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Bookrageous Episode 74; International Literature


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Bookrageous Episode 74; International Literature
Intro Music; In The Summertime - Rural Alberta Advantage
What We’re Reading
Jenn
[1:15] Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens
[3:15] The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
[4:45] The Winter’s Tale, William Shakespeare
Preeti
[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 Bunn
Dustin
[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
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Intermission; Intermission (West Side Story)
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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

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