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ALA Youth Media Award Winners

January 27, 2014

Today the American Library Association announced its 2014 youth media award winners, which includes, among other awards, the Newbery Medal, the Caldecott Medal, and the Printz Award. Here are those winners (I’d link to their website for a list of all winners, but their website has always been atrocious and hard to access — it’s

Episode 11: J.L. Carr’s A Month in the Country

January 27, 2014

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

Donald Antrim: “The Emerald Light in the Air”

January 27, 2014

Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Donald Antrim’s “The Emerald Light in the Air” was originally published in the February 3, 2014 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I’m sorry that I didn’t get thoughts up sooner than now. Last week was a big week — we bought

The Eclipse Viewer Episode 11: Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy

January 26, 2014

David and Trevor are back with Eclipse Viewer 11: Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy. Read the full post and get the link to the podcast.

Alice Munro: “Changes and Ceremonies”

January 24, 2014

Trevor and Betsy discuss Alice Munro’s “Changes and Ceremonies,” from Lives of Girls and Women.

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