Episode 74: Canadian Literature

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast

This week, we're joined by Jerry Faust for a fun conversation about Canadian literature. Incredibly diverse and far too often overlooked, Canada’s literary output is a goldmine of wonderful books and authors. What are your favorites?

Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada

As you’ve heard on the podcast, Paul is a judge of this year’s prize. The longlist has been announced, and the shortlist is on the way!

Would you like to join Paul at a Zoom party celebrating the longlist, with publishers, authors and translators? You can! It happens on Tuesday, February 27, at 6 p.m. CT. Click here to find the information to sign up!

Shownotes

* Small Joys, by Elvin James Mensah

* The Boys in the Trees, by Mary Swan

* The Birds, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Michael Barnes and Torbjøn Støverud

* The Ice Palace, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan

* The Hills Reply, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan

* The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer

* Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death, by Laura Cumming

* The Vanishing Velàzquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece, by Laura Cumming

* Magpie Murders, by Anthony Horowitz

* Moonflower Murders, by Anthony Horowitz

* The Word Is Murder, by Anthony Horowitz

* Possession, by A.S. Byatt

* The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood

* Bear, by Marian Engel

* The Englishman’s Boy, by Guy Vanderhaeghe

* Man Descending, by Guy Vanderhaeghe

* Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, by Guy Vanderhaeghe

* The Golden Mean, by Annabel Lyon

* The Sweet Girl, by Annabel Lyon

* Consent, by Annabel Lyon

* A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry

* The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje

* Pastoral, by André Alexis

* Fifteen Dogs, by André Alexis

* Ring, by André Alexis

* As for Me and My House, by Sinclair Ross

* The Winter Vault, by Anne Michaels

* Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels

* Held, by Anne Michaels

* Basic Black with Pearls, by Helen Weinzweig

* South of the Border, West of the Sun, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel

* The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence

* Island, by Alistair MacLeod

* No Great Mischief, by Alistair MacLeod

* The Way the Crow Flies, by Anne Marie MacDonald

* The Geography of Pluto, by Christopher DiRaddo

* The Family Way, by Christopher DiRaddo

* Autumn Rounds, by Jacques Poulin, translated by Sheila Fischman

* Natasha and Other Stories, by David Bezmozgis

* The Free World, by David Bezmozgis

* Immigrant City, by David Bezmozgis

* Transit, by Anna Seghers, translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo

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