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The Evan Dara Affinity
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Steadfastly supporting the work of Evan Dara, "the best-kept secret in all of contemporary American literature" (Emmett Stinson).
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エヴァン・ダーラ/ 木原善彦訳『失われたスクラップブック』(幻戯書房) 読了

ものすごい読み応えだった。前半はラジオを手動でチューニングするときのように切れ切れに様々な会話が展開する。誰が何について話しているのかわからないものもあるが、それぞれのエピソードがとてもおもしろい。後半になってチューニングが合うと、ひとつのできごとにフォーカスされ、やがて前半の会話を巻き込んで怒涛の展開になる。そして..... 音楽的といってもいい構成だ。ダーラの素性がリチャード・パワーズなのではないかと思われたのも頷ける作品。他の作品も読んでみたい。/重版が決まったそうで喜ばしいかぎり
本/ book エヴァン・ダーラ『失われたスクラップブック』 "The Lost Scrapbook" by Evan Dara
April 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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The Japanese edition of Evan Dara's debut novel, The Lost Scrapbook, has been awarded the Grand Prize at the 11th Japan Translation Awards.

Grateful to Yoshihiko Kihara (@shambhalian.bsky.social) and Genki Shobo (@genki-shobou.bsky.social) for carrying it across.

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The Lost Scrapbook Wins at the Japan Translation Awards
We’re excited to announce that The Lost Scrapbook has just won the Grand Prize at the 11th Japan Translation Awards! On April 27, 2025, the Japan Translation Award committee met in Tokyo and named …
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April 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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I just want to call more attention to this book and author. Evan Dara is severely, severely underrated; true gem of a writer. Insane to have a debut this good and not be a household name.
bxvr.bsky.social venom radio @bxvr.bsky.social · Nov 28
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (4/20)
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The Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara
December 5, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Colm Tóibín reporting from his home in LA for the @londonreview.bsky.social...

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January 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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While reading ‘Permanent Earthquake’ I felt that Dara was slipping. Maybe that was a prejudice against the fantastical occluding my critical eye. Years on now I find myself reflecting on it weekly.
January 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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For those seeking a taste of Daniel Green's critical acumen, we point you to his thoughtful survey of Evan Dara's body of work (published prior to Permanent Earthquake): www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2020/05/...
January 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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From Evan Dara's The Lost Scrapbook...
December 20, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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And a “—Merry Christmas, the man threatened” from all of us at Dalkey Archive
December 20, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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It's about six and change from us if you ever wanna chance it. 2025: We live for the bit? Anyway, see ya on the other side of Evan Dara.
December 15, 2024 at 4:51 AM
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cklein421.bsky.social Chris Klein @cklein421.bsky.social · Dec 13
Fiction CDE
December 14, 2024 at 2:46 AM
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"I seek out experimental fiction, but even having read countless books in that lane, this one still manages to do things with language that I don’t think I’ve ever seen done before..."

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Stewart Mitchell's review of The Lost Scrapbook
5/5: Sat on my shelf for years; knew it would be great but never felt like reading it (maybe because it looks so ugly); decided to finally pick it up because my goal in 2024 is to read the books/watch...
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December 12, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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americangwyn.bsky.social Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · Dec 7
We Await Silent Tristero’s Empire. —<|)
December 8, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Those last 30 pages or so of Permanent Earthquake are still messing me up 3 years later. Not sure how he pulled that off. Such a great novel.
December 6, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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The word spreads slowly, but it does spread, one reader at a time…
bxvr.bsky.social venom radio @bxvr.bsky.social · Dec 5
I just want to call more attention to this book and author. Evan Dara is severely, severely underrated; true gem of a writer. Insane to have a debut this good and not be a household name.
bxvr.bsky.social venom radio @bxvr.bsky.social · Nov 28
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (4/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
December 6, 2024 at 4:33 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (4/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
The Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara
November 28, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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“Literature – even though people usually study it author by author – is always a dialog amongst many voices which intersect and reply to each other within literature and outside it.”
– Italo Calvino
November 28, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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I had to pause this to finish Miley, but since that’s now in, I’m finishing this up. It’s going directly to indie publishers, so any suggestions are welcome!
mikebarthelauthor.com Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · Apr 13
Last summer I made the extraordinarily impractical decision to revamp my novel. After a lot of blocks, I just finished a full new version. Now it’s 80k words, standalone, speculative lit fic. Need to do edits but then I guess I’ll send it out again? Here’s the epigraph:
…it’s only blind optimism to say that the survival of the One is what counts, that this is what is driving the system, while the incomprehensibly vast and unending ordeals of the numberless trillions is insignificant…this position is indefensible…so the purpose all along was to bring these ordeals about…that was the goal…that was what the structure was set up to accomplish…thus, amidst the world’s ceaseless struggle and inevitable death, it’s clear that the final purpose of life, of biological existence, is to create the maximum possible suffering… Evan Dara, The Lost Scrapbook —- HEATHER: Why? HEATHER: Why not? Heathers (1988)
November 22, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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Translation: "Evan Dara is great. There are no other similar works. I will definitely buy Kihara-sensei's translation. I have all of Dara's works. I also got the digital-only 'Mose Eakins' when it was released for free/with a tip system. @libro"
artssoy.bsky.social Takeshi Sudo @artssoy.bsky.social · Jul 10
Evan Daraはいい。ほかに似ている作品がないし。木原先生の翻訳も絶対買います。Daraは全部持っている。デジタル限定の"Mose Eakins"も、無料／投げ銭制度で公開された時に入手済みでございます。@libro
November 23, 2024 at 2:30 AM
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These are my favorite books of the year.

1 Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
2 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
3 Nox by Anne Carson
4 The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand
5 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
6 Permanent Earthquake by Evan Dara
7 Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu
January 1, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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Keeping good company...
iainsmithnz.bsky.social Iain Smith @iainsmithnz.bsky.social · Nov 22
Gatecrashers.
November 22, 2024 at 8:16 PM