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The Invisibility Cloak looks promising. I read one other Ge Fei book, https://penguin.com.au/books/flock-of-brown-birds-9780734399601
Which seemed a bit hackneyed in its postmodernism, but it was originally from the 1980s, and apparently it was a big deal in Chinese lit at the time

On the Aubrey book, the LRB was a bit sceptical - sounds like there's a lot of silent prose-tidying.

hey--does anyone know a place in brooklyn, say, in the cobble hill or boerum hill area, where i can find these books?

Benjamin Kunkel reviews Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto. sounds great http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/a-neglected-south-american-masterpiece

Such a beautiful review (also Coetzee writes an OK rev in the NYRB). Its great to see that Esther Allen is working on more translations and there is also a film of it to be released later this year apparently.

The Calligrams series...haven't bought anything from this however Francois Chang's study looks like a good primer.

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hmm, will prob get Red Shift, Platonov, Rosenkrantz (i LOVE dialogue) and the J.R. Ackerley (i read We Think The World Of You last year)

if anyone says nice things about any of the other books I am easily convinced :)

Haven't read it since my smoggy early twenties, but Growing Up Absurd brought some focus (no small feat at the time).

huh, can't believe I've never heard of this guy! added to the pile

Ordering Chocky and Human Comedy, plus Pinocchio for my kid. Was tempted by Red Shift and Growing Up Absurd as well...

if i weren't broke i would be all over the two walser volumes!

re: goodman, not published by nyrb but his series of novels published together as empire city is quite interesting and feeds into his philosophical writings.

Oh yeah, and he co-authored the groundbreaking Gestalt Therapy, which I thought useful (also in my twenties). He was also kind of Chomsky before (well-known) Chomsky, lefto-anarchist-wise, but with more range. This is weirdly "organized", but works more info into the eventual rehash:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Goodman

ha, as it happens i think the first book of goodman's i read included an attack on chomsky's linguistic theories!

said on said book: http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/03/specials/said-goodman.html

might get the Arlt, too. i'm a sucker for proto-Cortazar gods of Argentine lit with hyperbolic quotes by contemporary Lat Am writers (Bolano: "Let's say, modestly, that Arlt is Jesus Christ")

Yeah, that arlt is calling to me

man, with shipping i only save like 5$ vs going downtown to buy these brick-and-mortar >:(

I scored a 2nd hand copy of the Valle-Inclan today.

Agostino is fantastic.

Yeah, shipping for me was more than cost of books, so much for that

Agree re agostino

Both those Walsers, right?

Yes, get any and all walsers

the Calligrams series...haven't bought anything from this however Francois Chang's study looks like a good primer.

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Yeah, the Francois Cheng looks fantastic; think I'll grab that & Hawkes' A Little Primer of Tu Fu when the former's released next month. In a similar vein, New Directions reissued Eliot Weinberger's Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei late last year.

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The final two Henry Green novels we’ll be publishing feature original art by Amy Sillman. https://www.nyrb.com/collections/forthcoming (lotta goodies)

don't see it listed there, but they're also putting out leonora carrington's down below which hasn't been available since the eighties (as far as i know)

https://www.nyrb.com/products/typewriters-bombs-jellyfish

does anyone know if and if so where the essay on Delilo mentioned above was published? and if it's possible to find online? *bats eyelashes*

quick google says it's the one titled 'nothing will have taken place except the place,' and it may have started as a lecture and/or a traveling exhibition, but i don't see any publication info.

We’re pleased to announce that Ian Buruma has been named editor of The New York Review of Books https://t.co/ImtnNnW9Vt

— NY Review of Books (@nybooks) May 18, 2017

cool.

Ugh

Huh, I guess I just thought they'd carry on, spreading responsibilities among the junior editors, or promoting from within. This is a surprise. I like Buruma's articles, so color me cautiously optimistic.

I really should buy the nyrb DUD AVOCADO.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/26/dud-avocado-elaine-dundy-rereading

It's very good.

The Virago edition of The Dud Avocado was widely remaindered; think it lacks the new afterword by Dundy that's in the NYRB edition, but might otherwise be the cheaper option.

As I mentioned elsewhere, I read and enjoyed The Dud Av quite recently myself. It was interesting then going on to read Breakfast at Tiffany's for the first time - both books published in the same year, w/ superficially similar lead characters. The retrospective structure of B at T's perfectly suits Capote's melancholy cast of mind - but Dundy's book is funnier, more sympathetic to her heroine, and quite a lot less racist too (tho it is not wholly unblemished in that regard.)

End of 2017: Melville by Jean Giono, Chateubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, Tsvetaeva's Earthly Signs, maybe Hardwick's essays.

2018 is looking very strong:

Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries is going to be published next year.

Also, just as excitingly, we'll have Shamalov's Kolyma Tales. I've read the previous translation, hoping there will be more.

And poetry by Alvaro Mutis.

Anniversaries looks great; I'll probably buy it immediately and then take 8 years to get around to it

Are these different Kolyma Tales to the current Penguin edition? Or a whole new set to get spiritually destroyed by?

It's a different translator so bound to be some diffs. I asked NYRB via twitter with no reply.

I think that such greatness came out of so much pain is uplifting to me.

Wanted to read Anniversaries for a while so really happy to see this. Another year to wait but I see there is some available Johnson in English so might chase.

Chateubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Grave
Think this is the one by C. quoted by Proust (and noted by Vintage Deluxe translator as important influence on P.) in Finding Time Again---intriguing if high-flown quote, is the book good?

Well maybe not "influence", but (Penguin Modern Classic, not Vintage Deluxe) translator Ian Patterson says such passages in it seem to anticipate Proust's understanding of spontaneous memory.

Had an answer from NYRB:

We don't yet have a side-by-side comparison of the contents of the older translation with ours. We will be publishing two vols, and…

…according to the translator, when both publish, it will double the amount of Shalamov's work available in English. Stay tuned!

^^^^ good news!

Casey Affleck to star in adaptation of 'Stoner' https://t.co/nrTM4HOlDq

— L.A. Times Books (@latimesbooks) September 6, 2017

i would prefer someone less handsome but ok

On the dawning of the Buruma era at NYRB: https://nyti.ms/2xVDaQl

Once again recommending you guys track down video of MoMA interview in which Peter Handke gets annoyed at him.

Elizabeth Hardwick books on sale today in honor of her birthday

They released their 500th title a few months ago. I've definitely read over 50, must be close to 100 of these (although not in an NYRB edition). Maybe we should pick some all-time favourites and (for me) talk about what does and doesnt't work.

For next year: Victor Serge's Notebooks, Benjamin's Storyteller Essays sounds like an inspired collection, an edition of Vasko Popa's poetry, a reissue of Tucholvsky's wonderful Castle Gripsholm and Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad.

Of ppl I haven't read before Riberyo's The Word of the Speechless and Gabriele Tergit's Käsebier Takes Berlin look good!

Ooh, that's a good idea. I hadn't realized they'd been around for so long. Looking through their site, they've published so much more than I thought.

Some favourites would include Gillian Rose's Love's Work, Adolfo Bioy Casares' Invention of Morel, and Victor Serge's Memoirs of a Revolutionary.

I got the new translation of Berlin Alexanderplatz earlier this year and am looking forward to reading it. Also am intrigued by their upcoming publication of Uwe Johnson's epic, Anniversaries. Still haven't gotten around to either Stoner or Renata Adler. I've added Castle Gripsholm and Vasily Grossman on the to-read list, thanks for sharing those.

My dad, a huge Serge fan, had been in touch with NYRB about their plans to reprint The Long Dusk, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside.

now rumored on twitter that the nyrb has jian ghomeshi doing a cover story