February’s Wafer-Thin Books Discussion is Now Online

The video of February’s discussion of Willem Frederik Hermans’ An Untouched House is now available on YouTube:

Thanks to Joshua Rothes from Sublunary Editions for joining us to talk about some of the wafer-thin books he’s published.

Books mentioned during the discussion:

• The Free-Lance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed (116p. in old Bantam paperback)
• Sorry Meniscus by Iain Sinclair (Profile Books, 1999, 93p.)
• Fire Sermon and A Life by Wright Morris (Harper & Row, 1971 and 1973, 155p. and 152p.; also available from the University of Nebraska Press)
• Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä, translated by Thomas Teal (Sort of Books, 2021, 96p.)
• From Our Own Fire by William Letford (Carcanet, 2023, 112p.)
• Flight to Darkness and 77 Rue Paradis by Gil Brewer (Stark House Noir Classics, 2018, 3336p.)
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, Book 1) by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom, 2020, 128p.)
• Janet’s Repentance by George Eliot (Hesperus Classics, 2007, 112p.)
• The Story of the Paper Crown by Józef Czechowicz, translated by Frank Garrett (Sublunary Editions, 2023, 88p.)
• Ivan Moscow by Boris Pilnyak, translated by A. Schwartzman (Sublunary Editions, 2021, 100p.)
• Mahogany and Other Stories by Boris Pilnyak, translated by Vera T. Rek and Michael Green (Overlook Press, 2012, 336p.)
• The Most Fragile Objects by Alberto Chimal, translated by George Henson (Sublunary Editions, 2020, 126p.)
• Black Forest by Valérie Mréjen, translated by Katie Shireen Assef (Deep Vellum, 2019, 80p.)