Podcasts about William Trevor

Yiyun Li joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Piano Tuner's Wives,” by William Trevor, which was published in The New Yorker in 1995. Li has published eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “Book of Goose,” a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the story collection “Wednesday's Child,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction work, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” will be published this month. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

What a privilege to be able to interview one of my favorite authors and introduce her to fans and potential readers. And also to learn about some of her favorite readings. If you enjoy it even half as much as I did, it will have been worth it.Que privilégio poder entrevistar uma das minhas autoras favoritas e dá-la a conhecer aos fãs e potenciais leitores. E conhecer também algumas das suas leituras favoritas. Se gostarem metade do que gostei, já valeu a pena.4 books Elisabeth chose/4 livros que escolheu:The Collected Stories of William Trevor;The Magic Mountain/A Montanha Mágica, Thomas Mann;Anna Karenina, Tolstoy;Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf.Other recommendations/Outras referências:William Trevor:Mrs Silly;Felicia's Journey/A Viagem de Felicia;My house in Umbria.Some of the books Elisabeth wrote/Alguns dos livros que escreveu:Amy and Isabelle;Olive Kitteridge;Olive, Again/A 2ª vida de Olive Kitteridge;My Name Is Lucy Barton/O Meu Nome é Lucy Barton;Anything is possible/Tudo é possível;Oh William!Lucy by the Sea/Lucy à Beira Mar;Tell Me everything/Conta-me tudo.I recommended/Recomendei:The selected Poems: Devotions, Mary Oliver;Marriage Portrait/O Retrato de Casamento, Maggie O'Farrel;The convenant of water/O pacto da água, Abraham Verghese;Shrines of Gaiety/Templos da Alegria, Kate Atkinson;The Secret History/A História Secreta, Donna Tartt;Amor Towles:Lincoln Highway;A Gentleman in Moscow/Um Gentleman em Moscovo.I gave her/Ofereci-lhe:Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver.Os livros aqui:www.wook.pt

This week, we are joined from Down Under by veteran book blogger Kim Forrester to discuss our 2024 summer read, William Trevor's The Story Of Lucy Gault. We discuss this heartbreaking, beautiful book, chat about William Trevor's other works and make some recommendations (and plans) about where to go next. We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did—and we'd love to hear your thoughts on the book, the author, and what you plan to read next!ShownotesBooks* Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin* Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin* The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor* My Friends, by Hisham Matar* Stone Yard Devotional, by Charlotte Wood* The Warden, by Anthony Trollope* Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope* Time of the Flies, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* Elena Knows, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* A Little Luck, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* “The Piano Tuner's Wives,” by William Trevor* Love in Summer, by William Trevor* Reinhardt's Garden, by Mark Haber* The Silence in the Garden, by William Trevor* Fools of Fortune, by William Trevor* Felicia's Journey, by William Trevor* Two Lives, by William Trevor* Last Stories, by William Trevor* “The Dressmaker's Child,” by William Trevor* The Book of Evidence, by John Banville* The Sea, by John Banville* A Death in Summer, by Benjamin Black* Death in Summer, by William TrevorOther Links* Kim's Blog: Reading Matters* A Year with William Trevor* 746 Books BlogThe 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

This week we have fun with all of the top books of the 21st century hype by sharing our own top 10 lists. We each killed a few darlings and made some very tough decisions. How did we do?What books would make your list?Summer Book ClubThe book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault. You can start reading it whenever you want to! We have lined up a guest to join us to discuss the book for the next episode!ShownotesBooks* The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor* The Land Breakers, by John Ehle* Testing the Current, by William McPherson* Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young* Schattenfroh, by Michael Lenz, translated by Max Lawton* Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber* Horror Movie, by Paul Tremblay* Universal Harvester, by John Darnielle* A Head Full of Ghosts, by Paul Tremblay* Cabin at the End of the Woods, by Paul Tremblay* The Indian Lake Trilogy, by Stephen Graham Jones* The Empathy Exams, by Leslie Jamison* In a Strange Room, by Damon Galgut* The Promise, by Damon Galgut* Open City, by Teju Cole* When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West* The MANIAC, by Benjamin Labatut* The Employees, by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken* Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft* Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones Croft* The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft* LaRose, by Louise Erdrich* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Life of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark* Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson* Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke* Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke* Underland: A Deep Time Journey, by Robert Macfarlane* The Wild Places, by Robert Macfarlane* Reinhardt's Garden, by Mark Haber* Ducks, Newbury Port, by Lucy Ellmann* Your Face Tomorrow, by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa* The Road, by Cormac McCarthy* The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy* Runaway, by Alice Munro* 2666, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer* Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson* Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson* Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri* Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Anthea Belle* The Immigrants, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* Vertigo, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* Blinding, by Mircea Cartarescu, translated by Sean Cotter* The Garden of Seven Twilights, by Miquel de Palol, translated by Adrian Nathan West* Antagony, by Luis Goytisolo, translated by Brendan Riley* Monument Maker, by David Keenan* Tomb of Sand, by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell* Praiseworthy, by Alexis Wright* Wizard of the Crow, by Ngugi wa Thiong'o* The Known World, Edward P. Jones* Hurricane Season, by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes* The Twilight Zone, by Nona Fernandez, translated by Natasha Wimmer* Septology, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls* The Years, by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison Strayer* In the Distance, by Hernan Diaz* Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel* My Struggle, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don BartlettOther Links* The Untranslated* New York Times: 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyThe 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!SubscribeMany 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

This week we're joined by super reader Ron Restrepo for a discussion about Roberto Bolaño, whom Rodrigo Fresan described as “one of a kind, a writer who worked without a net, who went all out, with no brakes, and in doing so created a new way to be a great Latin American writer.”Do we unlock the mysteries of Bolaño's magic? Probably not. But we do have a great time digging into this fascinating author and his haunting books.Summer Book ClubThe book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault. You can start reading it whenever you want to! We had to make a little change to our schedule. Where were were releasing the discussion episode as Episode 86 on August 8, we are now going to be releasing it two weeks later, August 22, as Episode 87. Apologies for the change in plans, but they were necessary to make sure this worked the way we want it to!ShownotesBooks* The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer* Chronicle of the Murdered House, by Lúcio Cardoso, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson* Taming of the Divine Heron, by Sergio Pitol, translated by George Henson* The Love Parade, by Sergio Pitol, translated by George Henson* Lanark, by Alasdair Gray* Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo, translated by Douglas J. Weatherford* The Art of Flight, by Sergio Pitol, translated by George Henson* The Land Breakers, by John Ehle* The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor* The Obscene Bird of Night, by José Donoso, translated by Megan McDowell and Leonard Mades* Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon* 2666, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer* By Night in Chile, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews* Nazi Literature in the Americas, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews* The Skating Rink, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews* Distant Star, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews* Last Evenings on Earth, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews* The Years, by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer* Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain* Trieste, by Dasa Drndic, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac* The Trees, by Percival Everett* Dead Girls, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* Die, My Love, by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff* Feebleminded, by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff* Tender, by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff* Amulet, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews* A Little Lumpen Novelita, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer* Atwerp, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer* Roberto Bolaño's Fiction: An Expanding Universe, by Chris AndrewsThe 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

This week we look ahead to the second half of 2024 and each share the five forthcoming books we're most excited about . . . along with a few honorable mentions, of course.Which upcoming books are you most looking forward to?Summer Book ClubThe book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault. You can start reading it whenever you want to! We have lined up a guest to join us to discuss the book in Episode 86, coming out on August 8. That's really soon!ShownotesBooks* The Warden, by Anthony Trollope* Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo, translated by Douglas J. Weatherford* The Heart in Winter, by Kevin Barry* Nightboat to Tangier, by Kevin Barry* Beatlebone, by Kevin Barry* The City of Bohane, by Kevin Barry* James, by Percival Everett* Clear, by Carys Davies* Canoes, by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore* There Are Rivers in the Sky, by Elif Shafak* The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak* Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr* The B*****d of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak* Marshland, by Otohiko Kaga, translated by Albert Novick* The Mighty Red, by Louise Erdrich* The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich* The Round House, by Louise Erdrich* The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich* Plague of Doves, by Louise Erdrich* LaRose, by Louise Erdrich* Shadow Tag, by Louise Erdrich* The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich* The Painted Drum, by Louise Erdrich* Herscht 07769, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet* Satantago, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes* The Melancholy of Resistance, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes* War & War, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes* Seiobo There Below, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet* The World Goes On, by László Krasznahorkai, translated byGeorge Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet and John Batki* Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet* Colored Television, by Danzy Senna* New People, by Danzy Senna* Symptomatic, by Danzy Senna* Caucasia, by Danzy Senna* Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young* Seeing Further, by Esther Kinsky, translated by Caroline Schmidt* Rombo, by Esther Kinsky, translated by Caroline Schmidt* Grove, by Esther Kinsky, translated by Caroline Schmidt* River, by Esther Kinsky, translated by Iain Galbraith* Sister Deborah, by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti* The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones* The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods* The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft* Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft* Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones* Waiting for the Fear, by Oguz Atay, translated by Ralph Hubbell* The Pornographer, by John McGahern* Command Performance, by Jean Echenoz, translated by Mark Polizzotti* The Stone Door, by Leonora Carrington* The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant* Sun City, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal* We Solve Murders, by Richard Osman* The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman* The Plains, by Federico Falco, translated by Jennifer Croft* A Perfect Cemetery, by Federico Falco, translated by Jennifer Croft* Children of the Ghetto: Star of the Sea, by Elias Khoury, translated by Humphrey Davies* Fog at Noon, by Tomás González, translated by Andrea Rosenberg* The Suicides, by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated by Esther Allen* The Besieged City, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Johnny Lorenz* The Voyage Home, by Pat Barker* A Philosophy of Translation, by Damion Searls* The City and Its Uncertain Walls, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel* Tell Me Everything, by Elizabeth Strout* Every Arc Bends Its Radius, by Sergio de la Pava* A Naked Singularity, by Sergio de la Pava* Question 7, by Richard Flanagan* Is Mother Dead, by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund* If Only, by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund* Slave Road, by John Edgar Wideman* Anima: A Wild Pastoral, by Kapka Kassabova* Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, by Kapka Kassabova* Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time, by Kapka Kassabova* Our Evenings, by Alan Hollinghurst* Lazarus Man, by Richard Price* Playground, by Richard Powers* Clockers, by Richard Price* Lush Life, by Richard Price* The Overstory, by Richard Powers* Bewilderment, by Richard PowersThe 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

This week's episode is all about . . . books! To be specific, Trevor and Paul chat about their book shelves, diving into all kinds of fun topics. How many books do they own? Where do they keep them? How are they organized? Buying and culling habits? Even better, this episode features A LOT of great listener feedback as well. It's the perfect chance to get nosey about your fellow bibliophiles!Summer Book ClubThe book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault. You can start reading it whenever you want to! We have lined up a guest to join us to discuss the book in Episode 86, coming out on August 8.ShownotesBooks* CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, by George Saunders* Any Person Is the Only Self, by Elisa Gabbert* The Unreality of Memory, by Elisa Gabbert* The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros* Pilgrimage, by Dorothy Richardson* Treasure Island!!!, by Sara Levine* Ride a Cockhorse, by Raymond Kennedy* After Claude, by Iris Owens* The Towers of Trebizond, by Rose Macaulay* South Riding, by Winifred Holtby* O Caledonia, by Elspeth Barker* Lolly Willowes, by Sylvia Townsend Warner* Silas Marner, by George Eliot* Scenes of Clerical Life, by George Eliot* Romola, by George Eliot* Felix Holt, by George Eliot* Middlemarch, by George Eliot* Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot* Mining the Skirts of Light: Essays on George Eliot, by Rohan MaitzenThe 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

This week we turn back the clock and revisit our very first podcast topic: Bucket List Books! We check in on our progress over the last few years, discuss our philosophies and motivations, look ahead to our next bucket lists books, and share plenty of listener feedback. What books are on your bucket list—and why?Summer Book ClubThe book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault. You can start reading it whenever you want to! We have lined up a guest to join us to discuss the book in Episode 86, coming out on August 8.ShownotesBooks* Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle* Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, by Patrick Radden Keefe* Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett* Long Island, by Colm Tóibín* Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young* A Little Luck, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* Festival and Game of the Worlds, by César Aira, translated by Katherine Silver* It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, by Anne de Marcken* War, by Céline, translated by Charlotte Mandell* Death on the Installment Plan, by Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim* London, by Céline* Journey to the End of Night, by Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim* The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor* The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild, by Mathias Énard, translated by Frank Wynne* Compass, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell* The Waves, by Virginia Woolf* Carpenteria, by Alexis Wright* Praiseworthy, by Alexis Wright* Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust* The Stones of Aran, by Tim Robinson* The Black Prince, by Iris Murdoch* Frost in May, by Antonia White* The Mountain Lion, by Jean Stafford* The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon* David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens* War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs* Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce* Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton* The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson* The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer* Don Quixote, by Cervantes, translated by * Annals of the Former World, by John McPhee* The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz* The Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor* Satantango, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes* Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace* Paradise Lost, by John Milton* Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy* The Voyage Home, by Pat Barker* Parallel Stories, by Péter Nádas, translated by Imre Goldstein* Pilcrow, by Adam Mars-Jones* Cedilla, by Adam Mars-Jones* Caret, by Adam Mars-Jones* Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James* Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov* One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa* My Struggle, by Karl Ove Knausgaard* Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackery* South Riding, by Winifred Holtby* Middlemarch, by George Eliot* To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf* Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf* Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens* Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë* Bleak House, by Charles Dickens* Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë* Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley* The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot* Silas Marner, by George Eliot* Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot* Felix Holt, by George Eliot* Romola, by George Eliot* Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon* Mason & Dixon, by Thomas Pynchon* Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon* The Complete Essays, by Michel de Montaigne, translated by M.A. Screech* Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber* A Summer with Montaigne, by Antoine Compagnon, translated by Tina Kover* The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton* The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton* The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton* Pilgrimage, by Dorothy Richardson* The Peregrine, by J.A. Baker* Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke* Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer CroftLinks* Episode 1: Bucket List Books* Involutions of the Seashell: Anthony and Lori discuss Miss MacIntosh, My Darling* Shawn Breathes Books: The Original Mookse and the Gripes Bucket List Book Tag Video!* The 100 Greatest British Novels List* Beyond the Zero Podcast, with Andrei The UntranslatedThe 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

The Caribbean is a region with an incredible history of vibrant cultures blending into each other, which is reflected in so many elements from the food, the local traditions, the music and of course, the literature. Today's guest hails from the nation of Trinidad and Tobago, and the region has clearly left an indelible mark on her writing, infusing it with the rhythms, flavors, and complexities that define the Caribbean experience. Based on the new format of the show, Costa Prize winning author Ingrid Persaud will share four books that have left an indelible mark on her life and work. From literary classics to contemporary gems, these books have shaped her perspective, influencing the stories she tells and the voices she amplifies. In this episode, we also discuss her latest novel, "The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh." Inspired by the true story of the titular Trinidadian gangster from the 1930s to the 1950s, this novel looks at the complex web of relationships surrounding him and the four women who shaped his life. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing society, this novel offers a poignant exploration of love, loss, and redemption, inviting readers to journey through the heartaches and triumphs of its unforgettable characters. The four books that Ingrid Persaud selected were:  A House for Mr Biswas, VS Naipaul (1961) Reading Turgenev, William Trevor (1991) As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (1930) Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison (1977) If you'd like to get in touch, you can contact me on my Instagram account @litwithcharles and you can also check out my weekly Substack newsletter: https://litwithcharles.substack.com/

How do you fill the yawning chasm that arises after you finish a great book or a long group read? Is it a time of excitement and possibility, or a daunting and overwhelming trial? Fresh off of finishing several doorstops ourselves, we discuss how we approach what we want to read next.Summer Book ClubThe Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is coming up fast! This year we are only choosing from William Trevor novels. After losing for the last two years, he will not lose again! But what will the book be? As in the past, we will be holding a vote over on Twitter / X! Watch my account on May 21!The Books:* The Children of Dynmouth (1976)* Fools of Fortune (1983)* Felicia's Journey (1994)* The Story of Lucy Gault (2002)Dates:* Voting starts May 21 and runs through the early hours of May 25 for us in the mountain time zone.* We will announce the winner in the next episode!* The episode discussing the winner will be Episode 86, coming out on August 8.ShownotesBooks* The Peregrine, by J.L. Carr* Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft* A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara* Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry* Butcher's Crossing, by John Williams* Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young* Ulysses, by James Joyce* The Ambassadors, by Henry James* Tone, by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno* The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald* The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton* Urne Burial, by Robert Burton* Reinhardt's Garden, by Mark Haber* The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot* Silas Marner, by George Eliot* The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope* O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather* War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs* Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia, by Rebecca West* Grand Hotel, by Vicki Baum, translated by Basil Creighton with revisions by Margot Bettauer Dembo* The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz* It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, by Anne De Marcken* The Peasants, by Władysław Reymont, translated by Anna Zaranko* Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford* Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley* The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Benjamin Moser* The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Katrina Dodson* Too Much of Life, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson* The Murderer, by Roy Heath* The Oppermans, by Lion Feuchtwanger, translated by James Cleugh with revisions by Joshua Cohen* Green Equinox, by Elizabeth Mavor* Twice Lost, by Phyllis Paul* Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, by Manuel Puig, translated by Susan Jill Levine* Elena Knows, by Claudio Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* A Little Luck, by Claudio Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee* A Dance to the Music of Time, by Anthony Powell* Anniversaries, by Uwe Johnson, translated by Damion Searls* The Extinction of Irene Rey, by Jennifer Croft* The House on the Strand, by Daphne Du MaurierLinks* Miss MacIntosh, My Darling Substack* Jonathan Golding and Mark Haber on Instagram LiveThe 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

GARRY DISHER chats to Craig Sisterson about his new novel Day's End, 'Hirsch', right wing extremism, stories ripped from the news, rural noir,  backpackers & blue biro. DAY'S END: WHEN HATE RUNS DEEP, THE INNOCENT SUFFERConstable Paul Hirschausen's rural beat in the low hills of South Australia is wide. Daybreak to day's end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed driving to arson.But now, just as Hirsch has begun to feel he knows the fragile communities under his care, the isolation and fear of the pandemic have warped them into something angry and unrecognisable. Hirsch is seeing stresses heightened and social divisions cracking wide open. His own tolerance under strain; people getting close to the edge.Today he's driving an international visitor around: Janne Van Sant, whose backpacker son went missing while the borders were closed. They're checking out his last photo site, his last employer. A feeling that the stories don't quite add up.Then a call comes in: a roadside fire. Nothing much - a suitcase soaked in diesel and set alight - but two noteworthy facts emerge. Janne knows more than Hirsch about forensic evidence. And the body in the suitcase is not her son's.Garry Disher is a genre-defining writer of Australian crime fiction, hailed as 'the gold standard for rural noir' by Chris Hammer, and as 'one of Australia's finest writers' by The Times. He has published fifty titles across multiple genres, and is known as Australia's King of Crime. He has won the German Crime Prize three times and the Ned Kelly Award twice. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.Recommendations & mentions: Alice Munro, William Trevor, Ron Rush, Shirley Jackson. Peter Corris, Chris Hammer, Jane Harper,  Tony Hillerman. Mick Herron, Michael Connelly & Ian Rankin.Craig Sisterson is a features writer and crime fiction expert from New Zealand who writes for newspapers and magazines in several countries. In recent years he's interviewed hundreds of crime writers and talked about the genre on national radio, top podcasts, and onstage at festivals on three continents. He's been a judge of the McIlvanney Prize and Ned Kelly Awards, and is founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and co-founder of Rotorua Noir. He lives in London with his daughter. He is the author of  SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME: The Pocket Essentials Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia & New Zealand.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir 20232024??

Min Jin Lee could be considered an exemplar of the old adage “slow and steady wins the race.” The author's bestselling 2017 novel Pachinko—a National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller that was adapted into a television series for Apple TV+ in 2022—took 30 years to write from its inception as a short story. Her debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires (2007), took five years. These extensive periods of time become understandable, or even seem scant, within the sprawling, multigenerational contexts of her novels—Pachinko spans almost a century—into which she pours deep anthropological, sociological, and journalistic research. Lee is also the editor of the just-published The Best American Short Stories 2023 (Mariner Books) anthology, and she's currently at work on American Hagwon, the third novel in her diasporic trilogy.On this episode, she talks about the complex role of time in Pachinko, her miraculous recovery from chronic liver disease, and why she likens short-story writing to polishing diamonds.Special thanks to our Season 8 sponsor, Van Cleef & Arpels.Show notes: [00:25] Min Jin Lee[03:39] Viet Thanh Nguyen[06:08] Free Food for Millionaires[06:10] Pachinko[06:19] The Best American Short Stories 2023[08:08] Amy Tan[08:09] Salman Rushdie[09:36] “Bread and Butter”[09:37] “Motherland”[09:38] “The Best Girls”[10:04] William Trevor[10:06] Alice Munro[12:45] Yale University[17:23] Harvard Business School[17:34] Fashion Institute of Technology[47:37] Queens Public Library in Elmhurst[49:21] The Bronx High School of Science[49:32] The Hotchkiss School[49:33] Phillips Exeter Academy[58:46] American Hagwon[01:03:33] Stoner by John Williams

Host Meg Wolitzer presents perfect mismatches. In “The Man and the Moose” by Ben Loory, performed by Michael Cerveris, a man's best bud has antlers. In “Red Dirt Don't Wash” by Roger Mais, performed by Brandon J. Dirden, a young man's courtship is at risk—she doesn't like his shoes. And a piano lesson is out of tune in “The Piano Teacher's Pupil” by William Trevor, performed by Kathryn Erbe. Authors Elizabeth Strout and Marlon James present commentary from the stage at Symphony Space. 

The Half Moon By Mary Beth Keane Read Blog: https://gobookmart.com/the-half-moon-by-mary-beth-keane Buy Now: https://amzn.to/3PFadST “Absorbing . . . it's such a pleasure to sink into Keane's quietly luminous prose . . . She manages to find the extraordinary grace in our achingly ordinary world.” —Janice Y.K. Lee, The New York Times Book Review "Poignant . . . class differences underlie personal strife as the couple struggles with adultery, fertility and civility." —Bethanne Patrick, The Los Angeles Times"Deft, satisfying. . . . Keane writes in a realist vein–the vivid, domesticated world of Anne Tyler, of William Trevor, of Elizabeth Strout—but her insights into matters of the heart, longing and restlessness especially, have astonishing delicacy."  —Vogue, Most Anticipated Books of 2023"An insightful, riveting study of marriage." —People"One of our finest writers on the interior complexities of marriage and family shines a flashlight on the intricate clockwork of love and longing that runs inside us. Because of the thoughtfulness of that examination, beauty and possibility are visible. I ran my finger over sentences while reading, thinking: 'Yes, exactly.' This kind of fiction allows us to look around our own lives with respect and kindness and is therefore a great gift." —Ann Napolitano, author of Dear Edward and Hello Beautiful --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booklicious/message

“I think the best writers always know the characters more than the characters know themselves,“ she says. The author of The Book of Goose talks about War and Peace, Wuthering Heights, the stories of William Trevor, and her old army buddies. Produced with A Public Space and Rizzoli Bookstores.  Music: Liz Hanley.

Paddy Leigh Fermor was just 18 when he set forth from the Hook of Holland, bound for the Golden Horn . . . Artemis Cooper, Paddy's biographer, and Nick Hunt, author of Walking the Woods and the Water, join the Slightly Foxed team to explore the life and literary work of Patrick Leigh Fermor.  Equipped with a gift for languages, a love of Byron and a rucksack full of notebooks, in December 1933 Paddy set off on foot to follow the course of the Rhine and the Danube, walking hundreds of miles. Years later he recorded much of the journey in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. In these books Baroque architecture and noble bloodlines abound, but adventure is at the heart of his writing. There was to have been a third volume, but for years Paddy struggled with it. Only after his death were Artemis and Colin Thubron able to see The Broken Road into print.  The trilogy inspired Nick Hunt to follow in Paddy's footsteps. What were country lanes are now highways, and many names have changed, but Nick found places that Paddy had visited, with their echoes of times past.  Following discussions of a love affair with a Romanian princess, Paddy's role in the Cretan resistance in the Second World War and Caribbean volcanoes in The Violins of Saint-Jacques, we turn our focus to his books on the Greek regions of Roumeli and the Mani, and the beautiful house that Paddy and his wife Joan built in the latter, Kardamyli. And via our reading recommendations we travel from Calcutta to Kabul In a Land Far from Home, to William Trevor's Ireland and to Cal Flynn's Islands of Abandonment. Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information.  Nella Last's War, Slightly Foxed Edition No. 60 (1:12) Graham Greene, A Sort of Life, Plain Foxed Edition (1:18) Artemis Cooper, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure (2:32) Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water (4:15) Nick Hunt, Walking the Woods and the Water (6:52) Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road, edited by Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron (23:05) Patrick Leigh Fermor, Three Letters from the Andes (24:23) W. Stanley Moss, Ill Met by Moonlight (34:31) George Psychoundakis, The Cretan Runner (38:25) Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Traveller's Tree is out of print (40:06) Simon Fenwick, Joan: Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor (41:11) Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence (43:24) Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint-Jacques (43:27) Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani (46:27) Patrick Leigh Fermor, Roumeli (46:31) Robert Macfarlane, The Gifts of Reading, inspired by A Time of Gifts Syed Mujtaba Ali, In a Land Far from Home (49:05) Taran Khan, Shadow City (51:21) Eugenie Fraser, The House by the Dvina (51:44) Cal Flynn, Islands of Abandonment (53:49) William Trevor, Fools of Fortune (55:33) Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (56:10) Related Slightly Foxed Articles A Great Adventure, Andy Merrills on Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts; Between the Woods and the Water, Issue 38 (4:15) Off All the Standard Maps, Tim Mackintosh-Smith on Patrick Leigh Fermor, Roumeli, Issue 2 (46:31) Other Links Artemis Cooper's website: www.artemiscooper.com  Nick Hunt's website: www.nickhuntscrutiny.com  Siân Phillips reads from A Time of Gifts Read two extracts from A Time of Gifts: Dropping anchor at the Hook of Holland and The largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe ‘When I first read A Time of Gifts I felt it in my feet': Robert Macfarlane reads from The Gifts of Reading The Leigh Fermor House in Kardamyli, Greece – Benaki Museum Artemis Cooper on the Leigh Fermor House, Condé Nast Traveller  Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

The official start of summer is just around the corner, but with kids finishing school and Memorial Day in the past, it feels like summer is already here. Warmer weather, longer evenings, outdoor eating . . . it can be such a lovely time of year. In this episode, Paul and Trevor devote a good chunk to discussing summer reading in general and plans for our own hot months of 2022. And part of those plans include a Mookse and Gripes Podcast bookclub! Help us choose which of these four books to read: Speedboat, by Renata Adler; Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges; The Children of Dynmouth, by William Trevor; or A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather. We also come together in this episode and talk about our second batch of assigned reading, which includes Mauro Javier Cárdenas's Aphasia and Jean Giono's Ennemonde, translated by Bill Johnston. Please sign up for The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast Newsletter. If you'd like to support the show, visit The Mookse and the Gripes Patreon. Visit our blog at http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews. Follow us on Twitter @mookse and @bibliopaul. Email mookseandgripes@gmail.com.

“I'm so interested in people. I have been fascinated by people since I was just my first memory. I just think people are, for me, they are the most interesting things in the world.” No one captures the nuances of complicated lives quite like Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who likes to return to her characters and their communities in sometimes surprising ways, as she does in her new novel, Oh William! Elizabeth joins us on the show to talk about the world of Lucy Barton and her first husband William, writing with her readers in mind and reading with an open heart, William Trevor's short stories and more. Featured books: Oh William!, My Name is Lucy Barton and Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout. Produced/hosted by Miwa Messer and engineered by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The latest episode of The Poet Speaks, where I talk about storytelling with examples from James Joyce, Thomas Hardy, John Hawkes, Geoffrey Hill, and William Trevor. James Joyce's 1906 letter to his brother can be found here. Thomas Hardy's short story, "On the Western Circuit," can be found here. The two volumes of William Trevor's short stories can be found here and here. The short story collection of mine that I mention during the episode is called The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.

Die Themen: Berlin liest ein Buch: Katja Oskamp „Marzahn, mon Amour“ // Favorit Buch: Michel Decar „Die Kobra von Kreuzberg“ // Die radioeins Bücherliste mit Thomas Gralla // Frank Schätzing: „Was wenn wir einfach die Welt retten“ // Juila Rothenburg „Mond über Beton“ // Andreas Altmann über N.N. // Autoren sind auch nur Leser: Gregor Sander über William Trevor „Lebte Erzählungen“.

Elizabeth Strout joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Bravado,” by William Trevor, which appeared in a 2007 issue of the magazine. Strout’s most recent book, “Olive Again,” an Oprah’s book-club pick, was published in 2019. 

In celebration of the life, work and legacy of William Trevor, one of the giants of modern Irish fiction, authors Salley Vickers, Kevin Barry, Hermione Lee and BBC Radio 4 Books Editor Di Speirs read from and talked about their favourites of his novels and short fiction, to mark the publication of Last Stories (Viking). Trevor, who died in 2016, won the Whitbread prize three times, was five times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and in 2014 was made Saoi by Aosdána, Ireland’s most prestigious artistic award. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Elizabeth Strout on her selection: William Trevor is brilliant at capturing the nuances of many people's perspectives, all in one story, as he does in this story of a young woman is who just reaching adulthood.  We see her sorrows, confusions, and the poignancy of all the characters involved.  Trevor is a wonder in his ability to portray characters without his own judgment ever intervening, he just tells us what we need to know—and then we can weep as well. A Bit on the Side at Bookshop.org Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0

Der große irische, in England lebende Erzähler William Trevor erweist sich auch in seinen letzten, nachgelassenen Erzählungen als Meister der kleinen Form. Mit wenigen Strichen kann er ein ganzes Leben sichtbar machen. Rezension von Jörg Magenau. Aus dem Englischen von Hans-Christian Oeser Verlag Hoffmann & Campe ISBN 978-3-455-00828-9 208 Seiten 24 Euro

Der 2016 verstorbene William Trevor galt als Meister der Kurzgeschichte. Denn er wusste genau, wie viel er über seine tragischen Helden erzählen durfte - und wie viel er verschweigen musste, um ihnen ihr Geheimnis zu belassen. Auch Trevors "letzte Erzählungen" entwickeln so ihre ganz eigene Sogkraft Von Tanya Lieske www.deutschlandfunk.de, Büchermarkt Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Einfühlsam, tiefgründig und raffiniert erzählt William Trevor von den Leben ganz gewöhnlicher Menschen.

Der irische Schriftsteller William Trevor hat ein umfangreiches Werk hinterlassen. Seine Romane und Erzählungen wurden mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Jörg Magenau stellt heute Trevors "Letzte Erzählungen" vor - einfühlsame Geschichten über das Leben gewöhnlicher Menschen.

Eine der Überraschungen in dieser Literatursaison ist Alexander Röslers Krankenhausroman „Unter Kitteln“. Dabei ist es allein schon das Thema, das ihn zu einem Buch der Stunde macht — das Krankenhaus ist der Sozialort der Corona-Gegenwart. Der Erzähler (und hauptberufliche Chefarzt) Rösler erzählt mit bösem Blick und mit Witz von einem Provinzspital in Brandenburg, und er tut das auf schmalem Raum. Mit knapp 180 Seiten ist der Stoff um den Assistenzarzt Hagen Burbeis knapp und doch völlig ausreichend bemessen. Ein echter Literaturquickie also. So heißt auch der Hamburger Verlag, in dem der Roman erscheint. Rainer Moritz und Thomas Andre sind von „Unter Kitteln“ in jedem Fall angetan, so viel sei an dieser Stelle verraten. In der neuen Folge von Next Book Please besprechen die Podcaster außerdem Cihan Acars Romandebüt „Hawaii“, das von einem wieder in seiner Heimatstadt Heilbronn gestrandeten Ex-Profifußballer handelt, der etwas planlos durch den Alltag taumelt, ehe er sich in heftigen Straßenkämpfen wiederfindet. Der junge Held Kemal ist ein moderner Dazwischenmensch, als Sohn von Immigranten ein Bi-Kulturalist. „Hawaii“ handelt aber auch von Xenophobie und rechtsgewirktem Bürgertum, ist also hochaktuell. Bleibt die Frage, für wie gelungen der aus Heilbronn stammende Podcaster Moritz das Porträt der süddeutschen Stadt hält… Neben den zwei deutschen Autoren stehen zwei irische im Mittelpunkt dieser Folge. Zum einen Anne Enright, die einst mit „Das Familientreffen“ bekannt wurde und nun ihr neues Werk „Die Schauspielerin“ vorlegt. Dort entblättert sie eine Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung, die unter erschwerten Bedingungen etabliert wird. Die titelgebende Mutter reüssiert zunächst außer in Großbritannien auch in Hollywood und am Broadway als Aktrice. Aber diese Katherine O’Dell erlebt dann das, was in ihrem Berufsfeld oft vorkommt: Die Engagements bleiben aus. Am Ende eines nicht allzu langen Lebens verfällt sie einer Art von Wahnsinn. Ihre Tochter, eine Schriftstellerin, spürt den Lebenslinien der Mutter ein Vierteljahrhundert nach deren Tod nach. Ob daraus eine gewinnbringende Lektüre wird, ist Thema von Next Book Please. Zum anderen, um auf das irische Erzählerdoppel zurückzukommen, gibt es ein letztes Buch des großen William Trevor (1928-2016). Bei Hoffmann und Campe erscheint „Letzte Erzählungen“, und mit diesen erlebt man Trevor, den glänzenden Erkunder des menschlichen Seelenlebens, der deshalb immer eher Geschichten von der dunklen Seite zu erzählen hat, noch einmal in Bestform.

Award-winning writer John Banville; writer and editor of literary magazine A Public Space Yiyun Li; celebrated poet, playwright, novelist and publisher Dermot Bolger; and short story writer Danielle McLaughlin joined Roy Foster to remember the late, great William Trevor at ILFDublin 2018. ILFDublin is an initiative of Dublin City Council, kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

William Trevor was born in Ireland in 1928. When he was 26, he moved to England, where for the next 62 years he quietly became one of the most celebrated writers in the English-speaking world. In today's History of Literature episode, Jacke takes a look at one of his greatest short stories, "After Rain." Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lisa Birnbach talks with writer Richard Panek about his new book "The Trouble with Gravity" and the 5 things that make life better for them.Lisa’s 5 Things: 1. All mothers, 2. Summer dresses, 3. Oatly Ice Cream, 4. Getting a loaner pashmina/wrap at a restaurant, 5. The Official Preppy Handbook .Richard Panek’s 5 Things: 1. The movie “Chinatown”, 2. Beatles song “A Day in the Life”, 3. William Trevor, especially when reading him in a pub with a pint. 4. Smell of corn-on-the-cob silk, 5. Hostess Suzy Q’s.

'Dear Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wilde, Do you mind if I just call you Oscar? It's just you always seemed so approachable yet ultimately unknowable...a bit like the Queen.' Continuing his series of imaginary correspondences, Ian Sansom finds he's in the gutter, looking at the stars again. As his dispatches to some of the world's great writers resume, Ian is increasingly shocked by their unexpectedly frank and direct answers... 'Dear Dante, Did you really meant all that stuff about people being thrown into boiling pitch and tar..?' In his on-going epistolary quest, Ian attempts to find out everything we wanted to know but were too afraid to ask. Why did Mary Shelley start so young? How did William Trevor keep going for so long? And what exactly is the significance of Marianne Moore's tricorn hat? Producer: Conor Garrett

'Dear Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wilde, Do you mind if I just call you Oscar? It's just you always seemed so approachable yet ultimately unknowable...a bit like the Queen.' Continuing his series of imaginary correspondences, Ian Sansom finds he's in the gutter, looking at the stars again. As his dispatches to some of the world's great writers resume, Ian is increasingly shocked by their unexpectedly frank and direct answers... 'Dear Dante, Did you really meant all that stuff about people being thrown into boiling pitch and tar..?' In his on-going epistolary quest, Ian attempts to find out everything we wanted to know but were too afraid to ask. Why did Mary Shelley start so young? How did William Trevor keep going for so long? And what exactly is the significance of Marianne Moore's tricorn hat? Producer: Conor Garrett

'Dear Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wilde, Do you mind if I just call you Oscar? It's just you always seemed so approachable yet ultimately unknowable...a bit like the Queen.' Continuing his series of imaginary correspondences, Ian Sansom finds he's in the gutter, looking at the stars again. As his dispatches to some of the world's great writers resume, Ian is increasingly shocked by their unexpectedly frank and direct answers... 'Dear Dante, Did you really meant all that stuff about people being thrown into boiling pitch and tar..?' In his on-going epistolary quest, Ian attempts to find out everything we wanted to know but were too afraid to ask. Why did Mary Shelley start so young? How did William Trevor keep going for so long? And what exactly is the significance of Marianne Moore's tricorn hat? Producer: Conor Garrett

'Dear Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wilde, Do you mind if I just call you Oscar? It's just you always seemed so approachable yet ultimately unknowable...a bit like the Queen.' Continuing his series of imaginary correspondences, Ian Sansom finds he's in the gutter, looking at the stars again. As his dispatches to some of the world's great writers resume, Ian is increasingly shocked by their unexpectedly frank and direct answers... 'Dear Dante, Did you really meant all that stuff about people being thrown into boiling pitch and tar..?' In his on-going epistolary quest, Ian attempts to find out everything we wanted to know but were too afraid to ask. Why did Mary Shelley start so young? How did William Trevor keep going for so long? And what exactly is the significance of Marianne Moore's tricorn hat? Producer: Conor Garrett

'Dear Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wilde, Do you mind if I just call you Oscar? It's just you always seemed so approachable yet ultimately unknowable...a bit like the Queen.' Continuing his series of imaginary correspondences, Ian Sansom finds he's in the gutter, looking at the stars again. As his dispatches to some of the world's great writers resume, Ian is increasingly shocked by their unexpectedly frank and direct answers... 'Dear Dante, Did you really meant all that stuff about people being thrown into boiling pitch and tar..?' In his on-going epistolary quest, Ian attempts to find out everything we wanted to know but were too afraid to ask. Why did Mary Shelley start so young? How did William Trevor keep going for so long? And what exactly is the significance of Marianne Moore's tricorn hat? Producer: Conor Garrett

Dan and Eric talk about Dan's recent hosting of Yiyun Li at Bryn Mawr College, and how she knows when a short story is complete; Amy Davidson Sorkin on the Mueller report and the profanity of Trump and his cronies; Rebecca Mead's piece about Airbnb in Barcelona; Greg Jackson's current story, "Poetry," and his earlier story, "Wagner in the Desert"; Nicholas Lemann on a new biography of John Hersey; Amanda Petrusich on a Jewish jazz trumpeter who performed for the Nazis, and spent the rest of his life in gratitude to jazz for saving him, in many ways; and Dan talks about recent reading of short story writer, William Trevor.  Plus, as always, so much more.

Join Caroline Wilson and Corrie Perkin for Ep 77 ' Keep 'em Laughing'.  As Caro says we celebrate the light and mourn the shade in life - and there has been plenty of darkness in the past week. We discuss the horrific massacre in Christchurch and question the role of the media and the response from our politicians in the wake of such a crime. What of Fraser Anning's comments and Egg Boi? We check in with Caro and Corrie's 'Goal of the Month' - can Corrie master the art of baking the perfect sponge cake? We talk mentoring - why do we need mentors? What influence have our mentors had on us? Caro has a spiritually inspired 'Crush of the Week' Shane Healy, former footy commentator and educator who's now the Director of Media & Communications for the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.   Our 'Crush of the Week' is thanks to our sponsor The Interchange Bench www.interchangebench.com.au If your business needs new players, pick them up from The Interchange Bench – the leading provider of temporary and contract talent.  Just call 1800 i bench Or see Interchange bench.com.au BSF - Books, Screen and Food Corrie's been reading The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor (available HERE).  Caro's been to the movies to see Sometimes, Always and Never and Corrie's been back in the kitchen whipping up a simple but delicious Pancetta & Pea Risotto (see recipe below).  Caro's grumpy that Barrie Cassidy has announced his retirement from ABC TV's Insiders.  In '6 Quick Questions' Corrie give us her Top 8 for the 2019 AFL Season and recommends a couple of podcasts (The Reckoning with David Marr on the Rise and Fall of George Pell )   and The Outer Sanctum Podcast. Caro's pays tribute to her hard copy diary and has a tasty GLT. FOOTY TIPPING - Join our Don't Shoot The Messenger Podcast Tipping Comp.   We'd love you to tip each and every round of the 2019 AFL season with us. We'll be releasing a BONUS Footy Tipping episode each week. To be part of the fun just sign up at www.tipping.aflnation.com and search for the Don't Shoot The Messenger Podcast comp (or use the code ULF6J4NZ) or click HERE.  For videos and pics make sure you follow us on Instagram @DontShootPod. Like our Facebook page and hit 'Sign Up' to receive weekly updates HERE.  Email the show via feedback@dontshootpod.com.au Follow us on Twitter via @dontshootpod 'Don't Shoot The Messenger' is produced, engineered and edited by Jane Nield for Crocmedia.    Pancetta and Pea Risotto - by Linda Malcolm & Paul Jones from Alimentari  We’re extremely proud of our risotto. We’ve managed to package it up as a take-home meal without compromising the quality. We make the packaged product a few minutes off being finished, so our customers are able to follow simple instructions to finish off the process and enjoy a homemade meal.INGREDIENTSMETHOD Bring the stock to a soft boil in a saucepan over medium–high heat. Meanwhile, heat the oil in a wide, heavy-based frying pan over medium heat. Sauté the onion for about 5 minutes until soft and translucent. Add the pancetta and garlic and cook for about 3–4 minutes, until the pancetta begins to caramelise. Add the rice and cook, stirring, for about 2 minutes until the rice is toasted and well coated with the oil. Add the wine, scraping any tasty sticky bits up from the bottom of the frying pan. Once most of the wine is absorbed, reduce the heat to low and add a ladleful of stock to the rice and simmer, stirring, until absorbed. Add another ladle, and repeat, simmering and stirring until all of the stock has been added and the rice is al dente. This should take about 20 minutes. Stir in the peas. Remove from the heat and mix in the butter and parmesan, and season to taste. Serve sprinkled with a little extra parmesan. 2 litressee method for ingredients125mlolive oil1onion, finely diced100gpancetta, cut into lardons4garlic cloves, crushed370garborio rice150mlwhite wine150gfresh or thawed frozen peas30gunsalted butter75gparmesan cheese, grated, plus extra to serve

William Trevor died in 2016, at the age of 98. Two years later, his final book of short stories appeared--titled, appropriately enough, Last-Stories. For this week's episode, we read one of those stories, "Mrs. Crasthorpe," which Julian Barnes, in a review for The Guardian, singled out as one of the book's best. We talk about the story, and about Trevor's stories more generally. He was always a writer who sought the complex story, rather than the simple or flashy one, and his characters always feel richly drawn. In the second half of the show, we talk about another kind of finales: breakups (and how to do them properly). Also, we've got more questions from the NaNoWriMo forums, now that participants are nearing the midpoint of the month-long project. If you like the show, please consider donating to our Patreon, which helps offset our costs and allows us to keep doing the podcast each week. In exchange for $5, you'll also get access to a monthly bonus episode, Book Fight After Dark, in which we explore some of the weirder reaches of the literary universe: Amish mysteries, caveman romances, end-times thrillers and more!

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with rather a lot of short stories, and the reader reviewers Roanna Gonsalves, Brett Evans and Michael Dulaney

A bilingual production of Moliere's Tartuffe at Theatre Royal Haymarket, written by Christopher Hampton and updated to a setting in contemporary Los Angeles sounds like a winning formula. It has had some damning reviews elsewhere in the press; what will our reviewers make of it? Francois Ozon's newest film L'amant Double deals with a Hitchcockian plot line involving twin psychiatrists both treating the same beautiful young woman who is having emotional and relationship problems. They also both happen to be sleeping with her too. It's very slick, stylish and French but is it any good? A final collection of short stories by acclaimed Irish writer William Trevor, who died in 2016, has just been published. We discuss "Last Stories" Animals and Us is the latest exhibition at Turner Contemporary in Margate; it reflects on the relationship between humans and other animals. How well does it deal with such a gargantuan subject? Elmore Leonard's book Get Shorty was made into a successful film in 1995 and is now a TV series starring Chris O'dowd. Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Christopher Frayling, Rebecca Stott and Tiffany Jenkins. The producer is Oliver Jones.

A treat from the Bookclub archive celebrating our 20th anniversary

Gianrico Carofiglio, “Con i piedi nel fango. Conversazioni su politica e verità” - William Trevor, “Racconti scelti” - Diretta da Budapest su elezioni.

Gianrico Carofiglio, “Con i piedi nel fango. Conversazioni su politica e verità” - William Trevor, “Racconti scelti” - Diretta da Budapest su elezioni.

Over the course of eleven books, including his latest novel, THE UNMADE WORLD, Steve Yarbrough has established himself as a master of language and place. But James knows him as the leader of the greatest workshop ever. They discuss that class at Sewanee, as well as being a Southern writer with a British aesthetic, structuring novels based on the football calendar, and getting poked in the stomach. Plus, Annie Hartnett on being more productive.    Steve Yarbrough: https://www.steveyarbrough.net/ Steve and James discuss: Sewanee Writers' Conference  Jill McCorkle  Johnny Carson  IN THE SHADOW OF 10,000 HILLS by Jennifer Haupt  THE GIRL FROM BLIND RIVER by Gale Massey  Bill Parcells  Jimmy Johnson  University of Arkansas  William Harrison  John Clellon Holmes  James Whitehead  Bill Belichick  Graham Greene  Emerson College Pamela Painter  Margot Livesey  THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Larry McMurtry BOOKMARKED: LARRY McMURTRY'S THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Steve Yarbrough (SY)  PRISONERS OF WAR by SY  THE END OF CALIFORNIA by SY  "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway  Ron Hansen  A CLOCKWORK ORANGE  Bill Evans  Raymond Carver  THE DIXIE ASSOCIATION by Donald "Skip" Hayes  Richard Yates  William Trevor  "Wildwood Flower" "Blowing up on the Spot" by Kevin Wilson (from PLOUGHSHARES, Winter 2003-4)  Joyce Carol Oates "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"  THE PIGEON TUNNEL by John LeCarre   Alice Munro  THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy  Gary Fisketjon  Greg Michalson Fred Ramey  Knopf  THE OXYGEN MAN by SY  The Harvard Book Store  Michael Nye  OBJECTS OF AFFECTION by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough Unbridled Books  - Annie Hartnett: http://www.anniehartnett.com/ Annie and James discuss: "If You Want to Write a Book, Write Every Day or Quit Now" by Stephen Hunter   "Why the Best Way to Get Creative Is to Make Some Rules" by Aimee Bender http://www.oprah.com/spirit/writing-every-day-writers-rules-aimee-bender/all#ixzz58vlFL9eU THE ELECTRIC WOMAN by Tessa Fontaine  Sarah Shute  THE DEFINING DECADE by Meg Jay  ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT by Stephen King  DEEP WORK by Cal Newport  Anne Vogel  Benjamin Percy  THE SOUND OF MUSIC -  http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/            

Special edition looking back on the immense talent of short story writer William Trevor

Ian Sansom writes to Irish novelist and playwright, William Trevor

This week we're talking about a short story that traces the end of a long-running affair. Plus literary gossip, dating advice, and more!  

A public lecture by Dr Ian Sansom (Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre)organised by the School of English.

"Grape nuts or sex? It's a no brainer." Food writer and editor Julia Reed popped by the podcast to chat about Southern food culture, holiday entertaining, and mixing politics with pleasure. (You'll hear lots of laughter this episode; Julia's one-liners will have you in stitches.)  + You can find Julia's piece about Bill and Melinda Gates in the Wall Street Journal Magazine. + More about Julia Reed and her books can be found here.   + Julia was in town for Thomasville's Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival + William Christenberry photography + Garden and Gun magazine + The Bitter Southerner   Julia mentions:  + William Trevor short stories  + Walker Percy + Night School by Lee Child + The Jealous Kind by James Lee Burke Don't forget to leave us a voicemail for our 100th episode here!

Irish writer William Trevor passed away on Nov 20th 2016. To mark his passing we revisit his most well known short story, which was later adapted into a TV film, and which led to teenage obsession that just won't go away. Éamon Little and Eugene O'Brien explore the iconic TV film that coined the phrase 'Will you come into the field, Bridie?’ (2016)

Kate Silverton on: Martin Aitchison who worked with Barnes Wallis on the bouncing bomb but made his name illustrating the Peter and Jane ladybird books. Sir Mota Singh, the Kenyan born Barrister who became Britain's first ethnic minority judge making headlines worldwide as the first judge in 300 years not to wear the horse hair wig William Trevor - one of Ireland's greatest writers - a novelist, playwright and short story writer, his work was compared with Chekhov Ruth Gruber, journalist, author, humanitarian and spy. She documented Stalin's gulags, life in Nazi Germany and the plight of Jewish refugees and David Mancuso, dance music legend and music host who founded the Loft in New York. Producer: Neil George.

We celebrate the life and work of the award winning writer William Trevor, renowned for his short stories and novels. His editor, Tony Lacey, and poet Paul Muldoon pay tribute.Novelist and essayist, Zadie Smith (White Teeth, On Beauty, NW) talks to Kirsty about black and white musicals, childhood friendships, and dancing, as she discusses her new novel, Swing Time.Tim Robey reviews Robert Zemeckis' romantic thriller Allied, which stars Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard as two World War II spies who fall in love while on undercover assignment in Casablanca. Lucy Kirkwood, who's 2013 play Chimerica launched her as a playwright to watch, returns to the stage with The Children. It focuses on three retired nuclear physicists living under the shadow of a disaster in their former workplace. Kirsty Lang speaks to Lucy about the play and about our responsibility to the generations to come. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.

As different as we humans are from one another, we all age along the same great sequence, and the shared patterns of our lives pass into the pages of the books we love. In this moving talk, journalist Joshua Prager explores the stages of life through quotations from Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, William Trevor and other great writers, set to visualizations by graphic designer Milton Glaser. "Books tell us who we've been, who we are, who we will be, too," Prager says.

Wir Menschen sind zwar alle unterschiedlich, aber wir altern doch in den gleichen Etappen und die gemeinsamen Lebensmuster fließen in die Bücher ein, die wir mögen. In diesem ergreifenden Vortrag erkundet der Journalist Joshua Prager die Lebensabschnitte mit Hilfe von Zitaten von Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, William Trevor und anderen bedeutenden Schriftstellern, unterlegt mit Visualisierungen des Grafikdesigners Milton Glaser. "Bücher sagen uns, wer wir waren, wer wir sind und auch wer wir sein werden", sagt Prager.

Tão diferentes quanto nós humanos somos uns dos outros, todos nós envelhecemos ao longo da mesma grande sequência e os padrões comuns da nossa vida passam para as páginas dos livros que amamos. Nesta comovente palestra, o jornalista Josh Prager explora as fases da vida através de citações de Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, William Trevor e outros grandes escritores, através de visualizações do desenhista gráfico Milton Glaser. "Os livros nos dizem quem temos sido, quem somos, e também quem seremos", diz Prager.

Aussi différents que nous, humains, soyons les uns des autres, nous vieillissons tous selon la même grande séquence et les motifs partagés de nos vies se retrouvent dans les pages des livres que nous aimons. Au cours de cette conférence émouvante, le journaliste Joshua Prager explore les étapes de la vies à travers des citations de Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, William Trevor et d'autres grands auteurs, mises en images par le designer graphique Milton Glaser. « Les livres nous disent qui nous avons été, qui nous sommes et aussi qui nous serons, dit Prager. »

Tan diferentes como los seres humanos somos el uno del otro, todos envejecemos en la misma gran secuencia, y los patrones compartidos de nuestra vida pasan a las páginas de los libros que amamos. En esta charla conmovedora, el periodista Josh Prager explora las etapas de la vida a través de citas de Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, William Trevor y otros grandes escritores, con visualizaciones del diseñador gráfico Milton Glaser. "Los libros nos dicen que hemos sido, lo que somos, que vamos a ser, también," dice Prager.

Yiyun Li reads William Trevor's ‘Three People', a short story which moved her to write a story in reply, ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl'

Yiyun Li reads William Trevor's ‘Three People', a short story which moved her to write a story in reply, ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl'

Harriett Gilbert talks to children's writer Eleanor Updale and TV and radio presenter Andrea Oliver about the books they love: 'Love and Summer' by William Trevor, 'Like Water for Chocolate' by Laura Esquivel and 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' by Mohsin Hamid.

Kathryn Court joined Penguin Books in 1977 and became Editorial Director two years later. In l984 she was named Editor in Chief of Viking Penguin and in 1992 Senior Vice-President, Publisher, and Editor in Chief of Penguin Books. She was named President of Penguin Books in August 2000. Authors she has worked with include: Reinaldo Arenas, Andrea Camilleri, J.M. Coetzee, Slavenka Drakulic, Mary Relinda Ellis, Robert Fagles, Josephine Humphreys, Garrison Keillor, Nora Okja Keller, Donna Leon, Mary McGarry Morris, John Mortimer, Richard Rodriguez, C.J. Samsom, Jim Trelease, and William Trevor. We met at BookExpo in New York, and talk here about: the role of publisher, artist Chris Ware's funky Candide cover, new ways of selling things you already own, showing the young that reading can be fun, finding new authors and having faith in them, Andrea Camilleri and the benefit of buying series, hard cover versus soft cover sales, 4000 title backlists that finance front lists, J.M. Coetzee's greatness, sales and distain for interviewers, the need for confidence in young editors in order to convince others that their picks are as good as they say they are, advertising in book review sections and how it doesn't work, how emotional novels and those with voices women can identify with sell best, the three million copy selling The Memory Keeper's Daughter, the sales power of word of mouth, and the joyful intensity of working as part of an editorial team…as a happy few against the world.

Jhumpa Lahiri reads the short story "A Day," by William Trevor, and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Triesman.

William Trevor, long recognised as a master of the short story, talks to James Naughtie and an audience about his collection After Rain. Reading by the author recorded at Dr Johnson's House, in the City of London.

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer William Trevor.Favourite track: Clarinet Quintet In B Minor by Johannes Brahms Book: Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler Luxury: Grapevines

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer William Trevor. Favourite track: Clarinet Quintet In B Minor by Johannes Brahms Book: Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler Luxury: Grapevines