HIATUS ENCORE: Minae Mizumura — A True Novel with Lavanya Krishnan

Send us Fan Mail 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. (This episode originally aired in 2023). Discussed in this episode: A True Novel by Minae Mizumura Lavanya Krishnan, Boxwalla Alexander Chee Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Middlemarch b y George Eliot “ 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 The Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov Support the show For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com

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HIATUS ENCORE: Minae Mizumura — A True Novel with Lavanya Krishnan is an episode from Lost Ladies of Lit by Amy Helmes & Kim Askew.

This episode is 29:12 long.

This episode was published on Aug 5, 2025.

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