Two Lines Press Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Lion Cross Point
Masatsugu Ono
@PublishersWkly @ShelfAwareness @RachelSwearinge @ForewordReviews Let’s just say you need all the Masatsugu Ono books available in English RIGHT NOW. (Simply put: You do!) We’ve got you covered. Get LION CROSS POINT, ECHO ON THE BAY, and AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS for just $40. https://t.co/hvyhUrDayv
Paperback, 2019
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes
Jazmina Barrera
OK, we talked it over. And we all agree. It really is time for you to read Jazmina Barrera. So! FLASH SALE. Now through Sunday, get LINEA NIGRA and ON LIGHTHOUSES (paperback) for just $25. https://t.co/vEXOs7FQfb
Paperback, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bliss Montage: Stories
Ling Ma
A vey nice shoutout to NDiaye’s ALL MY FRIENDS in @simplylovia’s review of BLISS MONTAGE in the @nybooks. She calls NDiaye’s book, the second we published (way back in 2013!), “a hypnotic collection about eccentricity and illusions.” https://t.co/viBVQMHnoE
Hardcover, 2022
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Visible: Text + Image
Marie Ndiaye
👁️ VISIBLE 👁️ features work from: –@ambliopia, tr. Christina MacSweeney –Marie NDiaye, tr. Victoria Baena –Yi SangWoo, tr. Emily Yae Won –@mironesdepalo, tr. @robin_ep_myers –Monika Sznajderman, tr. Scotia Gilroy –Monchoachi, tr. Eric Fishman
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Harmada
João Gilberto Noll
@jaawlfins We’re 100% looking forward to João Gilberto Noll’s queer epic HUGS AND CUDDLES, out this October. Until then? We recommend HARMADA, also translated by @EdgarGarbelotto, an impulsive-as-ever introduction to the Brazilian novelist’s lurid, messy world. https://t.co/MwzBvSjTEe
Paperback, 2020
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami
David Karashima
Register now for tomorrow night's event w/ Masatsugu Ono and David Karashima (author of WHO WE'RE READING WHEN WE'RE READING MURAKAMI) at @CommunityBkstr! They'll be in conversation about Ono's latest, AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS. https://t.co/GrXNkZnf3B
Paperback, 2020
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Light Room
Kate Zambreno
When asked by @lithub who/what she recommends other writers read, Kate Zambreno (THE LIGHT ROOM) responds: MARIE NDIAYE. SELF-PORTRAIT IN GREEN. (and some other greats, too: Bhanu Kapil, Annie Ernaux, Renee Gladman...) Read the conversation here: https://t.co/NM3qtbtNKw
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Postcard for Annie
Ida Jessen
We love @archipelagobks’s Ida Jessen books over here. Her latest, translated by Martin Aitken, A POSTCARD FOR ANNIE, “conveys the quiet, subversive joy of female friendship,” says Event Manager Leslie-Ann. Get it from our friends at @whitewhalebks: https://t.co/c0HZlBXVar
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
1,000 Coils of Fear
Olivia Wenzel
@NewDirections @dotapanjereh @etgrayjr @riffraffpvd Next you're off to @BrazosBookstore for some 1,000 COILS OF FEAR by Olivia Wenzel (tr. by @pdlayne, pubbed by @CatapultStory), which @kelseymcfaul describes as “a courageous, fragmented, sensitive character study.” https://t.co/fn2UcXn7Y4
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories
Franz Kafka
“Few so-called Kafkaesque books ever manage to capture the banal yet hilarious procedural absurdity of the Czech master. NDiaye’s delightfully unsettling novella is a rare exception.” (tr. by @ProfStump!) https://t.co/kSxIxzojZk
Hardcover, 2018
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book