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Great Granny Webster Caroline Blackwood September 13, 2002 Berkeley

Randall Jarrell’s Book of Stories edited by Randall Jarrell November 20, 2002 Berkeley

Corrigan Caroline Blackwood January 11, 2003 in a rental car, at a McDonalds off Route 93 in Massachusetts, at like 1am—heading up to see Sean

Mawrdew Czgowchwz James McCourt January 18, 2003 San Francisco Public Library, after the peace march with Rebecca, Todd, & R’s parents

A Way of Life, Like Any Other Darcy O’Brien January 19, 2003 Berkeley—before a freezing cold, hungry Crockett loop

Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal J. R. Ackerley February 28, 2003 Oakland, California—at MacArthur Bart, with my bike—on the way to Amoeba, to buy Ligeti Project III for the second time

In the Freud Archives Janet Malcolm April 5, 2003 Chicago – Pittsburgh, finished on the 28X

A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes April 13, 2003 Cambridge, Anne’s house, having missed the plane

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness Daniel Paul Schreber translated and edited by Ida Macalpine and Richard A. Hunter April 20, 2003 Easter Sunday, on the BX to Colma heading back from Seattle for an interview at UW

Letty Fox: Her Luck Christina Stead October 10, 2003 San Francisco

The Vet’s Daughter Barbara Comyns January 8, 2004 Los Angeles

The Towers of Trebizond Rose Macaulay March 14, 2004 Berkeley, warm on the grass

Equal Danger Leonardo Sciascia translated by Adrienne Foulke March 19, 2004 Los Angeles

Selected Stories Robert Walser translated by Christopher Middleton and others June 30, 2004 Los Angeles (book fair) → Berkeley → Washington DC → Boston → Cambridge

To Each His Own Leonardo Sciascia translated by Adrienne Foulke July 1, 2004 Cambridge → Holliston → Mass MoCA, North Adams → Route 2, between Greenfield and Erving, on the way to the Old Mill, Westminster

The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story Glenway Wescott September 15, 2004 looked for everywhere, found at Duttons, read in one stretch, near the Bombshelter, then 4531C, UCLA

Apartment in Athens Glenway Wescott December 31, 2004 Cambridge MA, 33 Richard Ave; stain from Carberry’s/O’Naturals—it leapt out of my hand onto my lap and Andrew’s

The Day of the Owl Leonardo Sciascia translated by Archibald Colquhoun and Anthony Oliver January 1, 2005 over America (Boston → LA)

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams Peter Handke translated by Ralph Manheim March? 2005 Boston/Cambridge?

Monsieur Monde Vanishes Simenon translated by Jean Stewart May 3, 2005 over the country

Moravagine Blaise Cendrars translated by Alan Brown May 2005 Berkeley?

The Diary of a Rapist Evan S. Connell May 21, 2005 in San Francisco, Oakland & Berkeley—finished on BART; a gift from Carolyn & Dan; Margot is visiting

Cassandra at the Wedding Dorothy Baker June 9, 2005 Los Angeles

The Child Jules Vallès translated by Douglas Parmée July 10, 2005 morning, Andrew’s house in Berkeley (1800 Blake St. Upper) after a visit to Big Basin the day before

Fancies and Goodnights John Collier 2005? [stories read in spurts, maybe never finished]

Count d’Orgel’s Ball Raymond Radiguet translated by Annapaola Cancogni January 5, 2006 Los Angeles

A Month in the Country J. L. Carr March 26, 2006 Berkeley

Chess Story Stefan Zweig translated by Joel Rotenberg July 10, 2006 Los Angeles

The Lord Chandos Letter and other writings Hugo von Hofmannsthal translated by Joel Rotenberg August 12, 2006 on the BART, Andrew’s moving day, behind two brothers – cute – blue eyes

English, August: An Indian Story Upamanyu Chatterjee August 27, 2006 on CA Route 1 near Muir Beach with Andrew & Ellen

The Ten Thousand Things Maria Dermoût translated by Hans Koning August 28, 2006 Los Angeles

The Fierce and Beautiful World Andrei Platonov translated by Joseph Barnes September 14, 2006 Munich airport

We Always Treat Women Too Well Raymond Queneau translated by Barbara Wright October 1, 2006 over California

What’s for Dinner? James Schuyler October 20, 2006 on BART [used copy]

Mr. Fortune’s Maggot Sylvia Townsend Warner December 27, 2006 Natick, Mass, the Bakery on the Common

Memoirs of Hecate County Edmund Wilson December 29, 2006 except for the French (asshole)—Los Angeles

The Golovlyov Family Shchedrin translated by Natalie Duddington January 2, 2007 Los Angeles

Lolly Willowes Sylvia Townsend Warner January 24, 2007 over America [Washington → LA]

Kaputt Curzio Malaparte translated by Cesare Foligno January 29, 2007 landing in Los Angeles

Alfred and Guinevere James Schuyler February 11, 2007 Los Angeles, morning after a rain & a dinner with Dan & Dench

The Tenants of Moonbloom Edward Lewis Wallant February 18, 2007 Los Angeles, with Andrew

Manservant and Maidservant Ivy Compton-Burnett February 25, 2007 devoured in San Francisco

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg March 5, 2007 red-eyed over America (Pittsburgh → Las Vegas)

Riders in the Chariot Patrick White March 29, 2007 Los Angeles, in the Hammer courtyard, devouring it, pissed off by its narrowness

A House and Its Head Ivy Compton-Burnett April 28, 2007 Los Angeles

The Slynx Tatyana Tolstaya translated by Jamey Gambrell May 12, 2007 Los Angeles – waiting for parents & Tales of Tinseltown

The Waste Books Georg Christoph Lichtenberg translated by R. J. Hollingdale May 27, 2007 Hayes Valley

Stoner John Williams June 1, 2007 Los Angeles

The Fox in the Attic Richard Hughes June 11, 2007 Los Angeles

The Dud Avocado Elaine Dundy June 14, 2007 In the LA airport, read “Tyrolean Peasant, Bar Girl, or Dreaded Librarian” and laughed hard and honestly enough to shock the bear on my right and the hip couple across the aisle; finished before Baltimore

The Pure and The Impure Colette translated by Herma Briffault June 24, 2007 over the Atlantic, returning from Paris, between Dad and Andrew

Madame de Pompadour Nancy Mitford June 26, 2007 over America (Providence → Las Vegas), because of Paris

The Unknown Masterpiece Honoré de Balzac translated by Richard Howard June 26, 2007 landing in Los Angeles, the worst city

Paris Stories Mavis Gallant July 1, 2007 San Francisco, at Momi Tobys

Varieties of Exile Mavis Gallant July 21, 2007 in bed in Los Angeles

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page G. B. Edwards July 31, 2007 North Topsail Island, North Carolina, in the bedroom chez Johnsons

The Big Clock Kenneth Fearing November 11, 2007 one morning in Los Angeles with Andrew

Sunflower Gyula Krúdy translated by John Batki November 15, 2007 776 Capp, San Francisco

Born Under Saturn
The Character and Conduct of Artists: A Documented History from Antiquity to the French Revolution Margot & Rudolf Wittkower December 28, 2007 The Fort Garry, Winnipeg, Manitoba, for Tony's wedding

The New York Stories of Edith Wharton January 4, 2008 Los Angeles

Novels in Three Lines Félix Fénéon translated by Lucy Sante February 7, 2008 Culver CityBus

Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself Robert Montgomery Bird February 7, 2008 Oakland Airport, in a plane

All About H. Hatterr G. V. Desani February 10, 2008 at Peets, in Westwood, impromptu

The Wine-Dark Sea Leonardo Sciascia translated by Avril Bardoni February 21, 2008 over California

Jakob von Gunten Robert Walser translated by Christopher Middleton February 25, 2008 Los Angeles

Sleepless Nights Elizabeth Hardwick February 29, 2008 San Francisco, on BART with Andrew, going to the symphony

The Unpossessed Tess Slesinger March 9, 2008 night, Los Angeles

Memoirs of Montparnasse John Glassco March 29, 2008 Au Coquelet, Berkeley

A Journey Round My Skull Frigyes Karinthy translated by Vernon Duckworth Barker March 31, 2008 devoured in San Francisco

The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt April 19, 2008 San Francisco

Envy Yuri Olesha translated by Marian Schwartz May 13, 2008 on the Caltrain to Mountain View, a warm stunning morning

Afloat Guy de Maupassant translated by Douglas Parmée May 18, 2008 776 Capp St, San Francisco, after Breathless

The Invention of Morel Adolfo Bioy Casares translated by Ruth L. C. Simms May 21, 2008 on the Caltrain to Mountain View, a warm morning, a day after biking there

The Summer Book Tove Jansson translated by Thomas Teal May 22, 2008 Mountain View, after a morning at the Stanford library, second reading, a year after getting it used at the Westwood public library

In Hazard Richard Hughes August 23, 2008 Los Angeles, in one sitting, ending after midnight

Love in a Fallen City Eileen Chang translated by Karen S. Kingsbury August 31, 2008 on the Provincetown ferry with Andrew

The Fountain Overflows Rebecca West September 17, 2008 in bed at 776 Capp, San Francisco

Don’t Look Now Daphne du Maurier October 23, 2008 Spike's, San Francisco

My Father And Myself J. R. Ackerley November 16, 2008 Meraki, San Francisco

Rock Crystal Adalbert Stifter translated by Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Mayer February 2009 San Francisco

Short Letter, Long Farewell Peter Handke translated by Ralph Manheim April 30, 2009 Blue Bottle, San Francisco, after dental delays, then lovely bookstore relaxation, olive oil shortbread, and espresso with whipped cream

The Foundation Pit Andrey Platonov translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler May 8, 2009 my apartment, in San Francisco, swept up by it, clunky, beautiful, terrible and alive

Chaos and Night Henry de Montherlant translated by Terence Kilmartin June 1, 2009 1 Uranus, in San Francisco

That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana Carlo Emilio Gadda translated by William Weaver June 8, 2009 on BART, in Berkeley; after a trip to Boston to visit my parents, and a dinner at Rebecca’s; listening to Prokofiev symphonies. The book’s not my favorite: too timid to be definite, timidity hiding behind words? But vocabulary expanding.

Poems of the Late T’ang translated and with an introduction by A. C. Graham June 23, 2009 on JetBlue, landing into Boston at night, to see my parents

The Complete Fiction Francis Wyndham July 13, 2009 landing into Seattle, looking out on mackerel sky and Mount Rainier ghostly in blue-white light

Summer Will Show Sylvia Townsend Warner July 27, 2009 over America, heading to Boston, entranced

The Old Man and Me Elaine Dundy August 3, 2009 Philadelphia, at Anne's with Anne and Oliver, utter cruel pleasure

Letters: Summer 1926 Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Margaret Wettlin, Walter Arndt, and Jamey Gambrell September 15, 2009 San Francisco—Berkeley—Boston—San Francisco

The Haunted Looking Glass ghost stories chosen by Edward Gorey October 2, 2009 San Francisco

Niki: The Story of a Dog Tibor Déry translated by Edward Hyams October 7, 2009 rapt, over California

The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories Mavis Gallant October 15, 2009 San Francisco

My Fantoms Théophile Gautier translated by Richard Howard December 20, 2009 Berkeley

The True Deceiver Tove Jansson translated by Thomas Teal December 26, 2009 in thrall, speeding over California

No Tomorrow Vivant Denon translated by Lydia Davis January 23, 2010 Berkeley, after a memorial service

A Meaningful Life L. J. Davis January 26, 2010 Berkeley

White Walls: Collected Stories Tatyana Tolstaya translated by Jamey Gambrell March 24, 2010 San Francisco—Berkeley—over America; seemed overheated, then “A Clean Sheet” tingled my spine

Skylark Dezső Kosztolányi translated by Richard Aczel March 26, 2010 Arlington, Virginia; early morning; !!!

Alien Hearts Guy de Maupassant translated by Richard Howard April 24, 2010 Berkeley

Wish Her Safe At Home Stephen Benatar April 30, 2010 morning Transbay Bus

The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard Arthur Conan Doyle May 17, 2010 Berkeley

Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín Gabriel García Márquez translated by Asa Zatz July 16, 2010 Berkeley

The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick July 30, 2010 San Francisco

The Murderess Alexandros Papadiamantis translated by Peter Levi August 15, 2010 West Hollywood, one sitting

Everything Flows Vasily Grossman translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler August 25, 2010 Holliston, after midnight, a rainy visit

The Queue Vladimir Sorokin translated by Sally Laird August 25, 2010 over America

The Jokers Albert Cossery translated by Anna Moschovakis October 3, 2010 Vancouver Canada Line

The Colour Out of Space: Tales of Cosmic Horror selected by D. Thin October 26, 2010 West Hollywood

The World As I Found It Bruce Duffy November 16, 2010 West Hollywood, just before midnight, turning page after page

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes translated by W. S. Merwin December 7, 2010 West Hollywood

After Claude Iris Owens January 25, 2011 Blech. West Hollywood

The Glass Bees Ernst Jünger translated by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Mayer March 1, 2011 West Hollywood, really good

Jejuri Arun Kolatkar March 22, 2011 between Providence and LA

Fair Play Tove Jansson translated by Thomas Teal March 26, 2011 West Hollywood, for the second time, in love

Songs of Kabir translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra April 8, 2011 West Hollywood, one sitting

Victorine Maude Hutchins April 9, 2011 West Hollywood, eyes wide, delicious and queer

The Mountain Lion Jean Stafford April 15, 2011 1am, West Hollywood, couldn’t put it down, though it’s cruel—and unfair

Fatale J. P. Manchette translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith May 1, 2011 early morning in Holliston, grinning, unbelievable and ridiculous, fabulous last line!!

The Pumpkin Eater Penelope Mortimer May 14, 2011 West Hollywood, meh

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age Bohumil Hrabal translated by Michael Heim May 15, 2011 West Hollywood, !!!!!!!!!!

Seduction and Betrayal Elizabeth Hardwick June 18, 2011 Portland → West Hollywood, a page-turner, I love this woman

Love’s Work Gillian Rose June 18, 2011 West Hollywood

Seven Men Max Beerbohm July 4, 2011 Santa Rosa (Chella)

The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim July 16, 2011 Berkeley; sweet!!, beautiful, silly, truthful

The Journal: 1837–1861 Henry David Thoreau September 12, 2011 on a train in Philadelphia; !!!

Hav Jan Morris September 14, 2011 Cambridge

Red Shift Alan Garner October 17, 2011 Cambridge, spellbound; broke the code on index cards

The Rider on the White Horse Theodor Storm translated by James Wright October 25, 2011 Cascais, Portugal; last two stories an intense, old-modern genre of their own

Amsterdam Stories Nescio translated by Damion Searls March 27, 2012 Cambridge; “There are only five things worth bothering about.”

The Go-Between L. P. Hartley April 1, 2012 Cambridge—rarely has a book so annoying been so hard to abandon unfinished; a near anti-recommendation, though it will stick with me

Angel Elizabeth Taylor April 20, 2012 Cambridge; !!! so good

School for Love Olivia Manning May 19, 2012 Cambridge, in one night

The Adventures of Sindbad Gyula Krúdy translated by George Szirtes July 23, 2012 Cambridge—deliciously overripe

Indian Summer William Dean Howells August 4, 2012 Cambridge; gentle, wise

Voltaire in Love Nancy Mitford December 5, 2012 Cambridge

Speedboat Renata Adler June 8, 2013 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii; like spectacular miniature fireworks

Pitch Dark Renata Adler June 28, 2013 Cambridge; not Speedboat

Frederick the Great Nancy Mitford July 27, 2013 Cambridge

The Unrest-Cure Saki August 10, 2013 Light as you’d like; Lenox, MA

In Love Alfred Hayes August 19, 2013 Cambridge; insightful, but finally curdled and gross

My Face for the World to See Alfred Hayes August 25, 2013 Cambridge; electrifying, a thriller, like it’s by a different, deeper person than In Love

Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain Dwight Macdonald August, 2013 Cambridge; some of these polemics—“The Triumph of the Fact”—are required reading, some are dead on the page

We Think the World of You J. R. Ackerley August 31, 2013 Cambridge; the narrator (and the book!) gripping but almost monstrous, the book redeemed by the last section

The Black Spider Jeremias Gotthelf translated by Susan Bernofsky October 4, 2013 Cambridge, one sitting

The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays Simon Leys October, 2013 Cambridge

On Being Blue William H. Gass May 12, 2014 Cambridge; some great sentences

The Mad and the Bad Jean-Patrick Manchette translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith July 31, 2014 Cambridge, electric

Turtle Diary Russell Hoban November, 2014 Cambridge, devoured

Conversations with Beethoven Sanford Friedman December 9, 2014 Cambridge

The Captain’s Daughter Alexander Pushkin translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler January 14, 2015 Holliston

Talk Linda Rosenkrantz July 12, 2015 Cambridge

The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories Tove Jansson translated by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella July 13, 2015 Cambridge

The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov Anton Chekhov translated by Maria Bloshteyn August 10, 2015 Cambridge

The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror William Sloane October 26, 2015 Cambridge

Our Spoons Came from Woolworths Barbara Comyns December 17, 2015 Cambridge

The Human Comedy: Selected Stories Honoré de Balzac translated by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, and Jordan Stump January 11, 2016 Cambridge

A View of the Harbour Elizabeth Taylor February 13, 2016 Cambridge, laughing out loud at the last paragraph

A Fairly Good Time Mavis Gallant June 1, 2016 Tel Aviv, fantastic

The Door Magda Szabó translated by Len Rix June 5, 2016 Ein Gedi; a book about foreshadowing

Hill Jean Giono translated by Paul Eprile July 24, 2016 Lee, Massachusetts, in a campground in nature, my tent having been skunked the night before

Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man U. R. Ananthamurthy translated by A. K. Ramanujan March 20, 2017 Cambridge

Iza’s Ballad Magda Szabó translated by George Szirtes May 13, 2017 Cambridge—not a book to give to your mother

The Farm in the Green Mountains Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer translated by Ida H. Washington and Carol E. Washington June 11, 2017 Cambridge; the penultimate chapter so beautiful. An ideal: to be part of the human fabric Alice loved

Tyrant Banderas Ramón del Valle-Inclán translated by Peter Bush June 20, 2017 Truro, Mass., at a barn on Depot Rd. my mother first stayed in seventy years ago

Bright Magic Alfred Döblin translated by Damion Searls July 9, 2017 Cambridge

Ernesto Umberto Saba translated by Estelle Gilson July 16, 2017 Walden Pond—Cambridge

History Is Our Mother: Three Libretti Alice Goodman October 7, 2017 over New Jersey

Melville: A Novel Jean Giono translated by Paul Eprile October 9, 2017 over Connecticut

Difficult Women: A Memoir of Three David Plante October 14, 2017 Cambridge; !!

Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih translated by Denys Johnson-Davies January 4, 2018 Cambridge, wonderstruck

Tun-huang Yasushi Inoue translated by Jean Oda Moy January 5, 2018 Cambridge, again great

The Return of Munchausen Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky translated by Joanne Turnbull January 7, 2018 Cambridge, tiresome

The Wedding of Zein Tayeb Salih translated by Denys Johnson-Davies January 10, 2018 Cambridge, what a wonderful and strange gathering force

Late Fame Arthur Schnitzler translated by Alexander Starritt March 8, 2018 Cambridge

Ivory Pearl Jean-Patrick Manchette translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith May 14, 2018 Cambridge, electric

Totempole Sanford Friedman May 21, 2018 Cambridge, bless its gay heart

Young Once Patrick Modiano translated by Damion Searls June 29, 2018 Cambridge

Little Reunions Eileen Chang translated by Jane Weizehn Pan and Martin Merz July 16, 2018 Cambridge; one of the greats

The Invisibility Cloak Ge Fei translated by Canaan Morse January 1, 2019 over Utah

Naked Earth Eileen Chang March 19, 2019 Cambridge; twistedly terrifying

Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa Kenji Miyazawa translated by John Bester May 25, 2019 Boston Public Garden ❤️

Diary of a Man in Despair Friedrich Reck translated by Paul Rubens August 6, 2019 Cambridge

Katalin Street Magda Szabó translated by Len Rix August 24, 2019 Holliston, struck

Nada Jean-Patrick Manchette translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith October 28, 2019 Cambridge at speed

Family Lexicon Natalia Ginzburg translated by Jenny McPhee November 8, 2019 over America

The Corner That Held Them Sylvia Townsend Warner December 30, 2019 Culver City

A King Alone Jean Giono translated by Alyson Waters December 30, 2019 over New York

Margery Kempe Robert Glück May 2, 2020 empty Cambridge

Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures Max Weber translated by Damion Searls May 2, 2020 one sitting, on Bussey Hill in Boston

Malicroix Henri Bosco translated by Joyce Zonana May 5, 2020 almost one sitting, Cambridge

No Room at the Morgue Jean-Patrick Manchette translated by Alyson Waters late 2020 Cambridge

The Hearing Trumpet Leonora Carrington February 13, 2021 Cambridge

Marshlands André Gide translated by Damion Searls February 20, 2021 Cambridge

Family and Borghesia Natalia Ginzburg translated by Beryl Stockman May 22, 2021, in two sittings Cambridge

Basic Black with Pearls Helen Weinzweig May 28, 2021 Alpenhof, Upper Providence Township, Media, PA, the day before Anne Dudfield’s memorial

Good Behaviour Molly Keane June 23, 2021 Cambridge

The Stalin Front Gert Ledig translated by Michael Hofmann July 27, 2021 Cambridge, in one sitting

Zama Antonio Di Benedetto translated by Esther Allen August 21, 2021 Cambridge — M Street Beach — Castle Island, struck

Storm George R. Stewart September 27, 2021 Allston: he did like the working man

Party Going Henry Green October 11, 2021 Cambridge—Milford, Conn.—Reinholds, Pa.—Cambridge; accelerating toward the end

When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut translated by Adrian Nathan West October 21, 2021 Cambridge

Ghosts Edith Wharton November 27, 2021 Chilmark

Down Below Leonora Carrington January 23, 2022 Concord, at a restaurant, rapt

Abigail Magda Szabó translated by Len Rix April 2, 2022 Cambridge in two days

The Right to Be Lazy, and other writings Paul Lafargue translated by Alex Andriesse December 2022 I got too lazy to write down when and where I finished it

The N’Gustro Affair Jean-Patrick Manchette translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith February 5, 2023 Cambridge

The Silentiary Antonio Di Benedetto translated by Esther Allen February 9, 2023 Cambridge; Janet imperiously wrong about it

Gold Rumi translated by Haleh Liza Gafori February 20, 2023 Cleveland

Valentino and Sagittarius Natalia Ginzburg translated by Avril Bardoni February 23, 2023 Cambridge

In a Lonely Place Dorothy B. Hughes April 11, 2023 Cambridge, iron-gripped

São Bernardo Graciliano Ramos translated by Padma Viswanathan June 22, 2023 Coming into Providence on Amtrak

The Child and the River Henri Bosco translated by Joyce Zonana July 23, 2023 Cambridge, all at once

Journey By Moonlight Antal Szerb translated by Len Rix July 23, 2023 Cambridge, again all at once

The Open Road Jean Giono translated by Paul Eprile July 28, 2023 Lenox, Massachusetts, Ore Bed Park; stop-and-start, then all at once

On the Marble Cliffs Ernst Jünger translated by Tess Lewis July 29, 2023 Lee, Massachusetts, October Mountain State Forest

Notes of a Crocodile Qiu Miaojin translated by Bonnie Huie August 6, 2023 Cambridge

Lament for Julia Susan Taubes August 28, 2023 Early in the morning in White River Junction, Vermont

Afloat Guy de Maupassant translated by Douglas Parmée September 1, 2023 Peddocks Island—Cambridge; Maupassant arrogant and syphilitic

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor September 17, 2023 Cambridge, after Angels in America Part 2

My Death Lisa Tuttle October 18, 2023 Cambridge

Skeletons in the Closet Jean-Patrick Manchette translated by Alyson Waters November 26, 2023 Somerville–Cambridge, all at once

A Chance Meeting: American Encounters Rachel Cohen July 27, 2024 Lee, October Mountain State Forest

The Oceans Of Cruelty: Twenty-Five tales of a Corpse Spirit, A Retelling Douglas J. Penick October 22, 2024 Somerville

Augustus John Williams November 1, 2024 Cambridge

Waiting for the Fear Oğuz Atay translated by Ralph Hubbell January 13, 2025 Cambridge

The Stronghold Dino Buzzati translated by Lawrence Venuti February 16, 2025, at 4am Holliston

The Gate Natsume Sōseki translated by William F. Sibley March 23, 2025 Cambridge—Concord

Fathers and Children Ivan Turgenev translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater May 3, 2025 Harvard Square, just off the number 1 bus

Command Performance Jean Echenoz translated by Mark Polizzotti May 17, 2025 Cambridge—Banff—Cambridge

The Suicides Antonio Di Benedetto translated by Esther Allen 2025 Cambridge?

Perfection Vincenzo Latronico translated by Sophie Hughes January 5, 2026 Cambridge

Jack the Modernist Robert Glück January 10, 2026 Cambridge

The Fawn Magda Szabó translated by Len Rix January 13, 2026 Cambridge

The Stone Door Leonora Carrington January 21, 2026 Boston

Motley Stones Adalbert Stifter translated by Isabel Fargo Cole February 5, 2026 Boston

Free Day Inès Cagnati translated by Liesl Schillinger February 26, 2026 Symphony Hall, Boston