1973 Archives - The Mookse and the Gripes

Helene Hanff: The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

December 24, 2025December 16, 2025 by Trevor Berrett

I finally read Helene Hanff’s The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, and it’s a quiet delight. Hanff finally makes her long-dreamed-of journey to London, and records it with the same wit, warmth, and honesty that made 84, Charing Cross Road so beloved.

Alan Garner: Red Shift

March 5, 2021 by Trevor Berrett

Here are some of my thoughts on Alan Garner’s strange 1973 novel Red Shift.

Richard Stern: Other Men’s Daughters

September 22, 2017August 31, 2017 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor looks at Richard Stern’s Other Men’s Daughters, a complicated and often frustrating look at late 1960s New England from a decidedly 1970s perspective.