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The Minor Books Podcast

Nikhil Krishnan

Raph Cormack, Nikhil Krishnan and guests discuss minor works of literature. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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59:05

Heaven's Thirst

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2025/08/31

Nikhil and Raph are joined by Alistair Henfrey, Head of English at Winchester College, to talk about Mark Doty's Heaven's Coast: A Memoir (1996) and Adam Mars-Jones's The Waters of Thirst (1993). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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57:05

Plums and Poppies

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2025/07/31

Raph and Nikhil are joined, for the last episode in our series on short story collections, by Henry Oliver, author among other things of the Substack newsletter The Common Reader, to discuss Jane Gardam's 1994 collection Going Into a Dark Room. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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57:58

Indus Valley Picnics

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2025/07/13

Nikhil and Raph are joined by Supriya Nair, one of the hosts of The Lit Pickers Podcast, to discuss the Pakistani-American writer Daniyal Mueenuddin's 2009 collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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57:17

Cat Crystal

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2025/06/01

Raph and Nikhil are joined again by Rey Conquer, author of the forthcoming How To Live Together (Fitzcarraldo), to discuss Adalbert Stifter's Motley Stones (1853, tr. Isabel Fargo Cole, NYRB Classics). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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53:17

Crocodile Shops

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2025/04/16

Nikhil and Raph are joined by the writer and translator Joshua Billings to talk about Bruno Schulz's 1934 collection Sklepy Cynamonowe, translated from the Polish by Celina Wieniewska in 1963. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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47:57

Labour Writes

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2025/03/15

Raph and Nikhil are joined by Lucy Jackson, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, to talk about the American writer Tillie Olsen's 1961 collection of short stories, Tell Me a Riddle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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57:02

Dolphins in the Bosphorus

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2025/02/15

Nikhil and Raph are joined by Peter Cherry of the British Institute at Ankara in the first episode of a new series about short story collections. In this episode, they discuss Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe's translation of selected stories by the Turkish writer Sait Faik: A Useless Man (2014). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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58:00

Tunnel Vision

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2025/01/15

Raph and Nikhil talk to Peter Huhne about Ernesto Sabato's El Túnel (1948, tr. Margaret Sayers Peden) and Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac's D'Entre Les Morts (1954, tr. Geoffrey Sainsbury). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:01:22

That Light

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2024/12/15

Nikhil and Raph talk to Henry Eliot about Yūko Tsushima's Territory of Light (1977/78, tr. Geraldine Harcourt, 2018) and Sonallah Ibrahim's That Smell (1966, tr. Robyn Cresswell, 2013). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:00:49

Indignity

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2024/11/17

Raph and Nikhil talk to novelist and critic Anjum Hasan about Anita Desai's In Custody (1984) and Dag Solstad's Shyness and Dignity (1994, tr. Sverre Lyngstad 2006). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:05:39

Maid in Hungary

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2024/10/14

Nikhil and Raph are joined by writer and translator Arshia Sattar to discuss Magda Szabo's The Door (1987, tr. Len Rix 2005) and Margaret Forster's Lady's Maid (1990). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:04:26

Death in Siena

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2024/09/14

Raph and Nikhil are joined by Richard Foster, teacher and museum curator at Winchester College, to talk about Hisham Matar's A Month in Siena (2019) and T. J. Clark's The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:05:18

Motherland du Lac

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2024/08/14

Nikhil and Raph are joined by Peter Cherry, author of Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film: Transcultural Identity and Migration in Britain and Assistant Director of the British Institute at Ankara, to discuss Yusuf Atılgan's Motherland Hotel (tr. Fred Stark, 1973/2017) and Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac (1984). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:08:37

English Bachelors

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2024/07/15

R. K. Narayan, The English Teacher; Muriel Spark, The Bachelors Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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57:53

Bloody Drinkard

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2024/06/16

Nikhil and Raph discuss Amos Tutuola's 1952 novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard and Angela Carter's 1979 collection of dark fairy tales, The Bloody Chamber. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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50:08

All Soldiers

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2024/05/15

Raph and Nikhil welcome guest Minoo Dinshaw, author of Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman, to talk about Javier Marías's All Souls and Javier Cercas's Soldiers of Salamis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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48:28

The Quest for Traces

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2024/04/17

Nikhil and Raph discuss two experimental biographies of minor writers: A. J. A. Symons's The Quest for Corvo and Iman Mersal's Traces of Inayat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:01:16

The Cruel Way to Trebizond

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2024/03/15

Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond; Ella Maillart, The Cruel Way Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:03:24

Abandonment and Trickery

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2024/02/15

Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment; Domenico Starnone, Trick Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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52:47

Ali, Nino and the Orientalist

The Minor Books Podcast ·

2024/01/15

Kurban Said, Ali and Nino; Tom Reiss, The Orientalist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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