archipelago books

Oh, this was in the newsletter they sent out today:
"To celebrate our website launch, we are offering a special 50% off coupon for today only. Act quickly! It expires tomorrow, July 9. This coupon is valid for your whole purchase, so buy as many books as your shelves can bear. Simply type in LAUNCH2013 at checkout."

Scandinavia doesn’t have a tradition of tell-all memoirs, but it does have diarists. Olav H. Hauge, the Norwegian poet, wrote a three-thousand-page diary which was published after his death, when you were about twenty-six. Did you have a strong reaction to it?

Yes, I did. I read it very intensely over a short period of time, during a kind of crisis in my life. I was obsessed with it. And it was very strange because he wrote his diaries from 1916, or something, until 1990, so it covers his whole life. And he was basically only on his farm. Nothing happens in his life at all. And he really writes about nothing. Nothing is going on there except for him thinking, and harvesting apples.

sounds really good to me!

I just went to their website, ordered 3 paperbacks of poetry and only paid $18.40, including shipping. Yippee!

free shipping = $6.80 heine, sweet

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/dec/05/zadie-smith-man-vs-corpse/

on knausgaard (and tao lin)

by zadie smith!

Thanks flopson! Somehow she has a gift for non-fiction tangents (the Joni Mitchell meltdown maybe most notoriously, but even there the vision of her vision somehow doesn't burn my corneas). I want to check her new collection of essays too ("Joy" is fave so far).

Lenz
by Georg Büchner
trans. from German
by Richard Sieburth

Interview and reading by Sieburth and its a fantastic broadcast! I read the first para of Lenz alongside Reddick's version for Penguin and I felt it held up well. Love the idea of the edition -- to centre this as THE piece of prose for that particular time -- although in the intro of the Penguin its very much acknowledged that no one was writing like this in 1835. Still, would be tempted to pick this up 2nd hand.

Things I want to pick up are Hyperion, Novalis, maybe Pla although I'll give him a go on NYRB first.

btw if you go ctrl + "archipelago" there is a ton of good stuff to try out.

We've just made 30 of our ebooks free on our website. Just go to the links in this post and select "ebook" or "epub" and check out and you'll be good to go! https://t.co/XJ3bdQ2Pkj

— Archipelago Books (@archipelagobks) March 20, 2020

Thank you comrade!

(I found it via James Morrison's twitter btw..)

Forgot there was an archipelago thread!