The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast: Recent Episodes
Trevor Berrett
The Mookse and the Gripes podcast is a monthly podcast dedicated to discussing the books published by NYRB Classics.
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In this episode, Trevor is joined by Simon Thomas to discuss Tove Jansson's The TrueDeceiver and The Summer Book.
Trevor is joined by Nick During, Tynan Kogane, and Stacey Knecht to discuss Czech author Bohumil Hrabal.
Trevor and Brian talk about the books coming from NYRB Classics from July to December 2015.
Trevor and Brian discuss the work of Stefan Zweig, particularly the five works currently published by NYRB Classics: The Post Office Girl, Beware of Pity, Chess Story, Confusion, and Journey into the Past.
Trevor also has a long conversation with George Prochnik, author of The Impossible Exile, a biography of Stefan Zweig.
00:00:00-00:16:05 -- Introduction and chatter
00:16:06-01:11:36 -- Conversation with George Prochnik
01:11:37-02:12:10 -- Brian and Trevor discuss Zweig
Trevor and Brian talk about the books coming from NYRB Classics from January to June 2015.
Trevor talks about a few recent and forthcoming releases from a few favorite publishers.
Trevor and Brian discuss John Williams' 1972 National Book Award winning novel Augustus.
Trevor talks to Gregg Sutter, who worked with Elmore Leonard from 1981 to Leonard's death on August 20, 2013, about Elmore Leonard and about The Library of America's newest edition: Elmore Leonard: Four Novels of the 1970s, which Sutter edited.
Trevor and Brian are joined by Nick During to discuss the novels in Olivia Manning's Fortunes of War.
Trevor and Brian are joined by Nick During of NYRB Classics to discuss Kingsley Amis's novels The Alteration and The Green Man.
Trevor is joined by Tara of booksexyreview.com to shoot the breeze about the Best Translated Book Award, in particular this year's shortlist.
Trevor and Brian are joined by Alan Bowden of wordsofmercury.wordpress.com to discuss Vivant Denon's novella, No Tomorrow.
Trevor and Brian are joined by Tara Olmsted of booksexyreview.com to discuss Nancy Mitford's biography of Louis XIV, The Sun King.
Trevor and Brian are joined by Nick During of NYRB Classics to discuss Friedrich Reck's lamentation, Diary of a Man in Despair.
Trevor and Brian discuss Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's collection of short stories, Memories of the Future.
Trevor and Brian discuss Milton Rokeach's 1964 psychological case study, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti.