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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast

Trevor Berrett

In each episode Trevor Berrett and Paul Wilson have a pleasant conversation about books and reading. Visit our blog at http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews. Follow us on Twitter @mookse and @bibliopaul. Email [email protected].
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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast - Episode 93: Books We Wanted to Reread Immediately

Episode 93: Books We Wanted to Reread Immediately

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11/14/24 • 94 min

What books have you wanted to reread as soon as you finished them? Inspired by this fascinating prompt from our friend Nora, we decided to dive into this fun topic. We talk about the categories of books that inspire immediate rereads, share a few of our own examples, and discuss when (or if) we’ve ever actually done it. What books have inspired you to turn the last page and immediately go back to the beginning?

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Books

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, by Rebecca Solnit

Absolution, by Jeff Vandermeer

Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope

The Wood in Midwinter, by Susanna Clarke

On the Calculation of Volume, by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara Haveland

Minor Detail, by Adania Shibli, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette

Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

The Warden, by Anthony Trollope

Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares, translated by Ruth L.C. Simms

Middlemarch, by George Eliot

Moby-Dick: or, The Whale, by Herman Melville

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkein

Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson

David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

Bleak House, by Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens

Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson

A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson

The Ghost Writer, by Philip Roth

The Counterlife, by Philip Roth

Zuckerman Unbound, by Philip Roth

The Anatomy Lesson, by Philip Roth

The Prague Orgy, by Philip Roth

American Pastoral, by Philip Roth

I Married a Communist, by Philip Roth

The Human Stain, by Philip Roth

The Taiga Syndrome, by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana

The Walk, by Robert Walser, translated by Christopher Middleton and Susan Bernofsky

Splitting and Order, by Ted Kooser

Picnic, Lightning, by Billy Collins

James, by Percival Everett

So Long, See You Tomorrow, by William Maxwell

Time Will Darken It, by William Maxwell

The Chateau, by William Maxwell

Felix Holt, by George Eliot

Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee

Other Links

Nora’s Instagram Post

One Bright Book

Episode 49: Rereading

Episode 76: Author Completionism

Episode 77: Poetry

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you’ll continue to join us!

Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you’d like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out!


This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe
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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast - Episode 80: Facing the Void

Episode 80: Facing the Void

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05/16/24 • 85 min

How do you fill the yawning chasm that arises after you finish a great book or a long group read? Is it a time of excitement and possibility, or a daunting and overwhelming trial? Fresh off of finishing several doorstops ourselves, we discuss how we approach what we want to read next.

Summer Book Club

The Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is coming up fast! This year we are only choosing from William Trevor novels. After losing for the last two years, he will not lose again! But what will the book be? As in the past, we will be holding a vote over on Twitter / X! Watch my account on May 21!

The Books:

The Children of Dynmouth (1976)

Fools of Fortune (1983)

Felicia’s Journey (1994)

The Story of Lucy Gault (2002)

Dates:

Voting starts May 21 and runs through the early hours of May 25 for us in the mountain time zone.

We will announce the winner in the next episode!

The episode discussing the winner will be Episode 86, coming out on August 8.

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Books

The Peregrine, by J.L. Carr

Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft

A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara

Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry

Butcher’s Crossing, by John Williams

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young

Ulysses, by James Joyce

The Ambassadors, by Henry James

Tone, by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno

The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse

Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald

The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton

Urne Burial, by Robert Burton

Reinhardt’s Garden, by Mark Haber

The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot

Silas Marner, by George Eliot

The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope

O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather

War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia, by Rebecca West

Grand Hotel, by Vicki Baum, translated by Basil Creighton with revisions by Margot Bettauer Dembo

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz

It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, by Anne De Marcken

The Peasants, by Władysław Reymont, translated by Anna Zaranko

Parade’s End, by Ford Madox Ford

Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley

The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Benjamin Moser

The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Katrina Dodson

Too Much of Life, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson

The Murderer, by Roy Heath

The Oppermans, by Lion Feuchtwanger, translated by James Cleugh with revisions by Joshua Cohen

Green Equinox, by Elizabeth Mavor

Twice Lost, by Phyllis Paul

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, by Manuel Puig, translated by Susan Jill Levine

Elena Knows, by Claudio Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle

A Little Luck, by Claudio Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle

Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee

A Dance to the Music of Time, by Anthony Powell

Anniversaries, by Uwe Johnson, translated by Damion Searls

The Extinction of Irene Rey, by Jennifer Croft

The House on the Strand, by Daphne Du Maurier

Links

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling Substack

Jonathan Golding and Mark Haber on Instagram Live

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you’ll continue to join us!

Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you’d like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out!


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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast - Episode 89: Benchwarmer Books

Episode 89: Benchwarmer Books

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09/19/24 • 85 min

We all have those books that are waiting in the wings, begging for a chance to make their way off the shelf and into our hands. This week, we chat about why some books seem to get stuck on the sidelines, even though we always think they’ll be the next one up. We discuss some of the reasons this happens and each share five of our own benchwarmer books, doing our best to justify why we keep ignoring their pleas to “put me in coach!”

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Books

Horror Movie, by Paul Tremblay

Proust Was a Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer

The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller

Circe, by Madeline Miller

To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolfe

Tess of the D’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy

The Human Stain, by Philip Roth

The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy

Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy

Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov

Absalolm, Absalom!, by William Faulkner

Baudolino, by Umberto Eco

The Gormenghast Novels, by Mervyn Peake

Strong Motion, by Jonathan Franzen

The Twenty-Seventh City, by Jonathan Franzen

Night Watch, by Jayne Anne Phillips

The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Books) Saved My Life, by Andy Miller

We, the Drowned, by Carsten Jensen

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence

The Rainbow, by D.H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence

Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence

Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi

Hurricane Season, by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes

Hons and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford

Romola, by George Eliot

The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen

At Play in the Fields of the Lord, by Peter Matthiessen

The Peregrine, by J.A. Baker

Shadow Country, by Peter Matthiessen

Tigana, by Guy Gabriel Kay

Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell

The Last Colony, by John Scalzi

Old Mans’ War, by John Scalzi

The Ghost Brigade, by John Scalzi

Zoe’s Tale, by John Scalzi

The Adventures of China Iron, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre

Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust

War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs

The Expendable Man, by Dorothy B. Hughes

Felix Holt, the Radical, by George Eliot

Phineas Redux, by Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope

Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope

Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy

Other Links

Jack’s Instagram Post

Episode 31: New Directions, with Mark Haber

Episode 6: Our Fantasy Past (and Future?)

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you’ll continue to join us!

Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you’d like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out!


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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast - Episode 82: Bucket List Books, Part II

Episode 82: Bucket List Books, Part II

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06/13/24 • 97 min

This week we turn back the clock and revisit our very first podcast topic: Bucket List Books! We check in on our progress over the last few years, discuss our philosophies and motivations, look ahead to our next bucket lists books, and share plenty of listener feedback. What books are on your bucket list—and why?

Summer Book Club

The book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault. You can start reading it whenever you want to! We have lined up a guest to join us to discuss the book in Episode 86, coming out on August 8.

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Books

Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, by Patrick Radden Keefe

Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett

Long Island, by Colm Tóibín

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young

A Little Luck, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle

Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott

Festival and Game of the Worlds, by César Aira, translated by Katherine Silver

It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, by Anne de Marcken

War, by Céline, translated by Charlotte Mandell

Death on the Installment Plan, by Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim

London, by Céline

Journey to the End of Night, by Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim

The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor

The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild, by Mathias Énard, translated by Frank Wynne

Compass, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell

The Waves, by Virginia Woolf

Carpenteria, by Alexis Wright

Praiseworthy, by Alexis Wright

Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust

The Stones of Aran, by Tim Robinson

The Black Prince, by Iris Murdoch

Frost in May, by Antonia White

The Mountain Lion, by Jean Stafford

The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon

David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs

Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce

Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer

Don Quixote, by Cervantes, translated by

Annals of the Former World, by John McPhee

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz

The Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor

Satantango, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes

Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace

Paradise Lost, by John Milton

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy

The Voyage Home, by Pat Barker

Parallel Stories, by Péter Nádas, translated by Imre Goldstein

Pilcrow, by Adam Mars-Jones

Cedilla, by Adam Mars-Jones

Caret, by Adam Mars-Jones

Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James

Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa

My Struggle, by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackery

South Riding, by Winifred Holtby

Middlemarch, by George Eliot

To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf

Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

Bleak House, by Charles Dickens

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot

Silas Marner, by George Eliot

Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot

Felix Holt, by George Eliot

Romola, by George Eliot

Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon

Mason & Dixon, by Thomas Pynchon

Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon

The Complete Essays, by Michel de Montaigne, translated by M.A. Screech

Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber

A Summer with Montaigne, by Antoine Compagnon, translated by Tina Kover

The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton

Pilgrimage, by Dorothy Richardson

The Peregrine, by J.A. Baker

Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jenni...

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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast - Episode 83: Shelf Control

Episode 83: Shelf Control

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06/27/24 • 89 min

This week’s episode is all about . . . books! To be specific, Trevor and Paul chat about their book shelves, diving into all kinds of fun topics. How many books do they own? Where do they keep them? How are they organized? Buying and culling habits? Even better, this episode features A LOT of great listener feedback as well. It’s the perfect chance to get nosey about your fellow bibliophiles!

Summer Book Club

The book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault. You can start reading it whenever you want to! We have lined up a guest to join us to discuss the book in Episode 86, coming out on August 8.

Shownotes

Books

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, by George Saunders

Any Person Is the Only Self, by Elisa Gabbert

The Unreality of Memory, by Elisa Gabbert

The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros

Pilgrimage, by Dorothy Richardson

Treasure Island!!!, by Sara Levine

Ride a Cockhorse, by Raymond Kennedy

After Claude, by Iris Owens

The Towers of Trebizond, by Rose Macaulay

South Riding, by Winifred Holtby

O Caledonia, by Elspeth Barker

Lolly Willowes, by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Silas Marner, by George Eliot

Scenes of Clerical Life, by George Eliot

Romola, by George Eliot

Felix Holt, by George Eliot

Middlemarch, by George Eliot

Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot

Mining the Skirts of Light: Essays on George Eliot, by Rohan Maitzen

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you’ll continue to join us!

Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you’d like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out!


This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe
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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast - Episode 81: Audiobooks

Episode 81: Audiobooks

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05/30/24 • 81 min

Looking to fit even more books into your life? We think audiobooks are a great solution. This week we chat about reading in different formats and settings and hen and how we both read audiobooks. We also share some of our favorite audio experiences, books, and authors!

Summer Book Club

The book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 has been chosen! It was pretty darn close!

The episode discussing The Story of Lucy Gault will be Episode 86, coming out on August 8.

Shownotes

Books

The Children of Dynmouth, by William Trevor

Fools of Fortune, by William Trevor

Felicia’s Journey, by William Trevor

The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor

The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse

Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott

The Wind that Lays Waste, by Selva Almada, translated by Chris Andrews

Brickmasters, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott

It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, by Anne de Marcken

Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett

Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett

Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett

The Patron Saint of Liars, by Ann Patchett

State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett

A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh

The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett

Run, by Ann Patchett

Taft, by Ann Patchett

The Magician’s Assistant, by Ann Patchett

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling

The Trees, by Percival Everett

A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan

The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse

Ulysses, by James Joyce

Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle

The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot

Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, by David Grann

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Dead Zone, by Stephen King

Pet Sematary, by Stephen King

The Shining, by Stephen King

The Stand, by Stephen King

Fairy Tale, by Stephen King

You Like It Darker, by Stephen King

Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson

Jesus’ Son, by Denis Johnson

Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson

Lockwood & Co., by Jonathan Stroud

The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman

The Round House, by Louise Erdrich

Middlemarch, by George Eliot

Fourth of July Creek, by Smith Henderson

The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan

The Stormlight Archive, by Brandon Sanderson

Foster, by Claire Keegan

Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent

Day, by Michael Cunningham

Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

“My Purple-Scented Novel,” by Ian McEwan

“Axis,” by Alice Munro

George and Lizzie, by Nancy Pearl

Links

The New Yorker Fiction Podcast

The Writer’s Voice Podcast

Episode 1: Bucket List Books

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you’ll continue to join us!

Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you’d like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out!


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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast - Episode 84: Our Most Anticipated Releases from the Last Half of 2024
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07/11/24 • 85 min

This week we look ahead to the second half of 2024 and each share the five forthcoming books we’re most excited about . . . along with a few honorable mentions, of course.

Which upcoming books are you most looking forward to?

Summer Book Club

The book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault. You can start reading it whenever you want to! We have lined up a guest to join us to discuss the book in Episode 86, coming out on August 8. That’s really soon!

Shownotes

Books

The Warden, by Anthony Trollope

Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo, translated by Douglas J. Weatherford

The Heart in Winter, by Kevin Barry

Nightboat to Tangier, by Kevin Barry

Beatlebone, by Kevin Barry

The City of Bohane, by Kevin Barry

James, by Percival Everett

Clear, by Carys Davies

Canoes, by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore

There Are Rivers in the Sky, by Elif Shafak

The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak

Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr

The B*****d of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak

Marshland, by Otohiko Kaga, translated by Albert Novick

The Mighty Red, by Louise Erdrich

The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich

The Round House, by Louise Erdrich

The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich

Plague of Doves, by Louise Erdrich

LaRose, by Louise Erdrich

Shadow Tag, by Louise Erdrich

The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich

The Painted Drum, by Louise Erdrich

Herscht 07769, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet

Satantago, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes

The Melancholy of Resistance, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes

War & War, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes

Seiobo There Below, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet

The World Goes On, by László Krasznahorkai, translated byGeorge Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet and John Batki

Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet

Colored Television, by Danzy Senna

New People, by Danzy Senna

Symptomatic, by Danzy Senna

Caucasia, by Danzy Senna

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young

Seeing Further, by Esther Kinsky, translated by Caroline Schmidt

Rombo, by Esther Kinsky, translated by Caroline Schmidt

Grove, by Esther Kinsky, translated by Caroline Schmidt

River, by Esther Kinsky, translated by Iain Galbraith

Sister Deborah, by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods

The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft

Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Waiting for the Fear, by Oguz Atay, translated by Ralph Hubbell

The Pornographer, by John McGahern

Command Performance, by Jean Echenoz, translated by Mark Polizzotti

The Stone Door, by Leonora Carrington

The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant

Sun City, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal

We Solve Murders, by Richard Osman

The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman

The Plains, by Federico Falco, translated by Jennifer Croft

A Perfect Cemetery, by Federico Falco, translated by Jennifer Croft

Children of the Ghetto: Star of the Sea, by Elias Khoury, translated by Humphrey Davies

Fog at Noon, by Tomás González, translated by Andrea Rosenberg

The Suicides, by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated by Esther Allen

The Besieged City, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Johnny Lorenz

The Voyage Home, by Pat Barker

A Philosophy of Translation, by Damion Searls

The City and Its Uncertain Walls, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel

Tell Me Everything, by Elizabeth Strout

Every Arc Bends Its Radius, by Sergio de la Pava

A Naked Singularity, by Sergio de la Pava

Question 7, by Richard Flanagan

Is Mother Dead, by Vigdis Hjorth, translate...

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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast - Episode 58: Books You Can Get Immersed In

Episode 58: Books You Can Get Immersed In

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07/13/23 • 78 min

Summer is a perfect time to take a break from real life and completely disappear into a good book. But what makes a book immersive? Plot? Writing? Characters? This week, we explore this topic and share some of our favorite immersive reads.

We also announce the winner of our latest giveaway: a copy of Natalia Ginzburg’s The Dry Heart, which we’ll be discussing for our Summer Book Club during our next episode!

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If you'd like to support the show, visit The Mookse and the Gripes Patreon. Visit our blog at http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews. Follow us on Twitter @mookse and @bibliopaul. Email [email protected].


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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast - Episode 14: Holiday Reading Plans

Episode 14: Holiday Reading Plans

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11/25/21 • 70 min

As the holiday season arrives, Paul and Trevor sit down to make some reading plans.

If you'd like to support the show, visit The Mookse and the Gripes Patreon.

Visit our blog at http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews. Follow us on Twitter @mookse and @bibliopaul. Email [email protected].


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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast - Episode 90: Essays, Part I

Episode 90: Essays, Part I

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast

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10/03/24 • 98 min

This week’s episode is all about essays! From nature writing, to reviews and criticism, to personal reflections and familiar essays, this form offers something for everyone. In this episode, we share our thoughts and experiences, including our go-to varieties and favorite examples. What are yours?

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Books

The Woman in Black, by Susan Hill

Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy

We Solve Murders, by Richard Osman

The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman

Herscht 07769, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet

The Emporium: A Health Resort Horror Story, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Any Person Is the Only Self, by Elisa Gabbert

The Unreality of Memory, by Elisa Gabbert

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, by Anne Fadiman

At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays, by Anne Fadiman

Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader, by Viviane Gornick

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, by Joan Didion

The Empathy Exams, by Leslie Jamison

Make It Scream, Make It Burn, by Leslie Jamison

The Hall of Uselessness, by Simon Leys

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young

The Death of Napoleon, by Simon Leys

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, by Terry Tempest Williams

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice, by Terry Tempest Williams

Erosion, by Terry Tempest Williams

Finding Beauty in a Broken World, by Terry Tempest Williams

The Wild Places, by Robert Macfarlane

Leap, by Terry Tempest Williams

Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, by Terry Tempest Williams

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

Seduction and Betrayal, by Elizabeth Hardwick

The Fun Stuff, by James Wood

Widening the Skirts of Light, by Rohan Maitzen

Feel Free, by Zadi Smith

On Beauty, by Zadie Smith

On Beauty and Being Just, by Elaine Scarry

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you’ll continue to join us!

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