The Interesting Times #178 (7.8.23)

Issue #178

• Breaking rocks. >>Blood and Dirt.

• Publisher Barbara Epler’s book selections. >>Books published by New Directions. >>Pure Colour.

• “A genius on the level of Beckett.” >>Read Thomas’s reviews of several books by Gerald Murnane.

• The strange and the spiritual. >>Shadow Worlds.

• Where did language come from? >>Books by Cormac McCarthy.

• How it should be between people. >>Is Mother Dead.

• Toggling. >>Nothing Special.

• Staying with you.

• The new publishing paradigm.

• “I’m nobody when I write.” >>Books by Annie Ernaux.

• To make a world habitable. >>Translation as Transhumance.

• Sympathetic to our plight. >>Books by Krasznahorkai.

• The woman behind Borges. >>Labyrinths.

• What’s going on in literary publishing?

• How do I make art and also pay the bills?

• Our film recommendation this week: My Father and Me.

• That doesn’t look right!

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