Smorgasbords of Reading: our favourite anthologies

We do love our lists at Mr B’s. In this episode, the books we chat about are themselves made up of lists. Nic, Sam and Jess discuss the why’s and why not’s of anthologies of all kinds, and we also hear about a true labour of love, the creation of an anthology of contemporary Venezuelan writing. As always, listen out for Bath's unavoidable background-gulls... Hosted by Jessica Johannesson Music by The Bookshop Band   Books mentioned in this episode: A Convergence of Birds, Ed. by Jonathan Safran Foer (Penguin Books) Invisible Planets: 13 Visions of the Future, Ed. by Ken Liu (Head of Zeus) The Moth: all these Wonders (Profile Books) True Tales of American Life, Ed. by Paul Auster (Faber & Faber) Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science, Ed. by Ra Page (Comma Press) The New Granta Book of Travel, Ed. by Liz Jobey (Granta books) Best American Sports Writing of the Century, Ed. by David Halberstam (Houghton Mifflin) Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare, Ed. by Daniel Hahn, Margarita Valencia (And Other Stories) Dime-store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell by Charles Simic (New York Review of Books) In Sunlight or in Shadow: stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper, Ed. by Lawrence Block (Pegasus Books) Crude Words: Contemporary Writing from Venezuela, Ed. by Katie Brown, Montague Kobbe, Tim Girven (Ragpicker Press)   Other anthologies we love: A kind of compass: stories on distance, Ed. by Belinda McKeon (Tramp Press) Refugee Tales, Ed. by David Herd & Anna Pincus (Comma Press) New American Stories, Ed. by Ben Marcus (Granta Books) Sisters of the Revolution, Ed. by Anna and Jeff Vandermeer (PM Press)