Imaginary bookstore
October 2023
This month I’m stocking:
Diarios. A ratos perdidos 5 y 6 by Rafael Chirbes
A Walk In The Night by Alex La Guma1
Vengeance is Mine by Marie NDiaye
The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young
Mao II & Underworld by Don DeLillo (LOA #374)
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Dialogue with a Sonambulist by Chloe Aridjis
Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante
The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
The Best Short Stories of 2023: O. Henry Prize Winners, edited by Lauren Groff
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
The Dimensions of a Cave by Greg Jackson
Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt
Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela
No One Prayed Over Their Graves by Khaled Khalifa (RIP)
What other titles should I look out for?
This month marks the launch of Apollo Africa, a Bloomsbury imprint that will reissue 100 titles (some of them, like Black Sunlight, currently out of print) from the Heinemann African Writers Series.