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Books That Made Me

Interviews about books and the nerds who love them. Presented by the Strand Bookstore. Hosted by Aidan Flax-Clark.

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Emily Wilson Oct 21, 2026

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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 uson Patreon!

Books That Made Emily Wilson:

Dogsbody, Diana Wynne Jones
The Aspern Papers, Henry James
Paradise Lost, John Milton

Also discussed!

Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin, Tranlsated by Vladimir Nabokov
“Problems of Translation: Onegin in English,” Vladimir Nabokov
“On Translating ‘Eugene Onegin,” Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
Tolstoy: A Biography, A.N. Wilson
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, Bee Wilson
Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton, Emily R. Wilson
Areopagitica and Other Writings, John Milton
The Aeneid, translated by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright

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Recorded 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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Coming October 21st! Books That Made Me Oct 14, 2026

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Coming October 21st! The podcast about books and the nerds who love them. Presented by the Strand and hosted by Aidan Flax-Clark.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.