132. 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.
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