also read nearly a book a month for @ajbwells's great books section at the berliner mag; i think my favorite just might've been ariane koch's brilliant and beguiling little novella "overstaying": https://t.co/J38rs6pTMW
"It was amazing to imagine your city was a novel, and that for you to walk around within it meant that you were in language, you were in a thinking text. I had been placed inside of something dreaming, its citizens dreaming, the novels we had all written dreaming."
-Renee Gladman
More books I read &liked this year: Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel & TOAF; Yoko Tawada, Suggested in the Stars, trans. Margaret Mitsutani; Ibrahim Nasrallah, Palestinian, trans. @FakhreddineHuda; Willy Thayer, The Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University, trans. D. Bret Leraul
Halliday got at exactly what Dorothy is up to as a press, in a way I've been trying to do for many years: "Is this a novel about [xyz]? Occasionally, yes—but mostly it is a novel about the narrator and her relationship to the world."
Delighted to find a review of MY LESBIAN NOVEL in The Guardian this morning!
"Gladman’s reading of popular romances feels so genuine, the love scene so easy a fusion of readerly and writerly delight, that another kind of novel seems possible..."
https://t.co/ShRly9JPke
NYC friends, Damion and Emma are both brilliant translators and readers. Hope you can make it to their event tomorrow (Monday) night @mcnallyjackson Seaport!
NYC friends, Damion and Emma are both brilliant translators and readers. Hope you can make it to their event tomorrow (Monday) night @mcnallyjackson Seaport!
Jen George dropped this STUNNER of a debut story collection in 2016 & has been quiet ever since. As I reread this book (for the third time), I hope to god she's quietly writing a novel.