Lost Ladies of Lit
A book podcast hosted by writing partners Amy Helmes and Kim Askew. Guests include biographers, journalists, authors, and cultural historians discussing lost classics by women writers. You can support Lost Ladies of Lit by visiting https://www.patreon.com/c/LostLadiesofLit339.
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HIATUS ENCORE: Minae Mizumura — A True Novel with Lavanya Krishnan
What if we told you that there was an ingenious retelling of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights set in post-war Japan that also has shades of Middlemarch and The Great Gatsby? Minae Mizumura’s A True Novel, first published in 2002, checks all those boxes and more. Joining us to discuss A True Novel is Lavanya Krishnan, co-founder of the literary book subscription Boxwalla. (This episode originally aired in 2023).
Discussed in this episode:
A True Novel by Minae Mizumura
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Why I Write What I Write” by Minae Mizumura
Writing Routines with Minae Mizumura
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Light and Darkness, Continued by Minae Mizumura
An I Novel from Left to Right by Minae Mizumura
A Heart So White by Javier Marías
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
The Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
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