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3. Christmas Gate
58:16||Season 4, Ep. 3Nikhil and Raph are joined by Ben Sims, who has a Substack newsletter called 'Short Stories Once a Month', to discuss Max Beerbohm's A Christmas Garland (1912) and Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate (1986).
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2. Rhapsodes
56:00||Season 4, Ep. 2Raph and Nikhil are joined by David Egan, Koç University, Istanbul, to talk about Robert Bringhurst's A Story As Sharp As a Knife and Ismail Kadare's The File on H (tr. David Bellos).
1. Heaven's Thirst
59:05||Season 4, Ep. 1Nikhil 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).
6. Plums and Poppies
57:05||Season 3, Ep. 6Raph 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.
5. Indus Valley Picnics
57:58||Season 3, Ep. 5Nikhil 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.
4. Cat Crystal
57:17||Season 3, Ep. 4Raph 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).
3. Crocodile Shops
53:17||Season 3, Ep. 3Nikhil 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.