It’s been a while since we last were able to do an official Mookse and Gripes podcast, but Brian and I are back with our semi-annual (and a bit late — sorry) episode about what NYRB Classics is releasing in the second half of 2015.
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Here are the books we talk about (remember, the publication dates can and do change).
Talk
by Linda Rosenkrantz
Publication Date: July 7, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
The Peach Blossom Fan
by K’ung Shang-jen
translated from the Chinese by Chen Shih-hsiang and Harold Acton with the collaboration of Cyril Birch
Publication Date: July 21, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov
by Anton Chekov
illustrated by Nikolay Chekhov
translated from the Russian by Maria Bloshteyn
Publication Date: July 28, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
Dear Illusion: Selected Stories
by Kingsley Amis
Publication Date: August 4, 2015
Mookse review of Dear Illusion.
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
Henri Duchemin and His Shadows
by Emmanuel Bove
translated from the French by Alyson Waters
Publication Date: August 11, 2015
Mookse review of Henri Duchemin and His Shadows.
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
Chocky
by John Wyndham
Publication Date: August 18, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
Fat City
by Leonard Gardner
Publication Date: September 8, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
by Ronald Blythe
Publication Date: September 22, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
Eve’s Hollywood
by Eve Babitz
Publication Date: October 6, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
Shadows of Carcosa: Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Chambers, Machen, Poe, and Other Master of the Weird
Publication Date: October 6, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
by William Sloane
Publication Date: October 6, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising
by Miron Bialoszewski
translated from the Polish by Madeline Levine
Publication Date: October 27, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
The Cretan Runner
by George Psychoundakis
translated from the Greek by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Publication Date: November 3, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
Anti-Education
by Friedrich Nietzsche
translated from the German by Damion Searls
Publication Date: November 3, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
by Barbara Comyns
Publication Date: November 10, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
Dance to the Piper
by Agnes de Mille
Publication Date: November 10, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
A School for Fools
by Sasha Sokolov
translated from the Russian by Alexander Boguslawski
Publication Date: November 17, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
Black Wings Has My Angel
by Elliott Chaze
Publication Date: December 1, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
The Seven Madmen
by Roberto Arlt
translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor
Publication Date: December 8, 2015
See the NYRB Classics publicity page here.
Thanks Trevor & Brian.There are soome interesting books coming up. The Seven Madmen has certainly piqued my interest.