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)
Though I haven’t been enjoying Saunders’ recent work, I have enjoyed him so much in the past that I’m always hopeful when I get my hands on something “new” (really, this story was originally published in January 2010 in McSweeney’s 33 (the issue that was a Sunday-edition sized newspaper), though it has been revised for this publication). When I
Today, they announced the shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The winner will be announced on June 5. Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson May We Be Forgiven, by A.M. Homes Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple NW, by Zadie Smith
“Dougbert Shackleton’s Rules for Antarctic Tailgating” is the sixth story in Karen Russell’s second short story collection,Vampires in the Lemon Grove. For an overview with links to review of the others stories in this collection, please click here. One of the risks of setting out to review every story in an unread short story collection is
The winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson The two finalists are: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey I’ve heard great things about The Orphan Master’s Son, but it hadn’t really tempted me. I
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