Oh, by the way, amazon.com are selling _Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer_ for just $6.80 right now, for some reason.
― Øystein, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
good interview w/ karl ove knausgaard here - http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/07/03/completely-without-dignity-an-interview-with-karl-ove-knausgaard/
i'm half way through my struggle now & im still not sure how i feel about it
― just sayin, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I put it "on pause" - let's see if I ever get back to it. I liked the idea and somehow I relate so much to it, it's just a shame that it's such a drag to get through it.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 4 July 2013 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
Peter Altenberg's _Telegrams of the Soul_ is a really enjoyable collection of short pieces; letter-like observations or essays from Vienna café-life. At one point he visits an amusement park and befriends some somewhat embarrassed Africans that are on exhibit, but mostly it's about fairly inconsequential but charming stuff. Some may find his willful eccentricity — and fondness of exclamation marks! — annoying, but do give it a look.
Just read this--it was really lovely.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Friday, 5 July 2013 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
Cool -- I'd love to read more by him, but so far my german is much too schlecht. Haven't gotten around to the Slauerhoff I mentioned upthread.
― Øystein, Monday, 8 July 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, this was in the newsletter they sent out today:"To celebrate our website launch, we are offering a special 50% off coupon for today only. Act quickly! It expires tomorrow, July 9. This coupon is valid for your whole purchase, so buy as many books as your shelves can bear. Simply type in LAUNCH2013 at checkout."
― Øystein, Monday, 8 July 2013 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
Scandinavia doesn’t have a tradition of tell-all memoirs, but it does have diarists. Olav H. Hauge, the Norwegian poet, wrote a three-thousand-page diary which was published after his death, when you were about twenty-six. Did you have a strong reaction to it?Yes, I did. I read it very intensely over a short period of time, during a kind of crisis in my life. I was obsessed with it. And it was very strange because he wrote his diaries from 1916, or something, until 1990, so it covers his whole life. And he was basically only on his farm. Nothing happens in his life at all. And he really writes about nothing. Nothing is going on there except for him thinking, and harvesting apples.
Yes, I did. I read it very intensely over a short period of time, during a kind of crisis in my life. I was obsessed with it. And it was very strange because he wrote his diaries from 1916, or something, until 1990, so it covers his whole life. And he was basically only on his farm. Nothing happens in his life at all. And he really writes about nothing. Nothing is going on there except for him thinking, and harvesting apples.
sounds really good to me!
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 July 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
I just went to their website, ordered 3 paperbacks of poetry and only paid $18.40, including shipping. Yippee!
― Aimless, Monday, 8 July 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
free shipping = $6.80 heine, sweet
― j., Tuesday, 9 July 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/dec/05/zadie-smith-man-vs-corpse/
on knausgaard (and tao lin)
― j., Thursday, 28 November 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
by zadie smith!
― flopson, Thursday, 28 November 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
Thanks flopson! Somehow she has a gift for non-fiction tangents (the Joni Mitchell meltdown maybe most notoriously, but even there the vision of her vision somehow doesn't burn my corneas). I want to check her new collection of essays too ("Joy" is fave so far).
― dow, Friday, 29 November 2013 01:23 (ten years ago) link
Lenzby Georg Büchnertrans. from Germanby Richard Sieburth
Interview and reading by Sieburth and its a fantastic broadcast! I read the first para of Lenz alongside Reddick's version for Penguin and I felt it held up well. Love the idea of the edition -- to centre this as THE piece of prose for that particular time -- although in the intro of the Penguin its very much acknowledged that no one was writing like this in 1835. Still, would be tempted to pick this up 2nd hand.
Things I want to pick up are Hyperion, Novalis, maybe Pla although I'll give him a go on NYRB first.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 7 March 2015 13:40 (nine years ago) link
btw if you go ctrl + "archipelago" there is a ton of good stuff to try out.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 7 March 2015 13:50 (nine years ago) link
We've just made 30 of our ebooks free on our website. Just go to the links in this post and select "ebook" or "epub" and check out and you'll be good to go! https://t.co/XJ3bdQ2Pkj— Archipelago Books (@archipelagobks) March 20, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 March 2020 11:43 (four years ago) link
Thank you comrade!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 21 March 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
(I found it via James Morrison's twitter btw..)
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 March 2020 14:53 (four years ago) link
Forgot there was an archipelago thread!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 22 March 2020 09:45 (four years ago) link