January’s Wafer-Thin Books Discussion

The video of January’s Wafer-Thin Books reading group discussion of Max Blecher’s Adventures in Immediate Irreality is now online.

Among the other books mentioned are:

• Black Forest by Valérie Mréjen, translated by Katie Shireen Assef (Deep Vellum, 80 pages)
• The Complete Novellas by Agnes Owens (Polygon, 498 pages)
  • Includes Like Birds in the Wilderness, A Working Mother, For the Love of Willie, Bad Attitudes, Jen’s Party
• A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar, translated by Stefan Tobler (New Directions, 80 pages)
• The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older (Tordotcom, 160 pages)
  • “A gaslamp mystery that takes place on Jupiter”
• Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences (Yale University Press, 213 pages)
  • A collection of three novellas (Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin)
• Noon Wine by Katherine Anne Porter (Schuman’s, 65 pages)
  • Usually published in a collection with Pale Horse, Pale Rider and Old Mortality
• 99 Interruptions by Charles Boyle (CB editions, 58 pages)
• Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai, translated by Polly Barton (Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions, 192 pages)
• I Remember by Joe Brainerd (Granary Books, 192 pages)
  • Also included in The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard (Library of America Special Publication)
• The Open Door: A Ghost Story for Christmas by Margaret Oliphant (Biblioasis, 76 pages)
• Kzradock the Onion Man by Louis Levy, translated by W. C. Bamberger (Wakefield Press, 137 pages)
• The Life Written by Himself by Archpriest Avvakum, translated by Kenneth N. Brostrom (Columbia University Press, 208 pages)