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Weekly long-form discussions about books with authors, translators and critics from around the world.

    Mauro Javier Cárdenas - AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS

    Mauro Javier Cárdenas - AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS

    https://www.maurojaviercardenas.com

    buy the book from :



    https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/american-abductions



    Current reads /looking forward to

    The Pinochet File - Peter Kornbluh

    Mónica Ojeda

    Herscht 07769 - László Krasznahorkai



    Gateway books

    Correction - Thomas Bernhard

    Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald

    Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker

    To The Light House - Virginia Woolf



    Desert Island books:

    Melancholy of Resistance

    Collected Novellas of Bolano

    Annotated Mrs Dalloway - with Merve Emre

    • 1 hr 24 min
    Chris Via - LEAF BY LEAF

    Chris Via - LEAF BY LEAF

    Chris Via 



    https://www.youtube.com/@LeafbyLeaf/videos



    Gateway books and authors



    Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson 



    Michael Crichton



    Stephen King 



    Richard Laymon 



    Current reads, Looking forward to 



    Nexus - Noah Yuval Harari 



    Rachel Cusk new book

    Herscht 07769 -  László Krasznahorkai



    The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk



    Annihilation - Michel Houellebecq

    Every Arc Bends Its Radian - Sergio De La Lava



    The Instructions - Adam Levin



    The New Testament - David Bentley Hart



    The Tunnel - Gass



    Benjamin Labatut - The Maniac 



    Pure Color - Sheila Heti 



    Desert Island books 



    Borges - Ficciones 



    Shakespeare 



    Iliad and The Odyssey 



    Complete Essays - Montaigne



    King James Bible 



    Moby Dick



    Proust - In Search of Lost Time 



    Ulysses - Joyce 



    Don Quixote 

    • 2 hrs 18 min
    Megan McDowell - THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT by José Donoso

    Megan McDowell - THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT by José Donoso

    https://www.meganmcdowelltranslation.com

    Order here :

    https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-obscene-bird-of-night/

    Other books coming up from Megan in translation

    José Donoso - La misteriosa desaparición de la marquesita de Loria - Coming next year

    Mariana Enriquez - A Sunny Place for Shady People (SEPT)

    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757704/a-sunny-place-for-shady-people-by-mariana-enriquez-translated-by-megan-mcdowell/

    Alejandro Zambra - Childish Literature (OCT)

    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737144/childish-literature-by-alejandro-zambra-translated-by-megan-mcdowell/

    New Samanta Schweblin collection

    Le fantôme de Truman Capote - Leila Guerriero

    Other books mentioned:

    Leila Guerriero - La llamada

    La reina de las espadas - Jazmina Barrera (Upcoming translation from Two Lines)

    • 43 min
    Adam Levin - THE INSTRUCTIONS BAR MITZVA EDITION

    Adam Levin - THE INSTRUCTIONS BAR MITZVA EDITION

    Adam Levin

    Buy The Bar Mitzva Edition here:

    https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-instructions-bar-mitzvah-edition?taxon_id=1

    Other books mentioned

    Camille Bordas - The Material

    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737042/the-material-by-camille-bordas/

    No Judgment - Lauren Oyler

    Wild Houses - Colin Barrett

    • 51 min
    Nathan Knapp - DAYBOOK

    Nathan Knapp - DAYBOOK

    Nathan Knapp

    ⁠https://nathanknappwrites.wordpress.com/⁠

    Buy Daybook here

    https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/



    Gateway books

    Lord of the Rings

    Notes From The Underground - Dostoyevsky

    Fear and Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard

    Annie Dillard





    é Hill

    Cormac McCarthy

    In The Suavity of The Rock - Greg Gerke

    Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions

    Adam Erlich Sachs - Getel and the Great War

    Gabriel Blackwell - Comment Section

    Desert Island Books

    Dream Songs - John Berryman

    Witold Gombrowicz - Diary

    Emil Cioran - Anathemas and Admirations

    Gathering Evidence - Bernhard

    Norwood - Charles Portis

    God's Country - Percival Everett

    Sound and The Fury

    Ulysses

    The Moviegoer Walker Percy

    • 50 min
    Children of the Dead - by Elfriede Jelinek Featuring Dustin Illingworth and Gitta Honneger.

    Children of the Dead - by Elfriede Jelinek Featuring Dustin Illingworth and Gitta Honneger.

    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 

    • 1 hr 12 min

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