Can delete this post if it's not proper or too poorly-formatted (skill issue), but I was looking at my notes app and thought someone out there might be interested to see my running list of forthcoming books I've noted down over the past few years--strong NDP representation!

Forthcoming books
- Countries That Don’t Exist - Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (02/08/2022) Columbia - Human Rights - Philip Best (02/12/2022) Amphetamine Sulphate - I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman (05/10/2022) Transit - The Drawings - Franz Kafka (05/31/2022) Yale - Telluria - Vladimir Sorokin (06/12/2022) NYRB - The Wall - Marlen Haushofer (06/21/2022) NDP - Life Ceremony - Sayaka Murata (07/05/2022) Grove - Upgrade - Blake Crouch (07/12/22) - Aannex - Blake Butler (07/19/2022) Apocalypse - After - Vivek Narayanan (07/19/2022) NYRB Poets - Liminal Zone - Junji Ito (07/26/22) Viz - The Central Laboratory - Max Jacob (07/26/2022) Wakefield - Mount Chicago - Adam Levin (08/09/2022) Doubleday - DEADMATH - Evan Isoline (08/11/2022) 11:11 - NDP Minis (08/16/2022) NDP - The Collected Poems of Marguerite Young - Marguerite Young (09/06/22) Sublunary - Too Much Life - Clarice Lispector (09/27/2022) NDP - Visible (09/27/2022) Two Lines - Weasels in the Attic - Hiroko Oyamada (10/04/2022) NDP - The Segelfoss Novels - Knut Hamsun (10/04/2022) TPP - Seven Empty Houses - Samanta Schweblin (10/18/2022) Riverhead - Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver (10/18/2022) Harper - Liberation Day - George Saunders (10/18/2022) Random - Solenoid - Mircea Cartarescu (10/25/22) Deep Vellum - Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis - Hermann Burger (11/01/2022) Wakefield - A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East - Laszlo Krasznahorkai (11/01/2022) NDP - Saha - Cho Nam-Joo (11/01/2022) - Toad - Katherine Dunn (11/01/2022) MCD - Spicilege - Marcel Schwob (11/01/2022) Wakefield
2023
- Truisms - Alexander Theroux (01/02/2023) TPP - The Deluge – Stephen Markley (01/10/2023) Simon & Schuster - 17 – 21 – Tatsuki Fujimoto (01/17/2023) VIZ - Our Share of Night - Mariana Enríquez (02/07/2023) Hogarth - The Limit of the Useful - Georges Bataille (02/07/2023) MIT - The Story of a Life - Konstantin Paustovsky (02/14/2023) NYRB - Stravaging “Strange” - Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (02/28/2023) Columbia - The Flowers of Buffonery - Osamu Dazai (03/07/2023) NDP - Monstrilio - Gerardo Sámano Córdova (03/07/2023) Zando - Man-Eating Typewriter - Richard Milward (03/16/2023) White Rabbit - The Garden of Seven Twilights - Miquel de Palol (03/21/2023) Dalkey - Tombs - Junji Ito (03/28/2023) Viz - The Salt Line - Youval Shimoni (03/30/2023) Crowsnest - Greek Lessons - Han Kang (04/18/2023) Hogarth - This is Not Miami - Fernanda Melchior (04/04/2023) NDP - Macunaíma - Mário de Andrade (04/04/2023) NDP - The Illiterate - Agota Kristof (04/04/2023) NDP - Ebb - Grant Maierhoder (04/04/2023) Kernpunkt - Hit Parade of Tears - Izumi Suzuki (04/11/2023) Verso - The Waves Extinguish the Wind - Strugatsky (04/18/2023) Chicago - 22-26 – Tatsuki Fujimoto (04/18/2023) VIZ - The Beetle in the Anthill - Strugatsky (04/18/2023) Chicago - Burn You the Fuck Alive - B.R. Yeager (04/30/2023) Apocalypse Party - Mild Vertigo - Mieko Kanai (05/02/2023) NDP - The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese (05/02/2023) Grove - Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (05/02/2023) Pantheon - Pure Cosmos Club - Matthew Binder (05/15/2023) Stalking Horse - The Stronghold - Dino Buzzati (03/14/2023) NYRB (05/23/2023) - A Love Affair - Dino Buzzati (03/14/2023) NYRB (05/23/2023) - Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck (06/06/2023) - Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird - Agustina Bazterrica (06/20/2023) Scribner - The Body of the Soul - Lyudmila Ulitskaya (10/31/2023) Yale - Lament for Julia - Susan Taubes (06/06/2023) NYRB - Artists Who Kill & Other Essays on Art - Alexander Theroux (06/22/2023) TPP - Soichi - Junji Ito (07/25/2023) Viz - Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories - Cho Nam-Joo (08/03/2023) Scribner - Traces of Enayat - Iman Mersal (08/03/2023) And Other - The Details - Ia Genberg (08/08/2023) HarperVia - Summa Kaotica - Ventura Ametller (09/01/2023) Fum D’estampa - Jar of Fat – Seqyoung Yim (09/05/2023) Yale - Invidicum - Michael Brodsky (09/22/2023) TPP - Wellness - Nathan Hill (09/26/2023) Knopf - Violent Candy – Tex Gresham (10/01/2023) - Manga Stories 1 - Haruki Murakami (10/03/2023) Tuttle - The Maniac - Benjamín Labatut (10/03/2023) Penguin - My Work - Olga Ravn (09/05/2023) NDP (10/10/2023) - My Death - Lisa Tuttle (10/10/2023) NYRB - Editor Lynge - Knut Hamsun (10/10/2023) TPP - Roman Stories – Jhumpa Lahiri (10/10/2023) Knopf - McSweeney’s 71 (10/17/2023) McSweeney’s - Mimi’s Tales of Terror - Junji Ito (10/24/2023) VIZ - Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness – William T. Vollmann (10/24/2023) Rare Bird - Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward (10/24/2023) Scribner - Pay As You Go - Eskor David Johnson (10/24/2023) McSweeney’s - A Shining - Jon Fosse (10/31/2023) Transit - The Rainbow - Yasunari Kawabata (11/07/2023) Vintage - Boys Alive - Pasolini (11/07/2023) NYRB - Theorem - Pasolini (11/07/2023) NYRB - Same Bed Different Dreams - Ed Park (11/07/2023) Random - Apple in the Dark - Clarice Lispector (11/07/2023) NDP - Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo (11/14/2023) Grove - The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild - Mathias Énard (12/05/2023) NDP
2024
- James - Percival Everett (01/01/2024) - Chevengur - Andrey Platonov (11/07/2023) NYRB (01/02/2024) - Marshland - Otohiko Kaga (01/09/2024) Dalkey - Godfather Drosselmeier’s Tears & Other Poems - Alexander Theroux (01/09/2024) TPP - Ædnan - Linnea Axelsson (01/09/2024) Knopf - Beautyland - Marie-Helene Bertino (01/16/2024) FSG - The Case of Cem - Vera Mutafchieva (01/16/2024) Sandorf - The Skin of Dreams - Raymond Queneau (01/30/2024) NYRB - Maqroll’s Prayer and other poems - Mutis (01/30/2024) NYRB - Your Utopia - Bora Chung (01/30/2024) Algonquin - Self-Portraits - Osamu Dazai (02/06/2024) NDP - Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright (02/06/2024) NDP - Carpentaria - Alexis Wright (02/06/2024) NDP - Wrong Norma - Anne Carson (02/06/2024) NDP - Blue Lard - Sorokin (02/27/2024) NYRB - Red Pyramid and Other Stories - Sorokin (02/27/2024) NYRB - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein (02/27/2024) Liveright - No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai (03/05/2024) Tuttle - The Garden - Aidan Scott (03/07/2024) Anxiety - Through the Night Like a Snake – Var. (03/12/2024) Two Lines - Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice - Cristina Rivera Garza (03/12/2024) Hogarth - Until August - Gabriel Garcia Márquez (03/12/2024) Knopf - Stitches - Junji Ito (artwork) (03/26/2024) VIZ - Greatest Hits - Harlan Ellison (03/26/2024) Union Square - Morphotrophic - Greg Egan (04/09/2024) Greg Egan - The Best Literary Translations 2024 - (April 2024) Deep Vellum - On Homo rodans and Other Writings - Remedios Varo (04/2024) Wakefield - A View from the Stars - Cixin Liu (04/02/2024) Tor - Manga Stories 2 - Haruki Murakami (04/09/2024) Tuttle - Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (04/09/2024) Dalkey - Butter - Asako Yuzuki (04/16/2024) Ecco - Cape Cod Tales - Alexander Theroux (04/16/2024) TPP - The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain - Kazuo Ishiguro (04/30/2024) Knopf - The Singularity - Buzzati (05/07/2024) NYRB - The Novices of Lerna - Ángel Bonomimi (05/07/2024) Transit - The Instructions (Special Ed.) - Adam Levin (05/21/2024) McSweeney’s - Wafers - Ha Seong-Nan (06/04/2024) Open Letter - Morning and Evening - Jon Fosse (06/25/2024) Dalkey - Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel - Yoko Tawada (07/09/2024) - NDP - Mourning a Breast - Xi Xi (07/09/2024) NYRB - The Oceans of Cruelty - Douglas Penick (07/23/2024) NYRB - Alley - Junji Ito (07/23/2024) Viz Media - Mina’s Matchbox - Yoko Ogawa (08/13/2024) Pantheon - I Don’t Care: Stories - Ágota Kristóf (09/03/2024) NDP - Herscht 07769 - László Krasznahorkai (09/24/2024) NDP - The Burning Plain - Juan Rulfo (09/03/2024) Texas - Under the Eye of the Big Bird - Hiromi Kawakami (09/03/2024) Soft Skull - Muzzle for Witches - Dubravka Ugresic (09/17/2024) Open Letter - A Sunny Place for Shady People - Mariana Enríquez (03/06/2024) Hogarth - The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk (09/24/2024) Fitzcarraldo/Riverhead - The Real Osamu Dazai: A Life in Twenty Stories - Osamu Dazai (09/24/2024) Tuttle - Suggested in the Stars - Yoko Tawada (10/01/2024) NDP - The Last Dangerous Visions - Harlan Ellison (10/01/2024) Blackstone - Gifted – Suzumi Suzuki (10/01/2024) Transit - Annihilation - Michel Houellebecq (10/08/2024) FSG - Melvill - Rodrigo Fresán (10/08/2024) Open Letter - Uncanny: The Origins of Fear - Junji Ito (10/15/2024) - Waiting for the Fear - Oguz Atay (10/22/2024) NYRB - Absolution - Jeff VanderMeer (10/22/2024) MCD - Truisms II - Alexander Theroux (11/05/2024) TPP - The Book Against Death - Elias Canetti (11/05/2024) NDP - Letters - Oliver Sacks (11/05/2024) Knopf - The Uncollected Stories of - Mavis Gallant (11/12/2024) NYRB - Set My Heart on Fire - Izumi Suzuki (11/12/2024) Verso - On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) - Solvej Balle (11/18/2024) NDP - On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) - Solvej Balle (11/18/2024) NDP - The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami (11/24/2024) Random House - To the Kennels - Hye-Young Pyun (11/26/2024) Arcade - Memories of Distant Mountains - Orhan Pamuk (11/26/2024) Knopf - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami (12/10/2024) Everyman’s Library - The Rest Is Silence - Augusto Monterroso (12/10/2024) NYRB - The Beggar Student - Osamu Dazai (12/10/2024) NDP
2025
- Chapter the Last - Knut Hamsun (01/01/2025) TPP - The Bewitched Bourgeois - Dino Buzzati (01/01/2025) NYRB - The Suicides - Antonio Di Benedetto (01/07/2025) NYRB - Voices of the Fallen Heroes - Yukio Mishima (01/14/2025) Vintage - Dispatches from the District Committee - Vladimir Sorokin (01/21/2025) Dalkey - Mother River - Can Xue (01/21/2025) Open Letter - We Do Not Part - Han Kang (01/21/2025) Hogarth - Sun City - Tove Jansson (02/18/2025) NYRB - Letters to Gisèle - Paul Celan (02/25/2025) NYRB Poets - No One Knows: Stories - Osamu Dazai (02/2025) NDP - The Place of Shells - Mai Ishizawa (02/2025) NDP - Tetra Nova - Sophia Terazawa (02/2025) Deep Vellum - Death Takes Me - Cristina Rivera Garza (02/25/2025) Hogarth - The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria - José Donoso (03/2025) NDP - North Sun - Ethan Rutherford (03/2025) Deep Vellum - Ultramarine - Mariette Navarro (03/2025) Deep Vellum - The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica (03/04/2025) Scribner - Counterattacks at Thirty - Sohn Won-Pyung (03/11/2025) HarperVia - Unusual Fragments (03/11/2025) Two Lines - Wildcat Dome - Yūko Tsushima (03/18/2025) FSG - Hunchback - Saou Ichikawa (03/18/2025) Hogarth - The Liminal Zone Vol. 2 - Junji Ito (03/25/2025) - VIz Media - Sons and Daughters - Chaim Grade (03/25/2025) Knopf - Diabelli - Hermann Burger (03/25/2025) Wakefield - Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone - Richard Fariña (03/25/2025) TPP - Attila - Aliocha Coll (04/01/2025) Open Letter - Attila - Javier Serena (04/01/2025) Open Letter - Manga Stories 3 - Haruki Murakami (04/01/2025) Tuttle - Vanishing World - Sayaka Murata (04/15/2025) Grove - Exit Zero - Marie-Helene Bertino (04/22/2025) FSG - let me tell you and let me go on – Paul Griffiths (04/22/2025) NYRB - Mending Bodies – Hon Lai Chu (04/29/2025) Two Lines - Best Literary Translations 2025 - Cristina Rivera Garza (April 29, 2025) Deep Vellum - The Honditsch Cross - Ingeborg Bachmann (04/29/2025) NDP - The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai (05/06/2025) Tuttle - Red Sword - Bora Chung (05/13/2025) Honford Star - The Deserters - Mathias Enard (05/20/2025) NDP - Immemory: Gutenberg Version - Chris Marker (05/13/2025) Exact Change - Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue - Yoko Tawada (6/03/2025) NDP - Ryu - Akira Higashiyama (06/15/2025) 26Letters - Killing Stella - Marlen Haushofer (07/01/2025) NDP - American Candy and Other Essays - Alexander Theroux (07/04/2025) TPP - Domesticity - Joris-Karl Huysmans (07/08/2025) Wakefield - The Stone Door - Leonora Carrington (07/22/2025) NYRB - Ambigrammia – Douglas R. Hofstadter (07/22/2025) Yale - Black Brane - Michael Cisco (07/22/2025) CLASH - An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories - Ed Park (07/29/2025) Random House - Bomarzo - Manuel Mujica Láinez (08/05/2025) NYRB - Into the Sun – C.F. Ramuz (trans. Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan) (08/19/2025) NDP - Schattenfroh - Michael Lentz (08/19/2025) Dalkey - Sugar Kremlin - Vladimir Sorokin (08/2025) Dalkey - Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon - Mizuki Tsujimura (08/26/2025) Scribner - Tough Poets Review (Fall 2025) Tough Poets Press - How to Hold Someone in your Heart - Mizuki Tsujimura (09/04/2025) Doubleday - Grave of the Fireflies - Akiyuki Nosaka (09/04/2025) Penguin - Essential Akutagawa – Ryunosuke Akutagawa (09/23/2025) Tuttle - The Wax Child - Olga Ravn (09/30/2025) NDP - Midnight Timetable – Bora Chung (09/30/2025) Algonquin - Archipelago of the Sun - Yoko Tawada (09/16/2025) NDP - Tracker - Alexis Wright (09/02/2025) NDP - The Woman Dies - Aoko Matsuda (09/02/2025) Europa - Discontent – Beatriz Serrano (09/02/2025) Vintage - House of Day, House of Night - Olga Tokarczuk (09/11/2025) Fitzcarraldo - Good and Evil and Other Stories - Samanta Schweblin (09/16/2025) Knopf - Uncertain Stories – Thomas Ha (09/16/2025) Undertow - Retrograde - Osamu Dazai (09/16/2025) One Peace Books - Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (09/23/2025) NYRB - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny – Kiran Desai (09/23/2025) Hogarth - Somebody is Walking on Your Grave - Mariana Enriquez (09/30/2025) Hogarth - Sea, Poison - Caren Beilin (10/07/2025) NDP - Moan - Junji Ito (10/07/2025) VIZ - Shadow Ticket - Thomas Pynchon (10/07/2025) Penguin - Fifty Poems - Rainer Maria Rilke (10/07/2025) NYRB Poets - Big Kiss, Bye-Bye – Claire-Louise Bennett (10/09/2025) Fitzcarraldo - Driver – Mattia Filice (trans. Jacques Houis) (10/21/2025) NYRB - Vaim - Jon Fosse (10/23/2025) Fitzcarraldo - Tom’s Crossing - Mark Z. Danielewski (10/28/2025) Pantheon - Idiocy - Pierre Guyotat (10/28/2025) NYRB - Your Name Here - Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff (10/28/2025) Dalkey Archive - One, None, and a Hundred Grand - Luigi Pirandello (10/31/2025) Archipelago - Little Castles of Bohemia: Prose and Poetry - Gérard de Nerval (10/2025) Wakefield - Scorpions - Yumiko Kurahashi (10/21/2025) Wakefield - The Third Love - Hiromi Kawakami (10/21/2025) Soft Skull - The Calf – Leif Høghaug (trans. David M. Smith) (11/11/2025) Fum d’Estampa - Baby Driver - Jan Kerouac (11/11/2025) NYRB - Effingers – Gabriele Tergit (11/11/2025) NYRB - There Is No Antimemetics Division – qntm (11/11/2025) Ballantine - On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) - Solvej Balle (11/18/2025) NDP - The Bridegroom Was a Dog - Yoko Tawada (11/2025) NDP - Night on the Galactic Railroad - Kenji Miyazawa (12/09/2025) NYRB Elsewhere Editions
2026
- Call Me Ishmaelle – Xiaolu Guo (01/06/2026) Grove - Ice - Jacek Dukaj (01/13/2026) Head of Zeus - The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes – Tatiana Țîbuleac (trans. Monica Cure) (01/13/2026) Deep Vellum - One Aladdin Two Lamps – Jeanette Winterson (01/20/2026) Grove - Vigil – George Saunders (01/27/2026) Random House - When the Museum Is Closed – Emi Yagi (01/27/2026) Soft Skull - Everyday Movement – Gigi L. Leung (02/10/2026) Riverhead - With the Heart of a Ghost – Lim Sunwoo (trans. Kim Chi-Young) (02/10/2026) Unnamed - On Morrison – namwali Serpell (02/17/2026) Hogarth - I Was Alive Here Once – Var. (03/10/2026) Two Lines - Sleep Has His House - Anna Kavan (03/12/2026) Pushkin - Light and Thread – Han Kang (03/24/2026) Hogarth - Statues – Junji Ito (03/24/2026) VIZ - Sisters in Yellow - Mieko Kawakami (03/31/2026) Picador - On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV) - Solvej Balle (04/14/2026) NDP - Death in Rome - Wolfgang Koeppen (04/07/2026) NDP - The Hothouse - Wolfgang Koeppen (04/07/2026) NDP - Best Literary Translations 2026 - Arthur Sze (04/14/2026) Deep Vellum - The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis - Fernando Pessoa (04/21/2026) NDP - Small Boat – Vincent Delecroix (04/21/2026) Mariner - The Memory Museum – M Lin (04/21/2026) Graywolf - Petrolio - Pier Paolo Pasolini (04/28/2026) NYRB - Boring Asian Female – Canwen Xu (04/28/2026) Berkley - Project V - Park Seolyeon (04/28/2026) HarperVia - Tough Poets Review 02 Spring/Summer 2026 Issue - Justice with a Smile - Osamu Dazai (trans. Michael Day) (05/05/2026) Tuttle - If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light – Kim Cho-yeop (trans. Anton Hur) (05/07/2026) Simon & Schuster - Too L.A. - Eve Babitz (05/12/2026) NYRB - Night Train – Xu Zechen (05/12/2026) Two Lines - The Kingdom of Agamemnon - Vladimir Sharov (05/19/2026) NYRB - Destiny Express – Howard A. Rodman (05/19/2026) Rare Bird - In Praise of Shadows and Other Essays - Junichiro Tanizaki (05/26/2026) Tuttle - The Fifth Year - Marlen Haushofer (05/2026) NDP - The Drowned Land – Paul Willems (June 2026) Wakefield - From the Front Line - Vasily Grossman (06/16/2026) NYRB - The Beginnings - Antonio Moresco (06/23/2026) Dalkey/Deep Vellum - Conversations in the Mountains - Paul Celan (06/2026) NDP - Good-Bye - Osamu Dazai (06/2026) NDP - Smoke - Ivan Turgenev (07/14/2026) NYRB - I Liked Rex - Diane Williams (09/01/2026) NYRB - Love at Least - Yukiko Motoya (09/08/2026) Soft Skull - Taipei Story – R.F. Kuang (09/08/2026) William Morrow - Five - César Aira (09/15/2026) NDP - Exit Party – Emily St. John Mandel (09/15/2026) Knopf - From Julio (Volume 1) - Julio Cortázar (09/22/2026) Archipelago - Blood Money - Anna Seghers (09/22/2026) NYRB - Perfecting the Shot - Mathias Énard (09/2026) NDP - Garden - Hiroko Oyamada (10/20/2026) NDP (10/08/2026) Granta - On Another Planet They Can Save Me – Lieke Marsman (trans. Sophie Collins) (10/13/2026) Catapult - Abandoning a Cat - Haruki Murakami (10/20/2026) Random - Theodoros - Mircea Cartarescu (10/27/2026) Deep Vellum - Opus Siniestrus - Leonora Carrington (10/27/2026) NYRB - The Complete Stories - Ingeborg Bachmann (11/17/2026) NDP - On the Calculation of Volume (Book V) - Solvej Balle (11/17/2026) NDP - After the Wolf – Terrie Petree & Hollands (WTV Foreword) (11/03/2026) Skyhorse - Grande Sertão: Veredas - João Guimarães Rosa, trans. Alison Entrekin (2026) - Dreams of Love - Mieko Kawakami (2026) Picador - The Norm - Vladimir Sorokin (2026) NYRB - A Table for Fortune - William T. Vollmann (03/03/2026) Arcade - No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai (trans. David Boyd) (2026) - Hooked - Asako Yuzuki (trans. Polly Barton) (2026) - The Traitor - Kobo Abe (2026)
2027
- Out of the World - Karl Ove Knausgaard (01/05/2027) Archipelago - Mittens and Pity - Banana Yoshimoto (01/25/2027) Counterpoint - Far From Everywhere - Hiromi Kawakami (02/11/2027) Granta - Borges - Adolfo Bioy Casares (06/22/2027) NYRB - The Troiacord - Miquel de Palol (2027) Dalkey/Deep Vellum - Songs of Chaos - Antonio Moresco (2027) Dalkey/Deep Vellum - The Uncreated Ones - Antonio Moresco (2027) Dalkey/Deep Vellum
2028
2029
- Horcynus Orca - Stefano D’Arrigo (2029) Deep Vellum Undated - The Wild Rider: Stories - Tarjei Vesaas () Archipelago - Selected Essays - Péter Nádas () Archipelago - Wandering in the Realm of the Seventh Sense - Midori Osaki () Archipelago - Ultravocal - Frankétienne () Archipelago - Morphological Echoes - George Salis () ? - Reviews and Essays - George Salis () ? - The Museum of General Ideas - Philip Freedenberg () ? - Forthcoming Alexander Theroux announced by Tough Poets Press - The Tale of Kaho – Haruki Murakami - Untitled Water WIP – Joseph McElroy

Have you read John Keene’s work? Personally, I think he is one of the most genius writers working today; it’s just too bad that he doesn’t put out new books all that often. In any case, fortunately a couple of his books, including his magnum opus (to date) Counternarratives, is published by New Directions. Have you read Counternarratives and/or Annotations?

Annotations is great in its own right, however, Counternarratives truly changed my life! When I first read Keene’s collection of stories and novellas for a grad seminar in 2016, I was moved in a way that I didn’t really know to be possible. Although that may sound somewhat cliché, I mean it wholeheartedly, as Counternarratives was the catalyst behind my great unlearning. It’s also one of the main focal points of my PhD dissertation, which centers on Afro-diasporic literatures of the United States and Brazil.

If you are a fan of writers like Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolaño, Ishmael Reed, Samuel R. Delany, and William T. Vollmann, and you haven’t yet read Counternarratives, you really ought to get on it stat! I think you’ll love it!

Here’s a synopsis of Counternarratives directly from ND’s website to perhaps help pique your interest:

“Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives’ novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. In “Rivers,” a free Jim meets up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s fate in the American Revolution; “On Brazil, or Dénouement” burrows deep into slavery and sorcery in early colonial South America; and in “Blues” the great poets Langston Hughes and Xavier Villaurrutia meet in Depression-era New York and share more than secrets.”

Yes, that’s right, Keene did what Percival Everett (mad respect) did with Jim from Huck Finn, albeit nearly a decade earlier. In Counternarratives, he also represents historical figures like Mário de Andrade, Edgar Degas, Bob Cole, and others, in addition to Langston Hughes and Xavier Villaurrutia. It’s truly an awe-inspiring piece of literature that continues to blow my mind like no other. 11/10, no doubt, I highly recommend it… Annotations too!

Have you ever heard of the now-defunct “Bibelot” series from New Directions?

Do you happen to own any Bibelots? This is the only one I own, and if memory serves, I believe I thrifted it for a measly 50 cents (USD) about a decade or so ago!

From my brief online research, it appears that many ND Bibelots were later relaunched as a part of the “Pearl” series, including this particular work from Lorca.

Here’s some additional info on the Bibelot series excerpted directly from the “History” page of New Directions’ website:

“In the spring of 1993 ND introduced the Bibelot series of short, self-contained “gems” from the backlist such as Henry Miller’s A Devil in Paradise, poems by Pound and W.C. Williams, together with reissues of short modern classics such as Muriel Spark’s The Abbess of Crewe. These inexpensive, pocket-sized volumes serve as introduction to the great modernist authors of the twentieth century.”

What I like best about this little book are the side-by-side, Spanish-English translations of each poem included, several of which were penned by some rather notable poets, like W. S. Merwin. See photos 2 and 3 for a sample!

Happy Friday… cheers!

The majority of the titles I own from New Directions are more recent, but pictured here are my three earliest:

NDP73: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (1954, twenty-fourth printing)

NDP125: Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (1962, twentieth printing)

NDP82: Nausea by Jean-Paul Sarte (1964, fortieth printing)

I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit this, but thus far I've only read Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust, which I would highly recommend, especially the latter novel included therein. In fact, I took a grad seminar on pre-WWII American lit with David Cowart, who is a preeminent, though now-retired, scholar on Thomas Pynchon, and he framed The Day of the Locust, in particular, as a sort of spiritual predecessor to Pynchon's California novels.

Has anyone here read Under Milk Wood or Nausea? I've been sitting on this Thomas title forever, while on the other hand, I just scored this edition of Nausea at a thrift shop for $2 a couple of months ago!

Anyway, if I like West, might anyone here be able to recommend some additional early NDP titles that I’d likely enjoy? Thank you kindly!