This year’s Mookse and Gripes Podcast summer book club selection was William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault. Here are my thoughts, as well as a link to the podcast episode where we discuss the book.
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Yiyun Li’s “The Particles of Order.”
My latest read for #NYRBWomen24 was Jessica Mitford’s 1960 memoir Hons and Rebels.
Recently New Direction published a book with two Cesar Aira novellas, Festival and Game of the Worlds, each translated by Katherine Silver.
In the wake of the news on Alice Munro, Betsy has been considering how to proceed engaging with her work, both here on The Mookse and the Gripes but also out in academia. Here are some of her thoughts approaching these questions.
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Sarah Braunstein’s “Abject Naturalism.”
