shiny new books! 📚🔥

used books from Revolving Books and Forked Road Press. Also an upcoming release from @twolinespress.com, a translation of interconnected stories from Polish, looks great. 📚✨

sending out another round of these today--it's an absolutely gorgeous book and I'd love to get it in the hands of anyone who's interested 🖤

recent book purchases of the gorgeous hardcover box set of Parable of the Sower/the Talents by Octavia E. Butler and the new paperback of Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai. Satoko Kizaki is a Japanese writer that is new to me, I found these online 📚✨

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books from recent trip to the library, a few of these are new to me 📚

three books I somehow missed in my post on books I read in 2025, I highly recommend them. The other three are books I also read last year that just solidified these writers as all time favorite, among others. 📚✨

insanely good book mail this past weekend from some of my faves Barbed Wyre Books, Idle Hands Books, Forked Road Press, and @50wattsbooks.bsky.social ! 📚✨

Books Read 2026 📚 1) The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1948). NYRB Classics, 2019

I found these gems on Revolving Books, the website has a broad selection of used books 📚✨

book mail from Bookstore Bunny at Etsy, Raymond Roussel is a writer I have yet to read. The other book is from Czech writer Jaroslav Seifert, Nobel Prize in Literature📚

ICYMI My first review of 2026 is one of the last books I finished in 2025. Originally intended for #GermanLitMonth but life got in the way. I’m often out of step with the times: An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence by Dana Grigorcea roughghosts.com/2026/01/05/i...

So begins the Shigeru Mizuki Thread! I read through all of Showa before the end of the year but didn’t have time to write up my thoughts… and have been dragging my heels on reading Hitler for obvious reasons lol… 🧵

An excellent thread on one of the most important works to ever be done in the comic book medium, SHOWA: A HISTORY OF JAPAN. I don't care who you are, you will be a better person for having read this. And a more informed person, which is perhaps the same thing.

Have an absolute ton of incredible, historically important manga at my finger tips… I just don’t know where to begin hahahah! Expect some mini reviews of all of this over the coming days! @dandq.bsky.social

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the top 12 books I read in 2025 and most of the other books I read as well. Read a few writers that were new to me and more from ones that are favorites. All in all, a superb year of reading 📚✨

books read in December, highlight is Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban. I am still thinking on Wuthering Heights, gothic psychological horror. I still have Buddha vol. 5-8 by Osamu Tezuka to read, one of his best works. 📚✨

👀 update on Susan Bernofsky’s translation of The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

A literary universal solvent, or a novel that’s “so old-white-man, I can’t”? For @theobserveruk.bsky.social I wrote about the resurgence of interest in William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow, with thanks to David Nicholls, Richard Ford, @ericawgnr.bsky.social and more:

a recent used books haul, a few of them were on my wishlist 📚✨

new books recently bought, the Roth is one I have wanted to read for awhile.

ICYMI, the NBCC longlist for criticism.

Our new episode is out! We talk about our most anticipated books of 2026 and there are some great ones on the way!

The NBCC longlist for poetry is out!

Am I about to go see Carol at the Davis despite having seen it in a theater just 2 years ago? Yes, yes, I am. A chance to sink into the physicality of the material culture of the early 1950s that Haynes and his team create is not something I’ll ever pass up.

some nice used books I recently found online, I cannot resist a Eridanos Library edition or Kate Zambreno. James Purdy and Joyce Cary are writers I have wanted to read. 📚✨

some awesome book mail from Bookstore Bunny on Etsy, the Anais Nin is a paperback published in 1948. Love Novel is one I have wanted to read and I have not read that Sontag before📚✨

new books I recently bought 📚

book mail from Revolving Books who always has a terrific selection 📚

books read in November, the highlights were Mourning the Breast by Xi Xi and the Lynne Tillman, the first time reading her and Chris Kraus also. The manga Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo is classic 80’s SF, definitely worth reading. 📚✨

inspired by post on Instagram, here are 12 books I think deserve more attention📚✨

New releases from @deepvellum.bsky.social and comics publisher @livingtheline.bsky.social, a 1980’s horror manga 📚✨

Cecily Parks examines the ceremony and intimacy of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Counting-Out Rhyme.”

All biographies should contain an Astral Chart.

new books!

Many thanks to the New York Public Library for ordering seven (7!) sets of the new US edition of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage, available now from @asterismbooks.bsky.social. US modernist scholars: ask your school's library to order a set, too!

Our conversation about Jacqueline Harpman's I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN is now available for your listening pleasure! onebrightbook.com/2025/11/18/e...

pretty great book mail from MadisonPaperbacks on Etsty and Idle Hands Books on instagram 📚✨

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (1972), tr. by William Weaver

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new books: the third book in On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, out 11/18 from New Directions. The second book is also translated fiction from the Dutch from Granta. 📚

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love this book mail from @twolinespress.com

#NYRBWomen25 Tomorrow, we start MOURNING A BREAST by Xi Xi (tr. Jennifer Feeley). “…a genre-bending & stream-of-consciousness meditation that is not an act of mourning so much as an expression of curiosity.” Here’s our page guide. clereviewofbooks.com/xi-xi-mourni...

I found this recently and remembered I got it from my grandmother’s house. I love the cover and the other books in the series list are classics. I have seen that Kay Boyle once online for a lot of money. 📚

books read in October, a really good month of reading! My favorites are A Distant Mirror and Invisible Cities but these are all standouts. 📚✨

perfect Halloween book mail from Revolving Books! I could not resist the cover of Ryder and Marie-Claire Blais is a writer I have wanted to read. The Sarton was a freebie and a cute bookmark too📚

"We’re following our hearts and minds...finding a balance so we don’t inadvertently publish titles that are too similar.” Out now: @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @allisonwoodnutt.bsky.social of Smith & Taylor Classics at @unnamedpress.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/31/i...