Death in Venice by Werner Tübke

Frank Ruddigkeit – another master of the bizarre and the unsettling from the GDR

“Death in the Iller” by Werner Tübke

"Los sorias": la novela que casi roban en un andén y se volvió una obra de culto

The Uprising by Kliment Redko

"Y es este precisamente el gran triunfo de Alberto Laiseca en Los sorias: construir un mundo en el que todo encaja, pero, sobre todo, en el que todo encaja a la manera de Laiseca, que no es cualquier manera." www.revistadelibros.com/ilos-sorias-...

Past me was fully delusional about how much time I’d have over summer for reading. “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling” was delivered a couple weeks ago and “Schattenfroh” arrived today 😅

In the post: a big Danse Macabre book.

Thankful for all of the writers, translators, and readers who still believe in the possibilities of literature. Here is the SCHATTENFROH balloon from the Macy’s parade this morning. Slightly smaller than the real book, but what can you do?

Franciszek Starowieyski

Epic book haul from Brazil

According to Cărtărescu in this interview, the English translation of Part 2 of the Blinding Trilogy will be published in the spring of 2027. He says the translator is Gabi Reigh. m.youtube.com/watch?v=k6m8...

Csaba Rékassy

Etchings from the series The Road to Peace by Aref El Rayess

Happy publication day, Abans més que Encara by Miquel de Palol! amzn.to/3Xz2etg

This is how to begin a novel

Schattenfroh: The Book About Everything Including Itself www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClcT...

Vasily Kandinsky's Saint Georges

5-star review of Theodoros by Remo Verdickt in De Standaard

While we are both delighted and relieved to see Boualem Sansal pardoned and able to reunite with his family, he should never have been deprived of his freedom in the first place. Algeria must do better in protecting writers’ freedom of expression. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Pair of charmingly grumpy owls out on skates for winter fun. Have even brought along a snack! By Adriaen van de Venne, who died (alas!) on this day 1662.

Brazilian book haul

"Altamente recomendable para quien busque una experiencia en su totalidad, sus fragmentos pueden funcionar por si solos pero Schattenfroh es una pieza en su totalidad y tal como la vida, se entiende [...] en retrospectiva" www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

This week at JHU: AGHI in Translation! Read the excerpt from SCHATTENFROH by Michael Lentz, translated from the German by Max Lawton, then attend the events with Lawton and Deep Vellum publisher Will Evans on Nov. 12 & 13 in Baltimore. hopkinsreview.com/features/fro...

We have another 1-hour video review of Schattenfroh, from a fairly recent BookTube channel called Gravity's Random. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JVq...

I don't buy that many trinkets, but here's the bestiary I have amassed: Scarab from Luxor, windmill from Amsterdam, golem from Prague, longhorn skull from Texas, hippo from Alexandria, camel from Petra, lizard from Barcelona, mask from Venice.

There are angels hovering round: sacristy of S. Marco, Basilica of the Santa Casa, Loreto. Painted in 1477 by Melozzo da Forli, angel man, whose day is today.

Congrats to Laure Hinckel for winning Le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles 2025 for her corruscating translation of Mircea Cărtărescu's Theodoros! actualitte.com/article/1273...

De Roemeen Mircea #Cartarescu schrijft bizarre romans waarin hij onze verbeelding tot in het oneindige oprekt. Zo ook in #Theodoros: een duizelingwekkend weefsel van hallucinante verhalen over een "keizer van de oneindigheid". Voor mij de roman van het jaar: boekenkrant.com/recensie/the...

So, I’ve had it for a while, and my mind had been scattered and going through some dark places this week, I could just start reading this and writting down some thoughts here to get back some degree of literary competency

Sanctify Yourself Schattenfroh’s art of salvation by Michael Barron thepointmag.com/criticism/sa...

L’aile gauche Mircea Cărtărescu viduite.wordpress.com/2025/11/

King David playing the harp; angels sing to his music. By Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1628. It’s his day today.

What is Schattenfroh about? I think Chris has more or less nailed it.

Kadare haul

Ecstatic Ekphrasis: Chris Via reviews Schattenfroh youtu.be/2Wo5bkF5NkY

Next year: Swedish Theodoros www.albertbonniersforlag.se/bocker/29607...

New Palol in the wild!

Word of the day: nomophobia

Terminei LOS SORIAS Primeira vez que li ele foi em pdf no meu laptop, e eu sequer sabia espanhol como sei agora. O encantamento da loucura do Laiseca sobrepujou a precariedade da situação. Só agora que li ele em livro-livro, na edição da Barrett Melhor experiência literária da minha vida

Toyen (Marie Čermínová)

Join us for a discussion of Michael Lentz's 1001 page novel Schattenfroh with translator Max Lawton and author Mauro Javier Cardenas Date and time Thursday, October 30 · 7 - 9pm PDT www.eventbrite.com/e/schattenfr...

“Having just finished this mesmerizing book, I am schattered. Emotionally, intellectually, spiritually. But what a fantastic reading experience!” www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Ken Currie

Saturday movie. As if Bruegel and Rembrandt had teamed up to make a film.

In the post: one-volume Heaney

Lizzy Ansingh

shout out to the major English-lang. newspaper that wanted me to write something about Krasznahorkai but ghosted me when I said I would need to be paid something

Great documentary about Umberto Eco showing some of the old books he used when writing The Island of the Day Before. m.youtube.com/watch?v=hN8c...