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Books Acquired, 6.25.2012—Or, Here’s What’s New from Picador This Month
A nice stack from the good folks at Picador this month, including two new entries in their ongoing Nadine Gordimer reissues. I like the design on the series: There’s also a reissue of Denis Johnson’s...
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Books Acquired, 4.23.2012 — Or, Here’s What’s New from Picador This Month
Nice little stack from the good people at Picador—novels, reissues, first-time-in-trade-paperbacks, nonfiction . . . a nice little spread. First up is Chris Adrian’s latest novel The Great Night,...
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The Pale King Paperback (Book Acquired, 4.07.2012)
I was happy to get a trade paperback of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King this weekend (thanks Hachette!) for a few reasons. First, I detest hardback books — that didn’t stop me from picking up...
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Book Shelves #2, 1.08.2012
. . . it’s not too difficult, very obviously, to keep ten or twenty or let’s say even a hundred books; but once you start to have 361, or a thousand, or three thousand, and especially when the total...
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Book Acquired, 9.06.11
The kind people at Picador sent me a copy of the trade paperback of this book called Freedom by some guy named Jonathan Franzen. The hardback came out last year, but it kinda went under the radar; one...
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Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 Revisited
Any bibliophile can attest that one of the greatest pleasures of re-reading a favorite book is that it doesn’t change. You change, but it doesn’t, and somehow, you can measure your own change against...
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Tree of Smoke — Denis Johnson
One year after it topped book critics’ best-of 2007 lists everywhere (including ours), Denis Johnson’s Vietnam War epic Tree of Smoke is finally available in a handsome trade-paperback. Picador’s...
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