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  • Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek translated by Gitta Honegger

    Buy the book here :

    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

  • 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

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  • Ben Tanzer

    https://www.tanzerben.com/

    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

    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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • http://croftwork.net/about

    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

  • https://taniaderozario.com/

    Buy Dinner on Monster Island here:

    https://www.harpercollins.com/products/dinner-on-monster-island-tania-de-rozario?variant=41057238417442&fbclid=IwAR1ODMgac7PZy7Hbjk5EL-pxIpKWcZfs06_kE0yRJ2_Nw-YeT8wKmwXQnHo

    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

  • 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

    Buy You Dreamed of Empires here:

    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

  • https://kellysather.com/

    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

    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 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

  • https://www.alimillar.com/

    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

  • 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

    ]

    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

  • 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

    - 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

  • 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

    http://www.thebooksdesk.com/

    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.

  • 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