A longtime native of the region, Justin's been with Malaprop's since 2013, and is currently the Senior Buyer, Bookstore Manager and host of the Works in Translation book club.
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With the sly, astute and honest way he mixes memoir, biography and history, Emmanuel Carrere should be the biggest author in the world. This collection of essays is the perfect introduction.
A touching, surprisingly fun and heartbreaking history of one of my favorite bands. One of the year’s essential music books.
I absolutely loved this book. A grand comic novel with hints of Charles Portis and Pynchon, a great post-Millenium, pre-Millennial foray into America at the cusp of its decline. Hilarious, touching, ambitious and endlessly playful.
Warm, open-hearted autofiction focusing on the intersection of art and relationships. Hypnotic, really.
All of my favorite music writing is about the personal relationship between listener and music. That’s done beautifully and sincerely here, skirting the line between biography and personal memoir, speaking to the true triumph of connection that real art can give us.
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Since entering adulthood, no author has challenged my idea of what literature can be (or maybe should be) like Cesar Aira. Birthday is no different, a thoughtful journey through Aira's mind and his worldview (as well as its limitations), and this is the book's greatest strengh: Aira's ability to bring you into his world.
A brutally sardonic look at the way humanity crumbles and stumbles into chaos when all sense of decency and order are abandoned during wartime. A short and brooding -- yet oddly entertaining and deadpan -- descent into madness.
A mix of historical fiction and memoir that works on numerous levels. Part literary criticism, part true crime, part examination into the nature of infatuation and desire. It's many things, and they all dovetail thanks to Munoz Molina's insightful, intelligent prose.
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A book of asides, a novel of obsessive detail, an omnibus of modernity, The Nocilla Trilogy is a nearly indescribable trek into what it means to live today. A wild, entertaining mix of genres, as much inspired by Borges and Raymond Carver as it is JG Ballard and pop culture.
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A heady yet accessible exploration of family and America's collective past that reaches into a variety of texts and art forms for inspiration. But It's the ambition of Luiselli's writing and its overall impact that makes this novel such a monument.
I've been a fan of Sergel's for the better part of a decade now, back to the days of his webcomic Idiot Comics. I've always been struck by the way he manages to capture modernity in all its awkward quietness, and Bald Knobber is no different. A short little tale about the confusion of family and growing up that's told with an almost cinematic verve, despite Sergel's pleasingly clean and minimalistic art style. A gem of a graphic novel.
Ernaux's great achievement is her ability to capture the form of memory and the way we process the past. A gorgeously introspective memoir as much about the author's own life and times as it is the unstoppable march of time, and the frightening, humbling pace of aging and modernity.
A bizarre little satire that oscillates between adventure yarn and farce, one that pokes fun at modernity and the gross incompetence of the people in charge. A fun, funny, strange book that hits the gas pedal and never lets up.
A wonderfully erudite, personal and honest exploration of art and self, held in place with a personable and original voice.
