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Celebrate! A new novel by Per Petterson
Not since Sebald has an author revitalized our sense of what’s possible in modern fiction as Per Pettersen has, in the humble opinion of Little Star. In prose so simple as to be almost invisible, he renders characters (usually just one) who are achingly human in their moral limitations and yet panoramically aware. I Curse [...]
Writers: Per Petterson
Dear Reader, We bring you A Thousand Peaceful Cities, by Jerzy Pilch
Little Star was thrilled to encounter A Thousand Peaceful Cities, a mind-bending romp by Polish journalist and novelist Jerzy Pilch, miraculously translated by David Frick and published this month by Open Letter. We here with pleasure offer a few choice morsels (with editorial emendations by ourselves). IN WHICH our hero’s father’s drinking companion, Mr. Traba, [...]
Writers: Jerzy Pilch
Good-bye, David Markson
I am heartbroken to learn of the death of the great David Markson. Like many before me, I was drawn to Markson through a strange attraction exerted by a pile of austere paperbacks on the edge of a table at the Strand. I bought the mysterious book and, transported and enchanted, I contrived to meet [...]
Writers: Ann Kjellberg, David Markson
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Soaring Into the Sky with Deborah Eisenberg
Deborah Eisenberg’s considerable powers of sympathy are swelled by the work of Hungarian novelist and bon vivant, Dezso Kosztolanyi, whose 1922 novel, Skylark, was recently reissued by New York Review Books. She reads a chapter from Skylark in this podcast, lingering on each mundane detail of the small turn-of-the-century burg in which it is set [...]
Writers: Deborah Eisenberg, Dezso Kosztolanyi