November 2016: Books to Read and Review
This month’s book stack is somewhat indicative of a post-Fall-frontlist blues — aside from Zadie Smith’s Swing Time and Michael Chabon’s Moonglow, there’s not a whole lot of showstopping major works on the (immediate) horizon. I kind of love these moments and think of them like a break in the clouds, where one’s reading list can get a little more esoteric. Last winter I dipped into a string of titles by New York Review Books, and I’m looking forward to another set. Richard McGuire’s Sequential Drawings is a fun little diversion, and I’m very curious to check the Weschler and Handke.
The stack, from top to bottom:
Sequential Drawings by Richard McGuire (Pantheon)
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Ema the Captive by Cesar Aira (New Directions)
Iza’s Ballad by Magda Szabo (New York Review Books)
The Return of Munchausen by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovksy (New York Review Books)
The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei (New York Review Books)
Waves Passing in the Night by Lawrence Weschler (Bloomsbury)
The Moravian Night by Peter Handke (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Commotion of the Birds by John Ashbery (Ecco)
- The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala - March 15, 2020
- Indelicacy by Amina Cain - March 2, 2020
- Abigail by Magda Szabó - February 22, 2020
