Roberto Bolaño

Natasha Wimmer

Ignacio Echevarria

Presents a collection of essays, newspaper columns, prefaces, and speeches published between 1998 and 2003.

Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003

Gabriel Zaid

"This brief guide argues that, in the future, books will be less precious than the time it takes to read them. It addresses how to tackle personal ômust readö lists and pare them down to the books that will truly benefit their readersùwhich ones to start this year, which to put on hold, and which to pull off the sagging shelves. This witty volume describes the importance of books, the way they deepen conversations, and how they create a special hold on their readers. Rather than attempting to answer the question ôWhat should we be reading?,ö it encourages individuals to come up with their own answers."

And How to Find Your Way Among Them

So Many Books

Mario Vargas Llosa

A literary apprenticeship in letters draws on the works of international writers and on the author's own beliefs about writing, reading, and thought, identifying writers as creators and writing as an act requiring discipline.

Letters to a Young Novelist

As Bolano’s friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría, once suggested, can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano’s fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolano’s enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard—which Bolano chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after he’d written it (“and even that I can’t be certain of”)—as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel. Antwerp’s fractured narration in 54 sections—voices from a dream, from a nightmare, from passers by, from an omniscient narrator, from “Roberto Bolano” all speak—moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.

Antwerp

Jeffrey Yang

In "Some Kind of Beautiful Signal," the widely lauded Two Lines World Writing in Translation series continues its 17-year history of bringing readers essential international voices unavailable anywhere else. Edited by National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Natasha Wimmer and acclaimed poet Jeffrey Yang, this volume delivers dozens of poets and fiction writers working in 18 distinct languages, each representing a unique voice and perspective. The collection is headlined by poetry from China's Uyghur ethnic minority. Though thousands of years old and incredibly diverse, Uyghur culture is increasingly threatened by geographic isolation and political oppression. Here, Westerners have a rare chance to hear from this culture in its own words. Also included in this anthology is a broad selection of vital voices: an excerpt from Lydia Davis's new translation of Gustave Flaubert's seminal "Madame Bovary"; a taste of a never-before-seen essay by Roberto Bolano, translated by Natasha Wimmer; and Susanna Fied's newest translations of poems by Danish master Inger Christensen. From Zapotec to Indonesian, Hindi to Portuguese, this testament to the expanse of voices in the world shows readers how universal the themes and struggles of humanity really are. "One of the most impressive annual anthologies of literature-in-translation being published today." Chad Post, "Open Letter Press" "The stories and poems within Two Lines open the reader up to a world that would otherwise be closed entirely, and to connect with that world is truly fortunate." "Utne Reader"

Some Kind of Beautiful Signal

Chris Andrews

Roberto Bolano

A new collection of short fiction gathers everything the author was working on before his death, including a story about a North American journalist receiving a mysterious call in Paris and a woman's recounting of the loss of her virginity. By the author of Nazi Literature in the Americas and 2666.

Natasha Wimmer

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