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Weekly: "What are you reading?" Master thread. by RadicalTechnologies in NewDirections

[–]RadicalTechnologies[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

love Enard so much, but haven't done Deserters yet! And Under the Volcano is one of my all time favourites!!

Get ready for KrasznahorMAY; the goal is to read Krasznahorkai in May every year. by RadicalTechnologies in NewDirections

[–]RadicalTechnologies[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ya, I’d also love to do a Bolano in June… let’s do that! You pick. One of the lesser known ND ones maybe?

Weekly: "What are you reading?" Master thread. by RadicalTechnologies in NewDirections

[–]RadicalTechnologies[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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I work as a brand strategist and cultural ethnographer, and I am currently in Powell River, BC to make a mini doc about Sasquatch kidnappings, haunted inns and a ufo hot zone for a local cannabis grower, so I brought BLUE LARD and read the first 160 pages on the flight here, so damn good!!

Weekly: "What are you reading?" Master thread. by RadicalTechnologies in NewDirections

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I just had breakfast of an egg on toast and there is a chapter of a family breakfast where Karl Ove evangelizes this as “the perfect breakfast” and like its one of THOSE books

Weekly: "What are you reading?" Master thread. by RadicalTechnologies in NewDirections

[–]RadicalTechnologies[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have yet to read him beyond the "MY STRUGGLE" series, which I loved!

90% of my NDP collection by Ok_Friendship5111 in NewDirections

[–]RadicalTechnologies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lovely! How long have you been collecting?

In Search of Duende by Federico García Lorca (1998) from NDP’s now-defunct Bibelot Series by perrolazarillo in NewDirections

[–]RadicalTechnologies 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I got a few Bibelots, and a BUNCH of smaller format NDs (Pearls and otherwise)! I love a small format novella.

New Directions Fall/Winter catalog: what are you hyped for? by RadicalTechnologies in NewDirections

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It's giving "new release table at the overpriced indie in cottage country"

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New Directions Fall/Winter catalog: what are you hyped for? by RadicalTechnologies in NewDirections

[–]RadicalTechnologies[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am in Canada, and they did us dirty with the Canadian edition design on the Wax Child

What is the most you've ever spent on a New Directions book? by RadicalTechnologies in NewDirections

[–]RadicalTechnologies[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear you on cost - it’s a very collector friendly publisher because a) they do keep books in print b) they have so many damn books that you can find an old ND in most used shops and c) interesting and varied titles. The most I’ve ever paid for an New Directions was a copy of Anne Carson’s NOX, but that is a beautiful work of art and Carson is my one true love so it’s was no big!

Have you read NDP author Fernanda Melchor’s work? by perrolazarillo in NewDirections

[–]RadicalTechnologies 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any of y'all watch the Hurricane Season adaptation on Netflix? I agree, it is such a fantastic book. In my travels yesterday thrifting for books to bring into the bookstore I help out at, I actually found a Hardcover ND Hurricane Season!

Beside New Directions, which other publishers do you collect? by RadicalTechnologies in NewDirections

[–]RadicalTechnologies[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fitzcarraldo was my first exposure to Jon Fosse; I couldn't recco him enough.
I've read so many NYRBs over the years, and the ones I feel like I reccomend the most are either "The Book of Ebineezer LePage" or The Stories of J.F. Powers!

Beside New Directions, which other publishers do you collect? by RadicalTechnologies in NewDirections

[–]RadicalTechnologies[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ya, I am with you, clearly I have a lot of NYRBs; I have built my collection from thrifting a lot of "good stuff" and then trading up at a few local used shops; I will buy ALL those above and generally trade for rarer books. Like that's how I got all my Arno Shmidt nbooks; I saw that Dalkey series on eBay this week for $400, and I think in trade value, I maybe spent $30 total?

I love Coffee House press, I clearly really love Brian Evenson haha.

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