Best nyrb? Besides Stoner?
>>7384691
act of passion
>>7384691
I have read about if 1/3 of hard rain falling and love it.
>>7384753
That looks pretty good.
>>7384691
Augustus > Stoner >>> Butcher's Crossing
Other great nyrb:
Warlock
Lucky Jim
Season of Migration to the North
Hard Rain Falling
>>7384753
what an ugly cover. even for nyrb
Anybody read Jules Renard - Nature Stories? that's a really good one, cool design too
anything I should get here?
http://www.nyrb.com/pages/holiday-sale
>>7384691
>>7384774
He wrote some excellent short stories. He's the closest I've found to something similar to Borges.
>>7384691
>A high wind in Jamaica
>>7384753
I just started this. The title story is kind of messy (war stuff out a nowhere) but great, the tramp one was a bit eh, but the eye man was cute and the first bit where I got the Borges comparison. Really neat translation too.
Diary Of A Man In Despair is super-interesting
A diary from a far-right monarchist pseudo-Bavarian living under the Nazis, hating Hitler like crazy. Lots of observations on contemporary famous people ("Spengler, you fat sellout fuck")
Life and Fate.
skyfall
hard rain falling
high wind in jamaica
book of ebenzer le page
dirty snow
augustus
tenants of moonbloom
the big clock
slaves of solitude
the lonely passion of judith hearne
two similar books about lonely desperate spinsters living in boarding houses in the 40/50's. both are great. slaves i found surprisingly hilarious at times. judith hearne being even more pathetic and pitiful than i could ever imagine.
>>7385736
>skyfall
skylark
the peregrine
>>7385736
These are all great.
I'll Add
Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser
The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov
Haven't read their Tove Jansson books but I hear they are great. Check them out for Finnish charm.
>>7384753
That guy's surname is just laser sound-effects.
