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Raph Cormack, Nikhil Krishnan and guests discuss minor works of literature. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa... more
FAQs about The Minor Books Podcast:How many episodes does The Minor Books Podcast have?The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.
December 01, 2025Christmas GateNikhil and Raph are joined by Ben Sims, who has a Substack newsletter called 'Short Stories Once a Month', to discuss Max Beerbohm's A Christmas Garland (1912) and Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate (1986). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more59minPlay
November 06, 2025RhapsodesRaph and Nikhil are joined by David Egan, Koç University, Istanbul, to talk about Robert Bringhurst's A Story As Sharp As a Knife and Ismail Kadare's The File on H (tr. David Bellos). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more56minPlay
August 31, 2025Heaven's ThirstNikhil and Raph are joined by Alistair Henfrey, Head of English at Winchester College, to talk about Mark Doty's Heaven's Coast: A Memoir (1996) and Adam Mars-Jones's The Waters of Thirst (1993). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more1hPlay
July 31, 2025Plums and PoppiesRaph and Nikhil are joined, for the last episode in our series on short story collections, by Henry Oliver, author among other things of the Substack newsletter The Common Reader, to discuss Jane Gardam's 1994 collection Going Into a Dark Room. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more58minPlay
July 13, 2025Indus Valley PicnicsNikhil and Raph are joined by Supriya Nair, one of the hosts of The Lit Pickers Podcast, to discuss the Pakistani-American writer Daniyal Mueenuddin's 2009 collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more58minPlay
June 01, 2025Cat CrystalRaph and Nikhil are joined again by Rey Conquer, author of the forthcoming How To Live Together (Fitzcarraldo), to discuss Adalbert Stifter's Motley Stones (1853, tr. Isabel Fargo Cole, NYRB Classics). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more58minPlay
April 16, 2025Crocodile ShopsNikhil and Raph are joined by the writer and translator Joshua Billings to talk about Bruno Schulz's 1934 collection Sklepy Cynamonowe, translated from the Polish by Celina Wieniewska in 1963. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more54minPlay
March 15, 2025Labour WritesRaph and Nikhil are joined by Lucy Jackson, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, to talk about the American writer Tillie Olsen's 1961 collection of short stories, Tell Me a Riddle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more48minPlay
February 15, 2025Dolphins in the BosphorusNikhil and Raph are joined by Peter Cherry of the British Institute at Ankara in the first episode of a new series about short story collections. In this episode, they discuss Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe's translation of selected stories by the Turkish writer Sait Faik: A Useless Man (2014). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more58minPlay
January 15, 2025Tunnel VisionRaph and Nikhil talk to Peter Huhne about Ernesto Sabato's El Túnel (1948, tr. Margaret Sayers Peden) and Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac's D'Entre Les Morts (1954, tr. Geoffrey Sainsbury). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more58minPlay
FAQs about The Minor Books Podcast:How many episodes does The Minor Books Podcast have?The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.