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What if we told you that there was an ingenious retelling of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights set in post-war Japan that also has shades of Middlemarch and The Great Gatsby? Minae Mizumura’s A True Novel, first published in 2002, checks all those boxes and more. Joining us to discuss A True Novel is Lavanya Krishnan, co-founder of the literary book subscription Boxwalla. (This episode originally aired in 2023).

Discussed in this episode: 

A True Novel by Minae Mizumura 

Lavanya Krishnan, Boxwalla

Alexander Chee

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Middlemarch by George Eliot

 “Why I Write What I Write” by Minae Mizumura

Writing Routines with Minae Mizumura

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Light and Darkness, Continued by Minae Mizumura

An I Novel from Left to Right by Minae Mizumura

A Heart So White by Javier Marías 

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

The Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov

Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov

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