Rolling new and forthcoming books // ILX is sad, alas! and I've read all the books

In case we need a supplement to the ongoing reading threads....

http://conversationalreading.com/interesting-new-books-2016

This could be a good place to link to reviews of new books that sound intriguing, but we have not yet read. Or reviews of books that sound dreadful and should be avoided.

i've read maybe a dozen New Fiction Books* in the past five years, usually following a favorable review by James Wood or a mention on ilx

read some good books but I find it very particular as a Consumer Experience, and not totally satisfying or efficient

contra music, books are so canonized to the point where you have half a dozen notable writers per country per half-century that make up 95% of what anyone's read. so reading something within a decade or two of publication has this lingering ? of... is anyone gonna give a shit about this in the future? it's not so much that it colors the reading xp itself (I'm often spending the first hours in a novel gauging and testing my own interest even if it's something famous) as an extreme hesitancy before purchasing in the first place. with something old you kind of have the hedge. even non-english stuff i have more faith in; hey, at least it was good enough for someone to translate it. musically i listen to all kinds of stuff and have little-to-no hesitation before checking something out. but where the lack of hesitation lets me be adventurous in music, my extreme hesitation in new fiction entraps me in the safest most milquetoast shit. maybe the way that free ubiquitous music killed the music critic doesn't apply and i need more literary critics i trust. I kind of don't trust James Wood anymore; Jesse Ball's silence once begun was a bore and Zia Hader Rahman in the light of what we know was the ultimate stinker (like a humorless White Teeth about mathematicians--blegh)

i'll always read something if it musters up enough zeitgeist momentum that i anticipate i'll be able to have a conversation about it. like i read The Flamethrowers and yeah it kinda sucked but you see it around people's apartments often enough. it's a rare joy to be able to talk to someone about a novel irl period, and well-marketed-fiction-as-bougie-conversation-pieces are a good way to coordinate on that

*how does one say this and not sound like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP_kN_VDuUY

*but where the lack of hesitation lets me be adventurous in music, i fear my extreme hesitation in new fiction entraps me in the safest most milquetoast shit.

I think libraries can be helpful here; so can browsing in bookstores, and being able to opening books halfway in to see if their style is promising. It can also help to have some grounding in specific communities or circles of writers that feel urgent to you; to speak about my own reading, for instance, the number of trans women writing fiction is low enough that I can keep up with new publications fairly well, and even if not all of their books are equally compelling, the best of them work through aspects of our shared experience that cis writers so far haven't: that's reason enough for me to keep looking for new texts, whether or not they're going to be talked about outside the community.

...but also, clearly, the time commitment involved in reading a novel or book of poems is significantly different from the commitment needed to watch a film or see a concert, so it's generally much easier to enjoy contemporary writing if you don't intend to try to be comprehensive about it.

Anything new in the line of Infernokrusher?

I'm not really familiar with Infernokrusher: was that basically the sf version of flarf, and did any actual texts come out apart from joke manifestos?

As far as recent, notably anarchic texts go, I'm enthusiastic about Sybil Lamb's I've Got a Time Bomb and Kim Hyesoon's poetry in Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream, but that's probably not what you're asking about.

I'm not really familiar with Infernokrusher: was that basically the sf version of flarf, and did any actual texts come out apart from joke manifestos?

Unless there's a shadow thread on 77 about sf pseudogenres, I think you succeeded in that!

Useful resource of new/upcoming books in translation: http://www.typographicalera.com/2015-visual-guide-translated-fiction-month/

Ignore that 2015 bit in the url, it covers 2016 as well

Rolling Contemporary Literary Fiction

This is the usual thread for it.

Esposito is kinda boring blogger/journo

Goethe Dies is short Bernhard and I don't think that's needed.

Like to Read:

Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens: Reportage by László Krasznahorkai
Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik
The Clouds by Juan José Saer
Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich.
Bright Magic: Stories by Alfred Döblin

Joker in the pack:
Bottom’s Dream by Arno Schmidt

Have looked at/read:
Alvaro Enrigue Sudden Death and couldn't get into it.

Great.
A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar
Fortuny by Pere Gimferrer

Didn't mention.

http://www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/elsa-morante-the-world-saved-by-kids-other-epics/

new collection of trillins reporting on race https://www.amazon.com/Jackson-1964-Dispatches-Reporting-America/dp/0399588248/

i like trillin a lot, tho usu prefer him on lightweight topics iirc; def interested to check this out but prob best if there are no too recent pieces (idk if there are) as i saw him on charlie rose making the v 80 yr old white man comment of (paraphrasing) "i recently went to get my car serviced and not one white person worked there" as a sign of progress for minorities

speaking of 80 yr old white man, I've forgotten the purpose of this thread? esp. consid. xpost Rolling Contemporary Literary Fiction

Anthology Recordings and multi-media headz Boo-Hoo Ray are teaming up for Anthology Editions; think I might get this Jack Womack excursion:

Jack Womack
Flying Saucers Are Real!
September 2016

Flying Saucers Are Real! is a catalogue of the Jack Womack UFO library and a history of one of the 20th century's most pervasive subcultures. The collection presents an unknown wealth of images taken from mid-century flying saucer books and extensive text by author-collector Womack outlining the history of the UFO phenomenon and reflecting on the selections. With an introduction by science fiction author William Gibson.

John Savage and Glenn Terry
God Save The Sex Pistols (Deluxe Edition)
October 2016

An enhanced edition of the Rizzoli publication, God Save The Sex Pistols offers an unseen visual history of the incendiary punk band. Co-edited by noted writer Jon Savage and premiere Sex Pistols archivist Glenn Terry. A deluxe edition of 2000 copies features a rubberized slipcase designed by acclaimed artistZeus, a second book of rare news clippings, and a silkscreened gig poster reproduction. An ultra-deluxe edition of 500 copies features signed silkscreens by designer Jamie Reid and Zeus with a custom safety pin display stand.

Tino Razo
Party in the Back (A Brief History of Suburban Decay)
December 2016

Celebrated skateboarder Tino Razo has documented — and shredded — abandoned backyard swimming pools in Southern California since the inception of the rogue sport. This thrill-seeking book juxtaposes renegade sessions by world class skateboarders with dramatic architectural photographs of a lost American dream. A deluxe slipcased edition signed by Razo comes with a pool guy t-shirt and a swimming pool-shaped ashtray.

more info here: http://anthology.net/books/

Also, an event to celebrate Womack's release (his book's reissue, that is)

http://www.mexicansummer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/AE-UFO-Milk-Flyer-Launch-Party-r2private.gif

http://www.mexicansummer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/AE-UFO-Milk-Flyer-Launch-Party-r2private.gif

esp. consid. xpost Rolling Contemporary Literary Fiction

New and forthcoming books is a much more comprehensive category. The amount of literary fiction published each year is dwarfed by genre fiction and non-fiction. Hell, there are probably as many coffee table books published as lit-fic books.

i saw jack womack talk UFOs at the morbid anatomies museum the other week, good stuff for sure

There'll be a new J0hn Darn1elle novel, Universal Harvest, come February: http://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/148300957101/i-like-to-work-that-is-a-big-part-of-who-i-am

Yay!

Read this, bitch!

Seriously impressive that it's been translated in full.

The chap who runs The Complete Review has been raving about this for a while. There's no way I'm ever going to actually read it, having felt that a few Scmidt novellas were enough of this guy for me, but I'm glad stuff like this still makes it into English sometimes. In my defence I did just buy a 600p Turkish novel (My Uncle Napoleon) claimed as that country's 'Tristram Shandy' (the central character is an Uncle Toby-style fantasist).

Assume you mean Persian not Turkish.

Fuck, yes I did

This is what happens when you boast about buying a book, but don't actually read it

I can't throw any stones here

sounds good. sebaldian.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/books/review/war-and-turpentine-stefan-hertmans.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbook-review&action=click&contentCollection=review®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=sectionfront

Wow! Thanks for posting that, Scott.

lol. would read.

"Robert Gottlieb, the celebrated editor at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker, was a pale, bookish, sensitive, rumpled and vaguely mousy young man. His first father-in-law, a roofing contractor, took a look at him and said, “If I had a son like that, I’d take him out and drown him like a sick kitten.”

"How bookish was Mr. Gottlieb? At summer camp, as a child, he arranged to have The New York Times delivered to him daily."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/books/robert-gottlieb-avid-reader.html?hpw&rref=books&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well