Trevor Berrett

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Holding up the old and forthcoming NYRB editions of Bioy Casares’s La invención de Morel.
An ARC of New Directions upcoming Five Novels by César Aira.
The cover of the new Bellevue Literary Press edition of Andrew Krivak’s Mule Boy
Holding up a copy of the Arden Shakespeare of King Lear
Beautiful sunrise over the sea
Stack of Flanner O’Connor’s books
Vintage paperback of William Faulkner’s Light in August.
All five of Mark Haber’s books set out in a grid.
Bomarzo, by Manuel Mujica Lainez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Anita Brookner’s Brief Lives
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain
The Modern Library set of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
Emmanuel Hocquard’s Elegies, tr. by Cole Swenson, forthcoming from NYRB/Poets.
My physical copy of the Criterion Collection’s 4K release of Powell and Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going!
Holding a copy of the upcoming Criterion Collection 4K release of Powell and Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going!
Snow falling on our crabapple berries.
David Blakeslee holding up his copy of Eclipse Series 47
My side table, with the final volume of In Search of Lost Time on top.
Holding up my copy of Laura Cumming’s The Vanishing Man.
The Oxford World’s Classics edition of The Scarlet Letter
Photo of the spines of my newest additions to my Brookner paperback collection with matching Penguin design. The books are Brief Lives, A Closed Eye, Fraud, A Family Romance, A Private View, Incidents in the Rue Laugier, Altered States, and Visitors.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
Photo of my Modern Library edition of The Captive and The Fugitive
Holding up the massive physical release of Deep Vellum’s edition of Schattenfroh
My Penguin Classics edition of Daniel Deronda
NYRB Classics edition of The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym
My side table, showing two books: The Modern Library edition of The Captive & The Fugitive sits on top of Sodom and Gomorrah. Also on the table, a hot drink with some froth, a table puzzle, and a house plant.
My side table, showing two books: The Modern Library edition of The Captive & The Fugitive sits on top of Sodom and Gomorrah. Also on the table, a hot drink with some froth, a table puzzle, and a house plant.
Holding up the new NYRB Classics edition of Mrs. Dalloway
An image from The Criterion Collection featuring their upcoming release of Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami: Early Shorts and Features.
Holding the new NYRB Classics edition of Paradiso in front of their 2022 edition of Purgatorio, each translated by DM Black.
Cover of the Charco Press edition of Daniela Catrileo’s Chilco, translated by Jacob Edelstein
First page of Bomarzo: 1. THE HOROSCOPE Niccolò Orsinis astrologer - My family-The hunchback—The imposed female masquerade—The skeleton— My father and Michelangelo's Da-vid—Etruscan Bomarzo—A meeting with Benvenuto Cellini—Exile to Florence-The two pages SANDRO Benedetto, physician and astrologer to my kinsman, the illustrious Niccolò Orsini, a condottiere who after his death was compared to the heroes of the Iliad, cast my horoscope on March 6, 1512, the day on which I was born, at two o'clock in the morning, in Rome. Thirty-seven years before, on the same March 6, but in 1475, also at two o'clock in the morning, Michelangelo Buonarroti saw the uncertain light of the world for the first time in an Etruscan village. The coincidence was nothing but a fortuitous accident of hour and date. In truth, the stars that presided over our respective appearances on life's chessboard had arranged their players for quite different matches. When Buonarroti was born, Mercury and Venus were in the ascendant, triumphant, naked, facing the throne of Jupiter. It was the dance of heaven, the mythological contradance that welcomes creators who touch divinity. Glory awaited the person who first opened his eyes underneath that splendor which transformed the firmament into a brightly lit salon, all candelabra, with the god floating among them in the transparent glow of the atmosphere, stately and dignified. When I was born, however, Sandro Benedetto pointed out important contradictions in the cartography of my existence. It is true that the Sun, in the sign of water and strengthened by my good position in respect to the Moon, conferred upon me occult powers and a vision of the beyond along with a vocation for astrology and metaphysics. It is true that Mars, the basic ruler, and Venus, the occasional one of House VIII,
Photo of the new NYRB Classics edition of Manuel Mujica Lainez’s Bomarzo
Marcel Proust’s Sodom and Gomorrah.
Proust on the side table. The Guermantes Way next to a warm drink.
Rachel Blau Duplesis: The Complete Drafts box set, a shot of the book spines in the box set.
A book stack featuring Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot; The Prime Minister, by Anthony Trollope; and The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust.
One Fine Day, by Millie Panter-Downs
Me with Percival Everett smiling as he signs my copy of James.
I agree 100%. I brought this up in the Epic Books episode (I think). I admit that for me I need to read more big books by women. I may have brought up most of the big books by women I have read (Eliot, Morante, Young, Clarke). I'm hoping to change this soon, and I'm eying Alexis Wright and, in the new edition coming out later this year, Dorothy Richardson. l've also been circling Catton's The Luminaries for a while! It's a very fair question, and we should have addressed it head on in the episode.
Photograph of the cover of Middlemarch by George Eliot, featuring the book in front of a blooming crabapple tree.
A close-up of an Anne Fadiman’s book titled Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, resting on top of a couch in front of my window. The book is in the foreground, with a pink flowering tree outside the window in the background, seen through a white, floral-patterned curtain.
Works by Hanne Ørstavik: Love, The Pastor, Ti Amo, and Stay With Me.
An ARC of the upcoming New Directions release of Marlen Haushofer’s Killing Stella, tr. by Shaun Whiteside.
A stack showing the new Faber editions of Beckett’s Molly, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable.
Two books: The Guermantes Way stacked on top of Within a Budding Grove
Holding up the NYRB Classics edition of The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick
A copy of the Penguin Classics edition of Ivan Turgenev’s First Love (tr. by Isaiah Berlin, 1950)
Picture of an open book (Within a Budding Grove) next to a pastry and hot drink
This new edition of Mrs. Dalloway, published to mark the centennial of its original appearance, will be followed by new editions of To the Lighthouse and The Waves in celebration of their respective centenaries. All featuring specially commissioned covers that pay tribute to the original designs by Hogarth Press, these editions are meticulously and sensitively edited by scholar and literary critic Edward Mendelson, and are the first to reflect the full range of revisions Virginia Woolf made to her three greatest novels
Stack or short books.
The Deserters, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell. Lovely ARC of the upcoming New Directions release.
The Road to the City, by Natalia Ginzburg
Perfection, by Vincenzo Latronico, translated by Sophie Hughes
Within a Budding Grove on the side table with a hot drink and pain au chocolate
Holding up the Modern Library edition of Within a Budding Grove, Volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time.
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway
Holding up the book Command Performance, by Jean Echenoz, translated by Mark Polizzitti
From Swann’s Way: I had been obliged to choose between rice à l'Impératrice and the famous chocolate cream.