/lit/ - Literature

can't you just read the descritptions of some nyrb books and decide for yourself?

nobody here even reads much literature.

can you even tie your own shoelaces?

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>>11257100
Stoner by John Williams
Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars

>>11257100

Look though the archive, there are tons of NYRB recommendation threads

>>11257241
absolute shit.

>>11257100
>reading something because of the publisher
what is this retarded shit I’m reading

Warlock. One of my favorite books.

>>11257375
what's wrong with this senpai

>>11257375
literally nothing wrong with that when the publisher is consistently good
>>11257100
OP read Kaputt and Moravagine

>>11257375
Same thing as listening to a band because of the label they're on

>this thread
Why do you guys hate NYRB?

is penguin /lit/ approved or not?

>>11257744
We don't, we just joke about them because we love them.

>>11257335

>wowstoppostinganytime.jpg

>>11257100
They have a lot of Zweig which is great. Beware of Pity in particular is an exceptional novel and everyone should read it.

Other ny recs:
Dead Souls
Butcher’s Crossing
Jacob Von Gunten

For non fic they have a great book on Dante and also Anatomy of Meloncholy.

>>11257100
When the hell did nyrb get the rights to Augustus?

>>11258280
>They have a lot of Zweig which is grea

No its not. don't listen to this homo, Zweig sucks.

NYRB shills delenda est

theyve got henry greene's oeuvre if your looking for works by depressed british modernists

>>11258371
you have to be 18 to post here.

which are some other god tier publishers?

>>11258371
>>11258469
Zweig is at best middle-brow. The fact that he is far more popular abroad in translation than in the Germanosphere should tell you a lot.

>>11258570
dalkey, hackett

>>11258977
that doesn't tell us nothing, germans are fucking dolts

>>11257241
This is an abysmal turd; I have a pet theory of it being an elaborate joke played by south americans on people who gulp anything south american because it's exotic and has hipster cred.

>>11257100
i was gonna say that nyrb is the criterion collection of literature but that's probably norton

>>11257819
>>11257100
>>11258388
Begone viral marketing scum. If this thread does not archive within 24 hours I will personally complain to NYRB managers about your casual anti-semitism.

>>11258977
This. It's always amusing to see amerimutts swoon over some euro author, who is known as second rate in the patrician circles, but since it's a translated work published by NYRB or Pushkin Press, boom! Daft amerimutt feels like he's in the know now. And Zweig is only the top of it. He's presented as this obscure uma delicia for literary connoisseurs when he was translated into twenty languages. Imagine how absurd it would be if Reclam tried to shill a german translation of Gone with the Wind in a similar manner.

>>11257100
eat shit

>>11259118
>One of the most famous writers in his lifetime
>obscure

non

>>11258977
Have you read Beware of Pity?

>>11257241
This image resolution indicates it was taken directly from the NYRB website just like >>11259386 was, which if you search "NYRB" on gis and set the exact resolution to 650x1040 you can confirm, but in the case of Morel it is NOT one of the image sizes that appear on a google image search, which indicates that you are pulling these directly from their website, which is a very un-hip and shill-like thing to do. Please stop putting your trash on /lit/ and go advertise on Facebook. This community is run by volunteers for free as well as a Japanese businessman who you can buy ads from if you care to support the site while garnering readers. You fuckin fixed-gear hipsters are shitting on our project of fifteen years, and I want this turd of a thread and your annoying 650x1040 ass out of here pronto!

>>11259417
Based

>>11257100
The Cicero trilogy by Robert Harris
Julian by Gore Vidal