Beyond The Zero
By Dick's Pizza Media
Beyond The Zero Feb 04, 2022
Garielle Lutz - BACKWARDNESS
Garielle Lutz - Backwardness
Get the book here:
https://www.hobartpulp.com/books/backwardness
Recently enjoyed / Currently Reading / Looking forward to:
The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen
James Salter
Janet Malcolm
Greg Gerke - The Suavity of the Rock
William Hazlitt
Virginia Woolf - Essays
Mice 1961 - Stacey Levine
Our Long Marvelous Dying - Anna DeForest
Ben Tanzer - THE MISSING
Ben Tanzer
Get The Missing From : https://713books.com/forthcoming/
Gateway books
The Basketball Diaries - Jim Carroll
Cruddy - Linda Barry
Hairstyles of the Dammed - Joe Meno
American Skin - Don De Grazia
Meditations from a Movable Chair - Andre Dubus
Bastard out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
Torres
Currently reading and looking forward to
Sleeping with Friends - Emily Shultz
The Peer Effect - Syed Ali
Jacket Weather - Mike DeCapite
We Are Too Many - Hannah Pittard
Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Meditations from a Movable Chair - Andre Dubus
Excavatio - Wendy C. Ortiz
Naked - David Sedaris
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsBook - Chuck Klosterman
Robert Chandler - CHEVENGUR by Andrey Platonov
Robert Chandler
Buy Chevengur from NYRB
https://www.nyrb.com/products/chevengur
Gateway books
Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Currently reading;
Emily Dickinson
Dante
John Clare
Andrei Kurkov
Vladimir Sharov
Penelope Fitzgerald
D.H. Lawrence
Desert Island Books
The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
John Clare
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Emily Dickinson
Dante
Kieran Goddard - I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING
https://www.hachette.com.au/keiran-goddard/i-see-buildings-fall-like-lightning
@keirangoddard1
https://www.keirangoddard.com/
Gateway books
- Albert Camus - The Outsider
- Pablo Neruda - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Jude The Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Currently Reading
- Édouard Louis - Change
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis - Nick Bano
Leslie Jamison - Splinters
Desert Island Books
- The Seven Story Mountain - Thomas Merton
-The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes - Jonathan Rose
- Happy Like Murderers - Gordon Burn
- Collected Poems - Elizabeth Bishop
- Collected Poems - Rilke
- D.H. Lawrence - Women in Love
Clemens. J. Setz
Clemens. J. Setz
Clemens Podcast with Barbra Zeman https://open.spotify.com/show/37bbq41uotsGq4GfM09f9Y?si=24a23d7432ab4ef0
Gateway books / books and authors mentioned
Megan Boyle - Live Blog
Blake Butler - 300 000 000, Molly, AANNEX
Juliet Escoria
Scott McClanahan - The Sarah Book
Kenzaburō Ōe - Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
Brutt, or The Sighing Gardens - Friederike Mayröcker
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware
Currently reading / Recently enjoyed
Heaven and Hell Book - Emanuel Swedenborg
Mary Ruefle
Christoph Ransmayr - Cox, Or, The Course of Time also new stories coming out.
Desert Island Books
Dictionary of the Brother's Grimm (Deutsches Wörterbuch)
Book of Psalms - Robert Alter
Max Lawton - BLUE LARD by Vladimir Sorokin
David Cotner - A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (1973)
David Cotner
Buy A History of Violence (1973) here
https://www.ninebandedbooks.com/shop/book/a-history-of-violence-1973/
David's Instagram violencestories
Gateway books
- Orgies and Troilism
- Strangely Enough C.B. Colby
- A Void - Georges Perec
Current reads
Forgotteness by Tanja Maljartschuk
KIKI MAN RAY: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
- Mark Braude
Nick Solsby - Everything Keeps Dissolving
Maya Deren -Choreographed for CameraBook - Mark Alice Durant
- Norman Mailer - The Fight (Tachen Edition)
Desert Island Books
Alan Watts - The Way of Zen
Death of a Citizen - Donald Hamilton
Henry Miller - Reader
Treasury of David Runyon
Wittgenstein - Uncertainty
Norman Mailer - Cannibals and Christians
Psychotronic Encyclopaedia of Film
Latest Findings - Jaques Vallée
History of Underground Comics
Collected E.E. Cummings
Jenny Croft - THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY
BUY The Extinction of Irena Rey here :
https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/the-extinction-of-irena-rey-9781761380211
Or https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/extinction-of-irena-rey-9781639731701/
Gateway books / Authors
Anna Karenina
Witold Gombrowicz
Wisława Szymborska
Chekhov
Current Reads
How to be Multiple - Helena de Bres
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Gerald Murnane - Stream System
New Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars
Desert Island Books
Virginie Despentes - Vernon Subutex
Yiyun Li - Short Stories
Proust
Borges
Wisława Szymborska
Carl Philips - poetry
Tania De Rozario - DINNER ON MONSTER ISLAND
Buy Dinner on Monster Island here:
Gateway books
IT -Stephen King
Current reads/ Looking forward to :
The Hchom Book - Marian Churchland
Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco - by K. Ive
Big Mall - Kate Black
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
Crush - Richard Sikin
Like a Seed with Its Singular Purpose- Cyril Wong
The Gospel of Breaking - Jillian Christmas
Isabel Waidner - COREY FAH DOES SOCIAL MOBILITY
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
Buy the book here:
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/corey-fah-does-social-mobility
@isabelwaidner
https://linktr.ee/isabelwaidner
Gateway books / Authors
Kafka
Goethe - Faust
Samuel Beckett
Dodie Bellamy
Kevin Killian
Robert Clark
Steve Abbott - The Lizard Club
Currently reading/Recently enjoyed/looking forward to
Hangman - Maya Binyam
Drive Your Plow… Olga Tokarczuk
New Olga Tokaeczuk
Adam Thirlwell - Future Future
Brontez Purnell - Ten Bridges I’ve Burned
Desert Island Books
Drive Your Plow
Corey Fah
Advanced Elvis Course - C.A. Conrad
Álvaro Enrigue - YOU DREAMED OF EMPIRES
Álvaro Enrigue
Buy You Dreamed of Empires here:
Gateway books
The Red and the Black
José Agustín - De perfil
Don Quixote
Current reads
Werner Hertzog - Every Man for Himself and God against All
Camila Sosa Villada - Tesis sobre una domesticación
Man, Play and Games - Roger Caillois
Desert Island Books
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Works of Juana Inés de la Cruz
Kelly Sather - SMALL IN REAL LIFE
Buy Small in Real Life here:
https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947998/
Gateway books / Authors
Agatha Christie
Catch-22
Amy Hempel
Mary Robson
Alice Munro
Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson
William Trevor
Mavis Gallant
Currently reading:
Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
Nothing Special - Nicole Flattery
Claire Keegan - Foster
Ian Forster - Room With a View / Howard’s End
Desert Island Books
Virginia Woolf - To the LightHouse
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Joan Didion
Lucile Clifton - Poems
Paris Review - Author Interviews
Donald Nicholson-Smith - JEAN-PATRICK MANCHETTE
Donald Nicholson-Smith
Jean-Patrick Manchette
Books/authors mentioned
Léo Malet
Thierry Jonquet - Mygale
Didier Daeninckx - Murder in Memoriam
Upcoming works - B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown - Golo
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1664
Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures - Yvan Alagbé
https://www.nyrb.com/products/yellow-negroes-and-other-imaginary-creatures
Fag Hag - Lola Miesseroff https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1501
Gateway books
Gregory Rabassa - If This Be Treason
Current reads
God’s Teeth and Other Phenomenon - James Kelman
Dorothy B. Hughes - The Expendable Man
The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber and David Wengrow
Desert Island Books
Shakespeare
Montaigne - Essays
Walter Benjamin
The Bible
ULTRAMARINE - Mariette Navarro and Cory Stockwell
Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro - Translated by Cory Stockwell
@mariette.navarro
Buy Ultramarine from :
https://www.heloisepress.com/book/ultramarine
@cory_stockwell
Gateway books
Mariette:
The Odyssey
Moby Dick
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Albert Cohen - Belle du Seigneur
Madame Bovary
Cory:
Borges
Shakespeare
The Bible
Other books mentioned :
Percival Everett
Helen DeWitt - The English Understand Wool
Thomas Hardy - Tess
The Culture of Narcissism - Christopher Lasch
John Heldman - Imelda
Ali Millar - AVA ANNA ADA
https://alimillar.substack.com/
@ali_l_millar
https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/ava-anna-ada
reads
Anthology
Criticism
Greil Marcus - Lipstick Traces
Nigel Slater - Kitchen Diaries
Moby Dick
War and Peace
End of Year Special Part 5
Emmett Stinson
- 2023 Highlights
Wall - Jen Craig
Mircea Cărtărescu - Solenoid
Domenico Starnone - The House on Via Gemito
Vertigo - Amanda Lorry
Denis Johnson - Train Dreams
Dag Solstad - Novel 11 book 18
2024
A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley
Elfriede Jelinek - Children of the Dead
Alina Stefanescu
Andrei Platinov - Chevengur
Avner, Adam, Sarah
Zachery Solomon - A Brutal Design
Ravel: A Novel - Jean Echenoz
2666 - Roberto Bolaño
Hopscotch - Cortazar
The Instructions - Adam Levin
Past Continuous - Yaakov Shabtai
Gretel and the Great War: A Novel - Adam Ehrlich Sachs
The Material - Camille Bordas
Apastoral - Lee D Thomson
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma - Claire Dederer
Upcountry - Chin-Sun Lee
No One to Come Looking For You - Sam Lipsyte
Stella Maris and the Passenger - McCarthy
The New Naturals - Gabriel Bump
Winter Quarters: A Novel of Argentina - Osvaldo Soriano
Tomas Nevinson - Marias
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Domenico Starnone - Trick
2024
Christian TeBordo - We Go Liquid,
The Discord Regression
Jesse Ball- The Repeat Room
Jill Ciment - Consent
James - Percival Everett
Bristol Vaudrin - Afterward
Ben Tanzer - The Missing
Steve Almond - Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow
Sara Lipman and Seth Rogoff - Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible
Seth W.A.S.T.E Mailing List and Me
Best of 2023
Aannex - Blake Butler
A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley
Dolly City - Orly Castel-Bloom
Thomas the Obscure - Maurice Blanchot
Heart Crane - White Buildings
Saint Sebastian’s Abyss - Mark Haber
Wittgestein’s Mistress - Markson
Ada - Nabokov
Looking forward to :
Blue Lard and Red Pyramid - Vladimir Sorokin
New Mark Haber novel
Elfriede Jelinek - Children of the Dead
My Highlights of 2023
- Bret Eastern Ellis - The Shards
The new Cormac McCarty books
Morning Star - Knausgard
Roar by Bruce Wagner and Also The Marvel Universe.
Lee Klein’s Chaotic Good
Nefando by Monica Ojeda
Devil of the provinces by Juan Cardenas
Ava Anna Ada by Ali smith (out in Jan)
Malina
Water Statues
David Keenan’s England’s Hidden Reverse
Australian highlights Paul Delgarno’s a country of eternal light, Emmett’s book on Murnane and Late by Michael Fitzgerald.
Seth Rogoff’s book The Kirshbaum lectures, The two most recent Manchette books were great, Bariloche by Andres Neuman, The Kafka Diaries translated by Ross Benjamin, Voyager by Nona Fernandez, Paul Lynch Prophet Song.
Book of the year Man Eating Typewriter by Richard Milward
Daybook by Nathan Knapp
Forthcoming on April 26, 2024 Splice
In the Suavity of the Rock
by Greg Gerke
Forthcoming on June 28, 2024
Knausgaard’s debut novel - Archipelago in November - Out of the world
The Goldilocks Variations- Coover Deep Vellum November
Melvil Rodrigo Fresan – Open Letter July
Fog & Car
by Eugene Lim
Published by: Coffee House Press July
The Stain
by Rikki Ducornet
Published by: Deep Vellum Publishing
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press July
Commission of Tears
Portuguese Literature
by Antonio Lobo Antunes – APRIL
Sensitive Anatomy and Once upon Argentina April
by Andrés Neuman Open Letter
The Rachel Condition March
by Nicholas Rombles
Published by: CLASH Books
The Dark Side of Skin
by Jeferson Tenório – Charco Feb
Cesaria - by Hanna Nordenhok from Heloise
American Abductions
by Mauro Javier Cardenas
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Bad Foundations
by Brian Allen Carr
Published by: CLASH Books – Jan
Mahler Erasures by John Kinsella
Verdigris
by Michele Mari
Translated by Brian Robert Moore
Book of Ayn by Lexi Freiman -
Thomas kendall - HOW I KILLED THE UNIVERSAL MAN
David Leo Rice – The Berlin Wall
Jenny Croft The Extinction of Irena Rey - Feb
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
Ten - Juan Emar
And The Besieged City - Clarice Lispector
Way Far Away
Ed Park - Same Bed Different Dreams
Prey for the Shadow by Javier Cercas
End of Year Special Part 4
Part 4
David Leo Rice
New books in 2024
The Berlin Wall
The Squimbop Condition
Conclusion to the Dodge City series -
A Room in Dodge City Volume 3
Highlights of 2023
Adam Levin
Mount Chicago and Bubblegum and looking forward to the reissue of The Instructions
The Morning Star - Karl Ove Knausgård
Looking forward to The Wolves of Eternity
The Shards - BEE
The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy
The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut
Peace - Gene Wolf
The General of the Dead Army - Ismail Kadare
Patrick Modiano books
Pet Cemetery - Stephen King
2024
The Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso
How I killed The Universal Man - Thomas Kendall
Inland - Murnane
Molly - Blake Butler
Other Minds - Bennett Simms
New Houellebecq
Same Bed Different Dreams - Ed Park
Youval Shimoni - The Salt Line / A Room
Merve Emre
K Patrick - Mrs S
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice - Cristina Rivera Garza
Catherine Lacey - Biography of X
The Rigour of Angels - William Eggington
Art Monsters - Lauren Elkin
The Man Who Cried I am - John A Williams
The Chapter - Nicke Dames
2024
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility - Isabel Waidner
Sheila Heti - Alphabet Diaries
Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson Glad to the Brink of Fear- James Marcus
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins- Stefanos Geroulanos
How the World Made the West - Josephine Crawley Quinn
Alexis Wright - Praiseworthy
Monkey Grip - Helen Garner
Inland - Murnane
Something Speaks to me - Michel Chaouli
Odd Affinities
Daniel Fraser
2023
Peter Levy - Poetry
A.V. Marrachini - We The Parasites
Maurice Blanchot - Kevin Hart
Hotel Splendid - Marie Redonnet
2024
Celan Letters to Gisèle
Obscene Bird of Night
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel - Yoko Tawada
See also Antonio Tabucchi Requiem
New Anne Carson book - Wrong Norma
Crisis Actor - Declan Ryan
Ada
Best book of 2023 - Making Friends 3 - Kristen Gudsnuk
Looking forward to in 2024 - Making Friends 4
Richard Milward
Best of 2023
Fingers Crossed Miki Berenyi
Ali Millar - The Last Days
Luke Turner - Men at War
Lolita - Reread
Irving Welsh - Trainspotting
Collected Alan Ginsberg
2024
Ava Anna Ada - Ali Millar
New David Keenan
Joel Gion - In the Jingle Jangle Jungle
Richard Foster - Flower Factory
Bram Presser
Columba's Bones: Darkland Tales - David Greig
Of Cattle and Men - Ana Paula Maia
Gibbons - James Morrison
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility - Isabel Waidner
Sebastian Castillo - SALMON
The Crane Husband - Kelly Barnhill
Philippe Claudel - German Fantasia
Vladimir Voinovich - The Fur Hat
The Confessions of a False Soul - Ilarie Voronca
The Strangers - Jon Bilbao
Max Porter - Shy
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain - Victoria MacKenzie
Study for Obedience - Sarah Bernstein
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
Biography of X - Catherine Lacey
Justin Torres - Blackout
Gone to the Wolves - John Wray
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild - Enard
My Work - Olga Ravn
Marie NDiaye - Vengeance is Mine
Jenny Croft - The Extinction of Irena Rey
End of Year Special Part 3
Jen Craig
Highlights of 2023
Vigdis Hjorth - Is Mother Dead
Fleur Jaeggy - Sweet Days of Discipline
Annie Ernaux -
The Sitter - Angela O’Keeffe
Paul Dalgarno - A Country of Eternal Light
2024
Grimmish
More
Vigdis Hjorth
Fleur Jaeggy
Lisa Robinson The Baudelaire Fractal
The Tunnel - William Gass
Collected Stories - Clarice Lispector
Cesar Aira
Martin Shaw
Highlights 2023 from Shaw authors :
Jen Craig
Pip Adam
Angela O’Keefe - The sitter
Other highlights
Tomas Nevinson - Javier Marias
Emily Perkins - Lioness
Looking forward to
Max Easton - Paradise Estate
Politica - Yumna Kassab
Lee Klein
Middlemarch
Jane Eyre
Dracula
Silas Marner
The Year/Tramp Thomas Espedal
I Served the King of England - Bohumil Hrabal
Travels with Charley - Steinbeck
Looking forward to
19th century Lit
New Enard - The Annual Dinner of the Gravediggers Guild
Vernon Subutex
Molly - Blake Butler
Werner Herzog - Memoir
Have a Bleedin Guess - Paul Hanley
The Fraud - Zadie Smith
My Favorite Thing is Monsters Volume 2 - Emil Farris
We Go Liquid - Christian TeBordo
Kevin Kohn
Best books of 2023
Man Eating Typewriter - Richard Milward
All of Sergio De La Pava
2024
Percival Everett - James
Rodrigo Fresan - Melville
Adam Levin - The Instructions Bar Mitzvah edition
Ben Slotky
https://longleafreview.com/slotky/
Best books of 2023
Maurizio De Giovanni
Raymond Carver
Tim O’Brian - America Fantastica
Flannery O’Connor
James Ellroy
Paul Dalgarno
Melissa Lucashenko - Edenglassie
In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
Salonika Burning - Gail Jones
The Drivers Seat - Muriel Spark
Danielle Laidley - Don’t Look Away
Boy Friends - Micheal Pedersen
2024
Audition - Pip Adam
The Sitter - Angela O’Keefe
Serengotti - Eugen Bacon
Double Happiness - Rochelle Siemienowicz
The Great Undoing Charlene Allsopp
Diane Josefowicz
https://www.dianejosefowicz.com/
New book L'AIR DU TEMPS (1985)
James Rosewarne
top 10 from 2023
Thus Bad Begins- Javier Marias
Honoured Guest- Joy Williams
Mysteries- Knut Hamsun
Lewis Percy- Anita Brookner
Berta Isla- Javier Marias
Interpreter of Maladies- Jhumpa Lahiri
La Lucina- Antonio Moresco
Professor Anderson's Natt- Dag Solstad
Trick- Domenico Starnone
When I Was Mortal- Javier Marias
Three 2023 re-reads which were even more remarkable 2nd and 3rd time round.
The Dog- Jospeh O'Neill
Peace Talks- Tim Finch (I really can't recommend this one enough)
Novel 11, Book 18- Dag Solstad
And the book I'm looking forward to most in 2024 is Tomas Nevinson by Javier Marias.
End of Year Special Part 2
Katia
Katia Nosenko
- Neprosti (The UnSimple in the initial translation) by Taras Prokhasko translated by Uilleam Blacker. It will be published in English by Harvard University Press as a part of “Earth Gods”: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Earth-Gods-Writings-Ukrainian-Literature-ebook/dp/B0CDSHL6JH/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2?crid=24Y5W0P2AHREY&keywords=earth+gods+prokashko&qid=1701781407&sprefix=earth+gods+prokhasko%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-2-fkmr2
- Shadow of forgotten ancestors by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky. The film by Sergei Paradjanov with the same title made in 1965.
- Stream System by Gerald Murnane
- The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson
- Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire in translation by Louise Varese
- Nadja by Andre Breton
- Man-eating Type Writer by Richard Millward
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Birthday and An Episode in the life of a Landscape Painter by Cezar Aira
- 10.Ava by Carol Maso
- 11.Room by Youval Shimoni translated by Michael Sharp
- 12.The Vivisector by Patrick White
- 13.The melancholy of resistance by Lazlo Kraznokhorkai translated by George Szirtes
- 14.Tomas Neverson by Javier Marias translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
- 15.Austral by Carlos Fonseca translated by Megan Mc Dowell
Look forward to:
- Shimmering details by Peter Nadas
- Tractatus Logicus by Wittgenstein: two new translations- by Peter Booth and by Damien Searls
- A thousand thoughts in flight by Maria Gabriella Llansol
- Salt Line by Youval Shimoni
Daniel Davis Wood
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/
Upcoming from Splice
- Nathan Knapp - Daybook (April 2024)
- Greg Gerke - In The Suavity of The Rock (June 2024)
Highlights of 2023
Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger and Stella Maris and rereads of his other books
Mathias Enard - The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild
Oli Hazzard - Lorem Ipsem
Luke Carmen - An Ordinary Ecstasy
James Salter - Light Years
Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet
Amy Hempel - Collected stories.
2024 Recommendations
Blake Butler - Molly
Jean Baptise Del Amo - The Son of Man
Marilyn Robinson - Reading Genesis
Rob Moody-Corbett - Hides (Breakwater Books June 2024)
Iain Smith
2023 Highlights
Divine Days Leon Forrest
Ridley Walker - Russel Hoban
Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor
Garden of Seven Twilights - Miguel De Palol
Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso
Antagony - Luis Goytisolo
Mercè Rodoreda - Death in Spring
The Combinations - Louis Armand
A Bended Circuity - Rob Stickley
White Dialogues - Bennett Simms
2024
Children of the Dead - Elfriede Jelinek
Chevengur - Andrei Platonov
Peter Nadas - Shimmering Details
Resta kaòtica - Ventura Ametller
Lies and Sorcery Elsa Morante
Marshland - Otohiko Kaga
The Mind Crimes of August Saint - Alain Arias- Mission
Jan Kjærstad - The Seducer
Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright
Invidicum - Michael Brodsky
Wild Horses - JORDI CUSSÀ
The Forbidden Line - Paul Stanbridge
Adam Biles - Feeding Time
Yuval Shimoni - The Salt Line
Maidenhair - Mikhail Shishkin
Guðbergur Bergsson - TÓMAS JÓNSSON, BESTSELLER
Ali Millar
Best of 2023
Bret Eason Ellis - The Shards
Man Eating Typewriter - Richard Milward
Oliver Mol - Trainload
Ali’s book Ava Anna Ada is out From White Rabbit
A.V. Marrachini
Garden of Seven Twilights - Miguel De Palol
The Japanness in Architecture
10th Century Han Poetry
Hanging Out - Sheila Liming
Balzac
Sublunar - Harald Voetmann
Mark A Henry
The Supply Chain - by Aaron Schneider
Late - Michael Fitzgerald
Golem of Brooklyn - Adam Mansbach
Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow
The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut
Peter Orner
Light in August - Falkner
Tom Drury - The Driftless Area
Primo Levi - Moments of Reprieve
Taylor Johnson - Inheritance
Looking forward to reading
Virginia Woolf - The Waves
Grahame Greene - The Power and the Glory
Black Paper - Teju Cole
End of Year Special Part 1
Max Lawton
Notable books coming out in 2024
- Blue Lard - Sorokin ND February
- Red Pyramid - Sorokin ND February
- Dispaches From The District Committee ND May
Other books mentioned
Washington Square - Henry James
The Shards - BEE
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
HERSCHT07769 - László Krasznahorkai
Molly - Blake Butler
The Children of the Dead - Elfriede Jelinek
Robin Myers
Books mentioned, published this year and forthcoming;
Love Training - Andrés Neuman
Bariloche - Andrés Neuman
We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (New Directions / Harville Secker, forthcoming)
The Summer of the Serpent by Cecilia Eudave (Soho Press, forthcoming)
The Trees by Claudia Peña Claros (Relegation Books, forthcoming)
A Strange Adventure by Eva Forest (Sternberg Press, forthcoming)
A Date With the Lady by Mateo García Elizondo (Charco Press, forthcoming)
Restoration by Ave Barrera, co-translated with Ellen Jones (Charco Press, forthcoming)
The Visit by Mariana Graciano (Alliteration Publishing, 2023)
Free Radicals by Rosa Beltrán (Katakana Editores/Hablemos, Escritoras, 2023)
In Vitro by Isabel Zapata (Coffee House Press, 2023)
The Law of Conservation by Mariana Spada (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023)
The Brush by Eliana Hernández Pachón (Archipelago Books, forthcoming)
Best books of 2023 and looking forward to
January
By Sara GallardoTranslated by Frances Riddle and Maureen Shaughnessy
Recital of the Dark Verses
by Luis Felipe Fabre
This Little Art - Kate Briggs
The Longform - Kate Briggs
2024
- The Extinction of Irena Rey - Jenny Croft
Traces of Enayat - Iman Mersal
Michael Winkler
Highlights 2023
Michelle de Kretser
A Horse At Night - Amina Cain
Vehicle - Jen Calleja
Wednesday’s Child - Yiyun Li
Gibbons - James Morrison
Judas Boys - Joel Dean
James Hannaham - Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
James Kelman - God's Teeth and Other Phenomena
Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright
Bird - Adam Morris
August Blue - Deborah Levy
Childhood - Shannon Burns
I’d Rather Not - Robert Skinner
Kick The Latch - Kathryn Scanlan
2024
Wayne Marshal - Henry Goes Bush
Katerina Gibson - Debut Novel
Laura Elvery - New novel
Kylie Mirmohamadi - New novel
Sarah Krasnostein - Non fiction - High Country Murders
Travis Myer
If on a Winters Night a Traveller - Calvino
Tokyo Montana Express - Richard Brautigan
Lispector -
Passion According to G.H.
An Apprenticeship
Agua Viva
Pessoa - Book of Disquiet
The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut
Mount Chicago - Adam Levin
A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley
Sunflower - Tex Gresham
Grimmish - Michael Winkler
Gass- Omensetter’s Luck
Ed Parks - Same Bed Different Dreams
Solenoid - Cartarescu
A High Wind In Jamaica
Solarium - Braden Matthew
Oscar Submerges - Zach Tanner
Ben Diamond
Best book
Anything That Moves - Jamie Stuart
Sarah Marie - Literal Nobody
Best books of the year
Soldiers Hunters not Cowboys - Aaron Tucker
Burr - Brooke Lockyer
Love is a Place But You Cannot Live There - Jade Wallace
Most anticipated in 2024 - Bird Suit Sydney Hegele
Zachery Issenberg
Red and the Black - Stendhal
Zone and Compass - Enard
We are a Haunting - Tyriek White
Tour of the Black Clocks Steve Erickson
An Impossible Object - Nicholas Mosley
Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
2024
The Obscene Bird of Night José Dononso
Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright
Sean McCallum
Best books of 2023
Mark A Henry
The Honolulu Situation
A Naked Singularity - Sergio De La Pava
Conversation in the Cathedral - Maria Vargas Llosa
The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
Mark. A. Henry - THE HONOLULU SITUATION
Wolves of Eternity - Daniel Fraser
Sam Lipsyte - NO ONE LEFT TO COME LOOKING FOR YOU
Sam Lipsyte
Buy No One Left To Come Looking For You here:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/no-one-left-to-come-looking-for-you/18850055?ean=9781501146121
Gateway books / writers
Thomas Pynchon
Donald Barthelme
Stanley Elkin
Tom McGunane
Barry Hannah
Padget Powell
Ben Marcus
Moby Dick
Philip Roth - Sabbath’s Theatre
Joseph Roth
Issac Babel
Tolstoy
James Joyce
Samuel Beckett
Currently reading/recently enjoyed/looking forward to
Javier Marias - Your Face Tomorrow Trilogy
My Father’s Diet - Adrian Nathan West
Material - Camille Bordas (June 2024 Release)
Desert Island Books
The Man Without Qualities - Musil
Collected Stories - Barry Hannah
Ulysses - Joyce
Collected Stories - Issac Babel
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Jacob and his Brothers - Thomas Mann
Bernhard - Extinction
Paul Beaty - The Sellout
Story of the Eye with Courtenay Schembri Gray
Find Courtenay @
http://patreon.com/courtenaywrites
Substack
https://themaplemoon.substack.com
X @courtenaywrites
Instagram themaltesereader
Michael Salu - RED EARTH
https://theredearthproject.org/
Get the book from :
https://calamaripress.com/Red_Earth.htm
Gateway books
The Wretched of the Earth - Franz Fanon
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt
The Brothers Kamarazov
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
A Lover's Discourse - Roland Barthes
Influential as a writer
Confabulations - John Berger
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
Kindred - Octavia Butler
The Literature Machine - Italo Calvino
Anne Carson
The Boxman - Kobo Abe
The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Camera Lucida - Roland Barthes
Derek Walcott
Negrophobia - Darius James
Denis Johnson - Jesus' sonDisgrace - JM Coetzee
Currently reading:
The Black Technical Object - Ramon Amaro
MACUNAÍMA: THE HERO WITH NO CHARACTER, BY MÁRIO DE ANDRADE
Nomenclature: New and Collected PoemsBook by Dionne Brand
The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Terra Amata by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Malina - Ingeborg Bachmann
Thanks to Jen Craig and to Seth over at WASTE Mailing list for appearing on this episode.
Jen is on Instagram
@absurdenticements
https://linktr.ee/absurdenticements
Seth is everywhere
https://linktr.ee/wastemailinglist
Adam Mansbach - THE GOLEM OF BROOKLYN
The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach
Order from One World V
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737057/the-golem-of-brooklyn-by-adam-mansbach/
Soundtrack by @defcee
https://open.spotify.com/album/10RHdG5gi6jWhi1qAD7cFK?si=9P1RMU4tRVaRTvAmBN-Hgw\
Gateway books
The Pushcart War - Jean Merrill
Treasure Island
Current reads
Lone Women - Victor Lavalle
When Crack Was King - Donovan Ramsey
The Talmud
Desert Island Books
2666 - Robert Bolaño
Rule of the Bone - Russel Banks
Subway Art - Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper
Michael Fitzgerald - LATE
Buy the book from
https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/late/
Gateway books /authors
Carson McCullers
Tenesse Williams
Truman Capote
Patricia Highsmith
Ulysses
Current reads
The Crying Room - Gretchen Shrim
Gregory Day - Bell of the World
Desert Island Books
Ulysses
In Search of Lost Time
Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
Mavis Gallant - Short stories
Joan Didion
Diane Arbus - Photography
Max Easton - PARADISE ESTATE
Anna Funder - WIFEDOM
Chad W Post
Chad Post
@chadwpost
http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/
Two Month Review Podcast
http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/category/two-month-review/
https://www.openletterbooks.org/
Chad Post Musican
https://www.chadpostmusic.com/
Sarah Booker - NEFANDO by Mónica Ojeda
Nefando is out on October 31st - Pre-order here
https://coffeehousepress.org/products/nefando
@sarahkbooker
Gateway books
On The Road - Kerouac
Lolita - Nabokov
Boquitas pintadas; - Manuel Puig
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
Current Reads
The Possessed - Elif Batuman
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Yuri Herrera - Signs Preceding the End of the World
Yoko Tawada - Scattered all over the Earth
Desert Island Books
Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez
Yuri Herrera - Signs Preceding the End of the World
Girl at War / True Biz - Sarah Novic
Fiebre Tropical - Julián Delgado Lopera
Aaron Schneider -THE SUPPLY CHAIN
https://www.crowsnestbooks.com/product/the-supply-chain/
http://aaronjschneider.weebly.com/
https://www.thetemzreview.com/
Gateway books
How to Quiet a Vampire - Borislav Pekić
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810117204/how-to-quiet-a-vampire/
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter - Herta Müller
The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Alice Munro
Mario Vargas Llosa
Current reads
South Babak Laghomi
Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys - Aaron Tucker
Falling Hour Geoffrey Morrison
Desert Island Books
Who Do You Think you Are - Alice Munro
Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter - Herta Müller
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender - Dubravka Ugrešić
War at the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa
To the Lighthouse / Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
Song of The Lark - Willa Cather
Emmett Stinson - MURNANE
Buy Murnane from https://www.mup.com.au/books/murnane-paperback-softback
Lizzie Davis - The Devil of the Provinces by Juan Cárdenas
Lizzie Davis
Buy The Devil of the Provinces here :
https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/fiction/products/the-devil-of-the-provinces
Gateway books
Poets including :
Claudia Rankin
Forrest Gander
Frank O'Hara
Letter to a Woman in Paris - Julio Cortazar short story
Ariana Harwicz - Die My Love
Sweet Days of Discipline - Fleur Jaeggy
Current reads / Looking forward to
Empty Houses - Brenda Navaro
Elaine Vilar Madruga - Tyranny of Flies Translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn
Desert Island Books
The Nature Book - Tom Comitta
The Illyad
Mary Ruefle - Madness, Rack and Honey
The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You - by Frank Stanford
Deepstep Come Shining - C.D. Wright
Jack Houghteling - SUNNYSIDE
Sunnyside
https://www.jackhoughteling.com/
Gateway books / writers
- Elliot and Joyce
- John Ashbury
- William Falkner
- Susan Sontag
- William Gaddis
- E.L Doctorow
Current reads, recently enjoyed, looking forward to
- Flann O’Brian - An Béal Bocht - The Poor Mouth
- Hind’s Kidnapp - Joseph McElroy
- Mason and Dixon - Pynchon
Desert Island Books
J. M. Coetzee - Foe
Helen DeWitt - Last Samurai
The Breaks of the Game - David Halberstam
Lorenzo in Taos - Mabel Dodge Luhan
Saul Bellow - Seize The Day
Billy Bud - Herman Melville
Paul Lynch - PROPHET SONG
Paul Lynch - Prophet Song
Frank Santo - THE BIRTHPARENTS
Frank Santo
Franksanto.net
@FrankSanto13
Buy The Birthparents here
Gateway books
Pride and Prejudice
Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
Currently reading/looking forward to/recently enjoyed
Victim - Andrew Boryga out from Double Day books in March 2024.
Broken Bottles - Anthony Koranda
God, Human, Animal, Machine - Meghan O’Gieblyn
Desert Island Books
Catch-22 - Heller
One-Hundred Years of Solitude - GGM
The Quiet American - Greene
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Flashman Series
Sommerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage
Brave New World - Huxley
Milan Kundera - The Joke
Ismael Reed - Mumbo Jumbo
Thomas Bernhard - Extinction
Jeff Bursey - UNIDENTIFIED MAN AT LEFT OF PHOTO
Jeff Bursey
Get Unidentified Man At Edge of Photo here ;
https://coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id_product=49&rewrite=unidentified-man-at-left-of-photo-by-jeff-bursey&controller=product
Gateway books
How and Why book series
The Shadow, The Spider
Groucho Marx books
John Dos Passos - The Big Money
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Black Spring
Hedda Gabler - Ibsen
William Gaddis - The Recognitions
Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine and Memoirs
Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle
Mervyn Peake - Gormanghast Trilogy
Wyndham Lewis - Apes of God
Currently Reading/Looking forward
Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake
Colin Thubron books
Spark - Timothy J. Jorgensen
Richard Lemm - Imagined Truths
Desert Island Books
My Struggle Book 1 - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine/Dan Yack
The Recognitions/JR - William Gaddis
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Lee. D. Thomson - A Pastoral
John Cooper Powys - A Glastonbury Romance
Bahá'í prayer book.
BABAK LAKGHOMI - South
https://www.babaklakghomi.com/
Buy South from Dundern Press
https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459750814-south
Gateway books
John Christopher - Tripod series
The Baron In The Trees - Calvino
When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
Kafka - The Castle
2666 - Bolaño
Beckett - Trilogy
60 Stories - Donald Barthelme
Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson
Ice - Anna Kavan
Current reads /looking forward to
Solenoid - Marcea Cartarescu
To The Lighthouse - Woolf
The Beetle Leg - John Hawkes
Jon Fosse - The New Name
The Woman Who Lived Among the Cannibals - Robert Kloss
The Illiterate - Agota Kristoff
Begat who Begat who Begat - Marcus Pactor
Desert Island Books
Life A User’s Manual - Perec
Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Book - Ken Sparling
Bob or a Man on Boats - Peter Markus
In The Blind - Eugene Marten
Ava Carole Maso
Selected stories - Walser
Rose Mellie Rose Marie Redonnet
Stories in Another Language - Yannick Murphy
Frank Wynne - The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild - Mathias Enard
Frank Wynne
Buy The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild here in the US
https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-annual-banquet-of-the-gravediggers-guild/?source=search
And here in UK
https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/the-annual-banquet-of-the-gravediggers-guild
Gateway books
Edmund White - A Boys Own Story
Current reads /looking forward to
Jennifer Croft - The Extinction of Irena Rey (2024)
Desert Island books
Ridley Walker - Russel Hoban
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - João Guimarães Rosa
Ahmadou Kourouma - Sons of Independence
The Iliad
Christopher Logue - War Music
Tolkien - The Silmarillion
Nicola Barker - Darkmans
Suspects - David Thomson
Shakespeare - Collected works
JR - Gaddis
Frank Wynne
Frank Wynne Part 1
Full show notes will be included with part 2.
Buy The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild here;
https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-annual-banquet-of-the-gravediggers-guild/
and here
https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/the-annual-banquet-of-the-gravediggers-guild
Katie Whittemore - NOT EVEN THE DEAD - Juan Gómez Bácena
Katie Whittemore
@mkwhittemore X
katie.whittemore1 Instagram
Buy Not Even The Dead by Juan Gómez Bárcena
From Open Letter
https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/not-even-the-dead
Gateway books
The Secret Garden
The Little House on The Prairie
Anne of Green Gables
Caddie Woodlawn
Jean Craighead George
Watership Down
Jane Gardam
Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Rodrigo Fresan
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
Immortality - Kundera
Sarah Waters
Kate Atkinson
Current reads
A Ghost in the Throat - Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Desert Island books
2666 - Bolaño
Watership Down -Richard Adams
Immortality - Kundera
Pip Adam - AUDITION
Pip Adam
Buy Audition from
https://giramondopublishing.com/authors/pip-adam/
or
https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/audition/
or
https://peninsulapress.co.uk/products/audition
Pip's Substack/podcast
https://betteroffread.substack.com/
Gateway books
Jackie Collins books
S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
Wuthering Heights
Frankenstein
Bae Suah - Nowhere to Be Found
Current Reads
Dawn Hounds - Sascha Stronach
Turncoat - Tīhema Baker
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility - Isabel Waidner
Lioness - Emily Perkins
Animal Joy - Nuar Alsadir
Desert Island Books
Frankenstein
Nowhere to be Found - Bae Suah
Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg
Bad Behaviour - Mary Gatskill
Watchmen - Alan Moore
Love and Rockets - Hernandez Brothers
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
End of Days - Jenny Erpenbeck
Cesar Aira - Ghosts
Douglas Suttle - SUMMA KAOTICA - Ventura Amettler
Douglas Suttle
Buy Summa Kaotica here
https://www.fumdestampa.com/shop/p/summa-kaotica
Gateway books
Homer
Beowulf
The Seafarer
The Wanderer
The Ruin
Dream of the Rood
Lord of the Rings
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
Current Reads /Looking Forward to
Dictionary of Symbols -
Septology - Jon Fosse
Desert Island books
Seamus Heaney - Beowulf
Orkneyinga saga
Homage to Catalonia - Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Tractatus - Wittgenstein
The Thin Red Line - James Jones
Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Wake - Paul Kingsnorth
Eugen Bacon - SERENGOTTI
Eugen Bacon
@EugenBacon Twitter
Buy Serengotti here ;
https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/serengotti/
Gateway books / authors
Toni Morrison
Octavia Butler
Peter Temple
Current reads
Paul Dalgarno - Country of Eternal Light
Angela Slater - The Bone Lantern
Desert Island books
Toni Morrison
Anthony Doer - All The Light We Cannot See / Cloud Cuckoo land
Michael Ondaatje - Divisadero
K Hank Jost
Lee Klein - Chaotic Good
Lee Klein
https://www.litfunforever.com/about/
@leeklein0 twitter
@lee.klein_ Instagram
Buy Chotic Good here:
https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/chaotic_good/
Gateway Books
Peter Pan. Where the Wild Things Are. The Big Book of Jokes and Riddles
Black Stallion series. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths. Gary Gygax (D&D)
Judy Blume’s Forever
Narnia/LOTRs (competitively read)
Sherlock Holmes
The Bounty Trilogy (Mutiny on the Bounty)
Count of Monte Cristo
Gatsby, Prufrock, The Wasteland
Borges (in Spanish)
Crime and Punishment (2x)
Narcissus and Goldmund
Steppenwolf, Demian, Siddhartha, Journey to the East
Kafka stories
Kerouac (Subterraneans, Dharma Bums, Big Sur)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, The Doors of Perception, Island
Another Roadside Attraction and Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle, Deadeye Dick)
The Crying of Lot 49
Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Stories by Terry Southern
The Beat Reader – Burroughs, Corso, Ginsberg >> Blake
Beloved
Light in August
See Under: Love (Grossman -> Bruno Schulz)
Maus (graphic novels, Raw vols 1 and 2, Richard McGuire, Here)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog/Adventures in the Skin Trade (Dylan Thomas)
The Tin Drum, A Personal Matter, The Box Man, Carver, Steinbeck short novels, Hamsun (Hunger), Cheever stories, Auster, Beckett, Kafka, Handke, Artaud, Barthelme, Maupassant, Chekhov, TC Boyle, Philip Roth, Sontag essays, Ulysses, Moby Dick
DFW essays, Mark Leyner, DeLillo, Moody, The Recognitions, George Saunders, Pnin, The Last Samurai, Bernhard, Sebald, Gogol stories, Salinger stories, Geoff Dyer, Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials)
War and Peace, Proust, Musil, Mann, Hamsun
Bolano (Between Parentheses)
Knausgaard, Rachel Cusk, Houellebecq, Enard, Gracq, Perec, Zweig, Grace Paley, Hrabal, Aira, The Waves
Currently reading
Ute Av Verden, Knausgaard (in Norsk) Reader’s Block, Markson
Henri Cartier-Bresson interviews Ubik, Philip K. Dick Looking forward to Middlemarch, Trollope The Wolves of Eternity, KOK MJ Nicholls stories Steinbeck (shorter novels) The rest of Hrabal in English (four books) Cormac McCarthy (his first four books) BTZ-inspired purchases: Monument Maker (David Keenan), The Salt Line (Shimoni), The Logos (Mark de Silva), Traveler of the Century and How to Travel Without Seeing (Andreas Neuman), The Kindly Ones (Littel), Too Much Life (Lispecter), Kafka Diaries
Recently read All of Us Together in the End, Matthew Vollmer Bang Bang Crash, Nic Brown All Dag Solstad in English (Novel 11, Book 18) All Tomas Espedal in English (Love, Tramp) I Served the King of England, Hrabal The Belan Deck, Matt Bucher
Annie Ernaux (Happening, A Man’s Place, I Remain in Darkness) Philip Roth (Zuckerman Unbound, Patrimony, The Facts, The Counterlife) The Magus, John Fowles
Desert Island Books
The Birds, Tarjei Vesaas (Archipelago)
Weight of the World, Handke
A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Erich Maria Remarque
Garden, Ashes, Danilo Kis
A Balcony in the Forest, Julien Gracq
A Musical Offering, Luis Sagasti (Charco, Fionn Petch)
Atomik Aztex, Sesshu Foster (Grove Press)
Amazons, Cleo Birdwell (DeLillo)
A Time for Everything, KOK (Archipelago)
Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann (John E. Woods translation; Modern Library)
Aaron Jacobs - TIME WILL BREAK THE WORLD
Aaron Jacobs
Time Will Break The World
https://www.aaronjacobswrites.com/time-will-break-the-world-1
Gateway books / Authors
John Bellairs
Edith Wharton - Age of Innocence
Private Parts - Howard Stern
Where I am Calling From - Raymond Carver
Portnoy’s Complaint - Roth
Henderson The Rain King - Bellow
A Fan’s Notes - Frederick Exley
Current Reads/Looking forward to
White Cat Black Dog - Kelly Link
Foster - Claire Keegan
Tender Is he Flesh - Augustina Bazterrica
The Passenger /Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy
Hernan Diaz- Trust
Desert Island Books
Ulysses - Joyce
Underworld - Don DeLillo
Song Of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Homeland - Sam Lipsyte
Complete Garielle Lutz
InnerTube - Hob Broun
Joy Williams - Quick and the Dead
Palefire - Nabokov
Jen Craig - WALL
Jen Craig
Buy Wall from
https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/wall/
https://zerogrampress.com/2023/01/11/wall/
Currently reading/Looking forward to
Annie Ernaux
Vigdis Hjorth
Stendhal
Country of Eternal Light - Paul Dalgarno
Angela O’Keefe - The Sitter