Max Lawton 

Notable books coming out in 2024 

Other books mentioned 

Washington Square - Henry James 

The Shards - BEE

My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

HERSCHT07769 - László Krasznahorkai

Molly - Blake Butler 

The Children of the Dead - Elfriede Jelinek

Robin Myers 

Books mentioned, published this year and forthcoming; 

Love Training - Andrés Neuman 

Bariloche - Andrés Neuman 

We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (New Directions / Harville Secker, forthcoming)

The Summer of the Serpent by Cecilia Eudave (Soho Press, forthcoming)

The Trees by Claudia Peña Claros (Relegation Books, forthcoming)

A Strange Adventure by Eva Forest (Sternberg Press, forthcoming)

A Date With the Lady by Mateo García Elizondo (Charco Press, forthcoming)

Restoration by Ave Barrera, co-translated with Ellen Jones (Charco Press, forthcoming)

The Visit by Mariana Graciano (Alliteration Publishing, 2023)

Free Radicals by Rosa Beltrán (Katakana Editores/Hablemos, Escritoras, 2023)

In Vitro by Isabel Zapata (Coffee House Press, 2023)

The Law of Conservation by Mariana Spada (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023)

The Brush by Eliana Hernández Pachón (Archipelago Books, forthcoming)

Best books of 2023 and looking forward to 

January

By Sara GallardoTranslated by Frances Riddle and Maureen Shaughnessy

Recital of the Dark Verses

by Luis Felipe Fabre

This Little Art - Kate Briggs 

The Longform - Kate Briggs 

2024 

- The Extinction of Irena Rey - Jenny Croft 

Traces of Enayat - Iman Mersal

Michael Winkler 

 Highlights 2023

Michelle de Kretser

A Horse At Night - Amina Cain

Vehicle - Jen Calleja 

Wednesday’s Child - Yiyun Li

Gibbons - James Morrison 

Judas Boys - Joel Dean 

James Hannaham - Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta 

James Kelman - God's Teeth and Other Phenomena

Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright 

Bird - Adam Morris 

August Blue -  Deborah Levy

Childhood - Shannon Burns 

I’d Rather Not - Robert Skinner 

Kick The Latch - Kathryn Scanlan

2024

Wayne Marshal - Henry Goes Bush

Katerina Gibson - Debut Novel 

Laura Elvery - New novel 

Kylie Mirmohamadi - New novel 

Sarah Krasnostein - Non fiction - High Country Murders 

Travis Myer 

If on a Winters Night a Traveller - Calvino 

Tokyo Montana Express - Richard Brautigan

Lispector -

Passion According to G.H. 

An Apprenticeship 

Agua Viva

Pessoa - Book of Disquiet

The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut 

Mount Chicago - Adam Levin

A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley 

Sunflower - Tex Gresham 

Grimmish - Michael Winkler 

Gass- Omensetter’s Luck 

Ed Parks - Same Bed Different Dreams 

Solenoid - Cartarescu

A High Wind In Jamaica 

Solarium - Braden Matthew 

Oscar Submerges - Zach Tanner

Ben Diamond 

Best book 

Anything That Moves - Jamie Stuart 

 Sarah Marie - Literal Nobody

Best books of the year 

Soldiers Hunters not Cowboys - Aaron Tucker

Burr - Brooke Lockyer

Love is a Place But You Cannot Live There - Jade Wallace 

Most anticipated in 2024 - Bird Suit Sydney Hegele

Zachery Issenberg 

Red and the Black - Stendhal 

Zone and Compass - Enard 

 We are a Haunting - Tyriek White

Tour of the Black Clocks Steve Erickson 

An Impossible Object - Nicholas Mosley 

Carpentaria - Alexis Wright

2024 

The Obscene Bird of Night José Dononso 

Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright 

Sean McCallum 

Best books of 2023

Mark A Henry 

The Honolulu Situation 

A Naked Singularity - Sergio De La Pava 

Conversation in the Cathedral - Maria Vargas Llosa 

The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy 

Buy Mark's books here https://operationdodecahedron.com/

Find him on social media

@markahenrybooks

@harmlessfires

https://danieljamesfraser.wordpress.com/

Sam Lipsyte 

Buy No One Left To Come Looking For You here:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/no-one-left-to-come-looking-for-you/18850055?ean=9781501146121

Gateway books / writers

Thomas Pynchon 

Donald Barthelme 

Stanley Elkin 

Tom McGunane

Barry Hannah 

Padget Powell 

Ben Marcus 

Moby Dick

Philip Roth - Sabbath’s Theatre 

Joseph Roth 

Issac Babel 

Tolstoy 

James Joyce 

Samuel Beckett

Currently reading/recently enjoyed/looking forward to 

Javier Marias - Your Face Tomorrow Trilogy 

My Father’s Diet - Adrian Nathan West 

Material - Camille Bordas (June 2024 Release)

Desert Island Books 

The Man Without Qualities - Musil 

Collected Stories - Barry Hannah 

Ulysses - Joyce 

Collected Stories - Issac Babel 

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf 

Jacob and his Brothers - Thomas Mann 

Bernhard - Extinction 

Paul Beaty - The Sellout 

Find Courtenay @

https://courtenayscorner.com/

http://patreon.com/courtenaywrites

Substack

https://themaplemoon.substack.com

X @courtenaywrites

Instagram themaltesereader

https://michaelsalu.com/

https://theredearthproject.org/

Get the book from :

https://calamaripress.com/Red_Earth.htm

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Gateway books

The Wretched of the Earth - Franz Fanon

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt

The Brothers Kamarazov

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino

Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

 A Lover's Discourse - Roland Barthes

Influential as a writer

Confabulations - John Berger

The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

Kindred - Octavia Butler

The Literature Machine - Italo Calvino

 Anne Carson 

The Boxman - Kobo Abe

The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison 

Camera Lucida - Roland Barthes

Derek Walcott

Negrophobia - Darius James

Denis Johnson - Jesus' sonDisgrace - JM Coetzee

Currently reading:

The Black Technical Object - Ramon Amaro

MACUNAÍMA: THE HERO WITH NO CHARACTER, BY MÁRIO DE ANDRADE

Nomenclature: New and Collected PoemsBook by Dionne Brand

The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens

Terra Amata by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Thanks to Jen Craig and to Seth over at WASTE Mailing list for appearing on this episode.

Jen is on Instagram
@absurdenticements

https://linktr.ee/absurdenticements

Seth is everywhere

https://linktr.ee/wastemailinglist

The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach 

Order from One World V

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737057/the-golem-of-brooklyn-by-adam-mansbach/

http://www.adammansbach.com/

Soundtrack by @defcee

https://open.spotify.com/album/10RHdG5gi6jWhi1qAD7cFK?si=9P1RMU4tRVaRTvAmBN-Hgw\

Gateway books 

The Pushcart War - Jean Merrill

Treasure Island 

Current reads 

Lone Women - Victor Lavalle 

When Crack Was King - Donovan Ramsey 

The Talmud 

Desert Island Books

2666 - Robert Bolaño 

Rule of the Bone - Russel Banks 

Subway Art - Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper

@mf.novelist

Buy the book from

https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/late/

Gateway books /authors

Carson McCullers

Tenesse Williams

Truman Capote

Patricia Highsmith

Ulysses

Current reads

The Crying Room - Gretchen Shrim

Gregory Day - Bell of the World

Desert Island Books

Ulysses

In Search of Lost Time

Carpentaria - Alexis Wright

Mavis Gallant - Short stories

Joan Didion

Diane Arbus - Photography

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