Books That Made Me

Translator extraordinaire Emily Wilson goes deep on everything from proto-YA novels to John Milton. Her latest book is Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea. Support us on Patreon!Books That Made Emily Wilson:Dogsbody, Diana Wynne JonesThe Aspern Papers, Henry JamesParadise Lost, John MiltonAlso discussed!Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin, Tranlsated by Vladimir Nabokov“Problems of Translation: Onegin in English,” Vladimir Nabokov“On Translating ‘Eugene Onegin,” Vladimir NabokovPale Fire, Vladimir NabokovMiddlemarch, George EliotThe Wings of the Dove, Henry JamesTolstoy: A Biography, A.N. WilsonConsider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, Bee WilsonMocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton, Emily R. WilsonAreopagitica and Other Writings, John MiltonThe Aeneid, translated by Scott McGill and Susannah WrightInstagram, TikTok, Bluesky: @booksthatmadepodLet us know what you think! Email us at booksthatmademepod@gmail.comRecorded at Moss, a new and inspired kind of members club where New Yorkers of all types gather in the shared pursuit of intelligent leisure and physical culture.

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