Today’s letter is S, and today’s author in the Really Like This Book podcast series catch-up is totally obscure. I present to you The Teahouse of the August Moon, by the American novelist Vern Sneider. This is a gentle comedy about the American occupation of Japan after the Second World War, where the Japanese get the … Continue reading Vern Sneider and The Tea-House of the August Moon
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Tell Me What You Read: David McKay and literary translation
In Tell Me What You Read I interview well-kenned folk in public life about how their reading has shaped their lives, in the past and now. David McKay, literary translator of Stefan Hertmans’ War and Turpentine, and Everything to Nothing by Geert Buelens. Tell me which authors, or what reading, you can see now were influential … Continue reading Tell Me What You Read: David McKay and literary translation