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Gateway books

Lord of the Rings

Notes From The Underground - Dostoyevsky

Fear and Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard

Annie Dillard

é Hill

Cormac McCarthy

In The Suavity of The Rock - Greg Gerke

Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions

Adam Erlich Sachs - Getel and the Great War

Gabriel Blackwell - Comment Section

Desert Island Books

Dream Songs - John Berryman

Witold Gombrowicz - Diary

Emil Cioran - Anathemas and Admirations

Gathering Evidence - Bernhard

Norwood - Charles Portis

God's Country - Percival Everett

Sound and The Fury

Ulysses

The Moviegoer Walker Percy

https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780300142150

Part 1 

Dustin Illingworth 

https://www.dustinillingworth.com/

Other books mentioned - 

The Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso 

Adam Erlich Sachs - Gretel and the Great War 

Paul Celan And The Trans-Tibetan Angel Yoko Tawada

Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions 

Herscht 07769

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/herscht-07769/

Part 2 

Gitta Honegger 

Gateway books/authors

Albert Camus 

Simone de Beauvoir

Arundhati Roy

Colson Whitehead - Harlem Shuffle, Underground Railway

James - Percival Everett 

Thomas Bernhard - Correction 

Wittgenstein 

Mark Twain - The Awful German Language 

https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html

Desert Island books 

Thomas Bernhard - Correction

Toni Morrison - Beloved 

Louise Erdrich 

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

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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

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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 

https://www.hachette.com.au/keiran-goddard/i-see-buildings-fall-like-lightning

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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

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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

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BUY The Extinction of Irena Rey here :

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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

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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

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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 

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722363/you-dreamed-of-empires-by-alvaro-enrigue-translated-by-natasha-wimmer/

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

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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

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1664

Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures -  Yvan Alagbé

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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 

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 

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reads

Anthology
Criticism

 Greil Marcus - Lipstick Traces

Nigel Slater - Kitchen Diaries

Moby Dick

War and Peace

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

Yoko Tawada

Ten - Juan Emar

 And The Besieged City -  Clarice Lispector 

Way Far Away

by Evelio Rosero

Ed Park - Same Bed Different Dreams 

Prey for the Shadow by Javier Cercas 

- Elizabeth Abel

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

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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. 

1. 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
2. Shadow of forgotten ancestors by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky. The film by Sergei Paradjanov with the same title made in 1965.
3. Stream System by Gerald Murnane
4. The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson
5. Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire in translation by Louise Varese 
6. Nadja by Andre Breton
7. Man-eating Type Writer by Richard Millward
8. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
9. Birthday and An Episode in the life of a Landscape Painter by Cezar Aira
10. 10.Ava by Carol Maso
11. 11.Room by Youval Shimoni translated by Michael Sharp
12. 12.The Vivisector by Patrick White
13. 13.The melancholy of resistance by Lazlo Kraznokhorkai  translated by George Szirtes
14. 14.Tomas Neverson by Javier Marias translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
15. 15.Austral by Carlos Fonseca translated by Megan Mc Dowell

Look forward to:

1. Shimmering details by Peter Nadas
2. Tractatus Logicus by Wittgenstein: two new translations- by Peter Booth and by Damien Searls
3. A thousand thoughts in flight by Maria Gabriella Llansol
4. Salt Line by Youval Shimoni

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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

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 

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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 

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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

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Seth is everywhere

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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

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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

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Two Month Review Podcast

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Chad Post Musican

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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

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Gateway books

How to Quiet a Vampire - Borislav Pekić

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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

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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

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 

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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 

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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. 

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Buy South from Dundern Press

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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 

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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 

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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 

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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

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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

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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

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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)