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What is the best NYRB book?

>> No.14655777

>>14655752
not that one.

>> No.14655824

Yes that one

>> No.14655844

>>14655752
Too many to choose from but not that. I recently got "In Love" by Alfred Hayes and "Uncertain Glory" by some Catalonian author writing about the Spanish Civil War.

>> No.14656056

>>14655752
In October, they're reissuing The Recognitions and JR

>> No.14656087

>>14656056
OWWW YEEEAAAAH

>> No.14656340

>>14656087
OOONNNEEE MORREEEE

>> No.14656626

>>14655752
>NYRB

What

>> No.14656654

>>14656056
Wow

>> No.14656685

>>14656626
New York Review of Books

>> No.14657086

>>14656685
>New York Review of Books

What

>> No.14657174
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>> No.14657181

>>14657086
It's a publisher.

>> No.14657182
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>> No.14657211

My favorite book I read last year was their berlin alexanderplatz

>> No.14657212

>>14657182
>>14657211
based

>> No.14657214
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>>14656056
YEEEEEEEE

>> No.14657220

>>14656056
Link?

>> No.14657228
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>> No.14657232

>>14657174
This
Also Zhang Ailing's Love in a Fallen City

>> No.14657239

>>14657220
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645938/the-recognitions-by-william-gaddis-introduction-by-william-h-gass-with-a-new-introduction-to-the-2020-edition-by-tom-mccarthy/

>> No.14657259

>>14657220
https://twitter.com/chrisvia/status/1222228080934227971

>> No.14657267

>>14657239
Why would I want two introductions? Gass's is fine.

>> No.14657279

>>14657267
Just don't read them. I don't read introductions except for poetry.

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>> No.14657365

Skylark

>> No.14657409

>>14655752
Is Stoner geniunely good or just a meme?
>>14657232
I just got that as a present so I hope you're right.

>> No.14657439

>>14657409
It's less than 300 pages and the youngest book in my favorites list just read it.

>> No.14657453

>>14657409
A genuinely good meme

>> No.14657458

>>14657409
stoner is good

>> No.14657552

>>14657409
It is really good

>> No.14658171

>>14657409
Its fantastic, as are his other books.

>> No.14658221
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>>14655752
Maybe not the best, but it's a lot of fun.

>> No.14658369

>>14658221
for a while, i tried to be called the dude avocado. I failed, of course.

>> No.14658512

>>14656056
Why? They're currently in publication by Dalkey.

>> No.14658573

>>14658512
They aren't

>> No.14658607
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"German scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what he called his Waste Books. With unflagging intelligence and encyclopedic curiosity, Lichtenberg wittily deflates the pretensions of learning and society, examines a range of philosophical questions, and tracks his own thoughts down hidden pathways to disconcerting and sometimes hilarious conclusions."

>> No.14658875

the late mattia pascal

>> No.14658887

>>14657336
Reading it right now, it's great.

>> No.14659205
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>>14655752
Warlock

>> No.14659434

A Savage War of Peace

>> No.14659491
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this is probably one of my favorite books

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14659507

The current state of lit...

>> No.14659526

>>14659507
>implying you actually read it

>> No.14659652

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

>> No.14659655

>>14657365
this

>> No.14659686

>>14659507
>>14659526
Just ordered it, is it as good as people say?

>> No.14659823

>>14659686
It's not good. It wasn't even interesting. The best part is when he talks about Diogenes the Cynic or some similar Greek fag in the introduction. It's all downhill from there.

>> No.14659829

>>14659686
The prose is the main attraction.
>>14659823
pleb

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>>14655752
Here are some I've enjoyed in no particular order:

The Long Ships (this one might be my favorite)
Chaos and Night
The Peregrine
Thus Were Their Faces
Journey by Moonlight
Nightmare Alley
The Glory of the Empire

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14659864

So glad I found this in my usually extremely shitty used book store.

>> No.14660624

Butcher's Crossing

>> No.14660630

>>14659851
>The Long Ships
based.

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>> No.14660744

>>14657409
Yes it is imo, I found it very affecting
Obviously it's been talked about it endlessly here, more than than it deserves, so a few people will shit on it just because they're so sick of hearing about it

>> No.14660881

How do they make their covers so damn kino

>> No.14660892
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>>14655752
Pic related and >>14659864 are my favourites

>> No.14661065

>>14658607
Anyone got an epub of this in English?

>> No.14661082
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Maybe not the best, but kinda unhinged and deliciously rococo. Caution: it's the gayest thing you can do this side of sucking dick.