Wow! The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature has been awarded to the Hungarian master László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” @nobelprize.bsky.social

I can report that Michael Lentz’s Schattenfroh gets REALLY good at about the 149p mark. I still have lots to traverse, but this book and translation is superb. @deepvellum.bsky.social

The landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers. The new Princeton Classics edition of Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry is now available! Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Latest book pickup: The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch. There’s just something about Austrian writers and their work that I enjoy so much.

I’ve been supplementing my #translatedfiction reads lately with some amazing poetry. Such as Olav H. Hague’s late works, and Alice Notley’s epic, The Decent Of Alette (1992). 🚇☠️

“In these four years that have gone by, people have said all manner of things about The Hive…It hurts when you realize that people still think of literature as a form of entertainment, like the violin, which never does anyone any harm.”-Camilo José Cela, preface to 2nd ed. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Do we still do this, here?! 🙏😀 Anyhow, here’s my @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social Summer Sale choices! (Also just noticed the third part - 1815-30, of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, arrives this winter).

📢 📢 THE SITEWIDE SUMMER SALE IS ON 📢 📢 Buy 2 books and save 20% 3 books and save 30% 4 or more books and save 40%

Students in Olin’s “Biomimicry” course are learning how drawing insights from nature can help them become better and more sustainable designers & engineers. 🪼🪲 Read about the course that's integrating #biology, #design, & #engineering: www.olin.edu/articles/sto... #OlinCollege

The Coming Spring (1925), a work of #fiction by the magnificent, though little known in the English-speaking world, novelist who captured Polish life even as it was changing. Trs. by Bill Johnston. 📙 More about Stefan Żeromski from @nehgov.bsky.social: www.neh.gov/humanities/2... #BookSky

Not sure why I waited so long to finish Karl Ove Knausgaard’s #MyStruggle. I blew through books 1-5, but am only just now getting to the final installment and it’s amazing. Some of the best #writing I’ve read - like this piece on pg. 404 about his deceased father. 🤯 #BookSky #NorwegianLiterature

Students working in Olin’s Pl(ai) Lab, run by @apcuad.bsky.social, assistant professor of computer science, are collaborating with The Center at the Heights, a senior citizen center in Needham, MA, on pioneering #AI technological innovations. 📲 Learn more: www.olin.edu/articles/sto... #CS #AR

The publisher, @seagullbooks.bsky.social, never fails to make beautiful-looking books. This hardcover of The World Machine by Paolo Volponi is no exception!

Exciting book delivery this week. And how about this amazing line from Dunya Mikhail’s forward to Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams: “Through these dreams that slip through the cracks of history to resurface in the breaths of the night…”🔥 @princetonupress.bsky.social

Need inspiration for acts of resistance? Check out Mitch Abidor's review of Peter Weiss's novel "The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 3": "a monument to . . . the possibilities of art and its role in resisting evil." buff.ly/OBowGCa

My first @galleybeggars.bsky.social. ALL MY PRECIOUS MADNESS by @markbowles.bsky.social

I just finished the best 3-book cycle ever. With the completion of Cǎrtǎrescu’s Solenoid this week, 2666 before it, and The Flanders Road kicking off this months-long #reading journey, I can safely say - for me - it’s been the best 3-book series ever. www.instagram.com/p/DGngiSeg3O... #BookSky

Looking forward to this one! Summer of Fire and Blood - The German Peasants’ War by historian, Lyndal Roper. Also, just came across this podcast episode from Historically Thinking featuring Prof. Roper as she discusses her new book. historicallythinking.org/episode-395-... #germanhistory #books

My 1st CEU Press Classics, just arrived: The Coming Spring (trs. by Bill Johnston), Stefan Zeromski’s last novel, tells the story of Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who finds himself in Baku, Azerbaijan, then a predominantly Armenian city, as the Russian Revolution breaks out. #books

Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams, Translated by Damion Searls and out in April from @princetonupress.bsky.social - has a cover (at least it’s the first time I’m seeing it)! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #booksky

Bolaño Amulet vibes.🪬 First American hardcover edition. (2007).

Happy to have this hardcover from @stmartinspress.bsky.social arrive today. Cold Crematorium - Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz. A haunting, lost #memoir by József Debreczeni (trs. by Paul Olchváry / forward by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social). Info: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Bolaño Amulet vibes.🪬 First American hardcover edition. (2007).

Ever find a once greatly anticipated, unread book, buried behind a stack on your #bookshelf that you’ve completely forgotten about? www.instagram.com/p/DEpl8kiR85... @princetonupress.bsky.social

Time’s Echo: Music, Memory and the Second World War by Jeremy Echler is a #book I’m looking forward to reading this season. A “beautiful meditation on the dark shadows that compelled, propelled and ultimately haunted classical music in Europe during and after WWII.” www.instagram.com/p/DD4g1xDRQk...

My review of Jacqueline Harpman's I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN has been a popular post on my blog this year garnering the most views. It's a beautifully written, haunting novel exploring themes of isolation, survival, and the meaning of freedom. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2023/06/27/i...

“In his early novella, “Monsieur Teste,” the great French poet created an alter ego even more aloof and elusive than he was.” A review of Paul Valéry’s “Monsieur Teste,” recently published by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, via @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“My mind had no room left for blue skies mirrored in the springtime pond,” so, naturally, I started Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu’s SOLENOID, translated by Sean Cotter, last night. #booksky

“Marguerite Young is a poet whose prose, the longer it is looked at and listened to, becomes #poetry also,” writes Mark Van Doren in the intro (originally published with 1966 reprint ) to this #DalkeyArchive major release, Angel in the Forest by Young. Will be reading soon. #Solenoid I think, next.

“The hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evil.”Can’t wait for this @princetonupress.bsky.social release in the spring: The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation by Charlotte Beradt. Zadie Smith reviews for the @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The excellent, @nupress.bsky.social winter sale is now live thru Dec. 15! So many great books, w/ my personal favs/recommended series including: European Classics; Northwestern World Classics, and possibly the very best series, Writings from an Unbound Europe! nupress.northwestern.edu

This book is so great. Bate is exploring modern Western man’s alienation from nature (using lit from many of the Romantics to support his arguments) and exploring why poetry continues to matter as we enter (book was pub. in 2000) a new millennium that’ll be ruled by technology. A+

Sandorf Passage is thankful for all the early readers of this book, which Georgi Gospodinov calls “a brilliant and polyphonic novel.” There are a few ARCs left. Get in touch if you’d like a copy.

An immediate jump in the tbr line. Out in January from @buzzpoole.bsky.social & Sandorf Passage, THE CASE OF CEM by Vera Mutafchieva (trs. by Angela Rodel). Preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Josh is reading this and really enjoying it! The structuring the novel as a collection of oral testimonies is a great demonstration/reminder that history is always a story. Maybe preorder it from your fav indie bookstore. www.portersquarebooks.com/book/9789533...

This is an excellent essay. As a fellow literature lover - especially of the ‘Cosmic Realists’ whose “gaze slides effortlessly into the infinite,” I found myself taking many notes. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... @thebookerprizes.bsky.social

Ready to settle down to start my winter epic. I’ve narrowed it down to two unread books from my shelves. Both from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. Help, which should it be??

Was dusting the ‘ole bookcases recently and came across my small collection of ‘The Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading’ books. I forgot how great these editions were! (pub. 2004, 2006). Design, intros, paper - all on point. I wonder if they still add to this series!

In “The Love of Singular Men” (pub. by New Directions,) Victor Heringer scrambles genres—tragic romance, pulpy noir, family drama—to plumb the false solace that narrative promises,” writes Charlie Lee in the always excellent, New York Review of Books. Great review! 👉 www.nybooks.com/articles/202...