‘Babel’ author R.F. Kuang shares the excitement of rediscovering Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman.’
Sometimes, the big idea is to make something small.initially sent new work out to readers in the mail each month. The project has now grown to publish books the website describes as “small volumes of exciting literature” edited and designed by Rothes, an archival series of books, as well as a quarterly magazine called “Firmament.”
Sublunary’s slim, pocket-sized paperbacks are undeniably appealing: Small, well-designed works, often of translated literature, the books can be as brief as Julio Cortazar’s 40-page “Letters From Home” or as comparatively robust as the 140-page “Disembodied” by Christina Tudor-Sidiri. “He apparently wrote four or five or six of these little books to friends during this era in Paris,” says Siefring. “It has some beautiful watercolor drawings in the book – it is a single-artist presentation book – and I think the book will incorporate some of the artwork.”
“I think of it as an editor writing the footnotes,” Newson says. “I read a book called ‘House of Leaves’ [by Mark Z. Danielewski] in college and I almost failed out because I started reading during finals and I could not put this book down. There was a character named the editor who would come in and correct what was being told to you and I loved that.”about her new book, “Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution.
It’s so reader dependent. I try to only give people recommendations I think they’ll like, but a book that I really love and recommend to most of my friends is Elif Batuman’s “The Idiot” and the sequel, which are just some of the funniest, sweetest and incisive campus novels I’ve ever read.Q. How do you decide what to read next?
So I keep trying to finish it, and I keep getting halfway through, but there’s just this creeping horror that comes on. It’s a very bad book to read when you’re alone, especially at night, and it always gets me and I’m unable to finish.This summer, I hadn’t picked up any fantasy books that I really liked. Then Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” adaptation just came out on Netflix. I went back and started re-reading the comics again, and I’ve just been obsessed for the last two weeks.