Three Percent: Brazos Bookstore

Brazos Bookstore

1 September 09 | E.J. Van Lanen

Every month Three Percent features an independent bookstore. This month’s featured bookstore is Brazos Bookstore.

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Ni chicha, ni limonada by David Unger
Reviewed by Rhea Lyons

The innovative works of legends like Borges and Cortázar not only defined a literary movement, they created an exotic and well-known image of Latin America and its people. A key element of works in the tradition of the magical realism. . .

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Reviewed by Will Eells

Contemporary Japanese literature is all too easy to stereotype. As far as the American reading public goes, the only books that come out of Japan seem to be under one of three genres. The first is the “bizarre things happening. . .

The Wall in My Head by Words Without Borders (eds.)
Reviewed by Jessica LeTourneur

I was born in the final decade of communism’s flailing grasp on the Eastern Bloc, and so what I know of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism has long been relegated to what I learned. . .

Rhyming Life & Death by Amos Oz
Reviewed by Dan Vitale

The short novel is a form in which writers typically exercise great control over their material, accepting the abbreviated length as a kind of challenge, working within that limitation to craft a tight, jewel-like story in which all the elements. . .

The Tanners by Robert Walser
Reviewed by Monica Carter

In the most recent translation of Swiss writer Robert Walser’s work, The Tanners, we are reminded once again why Kafka and Musil were fans—his wit. And like everything in Walser’s writing, it is nuanced and subtle. Instead giving us. . .

Dream of Reason by Rosa Chacel
Reviewed by Grant Barber

Rosa Chacel (1898-1994) sculptor, novelist, poet, essayist, feminist was born and died in Spain, with Brazil as a second home. She was a contemporary with the Generation of ’27, which included Garcia Lorca and Ramon Jaminez, and she was familiar. . .

Hoppla! 1 2 3 by Gérard Gavarry
Reviewed by Timothy Nassau

As frequently occurs, a few days ago I was browsing through a bookstore when something caught my eye. The book was Negative Horizon by Paul Virilio, which “sets out [his] theory of dromoscopy: a means of apprehending speed and its. . .

The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven
Reviewed by Chad W. Post

For years now, Melville House has been one of the most exciting independent presses out there. The political books they’ve done are fantastic, the Art of the Novella Series is arguably one of the most genius marketing/editorial publishing projects. . .

The Armies by Evelio Rosero
Reviewed by Dan Vitale

Anne McLean’s translation of Colombian novelist Evelio Rosero’s The Armies is the winner of this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, given by Great Britain’s Independent newspaper to honor excellence in translated works of fiction published in the UK. (It’s McLean’s. . .

The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolano
Reviewed by Chad W. Post

I’m as guilty as anyone for helping hype Roberto Bolaño’s two big books—“big” both in terms of reputation and size—that FSG released over the past two years. I loved both The Savage Detectives and 2666. I loved the heft,. . .