Here are links to all of the different sections of my bibliography of works of fiction and poetry that have embedded photographs as an integral part of the “text.”
I began Vertigo in 2007 primarily as a vehicle for writing about W.G. Sebald and the history of fiction and poetry with photographs embedded as part of the author’s original text. I now write about a broader range of books that interest me. You can see my 11 favorite posts (from more than 600) by clicking on the Top Posts tab. And check out my yearly Reading Log, where I write something about every book I read. The categories below are only a handful of the topics covered in this blog over the years. Please use the Search field below to see if an author, book, or topic has been mentioned or discussed. To contact me, just leave a comment at any post and I will answer. Enjoy! Terry
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Tim Pears’ new book Landed (pub 2010) has some very Sebaldish photographs describing a fictional road accident.
Fascinating resource!
Probably a dumb question, but are all the photographs in these works ‘visual’, or can they be fictional, verbal ones functioning (for e.g.) as plot clinchers, evidence, etc?
The photographs I am referring to in all of these books are strictly visual images embedded within the text. There is a very large world of verbally described photographs, but my interest lies in the literary phenomenon of real photographs as a kind of text.
The Box Man by Kobo Abe has some eerie photographs in it.
Great! I knew Abe is a photographer and I’ve read many of his books. But I’ve never looked at The Box Man. Will do so promptly!
Terry
Can vouch for Abe’s Box Man, definitely strange photos, as a Sebald fan I guess you know about Unrecounted , which has lithographs by Jan Peter Tripp.
Terry, I really enjoy your site. Have been catching up on the past posts. Not sure if you have posted this title yet. Jack Finney’s Time and Again? Thanks
Alan, Thanks! The Finney book is new to me. I really appreciate the tip.
Terry
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You should be looking into this title :
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs (2011)
Thanks for the comment about Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. I’ve got a copy but haven’t updated the 2011 list recently. I’ll have to do that soon.
Terry
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Have you cited Pamuk’s Istanbul? a book I find almost sickeningly indebted to Sebald.
I haven’t read Istanbul (I had trouble finishing several other books by Pamuk). So I haven’t too closely at it yet. Is it fictional enough to be “fiction”? I’d love some advice on this.
Terry
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A Winter Book: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson (pub. Sort Of Books) contains some photos.
Rise, Thanks for the tip! I must get this. -Terry
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Funny that another reader named Michael mentions Pamuk and feels exactly as I do.
Hi Terry, you might want to add Zeepijn (Sea Pine) by Dutch author Charlotte Mutsaers and Terpentijn en Oorlog (Terpentine and War) by Flemish author Stefan Hertmans. They both deserve being translated into English…
Thanks! I will look into these titles. Terry
Hello Terry, lurking reader here. I found this quote in an interview with Geoff Dyer:
“GD: I guess I’d read a lot of Kundera at that point, had absorbed that idea of the novelistic essay. It’s worth saying that Somme came out before any of Sebald’s books, just in case people have the idea that I got the notion of sticking in the photographs from Sebald!”
The interview can be found here, I found it very interesting:
http://www.believermag.com/issues/201203/?read=interview_dyer
Best/Mattias
It’s worth saying that Somme came out before any of Sebald’s books
Not true. Somme came out in 1994 after Sebald’s books came out in original German in 1990 (Vertigo) and 1992 (The Emigrants).
Reading between the lines, I took Dyer’s statement to be a reference to the dating of Sebald’s books as they appeared in English. The Emigrants doesn’t appear in England until 1996. This interpretation would let The Missing of the Somme pre-date Sebald by two years. That said, Dyer seems to be doing an awful lot of fudging about whether or not this book is fiction (it’s a “novelistic essay” or an “essay in mediation” he says, whatever those things mean). Judging from what one can see from the “Look Inside” view on Amazon, Somme reads like non-fiction and there doesn’t seem to be anything innovative about the selection or use of photographs. In other words, a superficial glance at Somme suggests that it would appear to most eyes in 1994 like an otherwise unremarkable book of memoir/essay, certainly not in the way that the photographs in Sebald’s books seemed so startling at first. I would hazard an opinion here that Dyer is being truthful when he says he wasn’t influenced by Sebald and probably didn’t know Sebald’s books, but that he really wasn’t doing anything innovative by including photographs in Somme. Thus, Somme wouldn’t really have any claim to being a precedent in the use of photographs.
Mattias, Many thanks for mentioning this. I’d looked at Dyer’s book The Missing of the Somme before and assumed it was non-fiction. I’m becoming convinced there really is no easily definable demarcation between fiction and non-fiction, and it sounds as if Dyer is deliberately blurring the distinction in Somme. I found a good interview with him in the Los Angeles Times where he addresses the non-fiction/fiction issue like this:
J[acket]C[opy]: You call your book “[n]ot a novel but an essay in mediation: research notes for a Great War novel I had no intention of writing, the themes of a novel without its substance …”
GD: The book grew out of a visit to the cemeteries on the Somme, an experience that might have given rise to a novel — a novel that many other people could have written. In some ways my book is an early symptom or expression of writerly — and readerly — impatience that has become more acute in the years since I finished it. Also of a compulsion to come up with something formally original, unique to the subject, as opposed to filling a pre-existing mold. For many writers that’s what a novel is: a pre-existing mold.
JC: That novelistic impulse seems to emerge in the personal sections late in the book, which are voicy and irreverent.
GD: Generally speaking, I can’t bear unrelieved solemnity or piety; nor can I bear much so-called comic writing. As in real life I like the constant shuttling back and forth between serious and comic. Ideally, I like it if it’s impossible to draw the line between the two.
Terry,
although Geoff Dyer’s writing seems quite interesting to me taken on its own terms (haven’t read him yet but ordered his books on photography and Stalker) I obviously didn’t intend too evaluate him in comparison to Sebald, but simply bring him to your attention since I couldn’t find any post of yours on Dyer.
I also would like to say that I admire your strong focus on knowledge about and collecting of one particular, and consistently interesting, author. I would love to find my one special writer early enough in his/her career so as to be able to put together a good, not necessarily big, but worthwhile collection and so building a deeper knowledge and understanding.
Interested in Canadian literature and photography, novels, poems, visual and verbal images, ekphrasis …. Do you have any suggestions? The authors must be Canadians. Thanks
Here’s a start.
S.D. Chrostowska. Permission: A Novel. She teaches at York University, Toronto.
Carol Shields. Stone Diaries.
Michael Ondaatje. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid & Coming Through Slaughter.
Barbara Hodgson. Several books.
Stephen Marche. Shining at the Bottom of the Sea.
Thank you so much for the suggestions. I am eager to emerge in them. Ondaatje and Shields are already familiar but the others not
Hello Terry,
I would like to add two more Authors to the list, both of them writes in hebrew but their books were translated to english:
Dror Burstein- Who is actually a devout photo-novelist and a great admirer of Sebald.
Ronit Matalon- her book “The One Facing Us: A Novel” was quite a bestseller, considering the Israeli Market.
Doron, Thanks! I have read Matalon’s book. In fact, I wrote about it several years ago: https://sebald.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/the-anxiety-of-the-visual/. But now I am anxious to see Burstein’s books. Best wishes.
Doron, Can you tell me which books by Burstein – whether in English of Hebrew – have photographs in them?
This is a fantastic use of a blog, I must say. I’m in the early stages of writing a dissertation on the intersection between textuality and visuality (figurative, photos, illustrations, comics) in American ethnic literature. I’m sure I’ll find some gems in these lists. Thanks.
Oscar – Good luck with your research and writing. If I can help, just ask. And please let me know as you run across books I’ve overlooked.
Hi Terry
These books of poems with photographs may also be of interest to you:
William Allen, Sevastopol: On Photographs of War (Xenos Books, 1997).
Brooke Bergan, Storyville: A Hidden Mirror (Asphodel Press, 1994).
Jana Harris, Oh How Can I Keep On Singing?: Voices of Pioneer Women (Ontario Review Press, 1993); and We Never Speak of It: Idaho-Wyoming Poems, 1889-90 (Ontario Review Press, 2003).
Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems (Front Street, 2001).
Jon Thompson, Book of the Floating World (Parlor Press, 2004; an expanded edition with many more photographs was released by the same publisher in 2007).
My collection Young Country, which features photographs by 19th-century photographer William Williams, was published by Auckland University Press in November 2014 – more on this (and my concept of co-mediality) is at http://kerryhines.net/young-country/
All the best –
Kerry
Kerry – Thanks! What a great list. I’ll check them all out. – Terry
Hi Terry, I just discovered your site. What a treasure! As a recent Sebald enthusiast, I look forward to exploring it fully. If it’s not too downright vulgar to plug my own book, I will mention “Spoilers” (2011), a novel that integrates vintage postcards, mostly of the once-celebrated outdoor clinic of Dr. Locke in Williamsburg, Ontario during the 1930s. A young woman has an oblique connection to the clinic, and collects the postcards obsessively, using them as a catalyst to inner reflection. This one-minute reading from the book on YouTube is not from the woman’s PoV, but at least you can see some of the postcards. Thanks! Mark
Mark, Thanks! It’s perfectly fine to promote your book. I’ll get a copy.
Hi Terry! I discovered your site a few days ago and I really enjoyed reading your posts and browsing through all these photo-embedded fiction! I´m in the early stages of writing a master thesis on memory and photography in English and German texts. Your site is really helpful! Do you have any suggestions for books dealing with the topics memory and history? Thanks.
If you are interested in German literature, I would recommend to read “Pawel´s Briefe” by Monika Maron (it´s a mix of fiction and autobiography).
All the best,
Anna
Anna, Sorry for the late reply, but I went into the hospital right about the time your comment appeared. The relationship between history and memory is a huge topic in academia and in many disciplines. This might be a good start: http://brooklynrail.org/2013/07/art/summer-reading-listhistory-and-memory-the-velocity-of-extinction. I’ve read Maron’s book – thanks for the recommendation. -Terry
Midpoint and Other Poems by John Updike. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1969 / London : Andre Deutsch, 1969.
2nd movement of title poem, II. THE PHOTOGRAPHS, consists entirely of 21 family photographs, many of them pixelated. Fragments of some of them are re-used in the 4th movement, IV. THE PLAY OF MEMORY, embedded within the verses.
https://www.librarything.com/work/521271/
Pelle, This sounds fascinating. Many thanks. I’ve ordered a copy.
This one may already be on your radar, Terry, but it’s just hit the shelves in the UK and Australia, and is forthcoming in August in the US.
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans. London : Harvill Secker / Melbourne: Text Publishing / New York : Pantheon, 2016.
First published in the Netherlands in 2013.
There are about 12 photographs in the text, along with a number of paintings.
http://www.stefanhertmans.be
Guardian review: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/02/war-and-turpentine-by-stefan-hertmans-review
Thanks! I’ll watch for this.
Hi Terry, Your blog is a fantastic read. I am also fascinated with photography and literature and have just started to explore the link between the two with my old snapshots (https://www.instagram.com/jackjinlio/).
Not sure if this counts, but Nabakov’s ‘Speak, Memory’ comes to mine the most when I photo-embedded literature. It’s a memoir, but to me, reads like a novel.
Thanks so much for your comment. I’m glad you like Vertigo. I just started to follow your Instagram feed and look forward to seeing more.
I am a big fan of Nabokov’s Speak, Memory. But I didn’t include it in my bibliography. It’s often really hard for me to draw the line between memoir and memoir-fiction, so I tend to make it hard for a book like that to cross over the fiction line.
Happy New Year, Terry. A thousand good wishes. One for your 2016 list.
Panorama by Dušan Šarotar. London : Peter Owen, November 2016.
From the publisher’s website: “Dušan Šarotar takes the reader on a deeply reflective yet kaleidoscopic journey from northern to southern Europe. In a manner reminiscent of W.G. Sebald, Šarotar supplements the narrative with photographs, which help to blur the lines between fiction and journalism. The writer’s experience of landscape is bound up in a personal yet elusive search for self-discovery, as he and a diverse group of international fellow travellers relate in their individual and distinctive voices their unique stories and their common quest for somewhere they might call home.”
http://www.peterowen.com/shop/panorama
As a devotee of Peter Owen, I may have to buy a copy for myself.
Happy new year to you! As it turns out, I am currently reading Panorama! I’m about halfway through and will probably write something about it in the coming weeks.
Terry
As a biography in verse, I’m not sure if this strictly qualifies, but the verse narrative is supplemented with the illegal photographs Sir Charles Snodgrass ‘Plevna’ Ryan took during the brief truce between the Anzacs and the Turks at Gallipoli in 1915.
Plevna by Geoff Page. Perth : University of Western Australia Publishing, April 2016.
There’s an extract of the book on the publisher’s website.
http://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/plevna
O, I love this – a biography in verse. How utterly strange. I must have this. Thanks!
Geoff Page has written another biography in verse:
Elegy for Emily by Geoff Page. Sydney : Puncher & Wattmann, May 2019.
https://puncherandwattmann.com/books/book/elegy-for-emily
Not sure if it includes photos, but I’ll find out.
Hesitant to post because I don’t like to, but,. . . finally found a copy, read,and discovered a well placed photo, in Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas. I didn’t see it in your catalogue, probably overlooked it. If not though, I offer you this, if you have not already read Roberto Bolano’s The Skating Rink (I had), read it first, at a certain point it enhances the joy of reading Cercas’ book. Thanks for this site, the only such site I come to, I trust you. Health, Chris
Chris, Many thanks for the kind words and for these two tips. I’m ordering both books now.
Hello Terry,
One for your 2017 list: “Alma,” by Javier Moreno, put out by a new and very promising publisher, Quantum Prose. A handful of black and white photos scattered throughout the novel, which is very slim (117 pages).
Hope you get a chance to read and enjoy it!
Cheers,
Brandon
Brandon, Thanks! I just ordered a copy.
Hi Terry,
Two new Australian poetry books with photos have just been published.
The Tiny Museums by Carolyn Abbs. Perth: University of Western Australia Publishing, October 2017.
The book includes 5 photographs by Elizabeth Roberts. There’s an extract of the book on the publisher’s website. (You may remember UWAP published Plevna last year, and also this year’s Miles Franklin Award winning novel Extinctions by Josephine Wilson.)
https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/the-tiny-museums
Darlinghurst Funeral Rites by Mark Mordue. Melbourne : Transit Lounge, October 2017.
Photographs, illustrations and image collages throughout the book. Two pages of image credits.
http://transitlounge.com.au/shop/darlinghurst-funeral-rites/
Thanks! I will look into these. I just finished reading Extinctions. I don’t know if you have read it or not. A little better than so-so. A very readable story of a less than happy, somewhat damaged family written from the viewpoint of the father who lives alone in a retirement village. But there are some awkward bits of writing and I have mixed feelings about how the photographs were used. I might write a little about it for the blog, but I’m not sure.
Hi there. Your site is a great resource. I am the author of the awkward bits of writing, and the somewhat confused use of photos, but I can confirm that I love Sebald and I am looking forward to reading more. Thanks for your work; it is fabulous
Another from the recent UWAP poetry series.
The Criminal Re-Register by Ross Gibson. Perth: University of Western Australia Publishing, October 2017.
https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/collections/uwap-poetry/products/the-criminal-re-register
Thanks. I just ordered a copy. I have a novel by Gibson that is filled with photographs called The Summer Exercises (2008).
Hi Terry,
So wonderful blog, thanks you for your collections.
Can you recommand some photo-novels for beginners? I and my friends want to write novels with photography, but there are few books for reference in my language.
Thank you and happy new year!
Kim, I am not sure I correctly understand what you are asking. If you want to have examples of novels in which the photography dominates the text, I have reviewed three photo novellas here: https://sebald.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/3-photographic-novels/. And here are a couple of examples of how writers have used readily available photographs to construct their novel. In “Leche,” R, Zamora Linmark uses postcards of the Philippines to create a novel about what it is like to return home after living in the US. (http://coffeehousepress.org/shop/leche/). In “Mohr,” Frederick Reuss uses a collection of his own family’s snapshots to tell the story of his uncle, who abruptly left his wife and daughter behind in Germany in 1934 and moved to Shanghai, where he mysteriously started all over again. (http://unbridledbooks.com/our_books/book//mohr_a_novel)
But if I have still not provided you with what you want, ask me again.
Hi Terry, Have you ever read Paul Metcalf? I came across him only this past fall, through the Coffee House re-issue of his collected works, and there, of course, via Melville. PM is Herman’s great-grandson, his mother was the writer’s literary executor. He published with Jonathan William’s Jargon Press, and other small presses. I am absolutely blown away by his writing. He works through US history through the most interesting ways, via literary snippets, family history, forgotten events in the “margins” of history, through fictional stories. (And I feel like anything I might say just really falls short of the mark… his work is so multilayered… multivoiced.) If you want to start with books that include images, then go to “I-57”, but try to get the original edition: unfortunately, the main flaw of the otherwise great Coffee House publication is that it omits images. Out of some 30 photographs in I-57, the collected works has about 10. These are what you would properly call “embedded” photographs. His other works, like “Waters of Powtomack” contain plate sections of mostly historical photographs sourced from the Library of Congress. “Middle Passage” has some B&W drawings/engravings. But even something like Genoa, which has no images inside at all, makes use of the dust jacket to include some. The breadth of Metcalf’s references is like Onuma Nemon’s (and actually, some intersecting points: the “discovery” of the Americas, Columbus’s logs, etc.) and, well, Melville’s!
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In other publications, Esther Kinsky’s River, just out from Fitzcarraldo, has some images (although you probably already have it). Then there is Matthew McIntosh’s experimental (and somewhat uneven, but definitely worth a look), image-studded tome, “theMystery.doc”.
Ela, Thanks! I actually have the three-volume Paul Metcalf set on my shelf. I read volume one and was really impressed. Then I felt that I needed a break from him and I’ve never picked him up again. I didn’t open volumes 2 or 3 until today. I guess I’ll have to look for the originals of some of these.
Did you read Onuma Nemon? Tell me more.
I wondered about Kinsky. I just ordered River. And I looked at themystery.doc, but the idea of reading a book that long right now frightens me. I am so far behind in reading already.
Thanks, as always, for the great tips. I hope you’re busy! Terry
P.S. the Mystery.doc is probably no more than a 100 pp of solid text :-) Check out the author’s website — it will give you a good idea of the book. * I will try to share some thoughts about Onuma Nemon later! I bought all his other books I could find, and keep thinking of doing a proper review somewhere… but then keep getting inundated with work… * Another “tip”: Alexander Kluge’s book “A Chronicle of Connections” is included in the two-part catalog for the exhibition “The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied.” I saw the book at the MoMA a couple weeks ago, but can’t find the English translation online anywhere (the Italian seems to have the same ISBN! but only the bigger book, the catalog proper, is actually bilingual), so can’t comment on the translation. The book is of course available at a somewhat lower price in German as Kongs große Stunde. Chronik des Zusammenhangs. And, well, looks very much “Kluge”! (I’m still working my way through vol. one of Chronique des Sentiments…)
I think this is the answer to the Kluge mystery. It looks like the English translation of Kluge’s book part of a multi-volume catalog for the exhibition. This site says it’s 3 vols: “The exhibition “The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied.” will be accompanied by an illustrated book edited by Udo Kittelmann and published by Fondazione Prada. Made up of three volumes, it includes the English and Italian editions of “The Great Hour of Kong. A Chronicle of Connections” by Alexander Kluge and the catalogue of the project with essays, poems and texts by Devin A. Fore, Niccolò Gravina, Udo Kittelmann, Alexander Kluge, Rachel Kushner, Ben Lerner, Helmut Lethen, Thomas Oberender and Aurora Scotti.” (courtesy http://reflektor-m.de/ausstellung/fondazione-prada-thomas-demand-alexander-kluge-and-anna-viebrock-the-boat-is-leaking-the-captain-lied-at-fondazione-prada-may-13november-26) More here: https://2×4.org/work/199/the-boat-is-leaking-the-captain-lied/. You can buy it on Book Depository for $75 (but they say it’s 2 vols).
I just received Kluge’s “Temple of the Scapegoat: Opera Stories.”
Only just noticed your reply (the notification got filtered to spam). If you’re thinking of buying the Boat is Leaking… catalog, don’t buy it from Book Depository — I’ve checked, and the information on their website is incorrect: they only have the Italian-language version. I gave in and bought it from MoMA. I think they still have a few copies — the bookstore people were kind enough to mail it to me, even though this is not part of the online offer. The Kluge volume included here is in English (only). The catalog is bilingual.
Ela, I am going to pass on this one. Let me know what you think of it.
Forthcoming poetry book from New Directions:
Be With by Forrest Gander. New York : New Directions Publishing, May 2018.
The listing in the Spring/Summer 2018 catalog on the publisher’s website notes it is illustrated with photographs.
https://www.ndbooks.com/catalog/
Many thanks for spotting this. It looks very interesting. I’ve requested a review copy.
Biography in verse from the recent batch in the UWAP poetry series:
Walking with Camels: The Story of Bertha Strehlow by Leni Shilton. Crawley : University of Western Australia Press, February 2018.
There is a photograph at the beginning of each chapter.
https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/collections/uwap-poetry/products/walking-with-camels-the-story-of-bertha-strehlow
Thank you for the tip on the Leni Shilton book.
You may already know of this recent release, Terry, but it looks fantastic – a noir verse novel.
The Long Take by Robin Robertson. London : Picador, February 2018.
There is a photograph at the beginning and end of each of the four chapters, contemporary to the period the chapters are set (1946, 1948, 1951, 1953).
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/robin-robertson/the-long-take
Thanks! I’ve just ordered a copy. This looks fascinating. Anything noir is up my alley.
Just heard The Long Take is on the 2018 Man Booker longlist. I wonder if a verse novel has ever been listed before?
Natascha Wodin, Sie kam aus Mariupol, (Rowohlt Verlag 2017)
– Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse (Kategorie: Belletristik) für Sie kam aus Mariupol 2017:
– August-Graf-von-Platen-Preis für Sie kam aus Mariupol
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Many thanks for the message about Natascha Wodin’s book! I’ve added it to the 2017 listing.
My German Brother by Chico Buarque. London : Picador, April 2018. Originally published in 2014 as O Irmão Alemão by Companhia das Letras, São Paulo.
Five photos of letters and documents from author’s personal archive. One photograph by Robert Lackenbach at end of novel.
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/chico-buarque/my-german-brother
Oh, and I should mention it uses a Stanley Kubrick photograph (for Look Magazine) on the cover.
Thanks for each of the books you’ve mentioned today! I’ll be adding these to the listings.
The above has just been published in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2018.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374161200
Super! Thanks for letting me know.
There is a book of poetry by Esther Kinsky, “Naturschutzgebiet, Gedichte und Fotografien” . Chapter III is 40 photographs, chapter VI is one photograph and a poem. In chapters I, II, IV, V there are poems. The small book was published in 2013.
Thanks!
Someone can suggest me a novel based on real-life event? For example, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Foer. It must be written by an American or Canadian writer. Thanks :)
Thomas Mallon has several novels based on 20th American politics. For example, Fellow Travelers is based on a real episode in the McCarthy era. And he has another novel that follows Watergate. There are so many novels that meet your criteria. You could probably do a Google search and find lists to explore.
Thank you very much for the suggestions!
You may already be aware of this recent release. Some black & white photos in the text, and a long sequence of polaroid photos that concludes the novel.
Lost Children Archive : A Novel by Valeria Luiselli. New York : Knopf, February 2019.
http://knopfdoubleday.com/2019/01/18/lost-children-archive-a-novel-by-valeria-luiselli/
My copy just arrived over the weekend! Good timing.
Hi Terry, the link to the 2017 list appears to be broken.
It’s back up again. Thanks for pointing this out.
You are correct! For some reason, WordPress now thinks that 2017 listing is once again an unpublished draft. I may have to post it again. I’ll let you know.
Hi Terry, the following has just been published by an interesting small press in Hackney.
Into the Pines : A novella by Paul Scraton. Photographs by Eymelt Sehmer. London : Influx Press, October 2021.
https://www.influxpress.com/in-the-pines
Thanks so much for the link to this book. I’ve just ordered it. I hope you are well. I love your Instagram feed.
Hello Terry, You are missing a wonderful embedded title by North Point Press — The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett – 1984 . Many vintage photographs of the locations use in the book. North Point did an outstanding layout on this title. Thanks for Vertigo . AW
Albert, Thank you for your comment! I’ve seen this book and it’s lovely. My emphasis here is on titles for which the author included the photographs in the original edition. I tend to exclude books in which publishers added the photographs later, especially after the author’s death. This beautiful title, unfortunately, falls outside my boundaries. Best wishes and thanks for reading! The photographs on your website are terrific, by the way.
Another poetry collection: I Knew Two Métis Women, Gregory Scofield. Around 1/2 dozen photos, almost certainly from author’s family album.
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Are all your LibraryThing embedded books over here? (In fact I think I came across one here that isn’t there.) The lists here are certainly more informative than the one under LT tag.
Cynthia, Thanks for mentioning Scofield’s book. I will add it to my bibliography here on Vertigo. I have stopped adding titles to my LibraryThing listing. It just seemed like double the work. The listings here are the most complete.
Unshuttered : Poems by Patricia Smith. Northwestern University Press, February 2023.
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810145634/unshuttered/
Ben, Thank you for this tip. But – for once! – I have already purchased the book! All the very best to you.