Besides taking long walks and getting lost (and of course going out for dinner and/or drinks), reading contemporary literature is a good way to adapt to a city and learn it's (difficult) ways. It wasn't part of yesterday's plan, but while I was looking for Printed Matters Inc. I passed by a little book shop on 192 Avenue, which was so cute that it made me curious enough to go in. All of the sudden I saw myself asking for non-bestsellers/non-popular titles by young american writers. To begin with I was actually looking for specific book, namely a collection of the best essay from 2012 published in The New York Times. As I recall, The New York Times are the publisher's as well. Pierre bought that book recently and recommended it to me. It's an anual publication. The book shop lady told me it might be called Writers on Writing.
After some time of consideration I was provided with 5 or 6 different books. I bought 2 of them and added another, I saw on the recommendation shelf, recommended by Lisa, to my bill. The book shop lady was thrilled about my choices! "You really picked to best one's, I've read them all and they're amazing!". The book shop lady was Lisa, actually.
These are the books and I'm excited to read them:
"A memoir of a sensualist... Sentence by sentence, it's beautifully precise as any contemporary American work I know." - Pauline Kael
"A book that risks everything... Complex, artfully messy and arious." - Miranda July
"Joshua Cohen has more than four messages to deliver in this volatile book, all quite urgent. These stories seize us with their brash humor and intellectual reach. But are they startling warning flares or diabolical soul traps? Read them and weep, roar, shudder." - Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask
I walked Down Jane Street because it reminded me of my sweet Jane. Jane Street is in Greenwich Village, so it makes sense to start with Kafka Was the Rage - A Green Village Memoir.
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