End of Year Special Part 5

Beyond The Zero

Emmett Stinson

• 2023 Highlights

Wall - Jen Craig

Mircea Cărtărescu - Solenoid

Domenico Starnone - The House on Via Gemito

Vertigo - Amanda Lorry

Denis Johnson - Train Dreams

Dag Solstad - Novel 11 book 18

2024

A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley

Elfriede Jelinek - Children of the Dead

Alina Stefanescu

Andrei Platinov - Chevengur

Avner, Adam, Sarah

Zachery Solomon - A Brutal Design

Ravel: A Novel - Jean Echenoz

2666 - Roberto Bolaño

Hopscotch - Cortazar

The Instructions - Adam Levin

Past Continuous - Yaakov Shabtai

Gretel and the Great War: A Novel - Adam Ehrlich Sachs

The Material - Camille Bordas

Apastoral - Lee D Thomson

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma - Claire Dederer

Upcountry - Chin-Sun Lee

No One to Come Looking For You - Sam Lipsyte

Stella Maris and the Passenger - McCarthy

The New Naturals - Gabriel Bump

Winter Quarters: A Novel of Argentina - Osvaldo Soriano

Tomas Nevinson - Marias

The World According to Garp - John Irving

Domenico Starnone - Trick

2024

Christian TeBordo - We Go Liquid,

The Discord Regression

Jesse Ball- The Repeat Room

Jill Ciment - Consent

James - Percival Everett

Bristol Vaudrin - Afterward

Ben Tanzer - The Missing

Steve Almond - Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow

Sara Lipman and Seth Rogoff - Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible

Seth W.A.S.T.E Mailing List and Me

Best of 2023

Aannex - Blake Butler

A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley

Dolly City - Orly Castel-Bloom

Thomas the Obscure - Maurice Blanchot

Heart Crane - White Buildings

Saint Sebastian’s Abyss - Mark Haber

Wittgestein’s Mistress - Markson

Ada - Nabokov

Looking forward to :

Blue Lard and Red Pyramid - Vladimir Sorokin

New Mark Haber novel

Elfriede Jelinek - Children of the Dead

My Highlights of 2023

- Bret Eastern Ellis - The Shards

The new Cormac McCarty books

Morning Star - Knausgard

Roar by Bruce Wagner and Also The Marvel Universe.

Lee Klein’s Chaotic Good

Nefando by Monica Ojeda

Devil of the provinces by Juan Cardenas

Ava Anna Ada by Ali smith (out in Jan)

Malina

Water Statues

David Keenan’s England’s Hidden Reverse

Australian highlights Paul Delgarno’s a country of eternal light, Emmett’s book on Murnane and Late by Michael Fitzgerald.

Seth Rogoff’s book The Kirshbaum lectures, The two most recent Manchette books were great, Bariloche by Andres Neuman, The Kafka Diaries translated by Ross Benjamin, Voyager by Nona Fernandez, Paul Lynch Prophet Song.

Book of the year Man Eating Typewriter by Richard Milward

Daybook by Nathan Knapp
Forthcoming on April 26, 2024 Splice

In the Suavity of the Rock
by Greg Gerke
Forthcoming on June 28, 2024

Knausgaard’s debut novel - Archipelago in November - Out of the world

The Goldilocks Variations- Coover Deep Vellum November

Melvil Rodrigo Fresan – Open Letter July

Fog & Car

by Eugene Lim

Published by: Coffee House Press July

The Stain

by Rikki Ducornet

Published by: Deep Vellum Publishing

Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press July

Commission of Tears

Portuguese Literature

by Antonio Lobo Antunes – APRIL

Sensitive Anatomy and Once upon Argentina April

by Andrés Neuman Open Letter

The Rachel Condition March

by Nicholas Rombles

Published by: CLASH Books

The Dark Side of Skin

by Jeferson Tenório – Charco Feb

Cesaria - by Hanna Nordenhok from Heloise

American Abductions

by Mauro Javier Cardenas

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Bad Foundations

by Brian Allen Carr

Published by: CLASH Books – Jan

Mahler Erasures by John Kinsella

Verdigris

by Michele Mari

Translated by Brian Robert Moore

Book of Ayn by Lexi Freiman -

Thomas kendall - HOW I KILLED THE UNIVERSAL MAN

David Leo Rice – The Berlin Wall

Jenny Croft The Extinction of Irena Rey - Feb

Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel

Yoko Tawada

Ten - Juan Emar

And The Besieged City - Clarice Lispector

Way Far Away

by Evelio Rosero

Ed Park - Same Bed Different Dreams

Prey for the Shadow by Javier Cercas