On Pascal Quignard's birthday, The Answer to Lord Chandos is now in hand. A text Quignard worked on since 1978 and across his writing career. With an introduction by Jean-Luc Nancy written especially for this translation:
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Our second Boris Vian title (though his first, albeit posthumous, novel) is now in hand. Along with our previous publication of Vercoquin and the Plankton (also translated by Terry Bradford), the early Vian is at last available in English.
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This week, I'm reading through the works of Marcel Schwob! An author of tremendous influence on Borges, Schwob writes in a style of mysticism, gothic, and alternative biography all tethered into one cohesive form.

Thank you WakefieldPress for all these translations.

Looking forward to these treats from @dodoink, WakefieldPress, and NYRB Classics. (For readers unfamiliar with Wakefield Press, please see my profile on them at thebookbeat.com/backroom/2021/…).

My huge, huge thanks to the excellent
rob mclennan
for some very fine questions, stimulating me to go a tad deeper in my reflections on reading, writing and translating...Shearsman WakefieldPress K.F.S. Press robmclennan.blogspot.com/2024/02/12-or-…

Two special people close to Wakefield's heart share a special day today. Gisèle Prassinos and Pierre Mac Orlan, happy birthday.

Our first two titles of the year are now in hand: love as science and an undefinable 'syphilis of the ether.'
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More #BookPost ! Today, it was Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah by Louis Levy, tr. W.C. Bamberger. First published in 1910, 'a fevered pulp novel that reads like nothing else of its time.' Brought to my notice by Neglected Books published by WakefieldPress

Happy birthday, Paul Scheerbart! You were a truly indefinable visionary, whose interplanetary star fables, scientific and architectural fantasies, and utopian strivings remain unique over a century after your passing.

This halloween presentation of Remedios Varo is a good opportunity to mention: we will finally be releasing a new, expanded edition of Varo's writings this coming spring, including stories that will be published for the first time in any language. artic.edu/articles/1094/…

'Two-tone llamas, ashen crocodiles / snicker, chewing over paper files' - Max Jacob, The Central Laboratory, tr. Alexander Dickow WakefieldPress Honoured and delighted to be reading alongside Alex, w/Dr. Vik Shirley this coming Sunday, 5pm online. Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-ma…

“My horse has tripped on the semiquavers. The notes spatter all the way up to the green heaven of my soul: the eighth heaven.”

From Max Jacob’s The Dice Cup, tr. Ian Seed WakefieldPress.

Launching online next Sunday, 5pm, w/Alexander Dickow & me.

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Philippe Soupault's pre-Dada, pre-Surrealist Voyage of Horace Pirouelle is back from the printer. A celebration and deflation of wanderlust and the acte gratuit:
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Join us on Tuesday, 31 October to talk about Louis Levy's 1910 novel, Kzradock the Onion Man with translator W. C. Bamberger and WakefieldPress publisher Marc Lowenthal. Register now on Eventbrite:
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ALISON BRACKENBURY Which reminds me - it's just two weeks to go: Sunday, Oct. 15, 5pm (UK time) the online launch of Max Jacob's The Dice Cup (tr. Ian Seed) and MJ's The Central Laboratory (tr. Alexander Dickow), WakefieldPress, hosted by Dr. Vik Shirley Tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-ma…

Sunday 15th October 5pm, we launch these two new Max Jacob translations, The Central Laboratory & The Dice Cup, by Ian Seed & Alexander Dickow WakefieldPress!

Come join us for celebration of Max Jacob, poems & conversation. Tickets available here:

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Festival Day is today! Join us in Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza and Surrounding Venues for an incredible day of panels and our Literary Marketplace.

Join us for these programs at 10 AM and 11 AM!

A Sunday story - see the picture... 'He went into the church. The Sun followed him as far as it could with a long stick, but the Sun is a pagan with no right to enter a nave'...
Max Jacob, 'The Dice Cup', captivatingly translated by Ian Seed Ian Seed

Come see us at booth 335 at the Brooklyn Book Festival! BrooklynBookFestival

We hope everyone is safe in Brooklyn and NYC with all the flooding. We are still planning to make our way there and hope to see you, if the weather improves 🖤