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.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 28 July 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
i saw jack womack talk UFOs at the morbid anatomies museum the other week, good stuff for sure
― adam, Thursday, 28 July 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
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
― one way street, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
Yay!
― dow, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
Read this, bitch!
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 August 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
Seriously impressive that it's been translated in full.
― one way street, Thursday, 18 August 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
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).
― James Morrison, Friday, 19 August 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link
Assume you mean Persian not Turkish.
― Deneb on Ice (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 August 2016 00:50 (seven years ago) link
Fuck, yes I did
― James Morrison, Friday, 19 August 2016 01:48 (seven years ago) link
This is what happens when you boast about buying a book, but don't actually read it
I can't throw any stones here
― Deneb on Ice (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 August 2016 02:21 (seven years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Sunday, 21 August 2016 23:12 (seven years ago) link
Wow! Thanks for posting that, Scott.
― dow, Monday, 22 August 2016 00:49 (seven years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link