The new issue of Asymptote is here! There’s plenty of great stuff in this one. The best six pages of fiction I’ve read in a long time are in this excerpt from The Truth About Marie, the new novel by Jean-Philippe Toussaint. Lydia Davis translated six short short stories by Dutch author A.L. Snijders. There’s a chapter from Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, which is accompanied by a great note from Murakami’s long-time translator Jay Rubin entitled “Miss Green Peas” (click ‘Read translator’s note’ on the right side of the page to read it). And we’re liable to get banned from internet servers in China for publishing an excerpt from God is Red the new book by Liao Yiwu, the Chinese dissident who recently moved to Germany so that he could release a book about prisoners he met during his time in prison as a political prisoner. And my friend Rae would be nettled if I didn’t mention a quirky non-fiction piece called Ka De We by Slovenian Aleš Šteger who is one of her favorite poets.  All of this covered up and accompanied by wonderful illustrations by Yohei Oishi. You can follow his tumblr here: 4pay.tumblr.com. 

The new issue of Asymptote is here! There’s plenty of great stuff in this one. The best six pages of fiction I’ve read in a long time are in this excerpt from The Truth About Marie, the new novel by Jean-Philippe Toussaint. Lydia Davis translated six short short stories by Dutch author A.L. Snijders. There’s a chapter from Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, which is accompanied by a great note from Murakami’s long-time translator Jay Rubin entitled “Miss Green Peas” (click ‘Read translator’s note’ on the right side of the page to read it). And we’re liable to get banned from internet servers in China for publishing an excerpt from God is Red the new book by Liao Yiwu, the Chinese dissident who recently moved to Germany so that he could release a book about prisoners he met during his time in prison as a political prisoner. And my friend Rae would be nettled if I didn’t mention a quirky non-fiction piece called Ka De We by Slovenian Aleš Šteger who is one of her favorite poets. 

All of this covered up and accompanied by wonderful illustrations by Yohei Oishi. You can follow his tumblr here: 4pay.tumblr.com. 

Permalink