Beating around the Books | went to London, met Marc Nash, bought books | the randomness of secondhand bookshops @beatingaroundthebooks | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
In which @MarcNash and I share our book haul

~~~Books Mentioned~~~

Portrait of an Unknown Lady by María Gainza (transl. by Thomas Bunstead)
The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell by Carlos Rojas (transl. by Edith Grossmann)
The Gap of Time by Jeannette Winterson
The Death of the Author by Gilbert Adair
Into the War by Italo Calvino (transl. by Martin L. McLaughlin)
The Conquerors by André Malraux
Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer by David Boyd Haycock
The System of Vienna: From Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square by Gert Jonke (transl. by Vincent Kling)
How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea by Tristan Gooley
Confabulations by John Berger

How to be both by Ali Smith
Slapstick or Lonesome No More by Kurt Vonnegut
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
On Photography by Susan Sontag
Attrib by Eley Williams
The Council of Egypt by Leonardo Sciascia (transl. by Adrienne Foulke)
Cain's Book by Alexander Trocchi
Distant Light by Antonio Moresco (transl. by Richard Dixon)
adibas by Zaza Burchuladze (transl. by Thomas Wiedling)



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