Three Contemporary Novellas: Moss, Brown and Gaitskill

Classic Novellas Week Buddy Read: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton #NovNov
Classic Novellas Week: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James #NovNov
What can I say about The Turn of the Screw that hasn’t already been said and written? I know there are countless papers, essays even PHDs exploring this slim book, which is the most inconclusive of ghost stories. In Henry James novella, an unnamed narrator is engaged as governess to two angelic children at Bly, a remote English…

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Classic Novellas Week: Catholics by Brian Moore #NovNov #brianmoore100

Two reads for Translation Week: Redonnet and Zweig #NovNov #germanlitmonth

For Translation Week: An interview with Stella Sabin of Peirene Press #NovNov

Translation Week Buddy Read: Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt #NovNov
Translation Week: Dinner by César Aira, translated by Katherine Silver #NovNov
I’m kicking off Translation week for Novellas in November with a bold and frankly quite odd book from Argentine author César Aira. Aira’s work has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges and Roberto Bolaño, and his work is characterised by playful juxtapositions and unexpected tangents that defy any standard idea of plot. Aira has described…

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