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W.A.S.T.E. Mailing List Episode 8: An introduction to Arno Schmidt. m.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNngC…

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The new transaction ‘Vastlands’ will be in June 26. Alison Entrekin’s new translation of João Guimarães Rosa’s classic Grande Sertão: Veredas, will be published as Vastlands: the Crossing in 2026 by Simon & Schuster USA and Bloomsbury UK.
A Table For Fortune (Volume 1?) Cover?? amazon.com/dp/1648211623?… @ryanhasbadtaste

Slight correction: This reprint is out. The new translation is what's allegedly slated for 2026.
Looks like I missed the memo, but the long-rumoured reprint of Backlands is confirmed via Calimari Archive in 2026. calamaripress.com
Looks like I missed the memo, but the long-rumoured reprint of Backlands is confirmed via Calimari Archive in 2026. calamaripress.com

The Human Age. Nice to finally have the complete Jupiter Books set on hand.

First six months of 2025's reading, in retrospect 👇 instagram.com/reel/DK6vGrpSO…
Les Cantos d'Ezra Pound encore sous blister, merci Momox 🥳
New Mircea Cartarescu publishing for the first time in the UK. Top tier magical realism in post-communist Bucharest, yes please. Volume 2 and 3 coming next year
Out now: Dreamscapes I — Betrayals (101 & 202 Nights) by Sara Whym contramundumpress.com/dreamscapes
Plug: newest episode. 111 - Light Years by James Salter youtu.be/x7-Q4opmWyQ
The conceit of Sorokin’s ICE TRILOGY is that there are only 23,000 people in the world with souls and everyone else is a “meat machine.” If you can’t tell the difference between AI-generated content and the real thing, you may well be a meat machine. Good ensoulment test!
The first three paragraphs of a Chat-GPT review of the Rachel Papers by Martin Amis. Quite amazing. I think you could submit writing of this standard to a magazine and get published. Took three seconds.