I realized that Edward St Aubyn wasn't on that list either which is, imo, another pretty bad omission for such an anglophile list.
his best books came out in the '90s
― Number None, Monday, 8 October 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
Mallarme's The Book has had its first complete translation!
http://exactchange.com/shop/mallarme-the-book/
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 October 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
a friend of mine wrote a very well received (apparently radical) translation of (some of) Mallermé's poem's xyz. could be of interest to you:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/15/stephane-mallarme-poems-in-verse-review
― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Monday, 8 October 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
Thanks!
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 October 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
― Number None, Monday, October 8, 2018 10:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Controversial! I think Mother's Milk and At Last were the best of the Patrick Melrose books.
― Federico Boswarlos, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
it's controversial to think those are the best ones.
― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
xyzzz and jed, thanks for both Mallarmé recs!
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
Lol, no it's not but it does seem like his reputation and recent popularity (fwiw) over the last 5-6 years hinge more on his recent work.
― Federico Boswarlos, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
seems like a good list https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/pa5b7m/best-books-2018-poetry-short-stories
― flopson, Thursday, 15 November 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
maybe i just want to read The Incendiaries
― flopson, Thursday, 15 November 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
That intro paragraph is pretty self-congratulatory given the list features only American writers. (Although, tbf, one of them lives part of the time in Canada)
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 16 November 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
Not sure where to put this so
This is my favourite thing on Twitter today. It’s beautiful! pic.twitter.com/BbUCgI8H5e— Bethany Black (@BeffernieBlack) February 10, 2019
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Monday, 11 February 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link
Lol
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 February 2019 01:37 (five years ago) link
:D
― imago, Monday, 11 February 2019 07:14 (five years ago) link
some very good looking things here. v interested in the two Joyce-related books, Lucia and Dedalus.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/republic-of-consciousness-prize-2019-longlist/
They announced the shortlist in the last day or two, in case you missed it - both the Joyce-related things made it through. https://www.thebookseller.com/news/shortlist-unveiled-republic-consciousness-prize-small-presses-965176
It does look a good list, I'm looking forward to reading the Lord Kitchener one, and I'm very pleased for the Henningham Family Press people, who I've run into once or twice and who seem like righteous folk.
― Tim, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
I did miss it, thanks Tim.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link
That's a badly written article!
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:50 (five years ago) link
Haha I didn’t even read past the list.
― Tim, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
The Wendy Erskine stories are v good.
― FernandoHierro, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 07:42 (five years ago) link
NYRB:Uwe Johnson - AnniversariesVarlam Shamalov - Kolyma Tales
Penguin:Dag Solstad - Armand V/T SingerSvetlana Alexivech - THe Unwomanly Face of War
Other Publishers:Wolfgang Hilbig -The Tidings of the Trees/The FemalesHelen DeWitt - Some TrickGerald Murnane - The PlainsEmily Wilson - The Odyssey
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 21 January 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Adding these as notable new releases. Penguin have been doing good by euro/foreign fiction:
Pavese - The Beautiful SummerViolette Leduc - The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
Lots and lots from New Directions:
Dasa Drndic: https://www.ndbooks.com/author/dasa-drndic/Natalia Ginzburg: https://www.ndbooks.com/author/natalia-ginzburg/Two new Hrabals: https://www.ndbooks.com/author/bohumil-hrabal/
NYRB have put out
Serge's Notebooks is probably the most interesting they've put out this year (but that's just me lol): https://www.nyrb.com/products/notebooks?variant=7060384055348
As to what is forthcoming this is an interesting collection:
https://www.nyrb.com/collections/forthcoming/products/the-storyteller-essays?variant=9273236586548
Genet: https://www.nyrb.com/collections/forthcoming/products/criminal-child?variant=14170567049268
Musil: https://www.nyrb.com/collections/forthcoming/products/agathe-or-the-forgotten-sister?variant=14728883109940
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 23 June 2019 10:23 (five years ago) link
As for Archipelago I am quite looking forward to these Onetti short stories, the guy is due a revival:
https://archipelagobooks.org/book/a-dream-come-true/
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 23 June 2019 10:26 (five years ago) link
In terms of re-issues I haven't read I'll get this:
https://www.andotherstories.org/tamarisk-row/
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 23 June 2019 10:58 (five years ago) link
Those Storyteller essays have been available from Verso for a couple of years, assuming its the same selection. Very much want the Musil.
Agree re the Penguin European books. Just wish they'd publish more than 4 books a year.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Monday, 24 June 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann won the Goldsmiths prize - amazingly, the second time a book from Galley Beggar Press has won after A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing in 2013.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
Cool! I'm still only at sentence three, but it's quite good
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
Excellent.
A book of theirs also won/split the republic of consciousness prize earlier in the Year. I need to read Lucia. Murmer is astonishing.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 14 November 2019 00:39 (four years ago) link
Contemporary literature
The person opposite me on the district line is reading a book. I stare at the title. It is “Drive your plough over the bones of the the dead.”— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) November 14, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 14 November 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/03/elena-ferrantes-form-and-unform/
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/02/driss-chraibi-the-novel-morocco-had-to-ban/
Sorry wrong link
And there is this too. Vol. 1 is fucking great:
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-aesthetics-of-resistance-volume-ii
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
THE WORD OF THE SPEECHLESSJulio Ramón Ribeyro
https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-word-of-the-speechless
Forgot this, haven't seen a review of it but looks good
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
A good piece on vol. II
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/weiss-aesthetics-of-resistance/
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 February 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
Wow, thanks--hadn't seen yr link for Vol.1, so thanks for that too.
― dow, Monday, 22 February 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
Do I want to read the Patricia Lockwood novel? My concern is I'm on Twitter too much as it is and why do I want to see what I don't like about it rendered in fiction? But everybody says it's good.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 22 February 2021 22:06 (three years ago) link
Gotta say that from a review the narrator logs off to look after some family tragedy and I'm like, logging off is a mistake never log off. Doubt it would be any good.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 February 2021 22:09 (three years ago) link
I'm sure it'll be very funny if nothing else.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 11:40 (three years ago) link
I'm halfway through, it is very funny and skewers the problem of being Extremely Online but (as with everything Extremely Online) it lacks gravitas, however I've only just reached the family tragedy. Will post a full review on the shiny new Patricia Lockwood c/d thread.
― ledge, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 11:43 (three years ago) link
Really good piece on Mieko Kawakami in this week's New Yorker.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 June 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
Mieko Kawakami’s novel “Heaven,” about two teens targeted by bullies, shows us how to think about morality as an ongoing, dramatic activity. https://t.co/y2Sq7Sl3OE— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) June 3, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 June 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
Sean Cotter, king of Romanian translation, took a break from revising his complete draft of SOLENOID (!) to get his hands on his remarkable translation of Magda Carneci’s FEM just out from us @deepvellum! Read this modern classic of global feminist lit! https://t.co/DMbD7FnMp5 pic.twitter.com/RtGoOBKcyR— Will Evans (@willevans) June 9, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 10 June 2021 10:11 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/16/last-letter-to-a-reader-by-gerald-murnane-review-an-elegiac-but-cantankerous-swan-so
Excellent review. I follow the reviewer on twitter, he has been reacting over passages of this for the last fortnight, weird to see it shaped into a piece.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 15 November 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/24/harsh-times-by-mario-vargas-llosa-review-cia-secrets-and-breathtaking-lies
Varga Llosa should know about coups, he's supported plenty of them.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
Although I don't like the review much this could be good.
Can always count on @ddillingworth to bring another mad genius novelist to my attention. His essay on Rafael Chirbes is cathartic. https://t.co/9dJGb85Aok— Adam Moody, Being Nice for the Holidays (@ToTheHappyNone) December 21, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 22 December 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link
due to the name of 'Rafael,' that reminded me to purchase a copy of a new translation by my old friend Kit Schluter: Rafael Bernal's "His Name Was Death."
https://www.ndbooks.com/book/his-name-was-death/
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
Looks good!
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 December 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
What I'm looking forward to most next year.
pic.twitter.com/99g0nAoVHX— Adrian Nathan West (@a_nathanwest) December 24, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 December 2021 11:24 (two years ago) link
Don't care for LK much but this synopsis...everything up to 'meditation'.
Can I have this synopsis of the new Krasznahorkai injected straight into my veins please? (@caringerel ) pic.twitter.com/XbiBb1OsXI— Mark Haber (@markhaber713) April 3, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 April 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
Understandable review of a book by a Ukrainian writer in the New Yorker.
Enormous congratulations to @AKurkov and @BorisDralyuk and @DeepVellum on this incredibly wonderful review of the brilliant Ukrainian novel GREY BEES by @keithgessen in @NewYorker today! https://t.co/Z7THNAUexW— Jenny Croft 🇺🇦 (@jenniferlcroft) April 18, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 13:20 (two years ago) link
Really sharp review of Fernanda Melchor’s Paradais by @HollyMConnolly. https://t.co/8vMunzYYpg— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 10, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 21:14 (two years ago) link