Criterion Announces New Ingmar Bergman Box Set
The Criterion Collection has announced a 39-film box set, Ingmar Bergman's Cinema, to be released on November 20!
Episode 4. The Literary Annus Mirabilis: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and T.S. Eliot in 1922
Is 1922 the greatest year in literature? In this episode of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast, I talk about three books that came out that year that put it in the running: James Joyce's Ulysses, Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room, and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Here is 4. The Literary Annus Mirabilis: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and T.S. Eliot in 1922.
William Trevor: “Taking Mr Ravenswood”
Trevor looks at William Trevor's "Taking Mr Ravenswood," from Last Stories. This is one of two stories in the collection that had not been published before.
Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood
This week The Criterion Collection released one of its landmark boxsets, Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood, which contains all six Hollywood films the director and star made together.
July 2018 Books to Read
Summer is officially here! Here are some books coming out in July that have my interest.
Lauren Groff: “Under the Wave”
The week's New Yorker fiction is Lauren Groff's "Under the Wave."
Ten Years!
The Mookse and the Gripes started ten years ago, on July 1, 2008!
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