book acquired

1 min read 2022-06-07 05:24:17

Trey Ellis’s Platitudes (Book acquired, 6 June 2022)

I had a full 90 minutes to browse the second, downtown location of my favorite bookshop today, while my daughter completed onboarding at City Hall

1 min read 2022-06-02 06:08:51

Marina Warner’s “unreliable memoir” of her parents’ early life as a couple came to Biblioklept World Headquarters a few days ago. While I

3 min read 2022-05-28 05:33:00

Today was the last day of school for my kids. They both started new schools this year (high school and middle school). It’s been a weird few years

1 min read 2022-05-06 05:15:49

A few years ago I passed up on a hardback first-edition copy of Walker Percy’s weird dystopian Southern Gothic Love in the Ruins, and have

1 min read 2022-04-26 07:06:18

NYRB has collected the uncollected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick and published it as The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick. Thirty-five

2 min read 2022-04-22 21:45:31

So I got into Kou Machida’s short novel Rip It Up last night. This Japanese novel (original title, きれぎれ [Kiregire]) gets its first

3 min read 2022-04-19 07:27:11

If you follow this blog even semi-regularly, you may know that I frequently frequent Chamblin Bookmine. This sprawling bookstore, with an inventory

1 min read 2022-04-16 22:17:38

Elizabeth Sewell’s 1960 work The Orphic Voice is getting a new edition this summer from NYRB. Their blurb: Taking its bearings from the Greek

2 min read 2022-04-13 07:07:27

Seven years ago I came across three lovely 1970s mass market paperback Ishmael Reed novels. In the years since then, I’ve consumed most of Reed’s

2 min read 2022-04-13 07:07:27

Seven years ago I came across three lovely 1970s mass market paperback Ishmael Reed novels. In the years since then, I’ve consumed most of Reed’s

1 min read 2022-04-08 05:48:16

NYRB has a new collection of Alexander Pushkin stories called Peter the Great’s African out later this month. The long short stories are

1 min read 2022-04-06 05:17:12

I was thrilled to find a first-edition U.S. hardback (Knopf, 1970, Book Club Edition) of Kobo Abe’s novel Inter Ice Age 4. The translation is by

1 min read 2022-03-31 06:38:19

Two new enticing titles from the Dorothy Project: Caren Beilin’s novel Revenge of the Scapegoat and Cristina Rivera Garza’s collection New and

2 min read 2022-03-29 05:54:04

Is David Shields’ new book The Last Interview indeed an “autobiography in question form, with the reader working to supply answers based on the

3 min read 2022-02-27 06:10:43

Dropped by my beloved sprawling used bookstore yesterday to pick up a new copy of Marlon James’s Moon Witch, Spider King. It’s not exactly the