Bookrageous Episode 74; International Literature




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Summary: Bookrageous Episode 74; International LiteratureIntro Music; In The Summertime - Rural Alberta AdvantageWhat We’re ReadingJenn[1:15] Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens[3:15] The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell[4:45] The Winter’s Tale, William ShakespearePreeti[5:30] The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, Genevieve Valentine[5:45] Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Sean Howe[9:05] Night of the Living Deadpool, Cullen BunnDustin[11:15] The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle[11:50] Moscow in the Plague Year: Poems, Marina Tsvetaeva, Christopher Whyte [12:50] This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein[14:30] Songs of the Dying Earth, eds. George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois [16:30] Collected Poems, W.H. Auden, Edward Mendelson---Intermission; Intermission (West Side Story)---International Literature[17:40] Jenn’s sad pie-chart [22:45] Russian sci-fi: Victor Pelevin, Boris & Arkady Strugatsky, Sergei Lukyanenko [25:10] My Struggle: Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard[26:50] A Time for Everything, Karl Ove Knausgaard, James Anderson[27:45] In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust[29:45] Publishers of literature in translation: Archipelago Books (Knausgaard in hardcover), Dalkey Archive Press, Melville House, FSG, Open Letter Books, Deep Vellum Publishing, And Other Stories Publishing, New Vessel Press, Europa Editions[31:45] The Krishnavatara, K.M. Munshi[32:20] Mary Stewart’s Arthurian Saga[33:25] Alina Bronsky, Elena Ferrante[34:10] Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, Walter Benjamin[37:15] Lauren Beukes[38:20] Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko[39:30] One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez[40:15] Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman[41:20] The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (character chart via Vulture)[42:50] Salman Rushdie[44:35] The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz[46:55] Kenzaburo Oe[47:30] Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto[49:50] Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, Christian Wiman, Osip Mandelstam[51:30] Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Roadside Picnic; The Snail on the Slope); Sergei Lukyanenko [52:25] Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Juan Jose Saer: The Autumn of the Patriarch, La Grande, Scars[52:20] Mohsin Hamid (How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia; The Reluctant Fundamentalist)[53:45] War & War, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes[55:15] The Krishnavatara, K.M. Munshi[56:10] Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto[56:50] Pluto, Naoki Urasawa[57:30] The Infatuations, Javier Marias; Your Face Tomorrow[59:10] The Pearl Series, New Directions: Bad Nature or With Elvis in Mexico, Javier Marias[59:35] The Hall of the Singing Caryatids, Victor Pelevin[1:00:10] The Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo[1:01:15] Translators on translation: Edith Grossman, Why Translation Matters; Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything, David Bellos; The Man Between, Michael Henry Heim--- Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323. Next book club pick: What We See When We Read, Peter Mendelsund. Put BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments of your order to get 10% off from WORD Bookstores! Find Us Online: Dustin, Jenn, Preeti Order Josh’s book! Maine Beer: Brewing in Vacationland Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise.