Written Reviews

Jenny Offill: Sparky!

August 29, 2014

Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation, one of the best novels of 2014, has also come out with one of the best children’s books of 2014. Trevor reviews Offill’s latest children’s book, Sparky. Read the full post.

Bonus Episode: Conversation with Gregg Sutter about Elmore Leonard

August 28, 2014

Today, The Library of America is releasing Elmore Leonard: Four Novels of the 1970s, which features Fifty-Two Pickup, Swag, The Unknown Man No. 89, and The Switch. This is the first of three planned volumes. In this bonus episode of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast, Trevor interviews the volume’s editor, Gregg Sutter, who was Elmore Leonard’s researcher from 1981 until Mr. Leonard’s death on August 20, 2013. Read the shownotes and listen the podcast.

Alice Munro: “The Found Boat”

August 27, 2014

Trevor and Betsy discuss “The Found Boat,” from Alice Munro’s short story collection Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You.

Joshua Ferris: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

August 26, 2014

Lee reviews Joshua Ferris’s To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, which is on this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist. Read the full post.

Joseph O’Neill: “The Referees”

August 25, 2014

This week’s story from The New Yorker is Joseph O’Neill’s “The Referees.” Read the full post.

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