Nu-ILB: What books have you purchased lately?

And I WISH i had that Piranesi book. It looks amazing.

Last Night A DJ saved my life Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton

A Girl From OZ Lyndall Hobbs

Punk Rock Blitzkrieg Marky Ramone

Please report back on the Marky Ramone book, as I have been meaning to read it for quite a while.

Yeah, not sure how soon I'll get to it though.
So far have only read the bit on Dust which was interesting.

got a nice first ed of john updike couples for $3

Enjoying that Marky Ramone Punk Rock Blitzkrieg. Got as far as him getting back from first European tour with the Ramones so far , so he's been through Dust, Voidoids etc.
Like the voice but not sure how much it's his since he has a cowriter. But very readable anyway.

Went to a small-press book fair on Saturday and emerged with this (among other things) which I am very much looking forward to getting stuck into: https://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_anti_classic&number=23

(It's "Journey to the Land of the Real" by Victor Segalen; I read his "Paintings" which is magnificent in a proto-Calvino kind of way.)

"Day Of The Locusts" is great, but slightly handicapped by the fact that one of the major characters is called Homer Simpson.

Bertold Brecht - The Complete Poems (this is the find of the year)
Leonard Sciascia - The Wine Dark Sea
Jean Rhys - Quartet
Miroslav Holub - The Dimension of the Present Moment and Other Essays
Jaroslav Hasek - The Red Commissar

Alan Moore - Jerusalem
Carrie Brownstein - Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl
The Good Immigrant

G.K. Chesterton - The Wisdom of Father Brown
Franz Kafka - Amerika

More 2nd hand finds:

Gottfried Benn - Impromptus (Selected Poems) (what a rich time for mid-20th century German poetry)
Sakutaro Hagiwara - Cat Town

That Gottfriend Benn is the Michael Hoffman translation, isn't it? It's wonderful.

Yeah - good intro, honest around Benn's middle period which he felt he couldn't bring it to English. Vital to have some of his work.

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
cos it sounded interesting for €1.

Oh So Pretty: Punk In Print a book of punk memorabilia reprints of flyers, posters etc.

Guys, you've got to start spelling Michael Hofmann's name correctly. One 'f', two 'n's.

every time i write it I have to look it up, and when I don't check I invariably get it wrong. For me it's like putting in a USB plug, I will get it the wrong way round 100% of the time.

would love to read that benn collection. the new directions selection i have is more focussed on his earlier work (also includes some excellent prose!)

i bought a mass market paperback artbook of bruegel for $.01 plus shippin

Read like to read Benn's prose -- one more for the Prose works by poets thread!

also see novels written by poets

Some good conversations/arguments on there (also not just novels per se or at all)

Thanks I've just revived my thread but that's good too.

There are prose works (essays) by Benn in the Impromptu collection

even more reason to find a copy :-D

doesn't look like there have been any translations of his fiction (he wrote at least a couple of novels) outside the nd selection.

FAHRENHEIT 451 (which I know)

THE STARS MY DESTINATION (which I don't)

2ndhand splurge this week, at Skoob and Black Gull books

Tana French - The Likeness
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Some pulps - Thunderball, Goldfinger, Cards on the Table, Glitz
Two new Penguin translations of The Black Tulip & Around the World in 80 Days
Light - M John Harrison
In the Freud Archives

Peter Guralnick Dream boogie the Sam Cooke bio

Clinton Heylin Revolution in the Air the songs of Bob Dylan 1957 to 1973. Got the paperback with the original 2009 cover cos I don't tghink I had it, now hoping taht I haven't forgotten buying it with the more recent cover. But don't think i have it.

Lenny Bruce how to Talk Dirty and Influence people his autobiography.

a number of other stuff taht's turned up in various charity shops over the last week. Seem to be picking up armfuls this week.

2nd hand:

Marianne Moore - Selected
Joseph Heller - Catch-22

1st Hand. I broke down and myself the following xmas presents:

Arseny Tarkovsky - I Bunred at the Feast (Selected Poems)
Cesare Pavese - Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950

Italo Calvino If On A Winter's Night A Traveller.
Been meaning to read him for ages and the local bookshop got a load of these in cheaply.

THe Complete idiot's guide to Wine Basics

Sharon Osbourne Unbreakable My New Autobiography

Jonathon Franzen Freedom

Jonas Jonasson The Girl Who saved the King of Sweden

Dave Haslam Adventures oN teh Wheels of Steel The Rise of the superstar DJ

Fintan O'Toole Up The Republic Towardsa new Ireland

Kevin Dutton The Wisdom of Psychopaths
I think I read this a few years back with a different cover

Stevolende, that list of purchases looks like an attempt to break an Amazon recommendation engine

Lol

Couple of charity shop hits and one thing from a bookshop that sells remainder and 2nd hand stuff. So somewhat random.
& not tallied so not going to work that way.

& I forgot the book on Cooking Utensils I picked up on Monday. Also random but I can now tell what I need for my kitchen. Which is good, innit.

PLease kill Me in paperback. I know i at least had a hardback of this from when it came out but no idea if i still have it.
Thought it was good when I read it. Good oral history of punk in the U.S.

So getting a copy for €1 was welcome though maybe i should have been altruistic and allowed somebody else to find it.
Good book anyway.

The theatre bookshop on The Cut had some goodies on their little outside stall today:

"Pack My Bag", surely the last Henry Green book I will ever buy (barring unexpected discoveries or my needing multiple copies for some reason)
"Romancing - The life and work of Henry Green" by Jeremy Treglown from which I hope to understand fully quite how posh Henry Green was
"The Modern Movement" a 1992 Harvill / TLS anthology of criticism.

Accidentally also purchased "The Bookshop" by Penelope Fitzgerald, largely due to recent ILB recommendations.

I also bought "Time, Forward!" by Valentin Kataev. This is a Soviet novel from 1933, and sounds fairly amazing. It's described by Wikipedia thus: "The whole book takes place over a 24-hour period on a construction site in the Ural Mountains during the early 1930s, the heyday of Stalin’s Five-Year Plans. The novel is centered on an attempt to beat a concrete-pouring record set elsewhere in the Soviet Union by a shock brigade in Kharkov." This edition is a slightly battered but still handsome University of Indiana Press paperback from 1976, but looks older to me.

That looks excellent, Tim!

Yesterday I scored a paperback of Mandelsatm's Moscow and Voronezh Notebooks (Bloodaxe, not the more recent NYRB trans.)

Time, Forward sounds great!

I picked up the mini biography of Groucho Marx by Lee Siegel, which looks fun.

I just ordered the second volume of The Man Without Qualities, along with The Thirty Years War by C.V. Wedgwood.

Both books arrived in good condition. Just now I scored a used copy of Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend for $1.50. Ho! Ho!

alan ryan - on marx
robert coover - pricksongs & descants
max ernst - une semaine de bonté: a surrealistic novel in collage
wyndham lewis - blasting and bombardiering (facsimile of the non-revised original version)

found a copy of the Folio Society edition of C.V. Wedgwood Thirty Years' War in my grandma's basement!!!

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i bought these three short story collections for the new year:

john burnside: something like happy
brian everson: a collapse of horses
livia llewellyn: furnace

Roberto Bolano - 2666 (finally got the old Picodor classics cover, so much better than the crappy editions this comes under nowdays)
Joseph Roth - Zipper and his Father
Claire Louise-Bennett - Pond
Malcolm Bowie - Proust Among the Stars
Milton - Paradise Lost (Books V-VI, Cambridge edition, which is marvellously annotated, keep on the lookout for the others)
Stendhal - The Red and The Black

I found both these used hardcover Everyman's Library editions (in great condition) at my local charity bookshop:

The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz, yet another 1300 pages and 2-1/2 lbs of literature I must find the time to read. $2.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The Girls of Slender Means; The Driver's Seat; The Only Problem, Muriel Spark. I've read all but the last one. I am everlastingly grateful for an excellent writer who writes short novels. $2.

Shock and Awe the most recent Simon Reynolds book. Thing on glam,not got it yet.

Complete Dummies book of Guitar which did arrive today and I think I payed a penny for plus p+p, certainly less than £1 and is in a decent state. Been wanting to sit down and learn to play for years so maybe I'll get to do it this year.

Kraftwerk Publikation which looks like a decent biography of the band. I have some of the ir history but not as thoroughly as this will give me.

Pieces oF A Man biography of Gil Scot Heron again sort of half know about him but don't really know all the background. Stil need to pick up a few of the lps but do have several.
Also got his novel on a University Campus about half read several years ago and really ought to finish it.

a few other bits and pieces from charity shops etc.

haven't bought but saw at the shop today and WANT

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More 2nd hand finds - good to have my own copy of these classics I've read and loved before:

Cesare Pavese - Among Women Only
Junichiro Tanizaki - The Key
Leonardo Sciascia - The Moro Affair

More 2nd, having a go for the first time:

Boris Pasternak - Last Summer
Anita Brookner - A Start in Life
Seamus Heaney - New Selected Poems 1966-1987

2nd:

Erich Auerbach - Mimesis (great to have my own copy of this masterpiece)
Ramón del Valle-Inclán - Tyrant Banderas
Joseph Roth - The Silent Prophet
Joseph Roth - Weights and Measures

1st:

The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems (Translated by Paul Schmidt)