About the Site
The Mookse and the Gripes is a website dedicated to literature and film, from any part of the world and from any era. It was created in July 2008. In October of 2012, The Mookse and the Gripes podcast, a podcast primarily dedicated to the books published by NYRB Classics, was born.
About the Contributors
Trevor Berrett
Trevor created and edits The Mookse and the Gripes. He is also a co-host on The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast and The Eclipse Viewer Podcast. You can follow him on Twitter (@mookse).
You can read his posts here.
Adrienne Cash
Adrienne is a wife and mother, reviewing books and The New Yorker fiction at The Story Is Enough and her small town paper. She has dabbled in editing, library science, and goat herding, finally admitting that she wants to be a writer when she grows up.
You can read her posts here.
Amanda Sarasien
Amanda is a writer and literary translator. She also writes regularly for the website Reading in Translation. You can find more about her on her website here and by following her on Twitter (@amandasarasien).
You can read her posts here.
Bénédicte Williams
Bénédicte moved to Budapest, Hungary, several years ago, and has since tried to satisfy her boundless appetite for all things Central and Eastern Europe by reading and writing about fiction and non-fiction from and about the region. She blogs about all this in French at Passage à l’Est and, in English, here on The Mookse and the Gripes. When she does not write, she translates and teaches.
You can read her posts here.
Betsy Pelz
Betsy writes about The New Yorker fiction and poetry. She and Trevor are currently working their way through the complete works of Alice Munro in chronological order.
You can read her posts here.
Brian Berrett
Brian is a co-host on The Mookse and the Gripes podcast.
You can listen to his podcasts here.
Chris Phillips
Chris is a consultant for the British government. He grew up in Lancashire, England, and now splits his time between Kabul, Afghanistan, and his home in North Devon, where he lives with his wife Samantha and a number of animals. He reads for pleasure and cannot be followed on Twitter.
You can read his posts here.
Dwight
Dwight blogs at A Common Reader, providing a resource for classics, hard-to-find books, and non-fiction works. He occasionally posts on his experiences homeschooling his two boys. You can follow him on Twitter (@DwightGreenCR).
You can read his posts here.
Lee Monks
Lee is an English graduate from (a couple of miles outside of) Manchester. He works as a plain English writer and editor. An avid reader and filmgoer, he covers books and film for the site.
You can read his posts here.
Lori Feathers
Lori is an avid reader and freelance book critic living in Dallas, Texas. She writes for various print and online publications, including World Literature Today, Rain Taxi, Three Percent, and Bookslut, and is Vice President of the Board of Deep Vellum, a Dallas non-profit publishing translated literature.
You can read her posts here.
Lisa Guidarini
Lisa Guidarini is a freelance writer living near Edinburgh, with bylines including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Review of Books and New York Journal of Books. A voting member for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, she is past judge of the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) in the category of literary fiction. She blogs at Bluestalking Journal.
You can read her posts here.
Michael Pucci
Michael is a librarian in New Jersey where he assists in building its adult and young adult collections. He writes about literature for Library Journal and The New York Journal of Books , as well as on his own blog A Dance to the Books of Time, where he writes about Time Magazine’s best English-language books since 1923. You can follow him on Twitter (@michael_pucci).
You can read his posts here.
P.T. Smith
P.T. Smith is a writer and critic living in Vermont. He has written for various online publications, including Three Percent, Bookslut, Music and Literature, and Full Stop.
You can read his posts here.
Simon Lavery
Simon teaches English in Cornwall, in the far southwest of England. He blogs on literature and other matters at Tredynas Days and can be followed on Twitter (@TredynasDays).
You can read his posts here.