Passages We Underlined This Fall
A selection of some of our favorite passages from September and October new releases.
In the latest issue of "Passages We Underlined This Fall," selected passages from various books published recently are featured. These include a new release by Helle Helle, translated from Danish by Martin Aiken, titled Hafni Says. Patricia Lockwood's collection, Agate Head / Stone Soup, is all about geology, cutting, and interiors. The poem "Forged in Fire" in this collection is about a metalworking-game-show contestant who Lockwood developed a crush on.
Adolfo Bioy Casares's Morel's Invention, a tight Surrealist mystery novella set on an island, was the source for the film Last Year at Marienbad (1961). Monica Nelson's These Long Shadows explores the history of fourteen houses and their female inhabitants in the American South. The foreword by Borges describes Morel's Invention as perfect.
Kate Zambreno's novel in parts, Foam, features Clarice Lispector's "The Fifth Story," a story of repetitions in apartment life. Aya K ō da's essay collection Tree: My Encounters with Trees, first published posthumously in 1992, is a kind of arboreal travelogue of her visits to notable trees in Japan. The biography of Virginia Verasis di Castiglione, The Contessa, is about the Italian socialite and spy who was tasked with seducing Napoleon III on behalf of Italian unification.
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