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As promised, my essay on the synchronicities between Wim Wender’s Perfect Days and Mieko Kanai’s Mild Vertigo:
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Kinokuniya Books in Shibuya has the most impressive selection of books I’ve ever encountered. All the heavy hitters from US and UK independent presses. Also, Miss Macintosh!
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What happens when a friend asks me for book recommendations
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Books I read as an adult that I wish I had read as a teenager
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Doctor said I have to have in rotation 1 essay collection, 1 short story collection, 1 philosophical text, one book of folktales, and at least 1 novel for the sake of my health.
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Kinokuniya Books in Shibuya has the most impressive selection of books I’ve ever encountered. All the heavy hitters from US and UK independent presses. Also, Miss Macintosh!
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These books are group hugging in my mind
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At The Haruki Murakami Library/Waseda International House of Literature. They currently have a Kafka exhibition with original drawings.
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I know lit twitter mostly only cares about experimental maximalist fiction by white people, but I’m still shocked at the lack of conversation around Yambo Ouologuem’s Bound to Violence. A masterpiece.
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Mishima’s obsession with images and reflections sustains me.
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Last month of reading has done a number on me.
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The new Sheila Heti is phenomenal, unlike anything I’ve read. Chapters A-Z, each one comprising sentences from a decade of diary writing arranged in alphabetical order. Perfectly captures the essence of a person that rises above individual moments or beliefs.
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Two stories of routine, mundanity, gazes, photography, and chaos kept at bay
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Love whenever I have an excuse to bring out Clarice
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For the love of literature, please read Dambudzo Marechera.
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Fans of Clarice Lispector PLEASE check out Mieko Kanai. The Word Book or Mild Vertigo. She takes me to the same undefinable place as Lispector, that captures being better than anything else I’ve encountered. Kanai is too good to be so under read.
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Everyone talking about finally reading Proust, etc. this year…. I raise you my 2024 reading plan 😈
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I wish this book had gotten a US release. Writer and translator Polly Barton, considering the thorny question of porn, interviews nineteen people in her life about their thoughts, experiences, and dilemmas around the topic. Productive & timely conversations that need to be had.
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A really remarkable novel. Everything happens at the level of language. Calls to mind the madness of Ariana Harwicz, as well as Clarice Lispector’s sentence-sized enlightenments.
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Couldn’t leave Tokyo without a few more books
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What’s a good novella I can read in the next hour or two? Something like Beckett, Fosse, Kanai, Lispector, Murnane, but nothing by them. My brain is fried and this will save me.
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Always a good day when library requests come in
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This has the daring and sexual insight that American millennial sex novels think they have
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These books had my head spinning this month. Reading Oyamada, Özlü, and Ørstavik back to back was incredible. Blue Lard was fun but didn’t do nearly as much for me as Telluria. Samskara and Floating Clouds deserve more attention.
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Lies and Sorcery has become a touchstone for me in the months since I’ve read it. I can’t read about troubled families, childhood homes, or drawn out youthful love affairs without thinking back to it.
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Been too long since my last Fosse. Feels good to be back.
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I’m crying
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One of those books that reminds you that for all history we have been the same humans, struggling with the same desires and the same contradictions.
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I’ll bite
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Ædnan and The Last Pomegranate Tree set the bar for the year in January
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This year’s music has been far more insightful for me as a writer than any recent novels. What a time.
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Finally reading this. A book infused with so much love and anger that the two start to resemble one another. A delight.
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Enough reading for two weeks in Japan? 🤔
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My third time through this one. Will be one of my most reread books. Each time I come away with more than I did before. Last time I was struck by the palpable sense of struggle with language. Not the clear eyed brevity of Happening or A Man’s Place. Something more ambiguous.
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The upcoming Murakami has me motivated to finish the last couple books I haven’t read. Reading this one for Sleep, Mieko Kawakami’s favorite story of his, that has everything I love about his work. A writer obsessed with the relationship between nostalgia and the body.
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This radical little book is gonna delight the people who deserve to be delighted and piss off those who deserve to be pissed off
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New Dazai, Mishima, Tsushima, Kawakami, Murata….. big year for Japanese lit.
I know its too early for 2025 but I'm obsessed with the line up for upcoming Japanese Lit releases🌟🌟. Expect Mieko Kawakami, Sayaka Murata, Junko Taksase, Saou Ichikawa, Mishima, Yuko Tsushima & many more 😍. Bless the amazing translators & publishers 💖
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This week continues to be great for new books 👀 Finishing Bound to Violence today and starting Stay With Me.
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Dark Days - James Baldwin. “Whatever it is that white americans want, it is not freedom—neither for themselves nor for others.”
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A chapter a day for 54 days to get through this behemoth. Already in love with the prose in chapter one. “he would have preferred even to this vivid dream her simple reality in the dark.”
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Interesting Chinese novella from 1921 I haven’t seen mentioned around much. In the vein of No Longer Human, following a Chinese national living in Japan.
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The four main monsters I read this year. Need to get back to Mahabharata soon 👀
One day before boarding on James Joyce’s Ulysses, it’s well-timed for a quartet of monstrous and mesmerizing novels I’ve read this year 👹
What’s yours?
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Got my local book club to join me on this one. I fell in love with her through her stories and The Faces. Saved this one for the right time. Just beautiful.
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My first Condé. This gives me the feeling from when I feel in love with reading. Marries the flow of oral storytelling with the insight of slave narratives and literary lineage of Morrison and Butler. Very direct Fanon references. I wish this had wider distribution/a new reprint.
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“ah, so it’s true I wasn’t just imagining it: I exist.”
Reading Clarice gives me the exact sensation described here.
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Spent some time with Marguerite Young at the Indianapolis Library special collections room
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Ever grateful for folktales and their scholars
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What a fucking book. Takes Huckleberry Finn and creates something far better. Could not put it down. The best American novel I’ve read since Maya Binyam’s Hangman.
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This section from Crevel’s My Body and I articulates why I’ve been struggling with writing nonfiction lately. Why fiction that captures that “initial state” that “is sufficient in itself” is what I am most drawn to reading and writing. Why Lispector speaks to me so much.
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Reading this makes me feel so cultured for having read a bit of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata…. I understand everything….
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Can Xue’s stories terrify me. She writes a terror of incomprehension that is the same terror I watched my grandfather face through Alzheimer’s during my childhood. I love her work but it takes a lot out of me to read it.
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I’ve been little clothbound classics pilled 😪
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I keep confusing these two cause of the covers. Don’t even know what they’re about. Good cover + hype from trustworthy oomfs means I’ll read.
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In An Apprenticeship, Clarice Lispector rewords her cronica entitled “Our Victory” published in the Jornal Do Brasil on August 26, 1967. The cronica struck me as so prescient as to be divine—as much of Lispector does. The novel charts a path of escape from this “daily victory”
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The winner: surprise Archipelago book on the new books shelf. Have to set aside whatever reading ambitions I have whenever I find an Archipelago in the wild😌. Thread below has some great novella recommendations.
What’s a good novella I can read in the next hour or two? Something like Beckett, Fosse, Kanai, Lispector, Murnane, but nothing by them. My brain is fried and this will save me.
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The second this hits my mailbox all other plans are cancelled
‘The book reached us all. We were all seized by the acute questions the text posed. The existential questions, which no one living here and now can evade.’
—Gyldendal Prize jury, 2024
Stay with Me by Hanne Ørstavik (tr. Martin Aitken) publishes today ✨
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Library denied my requests for Can Xue and Elias Khoury
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Does anyone want to join me for a summer reading group of Miss Macintosh, My Darling? 👀 Please reach out, especially if we’re mutuals. I’d love to start this around June.
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Annie Ernaux is one of the great writers of childhood. I don’t see this mentioned much about her work, despite so much of it being occupied with that time. Cleaned Out, A Frozen Woman, Shame, Do What They Say or Else, parts of A Man’s Place and A Woman’s Story…
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Mahmoud Darwish is emerging as a guiding figure in my year’s reading. Perfect prose that forges its own path, with an intellectual incisiveness and anger that recalls Fanon. A few sentences was all it took to know I had to read all his work.
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First page for you fiends
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These two books existed together in the ether before they manifested themselves through their authors.
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I think I have another favorite writer now
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My face reading Clarice Lispector and Jon Fosse at the same time
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Beautiful stack gifted to me by a book club friend for our secret santa 😁
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These And Other Stories books look even better in person 👀. Also, glad to finally have a copy of What Kingdom, one of my favorite releases of the year so far.
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I did not expect the chill and strange smell that would come with the eclipse.
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Rips laowai! Blue Lard resists any sort of concrete reading. It’s a dream set down on paper. Barely even a novel, more a collection of descriptions of scenes that could be thematically linked paintings. Max Ernst’s The Antipope on the cover perfectly captures the texture.
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My new book collecting obsession is African classics put out by Penguin UK modern classics. Those covers 👀
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I did not plan to start another tome after finishing Anniversaries and Miss Macintosh, My Darling, but the first page of Marshland by Otohiko Kaga didn’t give me a choice. Anyone else reading this? Not much press on it 🤔
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Telling my partner about Michael Kohlhaas.
“Good for him. He did nothing wrong.”
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Reached part 4 of Anniversaries. Almost halfway through Miss Macintosh, My Darling. Almost done with Fosse’s and Lispector’s complete works.
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