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We're doing in between issues material now. First up is this review of the graphic novel Pim & Francie . . .
weird stuff, or in the words of our reviewer "240 pages of the
creepiest, most unsettling comics since . . . the last time Al Columbia
published something."
Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days (Artifacts and Bone Fragments) by Al Columbia | Quarterly Conver
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Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days (Artifacts and Bone Fragments) Al Columbia. Fantagraphics. $28.99, 240pp. Al Columbia's reputation in the comics world
The Quarterly Conversation We made it into The New Yorker with Translate This Book! Very exciting!
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Also wanted to call out Jeremy's review of Nog. Great review, great book. I especially liked this part:
"But Nog is more than simply a document of the 1960s
counterculture; indeed, it’s hardly even that. It is primarily an
experiment in building a novel around a hollow core, a novel whose plot
is about the annihilation of plot . . ."
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Nog, Rudolph Wurlitzer. Two Dollar Radio. 168pp, $15.50. Although Nog has never been entirely forgotten since its first publication in 1968, it has never
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I
hope everyone is enjoying Issue 18. I wanted to call out Michael
Moreci's essay on Machado de Assis--he's probably Brazil's greatest
writer ever, and Michael does a great job of showing why.
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Widely considered Brazil's greatest writer, Machado de Assis was a unique writer. Like a Laurence Stern across the Atlantic, this freed slave wrote postmodern literature long before the 20th century.
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Issue 18 is almost ready to go. We've got an excellent special feature that I think people are going to like a whole lot--especially the translated lit crew.
We're previewing a few articles this week One is a review of the new Sam Lipsyte novel.
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The AskSam Lipsyte. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $25.00, 304pp. Sam Lipsyte's newest novel, The Ask, is another unrelenting tour de force of black bile. Set
The Quarterly Conversation Also check out our review of Thoreau's journal, from earlier this week
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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, edited by Damion Searls. NYRB Classics. 700 pp, $22.95. Walden is surely one of the greatest American books. Whether we
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Just published this review at TQC. Interesting take on the Holocaust:
"This is not a narrative of something that happened, but something
which happens and which, by default, will probably happen again . .. "
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Brodeck: A Novel, Philippe Claudel (trans. John Cullen). Nan A. Talese. 336pp, $26.00. Throughout his ten-year writing career, Philippe Claudel has
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