Probably my top little free library pickup

Heading into the weekend like

Not really a SF reader, but some folks keep banging on about these

Book mail today influenced by @beyondthezero.bsky.social I’m intrigued by this Serena project and Katie Whittemore’s translations. Funny enough, I might not have picked this up if it wasn’t for the Atillas. @openletterbooks.bsky.social

What’s your favorite translation of Dante?

What’s your favorite translation of Dante?

The question isn’t isn’t should, it’s when

Let’s get it

Tempting me to do a thing

Complete refresh of the little free library 📚 today; fostering the local #brodernist scene

Sometimes it’s best not to translate the title

🚨🚨 preorders are now available for these two. 🤤

Alejandra

Woke up, saw the news, preordered, closed my laptop

Reprint from Baobab Press

Interesting

Reading age 3 years & up

You want to know what to read? Problem solved

My job now is to forget I preordered the new Helen DeWitt book

I’m not Matilde, but I’ll take it

Happening soon, I will be unlearning how to read

I hate to be the one to say it, but if you can’t vibe with the Peter Criss Jazz, you must be dead

Why not

Invisible Starfall Books is one dude living in Austria with a sweet little print-on-demand operation going

Had to add one more to the Melville Project

Finished Roubaud’s The Great Fire of London today. In honor, I fill the rest of this post: with silence . .

Not sure whether to foster new brodernists via my little free library or keep a third edition, one for each son.

Those new directions

Satisfying mail day

Expansion pack

A little reading project shaping up

The reading project I need right now. Volume III arrived today.

This beautiful object arrived today. Thank you to Katie Whittemore (translator) and @open_letter for bringing this book into English

And if you don’t know, now you know

This just in

And now for something completely different

“That a man in himself is a city, beginning, seeking, achieving and concluding his life in ways which the various aspects of a city may embody.” William Carlos Williams

Gass on what makes a good book good, from A TEMPLE OF TEXTS

Snagged at the local

Texas to Indianapolis to DC @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social

Reading plan for 2025

My 2024 reading year. Number of books was way down (38) but the quality was fairly high.

“You turn to Lutz for the same reason you turn to certain strains of black metal: to revel in a single style exploded to its absolute, sense-fraying limits.” -Daniel Kolitz on Garielle Lutz’s BACKWARDNESS

No intro, no blurbs, no epigraphs. Your only paratexts: A title (Massive), an author (John Trefry), and a publisher, Inside the Castle. @incastellated.bsky.social Inside these covers you encounter the ragged edges of formal innovation.

Iykyk. The Bolaño industrial complex keeps producing.

Clocking in at 1,356 pages: Alberto Laiseca’s LOS SORIAS. No dj; an absolutely gorgeous edition from Editorial Barrett.

During the pandemic, I played Lynch’s Weather Report for my kids. At first they were like: Ok, weird. Next, annoyed. Then, furious. Finally, my middle son sent me a video of him saying: “And if yooooooouuu can believe it…” Adding to the chorus. “Fix your hearts or die.” RIP David Lynch.

We shall see

Mood. #bookmail

Slowly admitting to myself I’ll never own the multi-volume boxed first edition. At least I’ll read some of it. #RURD