Mark de Silva 

https://mark-de-silva.com

@markdesilva1

https://www.thisissplice.co.uk

Order the Logos and Square Wave here : 

https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/our-titles/phase-4/the-logos/

Gateway Books :

DESCARTES - MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY.

 SCHOPENHAUER, ON THE SUFFERING OF THE WORLD 

STEPPENWOLF, HERMAN HESSE  

RECENTLY READ :

Middlemarch

Brothers Karamozov 

A Fiery and Furious People, James Sharpe 

 CURRENTLY READING: Invisible Man--

 A Philosophy of Madness: the experience of psychotic thinking--Dutch Philosopher Wouter Kusters 

 Future Reads: Jesus the Magician: Morton Smith, Columbia Historian 

TOP 10

Blithedale Romance--Nathaniel Hawthorne 

 Growth of the Soil--Knut Hamsun (Life and Times of Michael K). 

The Sleepwalkers, Herman Broch

Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias

 Nostromo, Joseph Conrad

 The Leopard, Giuseppie Lampedusa

Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus 

 The Confidence Man, Herman Melville 

 Hyperion, Holderlin 

 Pushkin, Short Stories (Queen of Spades).  

Erica Mou

http://ericamou.com

@ericamou

Buy Thirsty Sea from ;

https://www.heloisepress.com/book/thirsty-sea

https://open.spotify.com/album/3sQyHcF85hNSArNS3wKSZj?si=wPFFq4CITWayJ2SVnbbetA

On tour

UK events

https://www.waterstones.com/events/erica-mou-talk-with-live-music/canterbury-rose-lane

https://www.waterstones.com/events/gower-st-indie-spotlight-erica-mou-and-ivana-sajko-in-conversation-with-merve-emre/london-gower-street

Currently Reading

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ivana Sajko - Love Novel

Recommended reading

Concita De Gregorio - The Missing Word

https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781609457631/the-missing-word

Emanuele Trevi - Two Lives

Top Shelf

Letter to a child never born - Oriana Fallaci

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

The Stranger - Albert Camus

All Men are Mortal - Simone de Beauvoir

A Room Of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf

The Adversary - Emmanule Carrere

Boredom - Alberto Moravia

Family Sayings (Lessico famigliare) - Natalia Ginzburg

Music at the end of the episode is Animals from Erica's latest Album, Nature 

Emily Hall

@emilyhallnyc

Buy the Longcut here https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/the-longcut

Influences;

Thomas Bernhard

Gertrude Stein

Samuel Beckett

Gateway books/art

Harriet The Spy - Fitzhugh

Bleak House - Dickens

Concrete - Bernhard

Arthur Danto

Sigmar Polka

Mark Lombardi

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2-2-can-cake/

https://artbasel.com/catalog/artwork/34806/Sigmar-Polke-Druckfehler-Printing-Error

http://www.artnet.com/artists/sigmar-polke/velocitas-firmitudo-kuY66hul3giEoMuJsTWS3Q2

Blind Spot books

- The Captive - Proust

Currently reading / Recently enjoyed/ looking forward to

Claudia Piñeiro - Elena Knows

My Dead Book - Nate Lippens

Since the Accident - Jen Craig

Carlos Labbé - Spiritual Choreography

Mark Haber - St Sebastian’s Abyss

Daša Drndic - Doppelgänger

Top Ten

Thomas Bernhard - Correction

Waiting for Godot - Beckett

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard

Julie Hecht - The Unprofessionals

Lydia Davis - The End of The Story

2666 - Bolano

Mapp and Lucia - E. F. Benson

Wittgenstein’s Mistress - Markson

The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford

Madame Realism - Lynne Tillman

Ben Walter

https://ben-walter.com

Email [email protected]

Buy What Fear Was here:

https://shop.fullersbookshop.com.au/p/what-fear-was?barcode=9781922571205&search_key=what+fear+was

Gateway books

Current reads

Top 10

Collected Fiction - Borges

Heat and Light - Ellen Van Neerven

Waypoints - Adam Ouston

Top 10

Seeing Stars Simon Armitage

Cosmos and Ferdyderke - Witold Gombrowicz

Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut

Underworld - Don Delillo

Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin

Pereira Maintains-  Antonio Tabucchi

Julius Winsome - Gerard Donovan

Speedboat - Renata Adler

Andrew Roff

@roffwrites

https://roffwrites.com

 Buy Teeth of a Slow Machine here:

 https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-teeth-of-a-slow-machine-andrew-roff/book/9781743058916.html?source=pla&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5tvJhaji9QIViphmAh2O7gpCEAYYASABEgKT6vD_BwE

Published by @WakefieldPress

 What I'm reading: Ben Walter - What Fear Was

 Fiona Robertson - If You're Happy 

Olga Ravn - The Employees 

What I'm looking forward to:

 ane Rawson - A History of Dreams 

Anne Casey Hardy - Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls 

Al Campbell - The Keepers Adam Ouston - Waypoints

Gateway Books Isaac Asimov - I, Robot 

James Clavell - Shogun Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 

Roald Dahl - Collected Stories  

Top 10 

 Elizabeth Tan - Rubik

 Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five 

Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policeman's Union 

Ryan O'Neill - The Weight of a Human Heart 

Josephine Rowe - Here Until August 

Wayne Marshall - Shirl 

Ursula LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness 

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go 

Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 

Robert Kurvitz - Disco Elysium (this is a computer game, but it's really interactive literary fiction)  

Louis Armand

https://atelierlouisarmand.wordpress.com

Gateways and influences.

International poetry collections including Kenneth Slessor (title unknown)

Authors

LUKÁŠ TOMIN

https://www.twistedspoon.com/tomin.html

Currently reading/recently enjoyed

The Dawn of Everything

Book by David Graeber and David Wengrow

The Logos - Mark De Silva

Top Shelf

Richard Makin - Dwelling

https://equuspress.wordpress.com/richard-makin/

Publishers to check out

http://www.insidethecastle.org

https://amphetaminesulphate.bigcartel.com

Seth on Twitter @wastemailing

Instagram @wastemailinglist

[email protected]

https://wastemailinglist.substack.com

Gateway Books:  

House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer 

2.Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan 

3.Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace  

Currently Reading: 

1. Anniversaries: A Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson, translated by Damion Searls 

2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky  

Anticipated Reads:  

1. William T Vollmann 

2. Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter 

 3. Blinding: The Left Wing by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter 

4. A Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine translated by Ralph Manheim 

5. Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet  

6. Devil House by John Darnielle 

7. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt 

8. Malina by Ingborg Bachman translated by Philip Boehm 

9. The Complete Works of Primo Levi compiled by Ann Goldstein  

Top 10:  

10. I’m Thinking of Endings Things by Iain Reid 

9. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 

8. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 

7.   Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes 

6.   The Burrow by Franz Kafka, translated by Michael Hofmann         

5.  In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan         

4.  Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter       

 3.  Story of the Eye by George Bataille, translated by Joachim Neugrochal  

(Correction (1:11:30) - Seth refers to the narrator's love interest as Marcelle where he meant to say Simone. Marcelle is a secondary character in the story.) 

 2.  The Recognitions by William Gaddis      

 1.  Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

Adam Ouston

@adamouston

https://www.costyoume.co/biography

Buy Waypoints here

https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/waypoints/

https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/our-titles/phase-4/waypoints/

https://www.booktopia.com.au/waypoints-adam-ouston/book/9781922571243.html

Gateway books

The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas

Malone Dies - Beckett

Jeanette Winterson - The Passion

Current reads

Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellmann

Fernando Pessoa -Biography - Richard Zenith

Paul Auster - Stephan Crane

Ben Walter - What Fear Was

Top Shelf

All Fires the Fire - Julio Cortazar

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Jeanette Winterson - The Passion

Thomas Bernhard - The Looser

The Melancholy of Resistance - László Krasznahorkai

Dublinesque - Enrique Villa-Matas

The Vegetarian - Han King

By Night in Chile - Roberto Bolano

Max Sebald - Vertigo

Caroline Golden and Derek Owens

The Villagers is available now here;

https://animalheartpress.net/meet-the-villagers/

www.carolinegolden.com

@cgcollage

www.derekowens.net

@derekowens.art

Gateway books

D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths

The golden phoenix, and other French-Canadian fairy tales - Book by Marius Barbeau

Alice - Lewis Carroll

Top Shelf

Derek

Laurence Millman - A kayak Full of Ghosts

Russel Edson - Poetry

Kij Johnston - At the Mouth of the River of Bees

Ridley Walker Russel Hoban

Carmen Maria Machado - Her Body and Other Parties

Laird Hunt - Zorie and In The House in The Dark in The Woods

Jacob Rabinowitz - Blame It On Blake: a memoir of dead languages, gender vagrancy, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso & Carr

Caroline -

The Green Fairy Book - Andrew and Nora Lang

Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs

Love in the Time of Cholera - Marquez

The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo

Fresh Water for Flowers Valérie Perrin

Rikki Ducornet

http://www.rikkiducornet.com

Gateway Books / Authors

Alice in Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carol

50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship - Salvador Dali

Misfortunes of The Immortals - Paul Eluard, Illustrated by Max Ernst

Kafka

Borges

Calvino

Lispector

Lolita - Nabokov

100 Years of Solitude - Marquez

Omensetter’s Luck - William H Gass

Currently reading/recently enjoyed looking forward to

Above us The Milky Way - Fowzia Karimi

The Celestial Hunter - Roberto Calloso

Top 10ish

Above us The Milky Way - Fowzia Karimi

Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carol

Kafka

Borges

Lolita - Nabokov

Cosmicomics - Calvino

The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin

Omensetter’s Luck - William H Gass