This week, Trevor and Paul have a little fun with assigned reading. Yes, you heard that right! First they chat a bit about their histories with assigned reading, both in school and in reading groups, before diving into a couple of short stories they assigned each other. The second half of the episode is a deep dive into two stunning stories: A Manual For Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin and The Ice Wagon Going Down The Street by Mavis Gallant. If you want to read along before listening, you can find links to the full text of both stories in the show notes. You won’t regret it!
We hope you enjoy this episode!
Links for this episode!
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- Full text of “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” by Lucia Berlin
- Full text of “The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street,” by Mavis Gallant
- Francine Prose on “The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street” in Brick
- Jhumpa Lahiri interviews Mavis Gallant for Granta
- Hemingway: A Film by Kenneth Burns and Lynn Novick
- The Green Knight, directed by David Lowery
- The Employees — Virtual Book Talk with Olga Ravn and Martin Aitken
All of the books brought up in this episode!
- The Art of Flight, by Sergio Pitol, translated by George Henson
- Devil House, by John Darnielle
- The Employees, by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken
- Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
- Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
- Angels in America, by Tony Kushner
- The Odyssey, by Homer
- A Manual for Cleaning Women, by Lucia Berlin
- Paris Stories, by Mavis Gallant
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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every few weeks we are talking about some bookish topic or another.
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