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In early 2015, Tim was reading a book of critical analyses of the films of the Dardenne brothers, and it referred to two volumes of Luc Dardenne’s journals. He immediately searched online to buy them and was disappointed to learn that they were never translated into English.
Now, four years and three translators later, with help from the French Cultural Ministry’s prestigious CNL grant, Luc Dardenne’s On the Back of Our Images, Vol. 1 is now available for pre-order!
American commuter-readers and citizens of everywhere else than America, take note: Devendra Banhart’s e-book is now available for sale on our site.
Congrats to Blake Butler, whose extraordinary book, Scorch Atlas, was translated into Italian recently.
To celebrate the release of Weeping Gang Bliss Void Yab-Yum, Devendra Banhart will be visiting us here in Chicago!
Check out this interview with Brielle Brilliant, author of our fall 2018 release,The Spud. Brielle stopped by WHPK’s The Chicago Word to discuss prank phone calls, network theory, and gun politics.
We’re releasing Devendra Banhart’s first book of poems, Weeping Gang, Bliss Void, Yab-Yum, in spring 2019!
“Through the infinite layers of experience, Brilliant grabs the reader by our shoulders.”
Read an interview with Brielle Brilliant in Hooligan Mag
“The writing zips between inner memory and outer world with such speed that the boundary between the two begins to melt away … To read The Spud is to find yourself at the center of a constellation of possibilities rather facing down a single hard, cool reality … Brilliant is masterful at conjuring this experience, playing and tinkering with the point at which narrative breaks down into naked, exposed words without ever letting them dissolve into chaos.”
Read a review of The Spud in Cleveland Review of Books
“Startling and haunting, an unforgettable debut.”
Check out Brielle Brilliant’s notes & music playlist for The Spud on Largehearted Boy
In celebration of her novel, The Spud, debuting on November 6, Brielle Brilliant will be doing a reading/performance tour this fall…
If you are looking to chat with us in shouted mono-syllables while loud music plays nearby, you can find us again this year at The Book Fort at Pitchfork Music Festival. Our titles will be sold at greatly reduced festival prices!
We are THRILLED to announce the resolution of a conundrum that has ensnaggled us existentially for 3 years!
Finally Finally Finally we can announce the FIRST EVER ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS of Au Dos De Nos Images (Volumes 1 and 2) by Luc Dardenne.
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne are giants in contemporary world cinema, steadfastly radical in both principles and approach. Their films tackle social and political issues by focusing keenly on the intimate stories of individuals locked into their fates by unjust systems.
Brought to life in English by award-winning translator Jeffrey Zuckerman, these two volumes collect almost 25 years of Luc's journals as the brothers work through their films. The second half of each volume includes the shooting scripts of these films.
For creative people working in any discipline, this is the document of a master artist’s mind at work, measuring sustained introspection against true and constant engagement in the lived world.
Volume 1 (1991–2005) will be out spring 2019, to be followed soon after by Volume 2 (2005–2014).
KP is the brother of a mass shooter. JD is the shooter's number 1 fan. The pair drives through rural Idaho, the physical and psychological landmarks of the violence imposing themselves on the characters and the reader.
The Spud is a puzzle: thinking/watching/living a movie rerun…
The book is timely, given the terrible frequency of mass shootings in this country. And its structure reflects the complex nature of the topics it covers, using an internal logic that only reveals itself the deeper you get into it.
While its content is most similar to A Clockwork Orange, Sartre's Nausea, or the work of Cormac McCarthy, its form has more in common with indie films like Badlands and Deleuze's philosophies on cinema. Fans of films such as Gus Van Sant’s Elephant and Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers are gonna love it.
“I can’t think of another writer like Brielle Brilliant right now. She’s doing something really unforgettable with language and narrative and memory and time.”
The Spud will be IN STORES EVERYWHERE NOV. 6 but available direct from us very sooon! In the meantime, read an excerpt on our website and watch the teaser video below. Brielle will travel extensively to promote the book this fall—we promise these events are not to be missed!