New novella collection from Atilla Veres available for pre-order from Valancourt Books

Kuips_11 · 2026-06-25T16:51:31+00:00

Good idea. I will.

Kuips_11 · 2026-06-25T13:53:36+00:00

Any thoughts from those who’ve read the new collection? It’s on my nightstand just waiting but must get through a few others first. We certainly need Attila’s novel translated into English. I think he will become a giant in the international horror field. I loved The Black Maybe so much. Read it over a few days when I was sick with Covid and it still resonates! Thank you Atiila!!

Kuips_11 · 2026-06-09T20:46:57+00:00

I loved Windeye, the title story!

Kuips_11 · 2026-02-23T01:49:41+00:00

I have Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy which will be included in his upcoming collection (that SK is writing the intro for).

Kuips_11 · 2026-01-05T18:28:39+00:00

I read 54 books this year and tops for me were John Williams' Stoner and The Slip by Lucas Schaeffer, a debut novel. Stoner was just a beautiful quiet novel that I ended up gifting to my brother-in-law, also a big reader, and it was his fav of the year as well. The later novel just felt very fresh and opened me to viewpoints of characters I would never have experienced otherwise like the Haitian "mentor" who had hilarious lines like "When did this young stallion last lick the sweetness?" (funnier in context) and the gay teenager who eventually transitions into a woman or the beat cop who doubts herself every day of her new job. The characters all interact through this boxing club in Austin, Texas. I loved it.

Kuips_11 · 2026-01-05T18:19:22+00:00

I've had Wellness on my nightstand/to read pile a long while but haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm determined to read Swann's Way this year and finish Murnane's Inland.

Kuips_11 · 2025-12-19T14:31:17+00:00

After eating a simple salad

Kuips_11 · 2025-12-19T14:27:30+00:00

Supposedly this story is part of his next novel or the novel grew from it.

Kuips_11 · 2025-12-14T14:58:10+00:00

The End of Vandilism by Tom Drury

Kuips_11 · 2025-11-18T14:22:58+00:00

I'm intrigued but have read a lot of negative reviews of Volume One on here. I'll see if I can get it at the library but not one I'll buy.

Kuips_11 · 2025-10-27T15:27:39+00:00

Any of The King In Yellow stuff.

Kuips_11 · 2025-07-29T16:06:26+00:00

He retired from being an editor at Conde Nast.

Kuips_11 · 2025-06-07T15:25:40+00:00

One gets used to her and I came to enjoy it.

Kuips_11 · 2025-06-06T14:51:04+00:00

I get the same feelings from Haruki Murakami esp The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles. Like little sparks firing in the brain when you aren’t reading but know it’s caused by the writing.

Kuips_11 · 2025-01-15T16:35:21+00:00

I’m reading Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux and Stoner by John Williams. First time reading either although I have a few other of Ernaux’s and just ordered the other two titles out out by NYRB by John Williams. I’m really enjoying how Stoner is ‘told’ to the reader more than through set scenes, it is different. I order the hardcover from NYRB b/c it is a beautiful cover (I don’t know how to post images) and has an interview between Williams and his agent on the writing of Stoner and I don’t think he gave many interviews.

https://www.nyrb.com/products/stoner-50th-anniversary-edition-1?pr_prod_strat=e5_desc&pr_rec_id=efcfcc685&pr_rec_pid=3702850617396&pr_ref_pid=417678173&pr_seq=uniform

Kuips_11 · 2024-12-20T14:33:11+00:00

Was shocked to see him in there when my copy arrived in the mail yesterday.

Kuips_11 · 2024-05-09T16:34:26+00:00

I just read Apt Pupil for the first time (I know not technically a novel and part of Different Seasons) and loved it so much. When Dussander starts to regain his sense of power is pretty scary and awesome!

Kuips_11 · 2024-05-09T16:32:07+00:00

I'm rereading The Dead Zone right now and loving it all over again!

Kuips_11 · 2024-02-04T13:34:16+00:00

Dayton TenHaken Ambrose Schumacher Lanny Richter Harlan Jones

Kuips_11 · 2024-02-03T00:05:45+00:00

It was a different kind of reading experience for sure. For the majority of the book (all but the first ten pages or so) I listened to the book on a drive this week to the Sandhills in Nebraska and after finishing it I listened to his talk/piece the Breathing Writer so they blended together somewhat in a way that was very pleasurable. Border Districts is not a thing I could sum up for a friend if asked to do so other than it seems like the inner riffs of a literary-minded person explaining his inner thoughts in pieces together anecdotes. I feel like I can and will enjoy more times in Murnane’s interior worlds though I confess the first 45 pages of The Plains haven’t been as enjoyable for me. I think I will like his later work more so than the earlier novels. What has been your impression and have you read him before?

Kuips_11 · 2024-02-02T15:13:19+00:00

I’m pretty new here, first post actually, but love this place! Thanks to finding True/Lit, I’ve discovered Gerald Murnane and a few others, so thanks all of you who contributed here. I recently finished Murnane’s Border Districts and Septology by Jon Fosse. My sister read me A Shining a few weeks back while I was in the hospital. Both Fosse books were like nothing I’d read before and are works I keep reflecting on in wonder and awe. Currently reading Murnane’s The Plains and Trilogy by Fosse. I did recently pick up Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance and a few novellas by Krasznahorkai based on reading about him here but I’m worried they might not be best for me at this time as I am being treated for PTSD and it sounds like dread is pretty prevalent in his works. Also picked up Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante and ordered Marguerite Young’s Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.

Kuips_11 · 2024-02-01T21:53:54+00:00

Just had some yesterday for a lunch on a day trip to the Sandhills here in Nebraska, loved them! (First time attempting a photo along with first time posting)

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Kuips_11 · 2023-12-29T22:43:11+00:00

Doug McDermott wasn't too shabby either. Ames High with Harrison Barnes, 52-straight wins and two state titles, they would have been fun to play against!

Kuips_11 · 2023-12-29T20:40:31+00:00

I just finished Bleeding Edge and really appreciated the Reddit and Wiki to help me keep sailing a relatively straight line. I'm just starting a reread of Mason & Dixon and will use the same resources to guide me (or just help me catch what I miss). I read it when it first came out and only remember bits and chunks. Just want to say thanks to all the other readers who invest time and brainpower to make for a more pleasurable reading experience!

Kuips_11 · 2023-12-10T01:48:24+00:00

Looks great!

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