# TMR 28.5: "Is This The Start of a Cheap Romance" [Vineland]

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Podcast: [Two Month Review](https://stenobird.com/podcast/two-month-review-7095612)
Published: 2025-09-25T18:06:00+00:00
Episode link: https://threepercentproblem.substack.com/p/tmr-285-is-this-the-start-of-a-cheap
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## Resource

For the penultimate episode of this season, Andrew Merritt of the Life on Books podcast joined Chad and Kaija to talk about the original arrangment between Vond, Frenesi, and Zoyd, about how, once again, this book is too prophetic in delineating our current situation, about misoneism, about postpartum depression, untested forms of therapy, etc. But the highlight is probably “Pynchon Character or Baseball Player?” featuring some of the wackiest names in all of . . . baseball? Pynchon? Both? This week’s music is “Pynchon Character or Baseball Player?,” which was fully made by AI as a joke. Next week we’ll be talking about the final section of Vineland and will be joined by a mystery guest . . . You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple , Spotify , YouTube , or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Open Letter, Two Month Review , Chad W. Post, Kaija Straumanis , and Brian Wood for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. And subscribe to the Three Percent substack for information about Open Letter Books and literature in translation writ large. Also consider subscribing to the Mining the Dalkey Archive substack and its respective podcast ( Apple , Spotify ) about all things Dalkey Archive. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit threepercentproblem.substack.com

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