Trevor and Brian are joined by Nick During to discuss Olivia Manning's series of novels, The Fortunes of War, comprised of The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy. Read the full post and listen to the podcast.
Trevor and Brian sit down to talk about what's coming from NYRB Classics in the last half of 2014. Read the shownotes and listen to the podcast.
Trevor and Brian discuss Theodor Fontane's novel Irretrievable. Read the full post and connect to the podcast.
NYRB Classics published their edition of A Month in the Country in October of 2000, and it is the book we’ll be talking about in Episode 11 of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast. I'm going to get nostalgic for a moment. It's only been about five years, but I remember feeling cold back in February [...]
Trevor and Brian discuss what's coming from NYRB Classics over the first few months of 2014. Read the shownotes and listen to the podcast.
NYRB Classics published their edition of The Black Spider in October of 2013, and it is the book we’ll be talking about in Episode 10 of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast. Vainglorious people, doomed children, a black spider -- the green man is coming, and through the ages enough people have made pacts with him [...]
NYRB Classics published their edition of Stoner in June of 2006, and it is the book we’ll be talking about in Episode 9 of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast. In 1965, John Williams published Stoner, a novel about a professor of English named William Stoner, a relatively nondescript person whom no one will remember much [...]
In this episode we look at what NYRB Classics will be releasing from July to December 2013 (plus one from 2014). Please let us know which you are most anticipating, or, if you’ve read any of these, how you felt. http://traffic.libsyn.com/mookse/MookseBonus003.m4a
This month, we are joined by Nick During of NYRB Classics to discuss Kingsley Amis's novels The Alteration and The Green Man. We do apologize to you and to Nick, though, because for some reason only half of our discussion was recorded. Brian and I did get back together a few weeks later (finding time was difficult) and [...]
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) The [...]
