May 5, 2006
New and recent books
I spent part of yesterday evening perusing the websites of a few (mostly academic) publishers, and have compiled a partial list of new and recent books I'm looking forward to.
From MIT Press: Louise Lawler: Twice Untitled and Other Pictures, edited by Helen Molesworth (10/2006); Cindy Sherman, edited by Johanna Burton (part of October Files; November 2006); and David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side, edited by Giancarlo Ambrosino and featuring interviews by Sylvère Lotringer (October 2006). I have also heard that Douglas Crimp is writing a memoir of his life in New York in the '70s, to be titled Before Pictures, and suspect that MIT will release it.
From Houghton Mifflin: Cynthia Ozik, The Din in the Head (June 2, 2006).
From Farrar, Straus, Giroux: Seamus Heaney, District and Circle (May 2006) and 20th Century Germany Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Michael Hofmann (December 2006).
From Routledge: Matthew Smith, The Total Work of Art (October 28, 2006) and Art and Morality, edited by Jose Bermudez and Sebastian Gardner (June 28, 2006).
From The New Press: Immanual Wallerstein, European Universalism: Rhetoric of Power.
From the University of Minnesota Press: J.K. Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It) (available now); Theodor W. Adorno, Philosophy of New Music, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor (May 2006); Giorgio Agamben, Language and Death: The Place of Negativity, translated by Karen E. Pinkus with Michael Hardt (September 2006); and Vincent Kaufmann, Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry, translated by Robert Bononno (available now).
From Harvard University Press: Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood Around 1900, translated by Howard Eiland, and A Loeb Classical Library Reader (both available now).
From the University of California Press: Cécile Whiting, Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s (March 2006).
Lastly, from Yale University Press: Eva Hesse Drawing, edited by Catherine de Zegher (June 5, 2006) and Hesse's Datebooks, 1964/65: A Facsimile Edition, introduced by Sabine Folie (August 28, 2006).
My next purchase: Stuart Kelly's The Book of Lost Books.