Category: Accessions
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14SEP23 / accessions
The department picked up DeLillo’s Underworld while wandering around the innegårdar of Malmö last weekend; Öppna Möllan is a sort of rudderless quasi-festival held at the start of every autumn, in which residents of the collective blocks of downtown Malmö open up their courtyards to passers-by and have a loppis (or yard-sale) to clear out…
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07SEP23 / accessions
A gift, mailed from Finland by an old colleague and ally of the institution, accompanied by a note saying “I wasn’t enjoying this, but I think it’s your sort of thing”. Time alone will prove whether they’re right—but they’ve been right a few times before.
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05SEP23 / accessions
Another book by singular fabulist (and local librarian) Karin Tidbeck was an easy decision. Chris W Kim’s Adherent was a more spontaneous acquisition, spotted face-out on a shelf: it looks interesting and sui generis, so why not?
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24AUG / accessions
This appears to be getting a good reception—for a book billed as technothriller to be reviewed positively at Teh Graun, by no less a discerning gourmand than Adam Roberts, is quite the badge of distinction. But the institution has been meaning to get to MacDonald’s other writings for some time, which has prompted the department…
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16AUG23 / accessions
An impulse acquisition, of which the department was notified by the institution as the latter departed with it to the eastern coast of Skåne for a day and a half of planning meetings. The note passed to the department reads: Heard this was good; on the basis of the first fifty pages, one understands exactly…