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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast

Podcast The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast
Trevor Berrett
In each episode Trevor Berrett and Paul Wilson have a pleasant conversation about books and reading. Visit our blog at http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews. F...

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  • Episode 97: 2025 Reading Horizons
    To kick off the new year, we discuss some of he 2025 new releases we’re most excited about. We also share our personal 5 in ‘25—five books (new or old) that we can’t wait to read this year.What are yours?ShownotesBooks* Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young* Middlemarch, by George Eliot* Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee* On the Evolution of All Political Parties, by Simone Weil, translated by Simon Leys* Wind and Truth, by Brandon Sanderson* The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones* The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman* Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright* Attila, by Aliocha Coll, translated by Katie Wittemore* Attila, by Javier Serena, translated by Katie Wittemore* Death Takes Me, by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Robin Myers and Sarah Booker* Time of the Flies, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice, by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by * The Taiga Syndrome, by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana* Is a River Alive, by Robert Macfarlane* Underland: A Deep Time Journey, by Robert Macfarlane* The Hour of the Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, by Terry Tempest Williams* A Life on Paper, by George-Olivier Châteaureynard, translated by Edward Gauvin* The Messengers, by George-Olivier Châteaureynard, translated by Edward Gauvin* stay with me, by Hanne Ørstavik, translated by Martin Aitken* Love, by Hanne Ørstavik, translated by Martin Aitken* The Unworthy, by Augustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses* The White Bear, by Henrik Pontoppidan, translated by Paul Larkin* A Fortunate Man, by Henrik Pontoppidan, translated by Paul Larkin* Hellions, by Julia Elliott* The Deserters, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell* Compass, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell* Zone, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell* Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell* Street of Thieves, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell* The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild, by Mathias Énard, translated by Frank Wynne* Universality, by Natasha Brown* The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch, translated by Jean Starr Untermeyer* The Sleepwalkers, by Hermann Broch, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir* A Month in the Country, by J.C. Carr* The Adventures of China Iron, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre* Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence* The Rainbow, by D.H. Lawrence* The Dying Grass, by William T. Vollmann* The Ice-Shirt, by William T. Vollmann* Inferno, by Dante, translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander* Purgatorio, by Dante, translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander* Paradiso, by Dante, translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander* Purgatorio, by Dante, translated by D.M. Black* Paradiso, by Dante, translated by D.M. Black* The Divine Comedy, by Dante, translated by Allen Mandelbaum* The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson* The Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson* Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Margaret Jull Costa* The Birds, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Michael Barnes and Torbjørn Støverud* The Ice Palace, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan* The Bridges, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan* The Seed, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Kenneth G. Chapman* The Hills Reply, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan* The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xueqin, translated by David Hawkes* The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods* The Mountain Lion, by Jean Stafford* Wolf Hall, by Hilary MantelThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you’ll continue to join us!Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you’d like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe
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  • Episode 96: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2024, Part II
    For our final episode of 2024, we finish our annual best of the year extravaganza! Here we are joined by more friends sharing their favorite reads of the year as we go through our top five.Happy New Year! We will see you in 2025!ShownotesBooks* The Overstory, by Richard Powers* Septology, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls* A Shining, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls* Boathouse, by Jon Fosse, translated by May-Brit Akerholt* Scenes from a Childhood, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls* Trilogy, by Jon Fosse, translated by May-Brit Akerholt* Aliss at the Fire, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls* Morning and Evening, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls* We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver* Big Brother, by Lionel Shriver* The Stripping of the Altars, by Eamon Duffy * Scenes from Clerical Life, by George Eliot* Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot* Possession, by A.S. Byatt* Parade’s End, by Ford Madox Ford* David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens* Frog, by Stephen Dixon* I., by Stephen Dixon* The MANIAC, by Benjamín Labatut* When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamín Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West* A Game of Hide and Seek, by Elizabeth Taylor* Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, by Elizabeth Taylor* Angel, by Elizabeth Taylor* It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, by Anne de Marcken* The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth Brower* A Touch of Mistletoe, by Barbara Comyns* Mr. Fox, by Barbara Comyns* Cold Nights of Childhood, by Tezer Özlü, translated by Maureen Freely* Your Little Matter: My Mother, a News Item, by Maria Grazia Calandrone, translated by Antonella Lettieri* My Favorite, by Sarah Jollien-Fardel, translated by Holly James* Götz and Meyer, by David Albahari, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac* Escape from Berlin, by Catherine Klein* February 1933: The Winter of Literature, by Use Wittstock, translated by Daniel Bowles* Pilgrimage, by Dorothy Richardson* War and Peace, by Leo Tolstory* The Tunnel, by William H. Gass* A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories* All That Glitters, by Orlando Whitfield* Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber* Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver* If on a winter’s night a traveller . . . , by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver* The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino, translated by Ann Goldstein* Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope* The Warden, by Anthony Trollope* Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope* The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope* Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, by Max Porter* The Call of the Wild, by Jack London* “To Build a Fire,” by Jack London* Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life, by Sofia Samatar* Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner & Rosamond Lehmann, by Harriet Baker* Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, by Naomi Klein* A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria, by Caroline Crampton* A Month in the Country, by J.L. Baker* The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy* Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy* Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy* Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthyThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you’ll continue to join us!Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you’d like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe
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  • Episode 95: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2024, Part I
    Trevor and Paul are back with the fourth annual best of the year extravaganza! In Part I, we count down the first half of our en favorite reads of 2024—and we are once again joined by a cast of friends and listeners who share some of their top books and best reading experiences of the year! Another great chance to grow your TBR pile for 2025!ShownotesBooks* The Postcard, by Anne Berest, translated by Tina Kover* Gabriëlle, by Anne Berest and Claire Berest, translated by Tina Kover* Two Hours, by Alba Arikha* Crooked Seeds, by Karen Jennings* Fathers and Fugitives, by S.J. Naudé, translated by Michiel Heyns* Not Even the Dead, by Juan Gómez Bárcena, translated by Katie Whittemore* Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* The Wind That Lays Waste, by Selva Almada, translated by Chris Andrews* Dead Girls, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* Brickmakers, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* Any Person Is the Only Self, by Elisa Gabbert* The Unreality of Memory, by Elisa Gabbert* Ex Libris, by Anne Fadiman* Rhine Journey, by Anne Schlee* About Looking, by John Berger* The Inkal, by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius* Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo, translated by Douglas J. Weatherford* The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes, by K.C. Constantine* The Premier, by Georges Simenon* Two Thousand Million Man-Power, by Gertrude Trevelyan* Horror Movie, by Paul Tremblay* A County Doctor, by Franz Kafka* Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was, by Angélica Gorodischer, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin* Sons, by Robert De Maria* Brothers, by Robert De Maria* Fletch, by Gregory McDonald* Bedlam, by Charlene Elsby* Quarry, by Max Allan Collins* A Tiler’s Afternoon, by Lars Gustfsson, translated by Tom Geddes* One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, translated by * Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry* The Carrying, by Ada Limón* Picnic, Lighting, by Billy Collins* The Peregrine, by J.A. Baker* Bright Dead Things, by Ada Limón* The Hurting King, by Ada Limón* You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, compiled by Ada Limón* Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West* Clear, by Carys Davies* Malena, by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Philip Boehm* It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, by Anne de Marcken* Last Words from Montmartre, by Qin Miaojin, translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich* The Preparation of the Novel, by Roland Barthes, translated by Kate Briggs* Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917 - 1922, by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Jamey Gambrell* The Power of Gentleness: Meditation on the Risk of Living, by Anne Dufourmantelle, translated by Katherine Payne and Vincent Sallé* Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood, by Lucy Jones* Question 7, by Richard Flanagan* The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan* Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death, by Laura Cumming* H Is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald* The Goshawk, by T.H. White* The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece, by Laura Cumming* The Ice Palace, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan* The Birds, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Michael Barnes and Torbjørn Støverud* James, by Percival Everett* The Trees, by Percival EverettThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you’ll continue to join us!Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you’d like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe
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  • Episode 94: Javier Marías
    Since his death in 2022, we have been wanting to dedicate an episode to Spanish novelist Javier Marías, a master of the distrusting, long sentence. We had a lovely time reflecting on his books, which we could read again and again.What is your favorite Javier Marías book?ShownotesBooks* Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope* Great Fear on the Mountain, by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, translated by Bill Johnston* David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens* Three Days in June, by Anne TylerThe Works of Javier Marías* Los dominios del lobo (1971)* Voyage Along the Horizon (1973), translated by Kristina Cordero* El monarca del tiempo (1978)* El siglo (1983)* The Man of Feeling (1986), translated by Margaret Jull Costa* All Souls (1989), translated by Margaret Jull Costa* While the Women Are Sleeping (1990), translated by Margaret Jull Costa* A Heart So White (1992), translated by Margaret Jull Costa* Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (1994), translated by Margaret Jull Costa* When I Was Mortal (1996), translated by Margaret Jull Costa* Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (1996), translated by Esther Allen* Dark Back of Time (1998), translated by Esther Allen* Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear (2002), translated by Margaret Jull Costa* Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream (2004), translated by Margaret Jull Costa* Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (2007), translated by Margaret Jull Costa* The Infatuations (2011), translated by Margaret Jull Costa* Thus Bad Begins (2014), translated by Margaret Jull Costa* Berta Isla (2017), translated by Margaret Jull Costa* Tomás Nevinson (2021), translated by Margaret Jull CostaThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you’ll continue to join us!SubscribedMany thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you’d like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe
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  • Episode 93: Books We Wanted to Reread Immediately
    What books have you wanted to reread as soon as you finished them? Inspired by this fascinating prompt from our friend Nora, we decided to dive into this fun topic. We talk about the categories of books that inspire immediate rereads, share a few of our own examples, and discuss when (or if) we’ve ever actually done it. What books have inspired you to turn the last page and immediately go back to the beginning?ShownotesBooks* Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, by Rebecca Solnit* Absolution, by Jeff Vandermeer* Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope* The Wood in Midwinter, by Susanna Clarke* On the Calculation of Volume, by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara Haveland* Minor Detail, by Adania Shibli, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette* Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier* Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones* The Warden, by Anthony Trollope* Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke* The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares, translated by Ruth L.C. Simms* Middlemarch, by George Eliot* Moby-Dick: or, The Whale, by Herman Melville* The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkein* Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson* David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens* Bleak House, by Charles Dickens* Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen* Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen* A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens* The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens* Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson* A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson* The Ghost Writer, by Philip Roth* The Counterlife, by Philip Roth* Zuckerman Unbound, by Philip Roth* The Anatomy Lesson, by Philip Roth* The Prague Orgy, by Philip Roth* American Pastoral, by Philip Roth* I Married a Communist, by Philip Roth* The Human Stain, by Philip Roth* The Taiga Syndrome, by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana* The Walk, by Robert Walser, translated by Christopher Middleton and Susan Bernofsky* Splitting and Order, by Ted Kooser* Picnic, Lightning, by Billy Collins* James, by Percival Everett* So Long, See You Tomorrow, by William Maxwell* Time Will Darken It, by William Maxwell* The Chateau, by William Maxwell* Felix Holt, by George Eliot* Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPheeOther Links* Nora’s Instagram Post* One Bright Book* Episode 49: Rereading* Episode 76: Author Completionism* Episode 77: PoetryThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you’ll continue to join us!Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you’d like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe
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In each episode Trevor Berrett and Paul Wilson have a pleasant conversation about books and reading. Visit our blog at http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews. Follow us on Twitter @mookse and @bibliopaul. Email [email protected]. mookse.substack.com
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