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More new stuff - This week, Tom McCarthy speaking about his new novel, Pynchon and much more. Get the Rhyl Poster from @NYRB_Imprints and listen here or watch on YouTube: youtu.be/BsZDLEEW5n8?si=D8qk…
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2027 is THE YEAR!
My PROGRESS on 4/13/27
Sorokin's FAIRY TALE on 6/16/27
Moresco's SONGS OF CHAOS on 8/17/27
Sorokin's THE NORM in the fall
+ maybe one more thing
This week 2 new episodes. Here is Alex Zucker speaking about his translations of Playing Wolf and The Long Version. Loved this chat and both books are great. Listen here or anywhere you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas…
Ordered this after my chat with @jeromecharyn Now I have to get Steps. 1.95 from Barnes and Noble in 1977.
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What a lovely surprise I received upon opening the latest issue of the wonderful literary journal @deathdashkit 💖
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"Devil's Backbone," by the author of "Killoyle," "The Adorations" and "The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad." A novel about ghosts and boozing and love affairs in the Texas Hill Country. Scroll down to Chapter One. Enjoy.
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Positively delighted to share that EYE OF THE MONKEY by Krisztina Tóth, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet (@caringerel), was shortlisted (!!!) for the 2026 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation (@WarwickPrizeWiT)!
“Unsparing, unforgettable.” —Merve Emre
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For @nytimes, I wrote about Adolfo Bioy Casares’s “Morel’s Invention.” (Gift link below)
Today the BTZ YouTube channel officially launches. Head over and watch interviews with Tom McCarthy, Jerome Charyn (and a cat), Lance Olsen and Joe and Sam Eichner. Check it out youtube.com/@beyondthezeropo…
This week the amazing @jess_sequeira speaking about her translation of THE EIGHTH WONDER by Vlady Kociancich. Loved this chat and the book is great. Get it from @7StoriesPress and listen here or in all the regular places. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas…
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The reviews are coming in.
"Witty, razor-sharp dialogue... quick, clever, highly original, and genuinely hard to put down."
Thanks, bold, wise and good-looking reader!
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"In short, A Table for Fortune is a book about everything Vollmann has previously written." @TheSpectator
"A Table for Fortune is a deeply ambitious, arguably heroic epic." @AltaJournal
“[A] heroic, fascinating and important work." @nytimes
This week on BTZ - the brilliant James Elkins speaking about his new novel Stories, Like Illness. Listen here or in all the regular places. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas…
Over on the Patreon - Tom McCarthy speaking about The Rhyl Poster. Coming up in few weeks on the regular feed and for those of you sickos who like this kinda thing...Youtube.
This week the amazing Brian Evanson speaking about his brand new novel PHANTOM LIMB. Get the book from Coffee House Press and listen here or as you try to text with one thumb. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas…
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Happy 70th birthday to the incomparable Lance Olsen! A singular literary innovator, fearless experimenter, and generous intellectual force, Olsen continues to expand what fiction can do and how we see the world.
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