Bram Presser

David Leo Rice

Emmett Stinson

Greg Gerke

Nathan Knapp

My Kids

My Picks for 2024/25.

Mauro Javier Cárdenas

Garielle Lutz

Mark. A. Henry.

Colleen Hoover

Andrei from The Untranslated

James Rosewarne

Nicholas Rombes

Miles Beard

Iain Smith

Featuring :

Jen Craig

Nicholas During

D. Frederick Thomas

Eli McLean

Paul Dalgarno

Part 4 

Show notes 

Jen Craig

Best of 2024 

Paradise Estate - Max Easton

Jakob Von Guten - Walser 

Let The Boys Play - Nicholas John Turner

Janet Frame - Owls Do Cry 

Eve Langley - The Pea Pickers

Greg Gerke - In The Suavity of The Rock

2025

Michelle de Kretser - Theory and Practice 

Pip Adam - Audition 

Catherine Rey - Lovers

The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen

Vigdis Hjorth - If Only 

Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions 

Nicholas During from NYRB

Best of 2024

Edwin Frank - Stranger Than Fiction 

The Pornographer - John McGahern

Blue Lard - Sorokin 

Upcoming in 2025 

https://www.nyrb.com/collections/forthcoming

The Suicides - Antonio di Benedetto

Lion -  Sonya Walger

On Writers and Writing - Henry James 

Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico

Sun City- Tove Jansson

Water - Rumi 

Frog In The Throat - Marcus Werner 

Eli McLean 

https://meanjin.com.au/interviews/all-colour-and-light-an-interview-with-gerald-murnane/

Best of 2024

Marxist Modernism - Gillian Rose

Wittgenstein’s Mistress - Markson 

Guy Davenport - Every Force Evolves a Form

I Am Not Sidney Poitier - Percival Everett 

Hospital - Sanya Rushdi

HOLOCENE POINTBREAKS -Jake Goetz

2025 

On The Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle

Killing Stella - Marlen Haushofer

The Seal Woman - Beverley Farmer

Lucy Nelson - Wait Here

POETS AND THEIR ENEMIES - Louis Klee 

The Athletics of Resistance - Peter Weiss 

D.Frederick Thomas 

2024 Highlights 

Sheila Heti - Alphabetical Diaries 

Night Palace Mount Eerie

Stacey Levine - Dra—

Audition - Pip Adam

Nevada - Imogen Binnie

Tape For The Turn of The Year - A. R. Ammons

The Yellow Notebooks - Helen Garner

2025

Good Lord - Ella Frears

TOM MCALLISTER - It All Felt Impossible 

Girlhood x A Haunting - Jessica Rae Bergamino

Pathemata - Maggie Nelson

RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS - Drafts 

Musashi - Yoshikawa Eiji

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain

The Tunnel - William H Gass

The Swan Book - Alexis Wright 

The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas

Murakami - Kafka On The Shore 1Q84 

Gilgamesh 

David Keenan and Wendy Erskine

Julia Kornberg

Max Lawton

Erin Vincent

Show Notes

PART 4

Wendy Erskine and David Keenan 

Buy The Benefactors by Wendy In June 2025 from Sceptre

Buy David’s Volcanic Tongue from:

https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/volcanic-tongue

Highlights of 2024

A Time of Cherries  - Montserrat Roig

Spent Life - Laura Pawson 

Mrs. Caliban - Rachel Ingalls

Monumenta - Lara Howorth

Danilo Kiš -Encyclopaedia of The Dead

Clay - A Human History by Jennifer Lucy Allen

Artaud 1937 Apocalypse: Letters from Ireland - Antonin Artaud

Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock’n'Roll - Peter Guralnick

The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 - Peter Cole (Trans)

2025 

The Benefactors - Wendy Erskine 

The Expansion Project - Ben Pester

The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth - Adrian Duncan 

Base Notes - Adelle Stripe

Julia Kornberg

Highlights 2024

You Glow in The Dark - Liliana Colanzi

The Queens’ Ball - COPI 

In Translation by Kit Schluter - 2025 

Catherine Lacey -New book

Max Lawton

Best of 2024

Bleak House - Dickens 

Pitch Dark Renata Adler

Light Years - James Salter

Mating - Norman Rush

Obscene Bird Of Night - Donoso 

Table of Fortune - Vollmann 

Mary Gaitskill - Bad Behaviour 

Will Self - Elaine 

Conrad - The Secret Sharer and Typhoon

Theodoros - Cartarescu 

The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch 

Iain Sinclair - Pariah Genius 

On The Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle

Erin Vincent

https://www.erinvincent.com/

2024 Highlights 

Roland Barthes - The Preparation of the Novel 

Maggie Nelson - Jane - A Murder

When I Sing Mountains Dance -  Irene Solà

Lara Pawson - Spent Light and This Is The Place to Be

The Haunted Screen - J.M. Tyree 

Brown Girls - Daphne Palasi Andreades

Vessel - Dani Netherclift

Pablo Katchadjian - What To Do and Thanks 

Looking forward to in 2025

Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff - Your Name Here 

Irene Solà - I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth - Maggie Nelson

Ben Slotky

Avner Landes, Sara Lippmann, Adam Levin

Daniel Davis Wood, Bristol Vaudrin

Dustin Illingworth

Show notes

Part 2 

Ben Slotky 

Mariana Enriquez Short stories and Our Share of Night 

Jessica Anthony - The Most 

James Ellroy 

Paul Auster 

Adam Levin, Avner Landes, Sara Lippmann

Get The Delegation By Avner  in April from https://operationdodecahedron.com/

Get Smashing The Tablets edited by Sara and Seth Rogoff here in April 

 https://sunypress.edu/Books/S/Smashing-the-Tablets

Highlights of 2024

Hotel Egypt - Stuart Ross

Living with our dead. Stories of loss and consolation - Delphine Horvilleur

Like it Matters - Lee Klein 

The Material - Camile Bordas 

Jesse Ball - The Repeat Room

Jill Ciment - Consent 

Cynthia Ozick - The Cannibal Galaxy 

The Little brothers of St Mortimer - John Fergus Ryan

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

- Natasha Trethewey

Apeirogon - Colum McCann

Minor Detail - Adania Shibli

Nicole Kraus - Forest Dark

Elisa Albert - The Snarling Girls / How This Night is Different 

Fruit of the Dead - Rachel Lion 

God of The Woods - Liz Moore 

The Propheteers -Max Apple

Butcher’s Crossing - John Williams 

Jernigan - David Gates 

The Name of The World - Denis Johnson 

Golk - Richard G. Stern

Looking forward to in 2025 

Hotel Egypt - Stuart Ross

The Delegation - Avner Landes 

Christian TeBordo - Discord - A Regression 

Afterward - Bristol Vaudrin 

Berlin Atomised - Julia Kornberg 

More Cynthia Ozick 

Joseph Roth 

Shayne Terry - Leave 

The Anatomy of Exile: A Novel - Zeeva Bukai

The Novelist - Jordan Castro 

The Woodcutters - Bernard 

The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker

Bristol Vaudrin and Daniel Davis Wood 

Afterward coming out on March 4th from Tortoise books 

Highlights of 2024

We Will all Still See Each Other Afterward - Tyler Dempsey 

Alphabetical Diaries - Sheila Heti 

Laura Pawson - Spent Light

Garielle Lutz - Backwardness 

All My Precious Madness - Thomas Bowles 

Let The Boys Play - Nicholas John Turner

2025 list

Sexy Life Hello - Michelle Kicherer

New Christian TeBordo 

The Instructions - Adam Levin

New Sergio De La Pava, New Mark Haber, Miss Mackintosh My Darling

Stephen Downs - Mural 

Schattenfroh 

New Helen DeWitt - Your Name Here

The Deserters - Enard 

Andrew Gallix - Loren Ipsen 

Dustin Illingworth 

Highlights of 2024

The Obscene Bird of Night - Donoso 

Edwin Frank - Stranger Than Fiction

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Children of The Dead - Elfriede Jelinek

Gretel And The Great War - Adam Erlich Sachs

2025

Schattenfroh 

The Suicides - Antonio di Benedetto

Visions and Temptations

by Harald Voetmann

Borges -  Adolfo Bioy Casares, 

Part 1

Lee Klein 

https://www.litfunforever.com/

Best book read in 2024 Always Crashing In Same Car - Lance Olsen 

Percival Everett books

Megan McDowell 

Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff

Elena Garro - Biography 

Looking forward to in 2025

The National Telepathy - Roque Larraquy

Richard Milward

Highlights 2024 

In The Jingle Jangle Jungle - Joel Gion

Ava Anna Ada - Ali Millar 

2025

Richard Foster - Punk Rock Bird Watching Club 

David Keenan - Volcanic Tongue 

Adele Stripe -  Base Notes 

Blake Butler 

2024 

Alphabetical Diaries - Sheila Heti 

Flunker Denis - Cooper

The Abyss - Fernando Vallejo

My Lesbian Novel - Renee Gladden

The Last Sane Woman - Hannah Regel

2025 

The Honditsch Cross - Ingeborg Bachmann

The Deserters - Mathias Énard

Inger Christensen - The Painted Room 

https://ijbaker.com.au

@sputnikon3

Buy the book here:

https://astrapublishinghouse.com/product/berlin-atomized-9781662602856/

Gateway books

Savage Detectives

Collected Borges

Salinger

T.S Elliot poetry

Desert Island Books

Anna Karenina

Borges - Ficciones

Buenos Aires Affair - Puig

Hour of The Star - Lispector

Hopscotch - Cortazar

Ulysses - Joyce

L'Internationale Argentine - Copi

Opperation Shylock - Roth

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento -Facundo

@WillVanderhyden

Buy Melvill from 

https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/melvill-1

Gateway books 

Infinite Jest 

Gravity’s Rainbow 

Wittgenstein’s Mistress 

Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson 

Picksongs and Descants - Coover 

Lost In The Funhouse - Barth 

If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller 

Current reads 

The Annual Banquet of The Gravediggers Guild - Enard

You Dreamed of Empires - Alvaro Enrigue 

The Extinction of Irene Rey - Jenny Croft

Solenoid - Cartarescu 

Bruna Dantas Lobato - Blue Light Hours 

The Book of Losman - K.E. Semmel 

Mark Haber - Lesser Ruins 

New Teju Cole and Yuri Herrera 

Desert Island Books 

La velocidad de las cosas - Fresan 

Nabokov - Transparent Things 

Waiting for the Barbarians - Coetzee 

War and War - Lazlo K 

Runaway 

Post Colonial Love Poem 

Distant Star / By Night In Chile 

60 Stories - Donald Barthelme

Distant Star - Lispector 

Invention of Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares

Infinite Jest 

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden - Denis Johnson