Άρθρα μαρκαρισμένα ως: 'κυκλοφορίες'
20 Φεβρουαρίου, 2010
31 Ιανουαρίου, 2010

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As Doc approached Downtown L.A., the smog grew thicker, till he couldn’t see to the end of the block. Everybody had their headlights on, and he recalled that somewhere behind him, back at the beach, it was still another classic day of California sunshine. Being on the way to visit Adrian Prussia, he`d decided not to smoke much, so he was at a loss to account for the sudden appearance, rising ahead, of a dark metallic gray promontory about the size of the Rock of Gibraltar. Traffic crept along, nobody else seemed to see it. He thought about Sortilege’s sunken continent, returning, surfacing this way in the lost heart of L.A., and wondered who’d notice it if it did. People in this town saw only what they’d all agreed to see, they believed what was on the tube or in the morning papers half of them read while they were driving to work on the freeway, and it was all their dream about being wised up, about the truth setting them free. What good would Lemuria do them? Especially when it turned out to be a place they’d been exiled from too long ago to remember.
AP Finance was tucked somewhere between South Central and the vestigial river, hometown of Indians and bindlestiffs and miscellaneous drinkers of Midnight Special, up a wasted set of what looked like empty streets, among pieces of old railroad track brickwalled from view, curving away through the weeds. Cut in front and across the street, Doc noted half a dozen or so young men, not loitering or doing substances but poised and tonic, as if waiting for some standing order to take effect. As if there was this one thing they were there to do, one specialized act, and nothing else mattered, because the rest would be taken care of by God, fate, karma, others.
Inside, the woman at the front counter gave Doc the impression of having been badly treated in some divorce settlement. Too much
makeup, hair styled by somebody who was trying to give up smoking, a minidress she had no more idea of how to carry than a starlet did a Victorian gown. He wanted to say, “Are you okay?” but asked to see Adrian instead.
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Από το Inherent Vice, του Τόμας Πίντσον
. To διάβασα. Μου άρεσε. Διάβασε review.
30 Ιανουαρίου, 2010
15 Ιανουαρίου, 2010

To The Millions (όπως κάθε χρόνο) συγκέντρωσε τα πιο αναμενόμενα αγγλικά βιβλία του 2010.
There’s something for every lover of fiction coming in 2010, but, oddly enough, the dominant theme may be posthumous publication. Roberto Bolaño’s relentless march into the canon has inured us to the idea of the bestseller from beyond the grave (and of course, for as long as there have been literary executors, this has been nothing new), but beyond the four(!) new books by Bolaño we also have have potentially important works by the likes of Ralph Ellison and Henry Roth, intriguing new books from Robert Walser and Ernst Weiss, a guaranteed bestseller from Stieg Larsson, and, looming in 2011, the final, unfinished novel of David Foster Wallace. Perhaps, amid all this, it is a relief to hear that we have many exciting books on their way from those still with us, including Elizabeth Kostova, Joshua Ferris, David Mitchell, Jennifer Egan, Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Yann Martel, and many others.
10 Ιανουαρίου, 2010
14 Δεκεμβρίου, 2009
29 Νοεμβρίου, 2009
26 Νοεμβρίου, 2009

Ήρθε παραλαβή απ’ το Amazon χτες και έφερε πράγματα ακραία:
Το νέο μυθιστόρημα του Στίβεν Κινγκ «Under the Dome»
, hardcover, 1074 σελίδες. Το παρήγγειλα (πριν κυκλοφορήσει) με τιμή 9 δολάρια, δηλαδή περίπου 6 ευρώ (τώρα κάνει 14.50).
To διήγημα 2BR02B του Κερτ Βόνεγκατ
, paperback, 20 σελίδες, 3 δολάρια (περίπου 2 ευρώ). Όχι, δεν είχα προσέξει ότι είναι μόνο 20 σελίδες. Νόμιζα ότι ήταν ευκαιρία.
14 Νοεμβρίου, 2009
12 Νοεμβρίου, 2009
Την έφτιαξε ο Ντέιβ Έγκερς και ο McSweeney’s, ο εκδοτικός του οίκος, και αποτελεί μια μελέτη του πώς θα ήταν οι εφημερίδες αν οι πιο ταλαντούχοι συγγραφείς, designers και illustrators μαζεύονταν και έφτιαχναν μία. Θα είναι ένα φύλλο μεγάλου μεγέθους, με ένθετα, πολύχρωμες φωτογραφίες και απίθανες υπογραφές, και θα ονομάζεται San Francisco Panorama. Αν και μοιάζει θαυμάσιο και θα είναι σίγουρα πανέμορφο, δεν θα ήταν σε καμία περίπτωση βιώσιμο στην εποχή μας. Μόνο ως one-off δείγμα έχει λόγο ύπαρξης.