HIATUS ENCORE: Minae Mizumura — A True Novel with Lavanya Krishnan

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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 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Novel)
Lavanya Krishnan, Boxwalla (altaonline.com/california-book-club/a42285615/…)
Alexander Chee (alexanderchee.net)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlemarch)
“Why I Write What I Write (web.archive.org/web/20120521212414/https://iwp…)” by Minae Mizumura
Writing Routines with Minae Mizumura (writingroutines.com/minae-mizumura)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Karamazov)
Light and Darkness, Continued by Minae Mizumura (mizumuraminae.com/books)
An I Novel from Left to Right by Minae Mizumura (amazon.com/I-Novel-Minae-Mizumura/dp/0231192134)
A Heart So White by Javier Marías (amazon.com/Heart-So-White-Javier-Mar%C3%ADas/d…)
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (amazon.com/Autobiography-Red-Anne-Carson/dp/03…)
The Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov (amazon.com/Diary-Invasion-Andrey-Kurkov-ebook/…)
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (amazon.com/Time-Shelter-Novel-Georgi-Gospodino…)
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