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Episode 93: Books We Wanted to Reread Immediately
The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast
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?
Shownotes
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
Episode 76: Author Completionism
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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Episode 80: Facing the Void
The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast
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.
Shownotes
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!
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers o...
Episode 89: Benchwarmer Books
The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast
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!”
Shownotes
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
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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Episode 82: Bucket List Books, Part II
The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast
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.
Shownotes
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...
Episode 95: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2024, Part I
The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast
12/12/24 • 102 min
Trevor and Paul are back with the fourth annual best of the year extravaganza! In Part I, we count down the first half of our en favorite reads of 2024—and we are once again joined by a cast of friends and listeners who share some of their top books and best reading experiences of the year! Another great chance to grow your TBR pile for 2025!
Shownotes
Books
The Postcard, by Anne Berest, translated by Tina Kover
Gabriëlle, by Anne Berest and Claire Berest, translated by Tina Kover
Two Hours, by Alba Arikha
Crooked Seeds, by Karen Jennings
Fathers and Fugitives, by S.J. Naudé, translated by Michiel Heyns
Not Even the Dead, by Juan Gómez Bárcena, translated by Katie Whittemore
Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
The Wind That Lays Waste, by Selva Almada, translated by Chris Andrews
Dead Girls, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
Brickmakers, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
Any Person Is the Only Self, by Elisa Gabbert
The Unreality of Memory, by Elisa Gabbert
Ex Libris, by Anne Fadiman
Rhine Journey, by Anne Schlee
About Looking, by John Berger
The Inkal, by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius
Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo, translated by Douglas J. Weatherford
The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes, by K.C. Constantine
The Premier, by Georges Simenon
Two Thousand Million Man-Power, by Gertrude Trevelyan
Horror Movie, by Paul Tremblay
A County Doctor, by Franz Kafka
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was, by Angélica Gorodischer, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sons, by Robert De Maria
Brothers, by Robert De Maria
Fletch, by Gregory McDonald
Bedlam, by Charlene Elsby
Quarry, by Max Allan Collins
A Tiler’s Afternoon, by Lars Gustfsson, translated by Tom Geddes
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, translated by
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
The Carrying, by Ada Limón
Picnic, Lighting, by Billy Collins
The Peregrine, by J.A. Baker
Bright Dead Things, by Ada Limón
The Hurting King, by Ada Limón
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, compiled by Ada Limón
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West
Clear, by Carys Davies
Malena, by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Philip Boehm
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, by Anne de Marcken
Last Words from Montmartre, by Qin Miaojin, translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich
The Preparation of the Novel, by Roland Barthes, translated by Kate Briggs
Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917 - 1922, by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Jamey Gambrell
The Power of Gentleness: Meditation on the Risk of Living, by Anne Dufourmantelle, translated by Katherine Payne and Vincent Sallé
Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood, by Lucy Jones
Question 7, by Richard Flanagan
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death, by Laura Cumming
H Is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald
The Goshawk, by T.H. White
The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece, by Laura Cumming
The Ice Palace, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan
The Birds, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Michael Barnes and Torbjørn Støverud
James, by Percival Everett
The Trees, by Percival Everett
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
Episode 83: Shelf Control
The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast
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
Episode 81: Audiobooks
The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast
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 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
Episode 84: Our Most Anticipated Releases from the Last Half of 2024
The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast
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...
Episode 58: Books You Can Get Immersed In
The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast
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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Episode 90: Essays, Part I
The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast
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?
Shownotes
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
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