Trevor Berrett

Trevor Berrett is the editor of The Mookse and the Gripes

Bonus Episode: NYRB Classics’ Early 2014 Releases

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In this episode we look at what NYRB Classics will be releasing in the first part of 2014 (and a bit beyond).

While we do discuss all fourteen of the titles, the fun part of the episode is when Brian and I step back and list our top five most anticipated releases from this group. There’s some great stuff coming, of course, so this was a bit difficult. Please let us know what you’re most looking forward to.

  • Intro
  • Brief discussion of each book (the individual times are below): 00:03:27
  • Brian courageously offers the “least anticipated”: 00:31:45
  • Our top five anticipated titles: 00:37:50

Here are the fourteen books we talk about:

  • (00:03:27): The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, by Patrick Leigh Fermor — March 4, 2014
  • (00:04:27): On Being Blue, by William H. Gass — March 18, 2014
  • (00:06:09): The Use of Man, by Aleksandar Tišma — April 29, 2014
  • (00:08:08): Shakespeare’s Montaigne — April 8, 2014 (Brian and I both muddled this one. It’s the translation of Montaigne that Shakespeare would have read.)
  • (00:11:07): During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, by Joan Chase — April 15, 2014
  • (00:13:10): Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy, by Olivia Manning — May 13, 2014
  • (00:14:40): Agostino, by Alberto Moravia — July 8, 2014
  • (00:17:06): Last Words from Montmartre, by Qiu Miaojin — June 3, 2014
  • (00:18:46): Zama, by Antonio di Benedetto — October 21, 2014
  • (00:20:16): The Mad and the Bad, by Jean-Patrick Manchette — June 17, 2014
  • (00:22:08): Fear, by Gabriel Chevallier — May 20, 2014
  • (00:25:20): The Professor and the Siren, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa — July 15, 2014
  • (00:27:48): You’ll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Taylor — August 12, 2014
  • (00:30:05): The Captain’s Daughter, by Alexander Pushkin — August 19, 2014

My Favorite Reads of 2013

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I usually post this before Christmas — just in case people want to use it to make their Christmas lists. But this year, with children growing up and making things around Christmas even busier, I didn’t get it done. But now you can use this list to make New Year’s Resolutions. Below are my ten favorite reads … Read more

2013 Gift Guide Part II

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It’s getting closer to Christmas, and these are some more items I’d recommend for you and yours. I’m afraid I didn’t have time to go through and write-up thoughts on each, but I find them all exciting. 1. Postertext Wall Art This team of bibliophiles have created dozens of pieces of wall art out of … Read more

Rebecca Curtis: “The Christmas Miracle”

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Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Rebecca Curtis’s “The Christmas Miracle” was originally published in the December 23 & 30, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Betsy “The Christmas Miracle,” by Rebecca Curtis, is not for the squeamish. She says … Read more

Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s

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Always provocative, even if you don’t agree with her, Susan Sontag was one of the most influential critics of the last fifty years. She came of age in and was a central player in the intellectual rigor of the 1960s and 1970s, and may have the reputation for pushing esoteric, highly sophisticated works of art, though one … Read more

Support

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If you’ve ever wanted to provide financial support to the website or the podcast, there is now an easy way to do so. In the upper-left corner of the blog there is a new button: “Donate.” Over the years I’ve received several emails from people asking how they can support the site and, now, the podcast. … Read more