Warlock

[Mark Kohut]

Some controversy in the book blog world about how
major book review media, such as the NYTimes have
been neglecting translations more and more...
 
Confirming our supposed insularity evena s voracious readers....

From: Edward <felixquicautus at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: Warlock


Some books I've enjoyed in the last few months:

Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
An Episode in the Life of A Landscape Painter by Cesar Aira
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
The Assistant by Robert Walser
War & War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

All of them are translations (and wonderfully translated, at that). I recommend each without reservation.


On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

Stone Junction by Jim Dodge, intro by Pynchon, was good.  
>Call It Sleep by Henry Roth was good on the second try.
>A Fan's Notes, Fred Exley, great!
>Hotel Honolulu, Paul Theroux, a favorite.
>Omensetter's Luck by William Gass was one of the most unusual and interesting
>books I've read.
>Point of No Return by John Marquand, very good.
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>A literature professor friend got me hooked on James Lee Burke and Michael Dibdin,
>if you want to stay up late turning pages and cursing yourself for having too much fun.
>I'd put Henning Mankell on that list, too. 
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>On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net> wrote:
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>>> Thinking about old books I read a long time ago, I went deep into the nether reaches of my basement book case and came up with "October Light" by Gardner. I wanted to make a film out of it, using an old black and white Errol Flynn pirate movie for the insert. Don't recall much discussion of Gardner's work except "Grendel".
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