Jenny Erpenbeck opens #Spring 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting #ShortStory that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.
@bookstodon Jakub Żulczyk creates a small epic, as Big Barrel goes in search of grub in Many Years of Hardships, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff.
@bookstodon Over on the @fictionable#blog Caroline Lucas argues that in the face of division, we must tell "compelling, inspiring stories about what we can and must achieve together".
@bookstodon And on the @fictionable#podcast Jenny Erpenbeck talks about why writers are so suspicious of documents, the trouble with endings and the problem of arbitrary borders.
#Spring 2024 is here, with Jenny Erpenbeck – translated by Michael Hofmann – following a paper trail while Jakub Żulczyk, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff, constructs a small epic. Grahame Williams examines a life without a plan and Lauren Caroline Smith tests her faith. Rose Rahtz reads the signs and Caroline Lucas makes the case for compelling and inspiring stories.
So here's a little taste of the marvellous #ShortStories from Jenny Erpenbeck, Jakub Żulczyk, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz for #Spring 2024.
∙ Warrior-culture capitalism (The Baffler)
∙ The joy of scientific discovery (Nautilus)
∙ Booking a table—for a price (The New Yorker)
∙ Houses in Sicily for one euro (AFAR)
∙ An oral history of Go, 25 years later (GQ)
You can still read and learn for free if you can’t afford a book. Read a book. Get a library card. Teach your kids that libraries are theirs to explore.
The #TBR tin has spoken.
Next read for fiction:
Great tales of detection has 19 short stories selected and introduced by Dorothy L. Sayers. This collection was originally published in 1936, but it's still easy to find this more "recent" edition from Everyman.
Sayers edited several short stories collections and besides the interesting stories, she also wrote insightful introductions about the history and development of the genre.
I'll be using an Oxford related bookmark.
Next read for non-fiction:
Howdunit is a collection of essays about the genre and the work of detective, crime, thrillers authors. The articles are all from the past and present members of The Detection Club, organised and edited by Martin Edwards.
Bookmark from the Portuguese edition of The Floating Admiral, also a The Detection Club work.
Book Signing at The Toronto Comic Arts Festival this Saturday, May 11th! I'll be located on Floor 2, Table 2014/2015 (the @01firstsecond table) at 10:30am! Excited to sign your books and doodle in them! Hope to see all you wonderful folks there! #grickledoodle#horror#comics#tcaf#cartoon#reading#signing#books#art#drawing#funny
Ok so I'm #reading#Hothouse by #BrianWAldiss now, and this is such a strange and mysterious setting I guess I'll keep going with it, just wow.
Only two chapters so far. Earth, 2 million years into the future. The planet no longer spins, and vegetal life has evolved to the top of the food chain.