The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast

By Trevor Berrett

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Episodes: 107

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In each episode Trevor Berrett and Paul Wilson have a pleasant conversation about books and reading. Visit our blog at http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews. Follow us on Twitter @mookse and @bibliopaul. Email mookseandgripes@gmail.com. mookse.substack.com

Episode Date
107: Goals or Guilt? A Check-in on Our Reading Ambitions
May 29, 2025
106: Bookshelf Roulette: Surprises from the Shelf
May 15, 2025
Episode 105: Wrists Be Damned: or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Books
May 01, 2025
Episode 104: Hanne Ørstavik
Apr 17, 2025
Episode 103: Charco Press
Apr 03, 2025
Episode 102: Diving into the Past with Historical Fiction
Mar 20, 2025
Episode 101: Big News, Short Books
Mar 06, 2025
Episode 100: Questions, Answers, Books
Feb 20, 2025
Episode 99: Books We Think About All the Time
Feb 06, 2025
Episode 98: City Books
Jan 23, 2025
Episode 97: 2025 Reading Horizons
Jan 09, 2025
Episode 96: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2024, Part II
Dec 26, 2024
Episode 95: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2024, Part I
Dec 12, 2024
Episode 94: Javier Marías
Nov 28, 2024
Episode 93: Books We Wanted to Reread Immediately
Nov 14, 2024
Episode 92: Essays, Part II
Oct 31, 2024
Episode 91: Digressions with Mark Haber
Oct 17, 2024
Episode 90: Essays, Part I
Oct 03, 2024
Episode 89: Benchwarmer Books
Sep 19, 2024
Episode 88: Women in Translation
Sep 05, 2024
Episode 87: The Story of Lucy Gault
Aug 22, 2024
Episode 86: Our Favorite Ten Books of the 21st Century So Far
Aug 08, 2024
Episode 85: Roberto Bolaño
Jul 25, 2024
Episode 84: Our Most Anticipated Releases from the Last Half of 2024
Jul 11, 2024
Episode 83: Shelf Control
Jun 27, 2024
Episode 82: Bucket List Books, Part II
Jun 13, 2024
Episode 81: Audiobooks
May 30, 2024
Episode 80: Facing the Void
May 16, 2024
Episode 79: Rediscovered Gems
May 02, 2024
Episode 78: The Great American Novel
Apr 18, 2024
Episode 77: Poetry
Apr 04, 2024
Episode 76: Author Completionism
Mar 21, 2024
Episode 75: Barbara Comyns
Mar 07, 2024
Episode 74: Canadian Literature
Feb 22, 2024
Episode 73: Hidden Gems
Feb 08, 2024
Episode 72: Characters on Holiday
Jan 25, 2024
Episode 71: 2024 Reading Horizon
Jan 11, 2024
Episode 70: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2023, Part II
Dec 28, 2023
Episode 69: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2023, Part I
Dec 14, 2023
Episode 68: The Dalkey Archive
Nov 30, 2023
Episode 67: On a Bookish Holiday
Nov 16, 2023
Episode 66: Reading Habits
Nov 02, 2023
Episode 65: Jon Fosse, with Damion Searls
Oct 19, 2023
Episode 64: Victorian Literature
Oct 05, 2023
Episode 63: Our Favorite Passages
Sep 21, 2023
Episode 62: Spinster Lit
Sep 07, 2023
Episode 61: The Most Intimidating Books on Our TBR
Aug 24, 2023
Episode 60: Favorite Books We Have Forgotten
Aug 10, 2023
Episode 59: The Dry Heart
Jul 27, 2023
Episode 58: Books You Can Get Immersed In
Jul 13, 2023
Episode 57: Our Most Anticipated Releases from the Last Half of 2023
Jun 29, 2023
Episode 56: Barbara Pym
Jun 15, 2023
Episode 55: Summer Reading Horizons
Jun 01, 2023
Episode 54: The Power of a Great Title
May 18, 2023
Episode 53: Affinities
May 04, 2023
Episode 52: Stories About Idylls
Apr 20, 2023
Episode 51: Sharing a Love of Reading with Future Generations
Apr 06, 2023
Episode 50: Open Letter Books
Mar 23, 2023
Episode 49: Rereading
Mar 09, 2023
Episode 48: Marking Up Your Books
Feb 23, 2023
Episode 47: Finding Love Between the Covers
Feb 09, 2023
Episode 46: Scholastique Mukasonga
Jan 26, 2023
Episode 45: 2023 Reading Dreams
Jan 12, 2023
Episode 44: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2022, Part II
Dec 29, 2022
Episode 43: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2022, Part I
Dec 15, 2022
Episode 42: Settling In for a Long Winter's Read
Dec 01, 2022
Episode 41: The Magic of Libraries, with Nancy Pearl
Nov 17, 2022
Episode 40: Book Prizes, with Lori Feathers
Nov 03, 2022
Episode 39: Scary Books That Kept Us Up at Night
Oct 20, 2022
Episode 38: Fictional Places We Wish Were Real
Oct 06, 2022
Episode 37: Hotel Novels
Sep 22, 2022
Episode 36: Epic Books
Sep 08, 2022
Episode 35: César Aira
Aug 25, 2022
Episode 34: A Lost Lady
Aug 11, 2022
Episode 33: Books About Growing Old
Jul 28, 2022
Episode 32: Authors We Can't Quite Quit Yet
Jul 14, 2022
Episode 31: New Directions, with Mark Haber
Jun 30, 2022
Episode 30: Three Books with Brian Berrett
Jun 16, 2022
Episode 29: Summer Reading and Assigned Reading II
Jun 02, 2022
Episode 28: Our Dustiest Books
May 19, 2022
Episode 27: Short Books, Fiction
May 05, 2022
Episode 26: Books About Books, Fiction
Apr 21, 2022
Episode 25: Jane Austen
Apr 07, 2022
Episode 24: Literary Years, 1922
Mar 24, 2022
Episode 23: Archipelago Books
Mar 10, 2022
Episode 22: Assigned Reading I
Feb 24, 2022
Episode 21: Comfort Reads
Feb 10, 2022
Episode 20: Why Do We Read Fiction?
Jan 27, 2022
Episode 19: Our Top Bookish Questions for 2022
Jan 13, 2022
Episode 18: 2022 Reading Intentions
Dec 30, 2021
Episode 17: Favorite Books We Read in 2021, Part II
Dec 23, 2021
Episode 16: Favorite Books We Read in 2021, Part I
Dec 16, 2021
Episode 15: Emily Dickinson
Dec 02, 2021
Episode 14: Holiday Reading Plans
Nov 25, 2021
Episode 13: Bookstores
Nov 11, 2021
Episode 12: Hangsaman, by Shirley Jackson
Oct 28, 2021
Episode 11: NYRB Classics, Part I
Oct 21, 2021
Episode 10: Books About Books, Nonfiction
Oct 14, 2021
Episode 9: Great Openings
Oct 07, 2021
Episode 8: Three Favorite Books with Frances Evangelista
Sep 30, 2021
Episode 7: Fall Books
Sep 23, 2021
Episode 6: Our Fantasy Past (and Future?)
Sep 16, 2021
Episode 5: Cormac McCarthy
Sep 09, 2021
Episode 4: Nature Writing
Aug 26, 2021
Episode 3: Quadraturin by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Aug 12, 2021
Episode 2: The Short Story
Aug 12, 2021
Episode 1: Bucket List Books
Jul 31, 2021