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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 3d

The new US edition of Dorothy Richardson's modernist epic, Pilgrimage, has been on sale for a little less than three months and we've averaged a sale a day. If folks will keep supporting this project, we'll break even by Christmas.

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 6d

We start our readalong of Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie on Sunday. Come join in! discord.gg/5KZRYqVf2U

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 6d

Ha! Thank you! It’s sometimes so unrelenting, and I’m looking forward g the last two volumes.

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One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social · 6d

Rude gestures????

Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 6d

THE STONE DOOR episode comes out tomorrow on One Bright Book! This is an unusual episode for us — strange alliances, strong feelings, disagreements, rude gestures. You’ll want to listen. @onebrightbook.bsky.social @nonsuchbook.bsky.social @ds228.bsky.social

One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social · 7d

Just another day or so until our latest episode drops... Hang in there! You got this!

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 6d

I finished The Captive this morning! Now on to The Fugitive…

Photo of my Modern Library edition of The Captive and The Fugitive

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Paul Wilson @bibliopaul.bsky.social · 6d

In this episode @mookse.bsky.social and l are joined by @lorifeathers.bsky.social, using The Portrait of a Lady as our foundation to explore what makes a work abundant. We move through other examples, asking what defines abundance, how it differs from size or ambition, and why these books matter.

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 7d

New episode! @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I are joined by @lorifeathers.bsky.social to talk about abundant book! What a lovely topic! mookse.substack.com/p/episode-11...

Episode 116: A World Brimming Over: Abundant Literature and The Portrait of a Lady

with Lori Feathers

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 7d

Based on your write up, I think so too

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 7d

I have not read S/Z (and clearly there is no alternative option, so I must), Fun Home, or the Hitchens. I am toward the start of The Magic Mountain (and loving it)

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 7d

This is an amazing post, Dorian! Like all the best it just makes me want to go reread the ones I’ve read and seek out the ones I haven’t and then discuss them with you!

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Dorian Stuber @ds228.bsky.social · 8d

A while back @mookse.bsky.social and @bibliopaul.bsky.social @johnwilliams.bsky.social discussed starter libraries—which inspired me to imagine my own

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A Shelf of Promises: My Starter Library

A recent episode of The Mookse and the Gripes podcast got me thinking. Hosts Trevor and Paul were joined by John Williams of the Washington Post (mensches one and all). John had proposed a fascinat…

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks, Emily :-)

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 21d

This week @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I focus in on the work of Kazuo Ishiguro! These author focus episodes are always a lot of fun to record, and we hope you enjoy it! Please let us know your thoughts on Ishiguro’s work! mookse.substack.com/p/episode-11...

Episode 115: Kazuo Ishiguro

In this episode, Trevor and Paul turn their attention to Nobel Prize–winner Kazuo Ishiguro, whose eight novels over the past forty years have earned both admiration and debate.

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 28d

I read this last year and thought it was excellent!

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 28d

"When I was 14, my best friend convinced me he could move things with his mind. Also, that he was possessed by the devil." From "Astonishment, A Requiem," an essay by Eric Puchner at the Sewanee Review. thesewaneereview.com/articles/ast...

Astonishment, A Requiem

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · Sep 9

I’m not qualified to speak on the subject!

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · Sep 8

I started this but, through no fault of the book, didn’t persist (too many other projects!). I’m excited to listen and finish the book!

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One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social · Sep 8

Over the summer, @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social released a fabulous translation of a fabulous novel by the fabulous Benito Pérez Galdós, MIAOW is the subject of out latest episode. Check it out!
onebrightbook.com/2025/09/07/e...

Episode 38: Miaow

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss MIAOW by Benito Pérez Galdós, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa, and chat about th…

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Paul Wilson @bibliopaul.bsky.social · Sep 4

This week @mookse.bsky.social and I are joined by translator @maxlawton.bsky.social to celebrate the release of Michael Lenz’s Schattenfroh from @deepvellum.bsky.social. But rather than focus only on this one book, we open the conversation to a wider theme: the joy of reading books that resist.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · Sep 4

Listening now. For at least a few more minutes. Class beckons. But can’t resist. I am fascinated by Schattenfroh. Read it once, for fun as they say here. But I need to move back in and live for a while.

Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · Sep 4

This week @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I are joined by translator Max Lawton to celebrate the release of Michael Lenz’s Schattenfroh from @deepvellum.bsky.social. We also open the conversation to a wider theme: the joy of reading books that resist. mookse.substack.com/p/episode-11...

Episode 114: Through a Glass, Darkly: Entering Schattenfroh and Other Books that Refuse to Yield at Once

This week we are joined by translator Max Lawton to celebrate the release of Michael Lenz’s Schattenfroh from Deep Vellum.

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · Sep 4

This week @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I are joined by translator Max Lawton to celebrate the release of Michael Lenz’s Schattenfroh from @deepvellum.bsky.social. We also open the conversation to a wider theme: the joy of reading books that resist. mookse.substack.com/p/episode-11...

Episode 114: Through a Glass, Darkly: Entering Schattenfroh and Other Books that Refuse to Yield at Once

This week we are joined by translator Max Lawton to celebrate the release of Michael Lenz’s Schattenfroh from Deep Vellum.

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yay! The big three is not a bad way to look at his oeuvre, but he did publish his debut, Nothing But the Night, in 1948. He repudiated it, but it’s not bad. He was also working on a novel when he died called The Sleep of Reason. You can read an excerpt in an old Ploughshares (I didn’t care for it!).

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · Aug 26

August is Women in Translation Month! I loved reading the 3 titles pictured here over the last year; each is a 5 star read.

Eastbound - Maylis de Kerangal- from French
The Postcard- Anne Berest- From French
Mina’s Matchbox- Yoko Ogawa- from Japanese

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · Aug 27

This is such an enjoyable discussion, full of great recommendations of literary gems!

Very much endorsing John’s choice of William Trevor’s short stories as an essential component of any library, maybe with Elizabeth Taylor’s Complete Short Stories, too. #BookSky 💙📚

Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · Aug 21

What does it take to build the perfect first shelf? This week e’re joined by @johnwilliams.bsky.social, to discuss how to choose ten books that someone can use as a starter library, offering comfort, surprise, and a little stretch along the way. mookse.substack.com/p/episode-11...

Episode 113: Starter Libraries: A Shelf Full of Promises

What does it take to build the perfect first shelf?

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is on a PDF, which you can mark in so many ways. Actual Kindle books, while it’s still much better than it used to be, have some limitations on how you can mark them up. But I still have loved it!

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