Hi Herb! Sorry for the non-reply. Things have been… chaotic. But we’re still here and roaring back to life with three titles shipping at the end of the month, and more to be announced soon!
“I walked through the halls and entered all the rooms I’d once inhabited, inhaling hints of my former selves and of the women I’d known while I’d lived in those rooms.”
Nº 117/2024 • THE SEASIDE HOTEL by Michael Holt (2024, @sublunary.bsky.social) #NovellaClub
We have a Bluesky account now!
Another book in the bag: The Parson in Jubilee: An Appendix by Jean Paul (1797) for @sublunary.bsky.social. ~55k words. Release TBD. Author self-inserts are nothing new.
Jonathan Williams’s The Jargon Society posing at Art World in Winston-Salem in 1987, with the sign James Harold Jennings made for the JS offices. « Otis Baby » one of several mascots made by Martha Nelson.
Photo credit: Roger Manley. Image from Martrich’s ‘Shy of the Squirrel’s Foot’, p. 87.
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Pre-orders for my chapbook, Some Deer @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, are open! 🦌🦌🦌
Huge thanks to Ian McMillan, Alina Stefanescu & Michael Earl Craig for blurbs; to Aaron Kent for publishing; & to Kristofor Minta for putting deer in my head at Seattle AWP.🦌
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“On a hazy November morning, I saw Marcel Proust asleep unto eternity on his narrow bed, in his bare and silent room…”
For the commemoration of 102 years since his death, three texts on Proust by Anna de Noailles, translated last year for @sublunary.bsky.social sublunaryeditions.com/magazine/thr...
Seattle (and adjacent) folks, come on out this weekend!
Arriving today at @sublunary.bsky.social HQ, the two latest Empyrean Series titles: Jean Paul’s ‘Logbook of Giannozzo the Balloonist’ (1801; tr. David Dollenmayer, 2024) & Harriet Lee’s ‘Kruitzner’ (1801). You can preview the books here:
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Color portrait of Jean Paul (painter uncredited)
Two Stories by Jean Paul, translated by Alexander Booth & Matthew Spencer
Jean Paul, German fantastical writer, was BOTD in 1763, in Wunsiedel @sublunary.bsky.social
"& though their ship was filled with stars, they were tossing out roses"
In June @sublunary.bsky.social will publish my translation of Territories of the Soul/On Intonation, a collection of prose and lyric poetry by Wolfgang Hilbig, ten pieces that seamlessly move between working-class realism and gothic horror. Preorder here:
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I read A Very Original Dinner, by Fernando Pessoa, writing in English as Alexander Search (1907 - he was still in his teens).
Sublunary Editions, 2023, in their Empyrean Series, edited by Natalia Jerez Quintero.
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I'm a sucker for books like this, Hakluyt's Voyages-cum-bestiary but even more insane plus good typography plus cool art restored by the talented Finn Matthews.
@jsief.bsky.social and @sublunary.bsky.social deserve full marks for this project.
Of the new landes by Jan van Doesborch (1510)
New review: a bilingual edition of Mário de Andrade's 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦, recently re-issued by @sublunary.bsky.social www.complete-review.com/reviews/braz...
That’s, uh, dinky in a good way, right?
Container LOOK BOOK Subscription Series. Title: Tomb of the Ecstatic Poet; Installment #5 (November 2024). Description: "...a historical narrative carved in miniature, an exercise in condensation, or a story wrung from stone." Subscribe today using code NEWLOOK
Black background, white foreground text in handwritten script reading: Carolus had stones from Jericho and coarse hairs from Herod's beard; a finger of incalculable age, to the second knuckle, and under the nail, Ederic dirt; wherever it had been dropped, it was said, sprouted an oak. A guileless plunderer, but when a finger bled, he put it back, simple s that.
Black background, white foreground text in handwritten script reading: One who serves discretely need not fear regret. And it is best remembered that revelation is a historical matter first. It is not as important that something happens so much as that something has happened.
Black background, white foreground text in handwritten script reading: No poet should live long enough to confront the porousness of his abstractions. EXTASE, APRÈS LA TOMB.
Get a DEEPER LOOK at our LOOK BOOKS series through writer, designer, and chef of @sublunary.bsky.social Joshua Rothes' TOMB OF THE ECSTATIC POETS: a series of compressed, abstracted histories.
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I wrote about Márcia Barbieri’s “The Whore” (@sublunary.bsky.social) for the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social
"The world that has fucked you into oblivion can be fucked in turn; the blood that seeps from the wounded leftovers of humanity is just as wet as anything else."
New on the website today, “On Reading The Malady of Death” by Christina Tudor-Sideri: sublunaryeditions.com/magazine/on-...
Delighted to have a short essay forthcoming in this beauty alongside these wonders: Jess Sequeira Joshua Rothes Vik Shirley Ellen Dillon Sharon Kivland @jeremymillar.bsky.social @minxmarple.bsky.social Lydia Unsworth and many more. Published by @sublunary.bsky.social: sublunaryeditions.com/magazine
Three paperback books of similar size splayed out on a white surface. The top book is dark blue with two yellow spot lights. This book is Mystery Train: A Novella by Can Xue, translated by Natascha Bruce. The middle-left book is hot pink with large white and black Old English-style lettering. This book is We the Parasites by A.V. Marraccini. On the bottom right is a dark blue-purple book with what appear to be white, semi-transparent rocks of irregular shapes in front of three purple circles. In small white lettering: Disembodied by Christina Tudor-Sideri.
Eeee already got my haul from the Sublunary Editions autumn sale! I’ve had my eye on these for a while. A couple days left to get the goods: sublunaryeditions.com @sublunary.bsky.social 💙📚
A Cage for Every Child by S.D. Chrostowska and Beyond by Horacio Quiroga, Translated by Elisa Taber.
Chaindevils by Matthew Mitchel and At the Intersection of Love and Death by Michael Haynes
More small pub and indie pub books arrived at my door today! Stuff from @sublunary.bsky.social, @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social, and @michaelhaynes.bsky.social.
Tomorrow’s the last day for 30% off everything!
Yep, it's here! Our FALL SALE kicks off now, and is on through next Thursday.
Take 30% off all web orders with the code AUTUMNAL23.
And we'll be dropping some new pre-order links for our early 2024 titles soon, so keep an eye out!
👀: sublunaryeditions.com/all-books
"...[Calvino] recommended that new forms be attempted, agile and concise, forms that were brief yet dense in content. In some way, Italo Calvino was recommending us all to become Monterrosos."
—Enrique Vila-Matas (intro to THE GOLD SEEKERS, tr. Jessica Sequeira)
The postal charges are accurate! We have great rates to the UK!
Out today! Augusto Monterroso’s THE GOLD SEEKERS (tr. Jessica Sequeira) somewhere between novella and memoir, a living family portrait whose author and principal protagonist rediscovers the characters and emotions that formed him.
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Mystery Train: a novella by Can Xue, translated by Natascha Bruce
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