December 8th, 2010 / 11:30 am
Snippets
Snippets
Nick Antosca—
What books are coming out in 2011 that you’re most excited about? Indie or major press, doesn’t matter. This post is semi-selfishly motivated: I’m making my annual personal list of must-read books coming out in the upcoming year. I want a stack of likely-awesome books to read.
new Dennis Cooper novel
it will be out from Harper in the Fall/winter of 2011 as far as I understand.
Bolano essays, ‘Pale King’ by DFW, Antal Szerb short stories, ‘Tyrant Memory’ by Castellanos Moya, ‘Fiasco’ by Kertesz, ‘Life on Sandpaper’ by Kaniuk.
Bolano essays, ‘Pale King’ by DFW, Antal Szerb short stories, ‘Tyrant Memory’ by Castellanos Moya, ‘Fiasco’ by Kertesz, ‘Life on Sandpaper’ by Kaniuk.
I heard The Pale King by David Foster Wallace might be alright.
Steven Amsterdam has a new book coming, according to his publishers. No idea what it’s about, which is the best way.
Ben Lerner’s first novel.
seriously? woah. where?
Coffee House
Seth Fried’s first collection. Steve Himmer’s Bee-Loud Glade. Ms. Roxane Gay’s Haiti collection. And apparently now, the new Steven Amsterdam, too. Isn’t Karen Russell’s novel coming out next year, too?
new Dennis Cooper novel, which by all descriptions i’ve heard is going to be out of control
Blake, is that a fantasy of yours or is an actual new Cooper novel is coming out in 2011? I can’t recall hearing anything about it.
I still have a fantasy that the long-mentioned Charles D’Ambrosio novel (or whatever it is he’s writing) will show up next year.
it will be out from Harper in the Fall/winter of 2011 as far as I understand.
Found out that Patrick De Witt’s new book, ‘The Sisters Brothers’ will be out in 2011 on Ecco, and I cant fucking wait as ‘Ablutions’ was terrific, and he’s definitely one of my favorite new writers.
Ablutions was pretty goddamn wonderful.
Wow I am beyond excited for that, thanks for the headsup.
cara hoffman=so much pretty
New Dennis Cooper, Blake Butler, Justin Taylor, for starters. 2011 will be a good year.
Bill
Bolano essays, ‘Pale King’ by DFW, Antal Szerb short stories, ‘Tyrant Memory’ by Castellanos Moya, ‘Fiasco’ by Kertesz, ‘Life on Sandpaper’ by Kaniuk.
Sorry, I was hallucinating about Justin Taylor. But Kevin Wilson, yay.
Bill
English translation of The Opportune Moment, 1855 by Patrik Ourednik.
And thanks to the people above, this novel by Ben Lerner now, too.
Oh, and the mud luscious novels by Mathias Svalina and Michael Stewart.
I’m really excited for all the mlp stuff, especially the svalina and the stamp story anthology.
anna joy springer’s “the vicious red relic love,” from jaded ibis, and kate zambreno’s “green girl,” from emergency.
Second Blake’s book, Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl and Roxane’s Ayiti, also Bill Walsh’s Re:Telling anthology (Ampersand), Molly Gaudry’s anthology TELL (Flatmancrooked), They Could No Longer Contain Themselves (incl. chapbooks by Mary Miller, John Jodzio, Elizabeth Colen, Sean Lovelace and some other dude, Rose Metal Press) and Look! Look! Feathers by Mike Young.
and lily’s UNFINISHED — is that 2010 or 2011?
‘Pale King,’ duh.
Megan Boyle’s book from Muumuu House.
‘Tree of Codes’ by Jonathan Safran Foer, because paper sculpture is awesome.
Poetry Books that Will Be Exciting:
Solar Throat Slashed by Aime Cesaire (trans. by Arnold & Eshleman)
The Trees The Trees by Heather Christle
I Heart your Fate by Anthony McCann
Goat in the Snow by Emily Pettit
Destroyer and Preserver by Matthew Rohrer
I think Warren Ellis’ new novel is supposed to come out in 2011, but I’m not sure. He’s always delightfully bizarre.
Ben Loory’s collection.
And…oh, yeah…my book!
The Snow Whale, Atticus Books, July 31.
My novel is a contemporary comic retelling of Moby-Dick. White guy gets a DNA ancestry test that comes back Inuit. Joins tribal whale hunt in Alaska.
The Flame Alphabet.
Yay.
Second Blake’s book, Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl and Roxane’s Ayiti, also Bill Walsh’s Re:Telling anthology (Ampersand), Molly Gaudry’s anthology TELL (Flatmancrooked), They Could No Longer Contain Themselves (incl. chapbooks by Mary Miller, John Jodzio, Elizabeth Colen, Sean Lovelace and some other dude, Rose Metal Press) and Look! Look! Feathers by Mike Young.
and lily’s UNFINISHED — is that 2010 or 2011?
oh, and meg pokrass’s Damn Sure Right
“Fog Gorgeous Stag” by Sean Lovelace
“COWBOY MALONY’S ELECTRIC CITY” by Michael Bible
“I AM A VERY PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEUR” by Mathias Svalina
“Widow” by Michelle Latiolais
Christopher Kennedy’s new collection from Boa
Blake’s novel
oh man, I keep forgetting about the new Christle for next year. yes! and Emily Pettit’s should be one to watch for too, good call.
Roy Kesey’s novel.
Hey, thanks, Amber. I’m looking forward to George Perec’s The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise, Peter Grandbois’ Nahoonkara, and — whenever it arrives in English — Michel Houellebecq’s latest.
Sam Pink’s Home Alone novelization, Riley Michael Parker’s novel, and “By the Time We Leave Here, We’ll Be Friends” by J. David Osborne, although that one is technically due out at the end of this month.
No, man. JT’s debut novel is coming out, as I understand it, right around the time of Blake’s (February?). I’m interested in both — AND, I think it goes w/out saying (but WTF, I’ll say it anyway…) I’m definitely interested in reading (from) my debut novel, which hits in May. After four years of writing and revising and pitching and revising and pitching and revising… it’s about time. Summer tour!
curious about the JSF, too. i’ll probably read in a bookshop first, though, just to make sure.
I think Jose Saramago’s English translation of Cain is suppose to come out next year. It will perhaps be is final novel to see publication. So very sad.
Other than that, Brandon Tietz’s Out of Touch is coming out in January. I read an earlier version; it’s damn good.
are you FUCKING kidding me.
i had no idea this was going on. ben lerner made me believe in poetry when my belief was faltering bigtime. this information makes my day.
In reading this I realize I have absolutely no idea who 95% of these people are.
and it’s named after “Leaving the Atocha Station.” christ, it’s like this guy is trying to seduce me. in a very indirect manner.
Yeah, “Ablutions” is one of those books I can pick up and just start reading at a random spot. Funny thing is, I have friends who work in bars who couldn’t get through it because “being in the industry is depressing enough.”
Wise Man’s Fear by Pat Rothfuss, the sequel to The Name of the Wind, and Pale King.
Mark Richard, “House of Prayer No.2”:
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780385513029.html
I hear good things about Evan Lavender-Smith’s new book.
Bruno Bosteels has several books coming out in 2011, including one called La Révolution de la honte, which I’ll read when it comes out in English. It’s not a novel. But he looks like a younger, more rugged JMG Le Clezio.
I’m still looking forward to reading Ecrivains (Antoine Volodine, 2010) and Avec les moines-soldat (Lutz Bassmann, 2008). (If it’s fiction, it’s worth the bother to struggle to read French.)
I thought there was some unpublished work by Eve K Sedgwick in preparation, but maybe I’m wrong.
I hear good things about Evan Lavender-Smith’s new book.
Bruno Bosteels has several books coming out in 2011, including one called La Révolution de la honte, which I’ll read when it comes out in English. It’s not a novel. But he looks like a younger, more rugged JMG Le Clezio.
I’m still looking forward to reading Ecrivains (Antoine Volodine, 2010) and Avec les moines-soldat (Lutz Bassmann, 2008). (If it’s fiction, it’s worth the bother to struggle to read French.)
I thought there was some unpublished work by Eve K Sedgwick in preparation, but maybe I’m wrong.
Ethel Rohan’s Hard to Say, Justin Taylor’s The Gospel of Anarchy, Emma Straub’s Other People We Married, Roxane Gay’s Ayiti, Flatmancrooked/Molly Gaudry’s Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narrative, and Kirsty Logan’s You Look Good Enough To Eat Me.
The Chukchi Bible by Yuri Rytkhue (Archipeligo); Night Soul and Other Stories, Joseph McElroy; Spurious, Lars Iyer; Destiny and Desire, Fuentes; Victor Halfwit, Th. Bernhard; Ice Trilogy, Sorokin; Kornel Esti, by Kosztolanyi; Diviner’s Tale, Bradford Morrow; Illumination, Kevin Brockmeier.
William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters is another one to keep eyes and ears on.
I recommend King of Tuzla by Arnold Jansen op de Haar – ‘infused with pathos and wit’ and ‘a cracking read’. An original coming-of-age story set during the most recent war in Europe.