Who recommends it
- Monique RoffeyInterview
- Sharon MesmerInterview
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Kawabata Yasunari (also Beauty and Sadness); Corregidora by Gayl Jones; Les Chants de Maldoror by Lautréamont; Blinding by Mircea Cartarescu (also his short fiction collection, Nostalgia); On the Heights of Despair and Tears and Saints by E. M. Cioran; Open City by Teju Cole; The Wild Boys…
- Lindsay VarnumInterview
I would like to be inserted into a setting more than any one book. Plunk me down on a magical island like that of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The Indonesian islands of The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout would do, or the Caribbean island from Wide Sargasso Sea, or Willow Springs in Mama Day by Gloria Naylor…
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