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You are neither silence nor language: The Answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal Quinard Austrian poet, writer and librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal signalled a break with his earlier works when, in 1902, he published the story “A Letter,” also known as “The Lord Chandos Letter.” It is…

ICYMI I wrote about this short but passionate defence of the power of language.
You are neither silence nor language: The Answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal Quinard, tr by Stéphanie Boulard and Timothy Lavenz @wakefieldpress.bsky.social
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Adina Hoffman on Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Our win…

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Tomorrow!

We are pleased to announce a celebration for our 100th title:
SchrummSchrumm, or The Sunday Quicksands Excursion by Fernand Combet. Marc Lowenthal will be joined by translators Erik Butler, Margaret Carson, Kit Schluter, Doug Skinner
Aeon Bookstore 151 E Broadway, NY, Thursday, October 30, 2025, 7pm

3books: malpertuis, waystations of the deep night, fantastic orgy

Fantastic Orgy by Alexander M. Frey, is now in hand, along with reprints of Marcel Brion's Waystations of the Deep Night and Jean Ray's Malpertuis.

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‘Acrobatics bereft of inner order’ In the title story of Diabelli – a collection of short fiction by the Swiss writer Hermann Burger (1942–89), first published in 1979 – a washed-up

Had the pleasure of covering Hermann Burger's Diabelli (translated by @anathanwest.bsky.social and published by @wakefieldpress.bsky.social)
for this week's @thetls.bsky.social.

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Cate Blanchett reads a wonderfully bizarre letter to a stranger YouTube video by Letters Live

Cate Blanchett does a great reading of a letter from our Remedios Varo book!

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We're happy to declare that we have two new titles in hand: Huysmans's pessimistic ode to sterility (and his own favorite novel of his career), Domesticity, and Jacques Sternberg's frenetic pop-surrealist fever dream, The Employee
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The Orchestra Minion | Hermann Burger I have not applied for the post of orchestra minion in order to revive the old feud between strings and woodwind.

The first monologue from Hermann Burger's Diabelli in The Baffler, for those wanting to dip their eyes in before taking a plunge.

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The Messengers have arrived. Evocative of Alain-Fournier and Kafka, but presenting a dreamscape of its own unsettling character, their message comes with the inevitable question: how has this award-winning 1974 novel never been translated into English before?
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A Review of The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards (a Novel Against Psicho-Analise) - Believer Magazine

“I have stolen myself from a film. Now I am strolling along the ocean shore. And I still have not spliced my paragraphs into the proper order.”

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We literally have new books in hand: Hermann Burger's Diabelli and Emil Szittya's Hashish Dreams of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards.
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Yes to both! We’re working on it. No firm dates to offer just yet

New review: Gaston de Pawlowski's 1916 collection, 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝐼𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 www.complete-review.com/reviews/anci..., recently out in English, from @wakefieldpress.bsky.social

New arrogant recommendations from Tom Bowden, which include two recent Wakefield titles. And, of course, much more...

New books are in hand in most untimely fashion: the spiraling spatial symbolism of Dr. Mises and the symbolist sexual psychosis of Rachilde.
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Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel Illustrations by Alfred Kubin / Translated, with an introduction, by Christina Svendsen / November 2012 / 6 x 9, 280 pp / 978-0-9841155-9-4 “The serene and gentle amazement with which the author tells...

Just realized @wakefieldpress.bsky.social is here, well worth looking at their catalog and paying attention to them

Here’s the book that made me take notice - mind bending, challenging, brilliant, a German “intergalactic utopian novel” from 1939

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Constant Delirium: Reading Jean-Pierre Martinet’s “With Their Hearts In Their Boots” Credit where credit is due: I picked up Jean-Pierre Martinet’s With Their Hearts In Their Boots (translated by Alex Andriesse) in no small part due to the fact that its introduction was by William …

We reviewed the unsettling short novel With Their Hearts In Their Boots, out now on @wakefieldpress.bsky.social. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2024/11/26/c...

Constant Delirium: Reading Jean-Pierre Martinet’s “With Their Hearts In Their Boots” Credit where credit is due: I picked up Jean-Pierre Martinet’s With Their Hearts In Their Boots (translated by Alex Andriesse) in no small part due to the fact that its introduction was by William …

Thanks to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social for writing about Jean-Pierre Martinet’s WITH THEIR HEARTS IN THEIR BOOTS over @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social. My pal Alex translated the book, & I wrote the foreword. It’s out now from @wakefieldpress.bsky.social. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2024/11/26/c...

Constant Delirium: Reading Jean-Pierre Martinet’s “With Their Hearts In Their Boots” Credit where credit is due: I picked up Jean-Pierre Martinet’s With Their Hearts In Their Boots (translated by Alex Andriesse) in no small part due to the fact that its introduction was by William …

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Some attention given to the bracing existential horror of Martinet's With Their Hearts in Their Boots. And a happy holiday to our readers in the US.