{"id":7682,"date":"2021-01-03T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=7682"},"modified":"2021-02-17T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:03:37","slug":"literary-calendar-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=7682","title":{"rendered":"Some Literary Reminder(s) for the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/jan\/02\/2021-in-books-what-to-look-forward-to-this-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/guardian_2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7683\" width=\"480\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/guardian_2021.jpg 960w, https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/guardian_2021-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/guardian_2021-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Guardian, 2021 in books, 3 January, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I bookmark <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/jan\/02\/2021-in-books-what-to-look-forward-to-this-year\" target=\"_blank\">this page at <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a> every year, and always find it a worthwhile guide to what is coming up, and when. And not just books, also the dates of literary events and anniversaries. The following is a list of some of the new works that interest me for one reason or another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>A Swim in a Pond in the Rain<\/strong>&nbsp;by George Saunders (Bloomsbury)<\/li><li><strong>Begin Again: James Baldwin\u2019s America&nbsp;<\/strong>by Eddie S Glaude Jr (Chatto &amp; Windus).<\/li><li><strong>The Mysterious Correspondent<\/strong>&nbsp;by Marcel Proust, translated by Charlotte Mandell (Oneworld)<\/li><li><strong>Under a White Sky&nbsp;<\/strong>by Elizabeth Kolbert (Bodley Head)<\/li><li><strong>Everybody&nbsp;<\/strong>by Olivia Laing (Picador)<\/li><li><strong>Letters to Camondo&nbsp;<\/strong>by Edmund de Waal (Chatto &amp; Windus)<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/320466\/the-wife-of-willesden\/9780241471968.html\">The Wife of Willesden<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/320466\/the-wife-of-willesden\/9780241471968.html\">&nbsp;<\/a>by Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton)<\/li><li><strong>Home in the World&nbsp;<\/strong>by Amartya Sen (Allen Lane)<\/li><li><strong>The Magician<\/strong>&nbsp;by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn (Viking)<\/li><li><strong>Oh, William!<\/strong>&nbsp;by Elizabeth Strout (Viking)<\/li><li><strong>Greek Myths<\/strong>&nbsp;by Charlotte Higgins (Jonathan Cape)<\/li><li><strong>HG Wells&nbsp;<\/strong>by Claire Tomalin (Viking)<\/li><li><strong>Silent Catastrophes: Essays on Literature<\/strong>&nbsp;by&nbsp;WG Sebald&nbsp;(Hamish Hamilton)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no need to say that the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/books\" target=\"_blank\">Books section<\/a> of <em>The New York Times<\/em> always has plenty to offer &#8211; by week, month and year, and just about everything else &#8211; but <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/books\/new-books-international.html?smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\">this international selection<\/a> (mostly in translation) for the year to come is worth perusing.  Here, for various reasons, and by those known and not, the following (just some amongst many) particularly interest me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures <\/strong>by Clarice Lispector, trans. from the Portuguese by Stefan Tobler (New Directions)<\/li><li><strong>Aristophanes: Four Plays<\/strong> trans. by Aaron Poochigian (Liveright)<\/li><li><strong>The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter<\/strong>, trans. from the French by Frank Wynne (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux)<\/li><li><strong>Cleopatra<\/strong> by Alberto Angela, trans. from the French by Katherine Gregor (HarperVia)<\/li><li><strong>The Copenhagen Trilogy<\/strong> by Tov Ditlevsen, trans. from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman<\/li><li><strong>First Person Singular<\/strong> by Haruki Murakami, trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel (Knopf)<\/li><li><strong>The Impudent Ones <\/strong>by Marguerite Duras, trans. from the French by Kelsey L. Haskett (The New Press)<\/li><li><strong>In the Company of Men<\/strong> by V\u00e9ronique Tadjo (Other Press)<\/li><li><strong>Painting Time<\/strong> by<strong> <\/strong>Maylis de Kerangal, trans. from the French by Jessica Moore (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At year&#8217;s end, and in retrospect, I don&#8217;t ever seem to get as far as time and circumstance should allow for, but &#8230;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, while in retrospect mode, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/375kGPT\" target=\"_blank\">here is <em>The New York Times<\/em> &#8220;10 Best of 2020&#8221;<\/a>; of which, I have read only <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/3eA6Jeb\" target=\"_blank\">Hamnet<\/a><\/em> by Maggie O&#8217;Farrell and, still bringing to an end, Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential memoir. I appreciate being reminded of, on the fictional front, <em>Homeland Elegies<\/em> and <em>The Vanishing Hal<\/em>f, and non-fiction works pertaining to war, Shakespeare and schizophrenia that I had totally missed. (Though, Margaret MacMillan&#8217;s &#8220;War&#8221; may well be related to her <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0b8d340\" target=\"_blank\">2018 Reith Lecture series<\/a>.) One could, of course, go a step further (which I haven&#8217;t!) and be tormented further by their <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2HjImaj\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;100 Notable of 2020&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bookmark this page at The Guardian every year, and always find it a worthwhile guide to what is coming up, and when. And not just books, also the dates of literary events and anniversaries. The following is a list of some of the new works that interest me for one reason or another. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=7682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Literary Reminder(s) for the New Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-7682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-the-guardian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7682"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8093,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682\/revisions\/8093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}