All Episodes
The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast — 132 episodes
Episode 132: Our Nightstands, Ourselves
Episode 131: Trust the Spine: On the Pleasure and Riches of NYRB Books
Episode 130: Opening Movements: Entering the World of a Book
Episode 129: Reading with a Plan: The Joys and Complications of Reading Projects
Episode 128: If the Ship Goes Down, Grab These: Three Books for Our Desert Island
Episode 127: No One Knows Where to Shelf This: On Unclassifiable Books
Episode 126: Is That a Good Book?
Episode 125: Flannery O'Connor
Episode 124: Books We Wish We Could Read for the First Time Again
Episode 123: Our 2026 No-Pressure Reading Plans
Episode 122: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2025, Part II
Episode 121: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2025, Part I
Episode 120: Gratitude and Holiday Reading
Episode 119: The Art (and Agony) of Book Culling
Episode 118: Whole Body Reading: Reading, Walking and Well-Being
Episode 117: Losing the Plot: On Reading Slumps and How We Find Our Way Back
Episode 116: A World Brimming Over: Abundant Literature and The Portrait of a Lady
Episode 115: Kazuo Ishiguro
Episode 114: Through a Glass, Darkly: Entering Schattenfroh and Other Books that Refuse to Yield at Once
Episode 113: Starter Libraries: A Shelf Full of Promises
Episode 112: In Her Words: Women in Translation 2025
Episode 111: Two Friends Walk into a Bookstore: A Day Out with Trevor and Paul
Episode 110: The End: Last Lines That Stick the Landing
Episode 109: The Lighter Side of the Stacks: Funny Books
Episode 108: From Our Shelves with Pride: LGBTQIA+ Reads We Love
107: Goals or Guilt? A Check-in on Our Reading Ambitions
106: Bookshelf Roulette: Surprises from the Shelf
Episode 105: Wrists Be Damned: or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Books
Episode 104: Hanne Ørstavik
Episode 103: Charco Press
Episode 102: Diving into the Past with Historical Fiction
Episode 101: Big News, Short Books
Episode 100: Questions, Answers, Books
Episode 99: Books We Think About All the Time
Episode 98: City Books
Episode 97: 2025 Reading Horizons
Episode 96: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2024, Part II
Episode 95: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2024, Part I
Episode 94: Javier Marías
Episode 93: Books We Wanted to Reread Immediately
Episode 92: Essays, Part II
Episode 91: Digressions with Mark Haber
Episode 90: Essays, Part I
Episode 89: Benchwarmer Books
Episode 88: Women in Translation
Episode 87: The Story of Lucy Gault
Episode 86: Our Favorite Ten Books of the 21st Century So Far
Episode 85: Roberto Bolaño
Episode 84: Our Most Anticipated Releases from the Last Half of 2024
Episode 83: Shelf Control
Episode 82: Bucket List Books, Part II
Episode 81: Audiobooks
Episode 80: Facing the Void
Episode 79: Rediscovered Gems
Episode 78: The Great American Novel
Episode 77: Poetry
Episode 76: Author Completionism
Episode 75: Barbara Comyns
Episode 74: Canadian Literature
Episode 73: Hidden Gems
Episode 72: Characters on Holiday
Episode 71: 2024 Reading Horizon
Episode 70: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2023, Part II
Episode 69: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2023, Part I
Episode 68: The Dalkey Archive
Episode 67: On a Bookish Holiday
Episode 66: Reading Habits
Episode 65: Jon Fosse, with Damion Searls
Episode 64: Victorian Literature
Episode 63: Our Favorite Passages
Episode 62: Spinster Lit
Episode 61: The Most Intimidating Books on Our TBR
Episode 60: Favorite Books We Have Forgotten
Episode 59: The Dry Heart
Episode 58: Books You Can Get Immersed In
Episode 57: Our Most Anticipated Releases from the Last Half of 2023
Episode 56: Barbara Pym
Episode 55: Summer Reading Horizons
Episode 54: The Power of a Great Title
Episode 53: Affinities
Episode 52: Stories About Idylls
Episode 51: Sharing a Love of Reading with Future Generations
Episode 50: Open Letter Books
Episode 49: Rereading
Episode 48: Marking Up Your Books
Episode 47: Finding Love Between the Covers
Episode 46: Scholastique Mukasonga
Episode 45: 2023 Reading Dreams
Episode 44: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2022, Part II
Episode 43: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2022, Part I
Episode 42: Settling In for a Long Winter's Read
Episode 41: The Magic of Libraries, with Nancy Pearl
Episode 40: Book Prizes, with Lori Feathers
Episode 39: Scary Books That Kept Us Up at Night
Episode 38: Fictional Places We Wish Were Real
Episode 37: Hotel Novels
Episode 36: Epic Books
Episode 35: César Aira
Episode 34: A Lost Lady
Episode 33: Books About Growing Old
Episode 32: Authors We Can't Quite Quit Yet
Episode 31: New Directions, with Mark Haber
Episode 30: Three Books with Brian Berrett
Episode 29: Summer Reading and Assigned Reading II
Episode 28: Our Dustiest Books
Episode 27: Short Books, Fiction
Episode 26: Books About Books, Fiction
Episode 25: Jane Austen
Episode 24: Literary Years, 1922
Episode 23: Archipelago Books
Episode 22: Assigned Reading I
Episode 21: Comfort Reads
Episode 20: Why Do We Read Fiction?
Episode 19: Our Top Bookish Questions for 2022
Episode 18: 2022 Reading Intentions
Episode 17: Favorite Books We Read in 2021, Part II
Episode 16: Favorite Books We Read in 2021, Part I
Episode 15: Emily Dickinson
Episode 14: Holiday Reading Plans
Episode 13: Bookstores
Episode 12: Hangsaman, by Shirley Jackson
Episode 11: NYRB Classics, Part I
Episode 10: Books About Books, Nonfiction
Episode 9: Great Openings
Episode 8: Three Favorite Books with Frances Evangelista
Episode 7: Fall Books
Episode 6: Our Fantasy Past (and Future?)
Episode 5: Cormac McCarthy
Episode 4: Nature Writing
Episode 3: Quadraturin by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Episode 2: The Short Story
Episode 1: Bucket List Books