Library Trouble
Samuel BenderThoughts about the books I've been reading
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May Books II: New Directions
The Disappearing Act (2024), by Maria Stepanova, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale (2026)
A writer travels west through Europe to a literary conference and the further she travels from her country the more she realizes that some...
May Books I
A Thousand Acres (1991), by Jane Smiley
What is it about rural novels that draw me in? A few years back I went through a heavy Annie Proulx phase, and one of the more recent books that sticks stubbornly in my memory is Gerald Murnane’s The...
April Books: NYRB Classics
The Lord (1986), by Soraya Antonius
A Palestinian magician is executed during the British Mandate of Palestine. The magician’s tricks verge on minor miracles, and colonial officials feared he was inspiring the revolutionaries who rose up i...
March Books II
Into the Weeds (2025), by Lydia Davis
In the writing workshop I took back in early February, the instructor had us read a selection from this Lydia Davis book about writing and I enjoyed it enough to check out the book from the library.
T...
March Books I: Archipelago Book Club
A Parish Chronicle (1970), by Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton (2026)
I tried many years ago to get into Laxness, via Independent People, and found it difficult. I had no such difficulty with A Parish Chron...
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