Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Joshua Ferris’s “The Fragments” was originally published in the April 29, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor The last thing I read by Joshua Ferris was “The Pilot,” the piece included when
Carola Saavedra’s “Every Tuesday” (tr. from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin) is the fifth story in Granta 121: The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists. For an overview of the issue and links to my reviews of its other stories, please click here. This piece is an excerpt from Saavedra’s novel Toda Terça. It’s understandable why a list of
For this bonus episode of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast, Trevor is joined by Tara of booksexyreview.com to discuss the Best Translated Book Award, in particular this year’s shortlist. http://traffic.libsyn.com/mookse/MookseBonus002.m4a Show Notes: Literature in Translation: Our Stories A Brief History of the Best Translated Book Award (00:06:35) Past Winners, Finalists, and Random Tangents (00:09:10)
Though I haven’t been enjoying Saunders’ recent work, I have enjoyed him so much in the past that I’m always hopeful when I get my hands on something “new” (really, this story was originally published in January 2010 in McSweeney’s 33 (the issue that was a Sunday-edition sized newspaper), though it has been revised for this publication). When I
Today, they announced the shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The winner will be announced on June 5. Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson May We Be Forgiven, by A.M. Homes Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple NW, by Zadie Smith
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