{"id":176257,"date":"2026-11-13T08:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=176257"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:26:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:26:49","slug":"november-bookmarks-emma-eaton-new-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2026\/11\/13\/november-bookmarks-emma-eaton-new-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"November Bookmarks: A Single Woman in a Dust-Proof Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-176262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/bookmarks-header.jpg\" alt=\"November bookmarks header. \" width=\"714\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/bookmarks-header.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/bookmarks-header-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/bookmarks-header-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each month,<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our desks at the <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pile up with dozens of soon-to-be published books. This November, in addition to translator Jennifer Croft\u2019s memoir <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/books.catapult.co\/books\/notes-on-postcards\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notes on Postcards<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/archipelagobooks.org\/book\/from-julio\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Julio<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a volume of Julio Cort\u00e1zar\u2019s selected letters, we read a political thriller-cum-radio broadcast about a Ukrainian barricade pianist. Sometimes, looking through these galleys for invention or inspiration, I keep a few passages for myself. Here\u2019s what struck me lately.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014Emma Eaton, editorial intern<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The German poet Ernst<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Herbeck, who was institutionalized for schizophrenia at twenty, began writing poems at the encouragement of his clinician. He often wrote in response to a prompt, which would then form his title. This poem, from Herbeck\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpoetrybooks.com\/books\/in-his-one-languages\"><i>In His One Languages<\/i><\/a> (World Poetry), translated from the German by David Brazil and Gary Sullivan, is called &#8220;The Cigarette.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Cigarette.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a monopoly and must<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be smoked. So Thatit<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">goes up in flames.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark Danner\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/products\/crossing-the-rubicon\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crossing the Rubicon: The Betrayal of American Democracy, 2000\u20132026<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NYRB) offers a comprehensive collection of the writer\u2019s essays from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bush v. Gore<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the second Trump administration. From an essay on Obama:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He seems slender and slight and young, astonishingly young, and you notice first of all, for it is impossible not to, the physical grace; he moves like an athlete much more than a politician, taking pleasure in his body: bursting up onto the stage, the lanky highly stylized movement, shoulders bent slightly concave, gathering everything into those constantly clapping hands, using the hands in their clapping to acknowledge the crowd, his head nodding all the while, as if he is drawing his energy only from them and showing that energy with his clapping and nodding, with the bursting energy of his body that is an embodiment of theirs, an embodied picture of what they\u2019re giving him. He prances with evident pleasure around the little stage, moving his head in big theatrical nods, embracing each politician in turn, big full-bodied embraces, and again one thinks of an athlete on the sidelines or in the dugout: all of it is done with the unhindered pleasure of the body, all of it says confidence and pleasure, as if this, being bathed in the huge cheers, taking sustenance and energy from the wave of sounds and the shouts of his name, is the place where he breathes his true oxygen, where he really lives. He seems made to be precisely here\u2014in the midst of these thousands of sundrenched cheering people.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simon Garfield\u2019s<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/783777\/the-pen-by-simon-garfield\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pen: A Human History<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Crown) introduces us to the characters of pen history, from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joseph Priestley\u2014the eighteenth-century scientist who, in addition to discovering oxygen, was the first person to shove a metal nib onto a quill\u2014to Milton Reynolds, the millionaire inventor of the Reynolds Rocket, the worlds&#8217; first ballpoint pen. In this scene, he&#8217;s visiting Axel Nier, \u201cnib specialist\u201d:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Towards the end of my time in Nibs, my eye was drawn to a single woman in a dust-proof room writing figure eights. This room was known as The Aquarium and was the final stage; the woman was testing nibs for resistance, smoothness and flow, and also sound. \u201cThe ideal sound is hard to understand,\u201d Nier explained to me quietly, \u201cbut she knows.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Polish futurist Aleksander Wat wrote his diary primarily in an invented and vowel-less code of his own invention. T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he loose-leaf papers on which his entries were typed were found after Wat\u2019s death in 1967. NYRB\u2019s new collection of the entries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/products\/diary-without-vowels\"><i>Diary Without Vowels<\/i><\/a> (NYRB), translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles, does include some vowels:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">November 7, 1963<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How strong I was today, how resilient, though the day was rather cold and windy, and my pains were mild, despite all the nerves, efforts, and worries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some more weather in Siamak Vossoughi\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarabandebooks.org\/all-titles\/p\/fiction-siamak-vossoughi\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Friend Seekers<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Sarabande Books), the author\u2019s third book of short stories:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a Saturday afternoon and the sky was gray in a way that seemed like Saturday afternoon was always going to be gray from here on out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A passage from Yuri Andrukhovych\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/products\/radio-night\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radio Night<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NYRB), translated from the Ukrainian by Mark Andryczyk:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lady Gaga was heading for Rotsky with such unwavering aim (while limping, no less) that he didn\u2019t have the least bit of doubt: he would now be offered drugs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emma Eaton is an<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> editorial intern at <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Paris 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