Tunnel]
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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TMR 29.9: "To Orchestrate the Common Hate" [The Tunnel]
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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TMR 29.8: "It Is Betty Boop" [The Tunnel]
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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TMR 29.7: "Men Are Tormented by Men" [The Tunnel]
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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TMR 29.6: "Welcome to History" [The Tunnel]
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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TMR 29.5: "Historians Make History" [The Tunnel]
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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TMR 29.4: "What Principle Is Not a Prejudice?" [The Tunnel]
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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TMR 29.3: "I Think He Was Loud Because He Was Alone" [The Tunnel]
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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TMR 29.2: "Our Proper Bliss Depends on What We Blame" [The Tunnel]
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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TMR 29.1: "We Must Study the Fascism of the Heart" [The Tunnel]
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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TMR 28.6: "Preparation H" [Vineland]
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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TMR 28.5: "Is This The Start of a Cheap Romance" [Vineland]
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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TMR 28.4: "The People's Republic of Rock and Roll" [Vineland]
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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TMR 28.3: "This Perhaps Demented Karmology Hustle" [Vineland]
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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TMR 28.2: "A Sort of Esalen Institute for Lady Asskickers" [Vineland]
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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TMR 28.1: "They Love it When You Owe Money" [Vineland]
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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TMR 27.8: "A Border, Gentlemen, Is For Crossing" [Tomb of Sand]
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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TMR 27.7: "She, The Child, The Buddha" [Tomb of Sand]
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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TMR 27.6: "The Calculus Gets Scrambled" ["Tomb of Sand"]
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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TMR 27.5: "Translation Isn't Easy" [Tomb of Sand]
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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TMR 27.4: "Rag-Tag Shoulder Sack-Toting Gang" [Tomb of Sand]
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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TMR 27.3: "And She Begins to Make Music" [Tomb of Sand]
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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TMR 27.2: "I Am the Wishing Tree" [Tomb of Sand]
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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TMR 27.1: "Dude, Can't You Laugh?" [Tomb of Sand]
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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TMR 26.9: "The Two Women Kissed and Separated " [The Golden Notebook]
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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TMR 26.8: "I No Longer Had a Sense of Time" [The Golden Notebook]
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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TMR 26.7: "And What Is the Next Stage?" [The Golden Notebook]
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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TMR 26.6: "The Dream Marked a Change in Anna" [The Golden Notebook]
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May 29, 2025 |
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TMR 26.5: "Everything Will Be As Usual, In Fact" [The Golden Notebook]
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May 23, 2025 |
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TMR 26.4: "You Can Be Very, Very Serious in a Musical" [The Golden Notebook]
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May 15, 2025 |
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TMR 26.3: "Literature Is Analysis After the Event" [The Golden Notebook]
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May 08, 2025 |
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TMR 26.2: "Mashopi Hotel" [The Golden Notebook]
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May 01, 2025 |
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TMR 26.1: "Chaos, That's the Point" [The Golden Notebook]
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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TMR 25.9: "Discipline and Anarchy" [Empire of the Senseless]
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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TMR 25.8: "The USA Is a Dead Nation" [Empire of the Senseless]
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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TMR 25.7: "This Fortune Stuff Is Bullshit" [Empire of the Senseless]
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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TMR 25.6: "It Was a Dark Night for Pirates" [Empire of the Senseless]
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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TMR 25.5: "I Was Befriending My Anger" [James]
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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TMR 25.4: "Obvious Confidence Scheme" [James]
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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TMR 25.3: "If You're Not Making Mistakes, You're Not Learning" [James]
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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TMR 25.2: "With My Pencil, I Wrote Myself into Being" [JAMES]
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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TMR 25.1: "Papa, why do we have to learn this?" [JAMES]
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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TMR 24.10: "What Comes Next Is What Remains" [Melvill]
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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TMR 24.9: "I Hate Thinking about Thinking about Myself Like This" [Melvill]
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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TMR 24.8: "Fampiro" [Melvill]
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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TMR 24.7: "The White Delirium" [Melvill]
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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TMR 24.6: "Liquidate It At Cost" [Melvill]
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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TMR 24.5: "Very Charming." [Confidence-Man]
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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TMR 24.4: "How Unreal All This Is!" [Confidence-Man]
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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TMR 24.3: "You Are a Punster" [Confidence-Man]
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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TMR 24.2: "Trust Me, Nature Is Health" [Confidence-Man]
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Welcome! And New TMR Episode
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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TMR 24.1: "May I Ask if You Have Confidence?" [Confidence-Man]
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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TMR Supplement #2: "Joytime Killbox" by Brian Wood
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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TMR Supplement #1: "Dear Dickhead" by Virginie Despentes & Frank Wynne
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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TMR 23.9: "My Maps Are Out of Date" [Lanark]
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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TMR 23.8: "The Critic Fights Back" [Lanark]
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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TMR 23.7: "Not a Domestic Man" [Lanark]
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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TMR 23:6 "Upon This Spot King Edward Had Lunch After Stalking" [Lanark]
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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TMR 23.5: "His Brain Rotten with Resentful Dreams" [Lanark]
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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TMR 23.4: “Homo A Se Coctum Esumque Crustum Est Hoc Fecit Separation” [Lanark]
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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TMR 23.3: "Normal Underworlds" [Lanark]
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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TMR 23.2: "Can He Help Lanark Out of Hell?" [LANARK]
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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TMR 23.1: "Book Three" [Lanark]
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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TMR 22.10: "Butterfly Coma" [Praiseworthy]
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May 11, 2024 |
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TMR 22.9: "One Donkey at a Time" [Praiseworthy]
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May 06, 2024 |
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TMR 22.8: "Madder Than White Heat" [Praiseworthy]
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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TMR 22.7: "@CheapIllegalPeopleSmuggler" [Praiseworthy]
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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TMR 22.6: "Nuisance Bugger Donkeys" [Praiseworthy]
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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TMR 22.5: "Maximum Superhero Cop-God" [Praiseworthy]
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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TMR 22.4: "Devotion to Off-Grid Religions" [Praiseworthy]
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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TMR 22.3: "Tommyhawk!" [Praiseworthy]
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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TMR 22.2: "God Donkey" [Praiseworthy]
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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TMR 22.1: "Kick the Haze in its Guts" [Praiseworthy]
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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TMR 21.8: "MOON IS A MENACE" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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TMR 21.7: "Taro Tsujimoto" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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TMR 21.6: "Interview with a Mirror" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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TMR 21.5: "A-Bomb Destroys Downtown Buffalo" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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TMR 21.4: "The Second Bae" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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TMR 21.3: "Wildwording" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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TMR 21.2: "2333" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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TMR 21.1: "What Is History?" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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TMR 20.8: "Making It Up As We Goes Along" [MULLIGAN STEW]
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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TMR 20.7: "Ambidextriprestigigit!" [MULLIGAN STEW]
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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TMR 20.6: "Nameless Shamelessness" [MULLIGAN STEW]
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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TMR 20.5: "Bubble in My Fizziness" [MULLIGAN STEW]
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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TMR 20.4: "The Sweat of Love" [MULLIGAN STEW]
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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TMR 20.3: "Drunken Condition of Both Teams" [MULLIGAN STEW]
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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TMR 20.2: "THE ULTIMATE IN BIZARRE BEAUTY!!" [MULLIGAN STEW]
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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TMR 20.1: "Then You Do Not Approve of Nabokov?" [MULLIGAN STEW]
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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TMR 19.12: "Fill Up with Karmas" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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TMR 19.11 "Exit and No Return and Gone Forever" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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TMR 19.10: "The Fine Art of Leaving Something Out" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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TMR 19.9: "The Dream of the Invention of the Memory, Etc." [THE REMEMBERED PART]
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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TMR 19.8: "Notes for a Theory of the Fabric of Memory" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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TMR 19.7: "The Good Rememberer (A How-To Guide)" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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TMR 19.6: "The Impossibility of Painting with Watercolors in the Rain" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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TMR 19.5: "The Burning Gaze of Vladimir Nabokov" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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TMR 19.4: "Read like Dracula and write like Frankenstein!" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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TMR 19.3: "DREAM + MEMORY = INVENTION" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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TMR 19.2: "Now That Everything That Has To Happen Has Happened" [THE REMEMBERED PART]
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May 29, 2023 |
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TMR 19.1: Where Are We At? [THE REMEMBERED PART]
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May 11, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 22: "The Dream Ends" [THE DREAMED PART]
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May 09, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 21: "IKEA" [THE DREAMED PART]
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May 09, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 20: "Living in Pandemica" [THE DREAMED PART]
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May 08, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 19: "This Is a Bullshot" [THE DREAMED PART]
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May 08, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 18: "The Past Is a Broken Toy That Everyone Fixes in His Own Way" [THE DREAMED PART]
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May 07, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 17: "Adaptations" [THE DREAMED PART]
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May 07, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 16: "Wuthering Heights Is Weird" [THE DREAMED PART]
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May 01, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 14: "Tulpas" [THE DREAMED PART]
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 14: "What We Talk About When We Talk About Dreaming" [THE DREAMED PART]
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 13: "Who Dreams the Dreamer" [THE DREAMED PART]
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 12: THE DREAMED PART ["We Remember Everything"]
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 11: The Author Himself!
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 10: THE INVENTED PART [Pgs. 441-552]
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 9: THE INVENTED PART [Pgs. 405-440]
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 8: THE INVENTED PART [Pgs. 361-404]
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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TMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 7: THE INVENTED PART [Pgs. 301-360]
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Fresán Relisten Ep. 6: The Invented Part [Pgs. 231-300]
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Fresán Relisten Ep. 5: The Invented Part [Pgs. 208-230]
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Fresán Relisten Ep. 4: The Invented Part [Pgs. 99-207]
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Fresán Relisten Ep. 3: The Invented Part [Pgs. 46-98]
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Fresán Relisten Ep. 2: The Invented Part [Pgs. 1-45]
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Fresán Relisten Ep. 1: The Invented Part [Introduction]
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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TMR 18.10: "Looks Like a Lump of Shit to Me" [Ann Quin]
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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TMR 18.9: "Your Name? Your Trauma?" [Ann Quin]
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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TMR 18.8: "No. 1 X-Wife" [Ann Quin]
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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TMR 18.7: "I Would Like To Exhaust the Limits of the Possible" [Ann Quin]
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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TMR 18.6: "Forms Forming Themselves" [Ann Quin]
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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TMR 18.5: "Reads Without Turning a Page" [Ann Quin]
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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TMR 18.4: "Pursuit to the Point of Indiscretion" [Ann Quin]
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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TMR 18.3: "Why This Eternal Escaping?" [Ann Quin]
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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TMR 18.2: "BUY BERG'S BEST HAIR TONIC" [Ann Quin]
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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TMR 18.1: Who Was Ann Quin?
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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TMR 17.8: "On This Bed, On This Same Mattress" [Eltit + Hahn]
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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TMR 17.7: "I Erased Your Face" [Eltit + Hahn]
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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TMR 17.6: "The Letters Defeated You" [Eltit + Hahn]
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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TMR 17.5: "Our Organicity" [Eltit + Hahn]
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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TMR 17.4: "I Watched the Death Machine" [Eltit + Hahn]
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May 26, 2022 |
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TMR 17.3: "Mónica & Carlos & Tony" [Eltit + Hahn]
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May 18, 2022 |
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17.2: "Pure Hatred" [Eltit + Hahn]
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May 12, 2022 |
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TMR 17.1: "You Behaved Like a Dog"
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May 05, 2022 |
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TMR 16.13: "Fürst Pückler" [2666]
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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TMR 16.12: "Senselessness" [2666]
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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TMR 16.11: "Hello, Big German" [2666]
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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TMR 16.10: "Three Men and a Congresswoman" [2666]
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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TMR 16.9: "Repetition" [2666]
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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TMR 16.8: "Klaus Haas" [2666]
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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TMR 16.7: "The Next Dead Woman" [2666]
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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TMR 16.6: "Fire, Walk With Me" [2666]
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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TMR 16.5: "DANGER MONEY FOOD STARS USEFULNESS" [2666]
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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TMR 16.4: "Ramon Llull and His Fantastic Machine" [2666]
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Oct 29, 2021 |