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About my libraryOnce I read a few books in an obviously edited imprint and like them, I tend to buy all of the books I can find in that imprint, although I usually confine myself to used copies. In the 90's it was the early pre-sale Northpoint Press books that I loved after reading Giono. (I never really got into Counterpoint books, though, nor do I own a single Shoemaker and Hoard book.) I'm always on the lookout for Quartet Encounters books, Dalkey Archive Press books, and, my current favorite, New York Review of Books Classics. I'm also partial to Sun and Moon Press books, and Messereli's new Green Integer Books, and I buy the occassional Fiction Collective and FC2 book.

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A month in the country by James Lloyd Carr

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Old Masters: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Thomas Bernhard

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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis (Seminar of Jacques Lacan) by Jacques Lacan

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The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns

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Drama City by George P. Pelecanos

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Life among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

Noticed you liked The Sound and the Fury, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also southern, a bit violent, and a bit dark :) I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter)in case you'd like to read more about the novel before you commit:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 6:58 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2009

Greetings Omie:

I really like your library. We have only 12 books in common, but I have read many that you list (and will look for many you have got that I have not yet read).

I also collect some publishers (imprints) though my favorites tend to be the old Pelican, Mentor and Penguin paperbacks. Although, now I think about it, I have been collecting Aronson psychology and Inner City Books imprints as well.

Fred

posted by Farree at 2:13 am (EST) on Nov 17, 2008

and why haven't you joined http://www.librarything.com/groups/newyo... yet?!

posted by nyrbclassics at 9:19 am (EST) on Sep 19, 2008

I lived in L.A. for six months in 2000 when the Sun and Moon Press still had a storefront. They had a section in the front where they were selling shelf-worn and sticker residue damaged titles for $2 a piece. I used to go every monday and spend $20 and go home with my ten books and wipe off the sticker residue with some goo-gone. I was able to get almost all of the "Classics" series and all of the New American Poetry and New American Fiction. Working on Green Integer now (haven't catalogued them yet). Also a big fan of the NYRB Classics and Dalkey Archive.

posted by Stig_Brantley at 9:36 pm (EST) on Dec 25, 2006

i appreciate the books we have in common...will be browsing your books for other suggestion...

posted by fairbrook at 8:43 pm (EST) on Nov 20, 2006

omie wise... wasn't that a song trilled by jacqui mac or mcshee for the pentangle? i think it's a traditional thing, but i can remember being force-fed camomile tea to that soundtrack. omie is "little mother" in arabic. the world, and why i love it: a concatenation of useless coincidences. greetings!

posted by benwaugh at 4:27 pm (EST) on Sep 25, 2006

hi a /o-w/. NYRB is my favorite too and each of the other imprints you mention gets my attention -- but, with those, I don't consistently enjoy them and with NYRB I pretty much like everything on the list, it seems. I want to like Dalkey that way... but it doesn't seem I do. what does that reflect? /// ~technical question (a brief search did not turn up the answer for me): when I view books I share with someone, I see *their* information, not mine. do you know how (if at all) I can see mine? so that, for example, I could see the tags I used on the eleven books that you share with me...

posted by mcassimatis at 12:23 am (EST) on Jan 26, 2006

No, I haven't. And as for the tags, I have to admit I went hog-wild when I started doing it, and am now going through and deleting author tags (a dumb idea, since there's author search) and one-shot tags that are never likely to be further used. But I actually do have several books about Yemen.

posted by languagehat at 4:12 pm (EST) on Dec 18, 2005

Wow, we have a lot of great stuff in common! You and I are the only ones with A tomb for Boris Davidovich.

posted by languagehat at 12:33 pm (EST) on Dec 15, 2005

Hey Omie!

posted by languagehat at 12:31 pm (EST) on Dec 15, 2005

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