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Paul Wilson @bibliopaul.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're back! It's been busy, with me off exploring and @mookse.bsky.social moving. In this episode, we catch up on where we've been, what we've been reading, and the bookish things that have been occupying us. We also look ahead to a leisurely fall, plenty of good books and more time to read them.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

9/23/63: Imgmar Bergman's The Silence w/Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten More: @hwoodminotaur.bsky.social & @cinemavsdave.bsky.social via Wrong Reel: wrongreel.com/podcast/wr27... @mookse.bsky.social: mookseandgripes.com/reviews/2014... Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fantastic! I hope you love it!!

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I've been forgetting to post about how much I enjoyed @debolinunferth.bsky.social's terrific novel Earth 7. Loved the relationships (mother/daughter, woman/woman) loved the writing, loved the premise. Write on, Deb -

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In October @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is publishing Margaret Jull Costa’s new translation of Bioy Casares’s La invención de Morel. Here is a comparison to Ruth L. C. Simms’s 1964 translation. Borges’s foreword is still included. It appears, though, that Noah Borges de Torre’s illustrations are gone.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/07/2026

“A mother had to love, and a child had to grow up. The results were often out of one’s hands.” A hardworking firstborn son struggles to meet his own expectations in a short story by Min Jin Lee: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2j7CIc

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Honoured and excited to be a judge, with such fantastic fellow judges. Currently making some shelf-space...

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

French. Cagnati’s parents were Italian, but she was born in France and wrote in French.

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Did you accidentally bring Twitter here?

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Nice! Sharing a sad book with you makes me happy!

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This reads as if David had one very specific annoying dude in mind.

Text of Psalm 40:15:

I5 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

That’s the way I did it too, and I think you make a solid case so that I would also recommend Free Day first. I am hoping they put out the rest of her work eventually!

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

(Boy you don’t post in a while and forget how it works!)

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Ha! I see! I saw the original post of Crazy Genie and then took a quick glide though the rest I guess!!

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Did you read Free Day, Dorian? Can I be part of the influence to get you to buy that one?

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Well and if we’re just gonna keep piling on! Here is another, with @leafbyleaf.bsky.social, ostensibly about big books but the topic often veered into some fun but challenging books. open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...

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Episode 105: Wrists Be Damned: or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Books

with Chris Via

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"The Girls is many things at once. It’s a comedy but it's also a portrait of an England of down-at-heel seediness, where flower shows, dirty coppers and the serial killer Dennis Nilsen are part of the same social fabric." Me on John Bowen's 1986 novel The Girls, reissued by Vintage and McNally:

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This terrific novel is like a cross between Barbara Pym and Stephen King

In his wicked comedy, The Girls, John Bowen takes us into the world of vicars, fêtes and murder in the Cotswolds of the 1970s

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

My current #PrideMonth read is Brigid Brophy’s 1956 novel The King of a Rainy Country.

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

THE SWEET DOVE DIED by Barbara Pym is up next for #NYRBWomen26! Starting July 1. 💫

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Hold my calls.

Hermione Lee’s forthcoming bio of my queen Anita Brookner.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

How to talk about this novel? Cagnati is one of those rare and fiercely brave authors. She dives deep into the pain and loss of women discarded and used over and over after being labeled ‘crazy’ by society. A difficult read but well worth it. #NYRBWomen26

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 07/06/2026

The author Andrea Bajani reads his short story from this week’s issue. Listen here. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

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Andrea Bajani Reads “Constellation”

The author Andrea Bajani reads his short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yes we have been (hi Chris 👋🏻) and I agree that it is a revelation! I actually am in the middle of an unintended break and need to get back to it, though I have found that it is a book I can sink into again quite easily!)

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I’ve read only Woods when it comes to The Magic Mountain, and I loved it! Thought the writing was absolutely wonderful. I have also read Damion Searls’ Death in Venice, which I would also recommend. I’m looking forward to Susan Bernofsky’s Magic Mountain sometime in the nearish future!

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Re: the Guardian's 100 novels list, I can't help myself: Trying to balance subjectivity with objectivity (good luck!), my 10 best *not* on that list would be drawn from this group.

Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
Look at Me by Anita Brookner
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
Job by Joseph Roth
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Her First American by Lore Segal
All the Pretty Horses and/or The Crossing
by Cormac McCarthy (certainly ahead of The Road!)

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I think the best way to enjoy this list, which contains lots of predictable choices (made as it was by committee), is to find a book you like, click to see who voted for it, and then look at the voters' other top 10 choices. You might find something else you like that you haven't read.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Books lists? You want book lists? Here’s the only one you need today: my rundown of the International Booker Prize shortlist in today’s Guardian, ahead of Tuesday’s winner announcement. Accept no substitutes. In print (in abbreviated form) today, online soon.

My piece on the Int’l Booker shortlist. Far too long to ALT text even in part, alas.

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Who knew that the books on our nightstand say so much about us! This week @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I talk about the books on our nightstand—not necessarily just listing them, but figuring out, based on what they are and how long they’ve been there—who we are! substack.com/@mookse/note...

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Episode 132: Our Nightstands, Ourselves

In this episode, we take a look at the books we have on our nightstands and what they say about us!

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Paul Wilson @bibliopaul.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

In our latest episode, @mookse.bsky.social and I take a look at the books on our nightstands and explore what they say about us. Along the way, we talk about reading rituals, unfinished books, literary guilt, late-night attention spans, and the intimacy of the books we keep closest at hand.

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Yes! I have been fully converted to slow reading with no real sense of urgency to finish!

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Paul Wilson @bibliopaul.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

In our new episode @mookse.bsky.social and I sit down with Nick During and Abigail Dunne from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social We talk about the various series at NYRB recent and forthcoming releases (including some exciting books just over the horizon).

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David Blakeslee @peutetre.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

New episode of The Eclipse Viewer podcast is now online! This is the first of a two-part conversation about the recently reissued LUBITSCH MUSICALS set, with me, @mookse.bsky.social and special guest William Remmers. criterioncast.com/podcast/ecli...

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The Eclipse Viewer - Episode 68 - Lubitsch Musicals [Part 1]

David and Trevor are joined by William Remmers to discuss THE LOVE PARADE and MONTE CARLO, the first two films in this reissued set of classic Pre-Code musical comedies.

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We have a new episode up! This week @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I got to talk to Nick and Abigail from @nybooks.com. It was fun to explore the various series they publish (Contemporary, Children’s, Comics, Classics, Poets!). substack.com/@mookse/note...

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Episode 131: Trust the Spine: On the Pleasure and Riches of NYRB Books

This week, we’re joined by Nick During and Abigail Dunn from New York Review Books for a wide-ranging conversation about the world of NYRB.

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I love the promise of a new book, but the opening movement is often the hardest for me. It’s so nice when an authors voice or the plot or something helps me know I’m in good hands. In this week’s episode @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I talk about the opening movement. substack.com/@mookse/note...

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Episode 130: Opening Movements: Entering the World of a Book

In this episode, we begin a three-part series on the movements of a novel, starting with the opening.

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

April's #NYRBWomen26 read (starting today!) is THE UNFORGIVABLE AND OTHER WRITINGS by Cristina Campo, translated from the Italian by Alex Andriesse. "This is not a collection of essays. This is a dwelling place, a gathering of rooms, of turns of mind, winding hallways..." - Intro by Kathryn Davis

THE UNFORGIVABLE AND OTHER WRITINGS by Cristina Campo (tr. Alex Andriesse)

#NYRBWomen26 page guide for THE UNFORGIVABLE AND OTHER WRITINGS by Cristina Campo (tr. Alex Andriesse)

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James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark is BOOK OF THE WEEK in The Times, and it's frankly outrageous that a small marching band hasn't trundled into my house to make some little celebratory parps in my honour 😤

A photo of me, holding up a copy of The Times which features a review of my book, accompanied by the headline: ‘A genius with claws - the picaresque life of Muriel Spark’

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Thanks for the kind feedback and happy listening :-)

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Happy Thursday. @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I were delighted to talk to @luispanini.bsky.social about reading projects in our latest episode. I myself love sitting down and making a reading project! Carrying through is much harder, but I’m getting better at it! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...

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Episode 129: Reading with a Plan: The Joys and Complications of Reading Projects

This week, we’re joined by Luis Panini to talk about reading projects.

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Not true, James. You look so hot.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 27/03/2026

"It has an intensity and force which puts it in the front rank of Holocaust fiction"— @john-self.bsky.social in The Critic on Friedrich Torberg's Vengeance is Mine, out on March 31 in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social.

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Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp | John Self | The Critic Magazine

A unique form developed: voice-driven, absurdist, but always compassionate for put-upon characters

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Rave review of Gwendoline Riley's new book, The Palm House in @thetimes.com "I read it in a single sitting, then immediately read it again to test its spell, which grew stronger. It establishes Riley as one of our most brilliant fiction writers"

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This goes straight onto my list of favourite modern novels

A ‘thick-skinned philistine’ takes over a fading literary magazine … The Palm House establishes Gwendoline Riley as one of our foremost fiction writers

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Paul Wilson @bibliopaul.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

In our newest episode, @mookse.bsky.social and I are joined by @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social of @onebrightbook.bsky.social to talk a favorite topics: books that blur boundaries and resist easy classification. I loved this conversations and (surprise) added a ton to my TBR. You’ve been warned…

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One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This is a good episode because they talk about us all the time

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Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Oh have you not recorded on Orlando yet?! I thought that was last Sunday and we’d all have to wait a month for the fallout! Oh boy this will be fun!!

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