Note from the editor: This Halloween, we asked you to review your scariest moments in books, with the aim of getting at just what of literature–perhaps even art in general–sticks with…
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Nocilla Dream by Agustín Fernández Mallo Translated by Thomas Bunstead Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2015 200 pages – Fitzcarraldo / Amazon 1 AGUSTÍN FERNÁNDEZ MALLO: The film we saw recounts a…
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Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, edited by Barbara Cassin Translation edited by Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, and Michael Wood Princeton University Press, 2014 1344 pages – Princeton / Amazon Strictly…
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My Feelings by Nick Flynn Graywolf Press, June 2015 96 pages – Graywolf / Amazon It takes guts, and/or a lot of irony, to title a book of poetry My Feelings,…
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Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors Amazon Publishing, 2015 270 pages – Amazon Process—as in “Could you tell us a bit about your writing process, please?”—is one of…
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Last week will go down as the week I started sending myself text messages. Not notes in an emergency, just language at risk of becoming unmoored because its urgency could…