WakefieldPress Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Central Laboratory
Max JacobWakefieldPressCopies of Max Jacob’s The Central Laboratory are finally here (with facing French to allow readers to grasp the masterful job Alexander Dickow did with very tricky verse). https://t.co/0vUuB4hlOL
Paperback, 2022
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Exemplary Departures
Gabrielle WittkopWakefieldPresshttps://t.co/fU0XJUoe3A Back in stock! Gabrielle Wittkop’s Exemplary Departures. “Readers would be well advised to don a Hazmat suit before wading into the thrilling, pestilential world of French writer Gabrielle Wittkop”—Matt Seidel, The Millions https://t.co/NjSj5vd0yT
Paperback, 2015
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Spicilege
Marcel SchwobWakefieldPressAn engaging interview with Alex Andriesse, translator of our recent release of Marcel Schwob's Spicilege, and more in focus (and coincidentally released the same day), Paul Lafargue's The Right to Be Lazy. https://t.co/jrZ1eLGFpG
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis: On Killing Oneself
Hermann BurgerWakefieldPressTwo almond-hued items now in hand: our latest Marcel Schwob title, his hand-selected essay collection Spicilege, and Hermann Burger's end-of-life guidebook, Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis: On Killing Oneself. https://t.co/4w2CBVZ6cS https://t.co/uKhexRe2ux
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Triple Canopy: A Warrior's Journey from Grenada to Iraq
Patrick J. O'KelleyWakefieldPressThe new issue of Triple Canopy is out, "True to Life": featuring an excerpt from our about-to-be-released Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis by Hermann Burger. Check it out! (But don't check out, we love you.) https://t.co/VC4w5lvoXA
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The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings
Paul LafargueWakefieldPressAn engaging interview with Alex Andriesse, translator of our recent release of Marcel Schwob's Spicilege, and more in focus (and coincidentally released the same day), Paul Lafargue's The Right to Be Lazy. https://t.co/jrZ1eLGFpG
Paperback, 2022
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Impersonal Adventure
Marcel BealuWakefieldPressMarcel Béalu's The Impersonal Adventure: our first by this under-translated author of the fantastique: An early short novel that combines a dreamlike amnesia with postwar trauma and chaotic bric-a-brac worthy of de Chirico: https://t.co/BOLWCGNjka https://t.co/c2UfIj997V
Paperback, 2022
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black-White-Red: Grotesques
MynonaWakefieldPressAfter a 6-month drought, it is suddenly raining books over here in Wakefield Press land. 2 new titles: the "laughing philosopher" Mynona's slim book of grotesques, Black-White-Red, and Belgian Symbolist Georges Rodenbach's classic Bruges-la-Morte https://t.co/M72YexyTIT
Paperback, 2022
$11.95$5.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sens-Plastique
Malcolm de ChazalWakefieldPresshappy to have copies of Malcolm de Chazal's Sens-Plastique in hand. Sadly not before its translator Irving Weiss was able to see it; he passed away earlier this year, but will certainly be remembered for this achievement. With Rebecca Louise Law's lovely installation on the cover https://t.co/m6TH4pj9cv
Paperback, 2022
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Flight of Icarus: Novel
Raymond QueneauWakefieldPressHappy to announce that we finally have copies of Boris Vian's Vercoquin and the Plankton in hand. His first published novel, acquired for Gallimard by Raymond Queneau, though not Vian's actual first novel (which would only see print posthumously). https://t.co/ChRoRVsWg9 https://t.co/HlYa3NAJV4
Paperback, 1973
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book