Eliot Weinberger
Oranges & Peanuts for Sale
Essays
Paperbook w/ French Flaps
978-0-8112-1834-1, $16.95

Many of the twenty-eight essays in Oranges & Peanuts for Sale have appeared in translation in seventeen countries; some have never been published in English before. They include introductions for books of avant-garde poets; collaborations with visual artists, and articles for publications such as The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, and October.

“In this brave new literature, a chaos of images, characters and stories swirls like electrons around a nucleus. They bond with other images and fall apart again, down through the ages.” —Los Angeles Times

Inger Christensen
Azorno
Novel
Translated by Denise Newman
978-0-8112-1657-9, $13.95

“[Christensen] manages to make wit, passion and questioning and astonishing design serve each other’s ends as one, and she does it in a way that is utterly her own.” —W. S. Merwin

“Inger Christensen inspires awe in supple figures of bodily experience, and of social and sexual interaction.” —The Believer

Jorge Luis Borges
Seven Nights
Essays
Translated by Eliot Weinberger
978-0811218382, $12.95
 
“I could live under a table reading Borges.” –Roberto Bolaño

“This wonderful little book serves to remind us again that Jorge Luis Borges is one of the greatest literary miracles of all time.” —Publishers Weekly

“Listening, via the printed word, to these relaxed and yet highly explicit discourses, one realizes that never again will there be a mind and memory stocked just this way.” —John Updike, The New Yorker

Robert Walser
The Tanners
Novel
Translated by Susan Bernofsky
Introduction by W.G. Sebald
978-0-8112-1589-3, $24.95
 
TIME OUT NEW YORK’S READ FOR SUMMER 2009
 
The Tanners, Robert Walser’s amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. “A clairvoyant of the small” W. G. Sebald calls Robert Walser, one of his favorite writers in the world, in his acutely beautiful, personal, and long introduction, studded with his signature use of photographs.
 
“The incredible shrinking writer is a major twentieth-century prose artist who…can be placed in that comic tradition [that] runs from Gogol through Kafka and down to José Saramago . . . . When Walser met Lenin in Zurich during the war, all he had to say was ‘So you, too, like fruitcake?’ . . . It is remarkable to see what variety and richness what easiness and charm, what winsome inanities and philosophical depths he could pack into half a page.”
—Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker

Alvin Levin
Love Is Like Park Avenue
Collected Writings
Preface by John Ashbery
978-0-8112-1799-6, $13.95
 
In, Alvin Levin reveals that part of New York society that lived in the Bronx but longed to be in the shadow of skyscrapers — with the dance bands, celebrities, and socialites; his characters create a mirror world of love and sex. This fascinating compendium of Levin’s writings offers a look at the career of an “outsider artist” who was never able to finish a long novel, yet whose fragments are of heartbreaking intensity and amazing social scope.

“Scabrous scenes of family feuding in the Bronx and crowded Coney Island Beaches come at you with the leering verve of Reginald Marsh’s drawings and Paul Cadmus’ quasi-pornographic paintings.” —John Ashbery, From The Preface
 
“The stuff by Alvin Levin has brilliant patches.” —Tennessee Williams