The End of Oulipo? The End of Oulipo? My book (co-authored with Lauren Elkin), published by Zero Books. Available everywhere. Order it from Amazon, or find it in bookstores nationwide. 
Lady Chatterley’s Brother Lady Chatterley's Brother. The first ebook in the new TQC Long Essays series,  called “an exciting new project” by Chad Post of Open Letter and Three Percent. Why can't Nicholson Baker write about sex? And why can Javier Marias? We investigate why porn is a dead end, and why seduction paves the way for the sex writing of the future. Read an excerpt.
Available now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and direct from this site:
Translate This Book! Ever wonder what English is missing? Called "a fascinating  read" by The New Yorker, Translate This Book! brings together over 40 of the top translators, publishers, and authors to tell us what books need to be published in English. Get it on Kindle.
|
Shop though these links = Support this site
|
Spring Pledge Week
All this week I’m going to be asking anyone who wants to donate to this site and to The Quarterly Conversation to do so.
Basically, if you like and value what you get here and at TQC, then break me off a little cash, if you want to, and if it’s compatible with your current finances.
To be clear, it’s a privilege to be able to do what I do both with this site and with TQC, and the level of donations I receive is in no way proportional to the futures of these sites.
That said, I derive a significant amount of my income from freelancing, and time spent here is time not spent hustling up some more work. Blogging probably doesn’t look like the hardest thing in the world, but doing a good job of it takes a fair amount of time and effort.
So if you want to donate, go for it.
And if you can’t or don’t feel like donating, if you shop on Amazon through my links I’ll get a kickback.
You Might Also Like:
More from Conversational Reading: - Fall Donation Week This week I'm asking anyone who wants to donate to this site and/or The Quarterly Conversation to do so. . . . continue reading, and...
- Your Face This Spring in One Week A reminder for everyone that we’ll be starting our epic, multi-month reading of Javier Marias’ Your Face Tomorrow trilogy in a little over a week,...
- Spring Big Read Okay, for those of you who were fans of Your Face This Spring and The Last Samurai Fall Read--or if you weren't but still want...
- Open Letter Spring Catalog Over at Three Percent, Chad Post is running down the titles in Open Letter’s spring catalog. The second of these is the hilarious story of...
- Spring Big Read: The Poll So I’m going to do a spring big read here on Conversational Reading, probably to start some time in early March. This week, we’re going...
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Leave a Reply
|
Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
Creatively structured, well-executed epic novel of rural South Africa from 1950 - 2000. Takes on a lot and lives up to it magnificently. Highly recommended.
A book that's an interview about the book you're supposedly holding in your hands. Creative, potent, and full of life. Just what metafiction should be. Read my post on it.
|
Marketing the Bolano
Graphs, Maps, Trees
The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
You Say