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Host with @bibliopaul of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast. Reviews of books and film. Judge of the 2017 Best Translated Book Award.

Happy May! #Reading #BookReel #Bookstagram #Readin

📚April Releases from @nyrbooks I had not heard o

In our new episode @bibliopaul and I got to sit do

A few years back, NYRB Classics published Inès Cag

My first time reading Peter Taylor. #PeterTaylor #

Maybe I go a bit overboard when asked about favori

And that cover—from Kay Sage’s The Passage—perfect

Marie NDiaye’s work, which I love, often explores

Responding to a comment on my dusty unread books r

What books have been sitting unread on your shelf

I’m absolutely loving getting better prepared to t

What can you read while waiting for @markhaber ‘s

Episode 130 is up! Here @bibliopaul and I start a

I think Richard Wright said it well when he wrote

One of my favorite memories from our trip to Engla

Spark’s 1960 novel The Ballad of Peckham Rye is th

One of my favorite books is Stone Upon Stone, by W

My copy of William H. Gass’s The Tunnel has arrive

One of my book clubs is reading Steven L. Peck’s 2

Episode 129 is live! @bibliopaul and I talk to @lu

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