First Pages Readings Podcast

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
2. Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories by Maria Reva
3. The View From Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro

In this episode, a few pages of the following novels will be read:

1. Willful Disregard by Lena Andersson, translated by Sarah Death
2. Collected Works by Lydia Sandgren, translated by Agnes Broome
3. Beckomberga by Sara Stridsberg, translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places by Alex Riley
2. The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild by Craig Childs
3. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Winter Stories by Ingvild Rishoi, translated from the Norwegian by Diane Oatley
2. Sunstroke and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
3. The Trouble with Happiness and Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen, translated from the Danish by Michael Favala Goldman

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Cape of Storms by Nina Berberova, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz
2. The Milkman in the Night by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov, translated from the Russian by Amanda Love Darragh, and
3. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane (2019)
2. Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin (2007)
3. Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath our Feet by Will Hunt (2018)

A few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, translated from the Persian by an anonymous translator
2. Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes
3. The Land at the End of the World by Antonio Lobo Antunes, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

In this episode a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The Anthropologists by Aysegul Savas (2024)
2. An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine (2013)
3. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (1977), translated from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser (2011)

In this episode a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. American Estrangement: Stories by Said Sayrafiezadeh (2021)
2. Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li (2023)
3. Other Minds and Other Stories by Bennett Sims (2023)

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

• Bluebeard's First Wife: Stories by Ha Seong-Nan, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong
• Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by U.S. author Hilma Wolitzer
• The Uncollected Stories of Canadian author Mavis Gallant