When one of our favorite writers and customers, the brilliant Edward Carey, gives us—and Fernando!—a shout out in the Boston Globe, well, we can’t help but boast just a little. You can read the full interview here.

BOSTON GLOBE: What are you reading currently?

CAREY: It can be a bit tricky reading for myself while I teach, but what I’m enormously excited about is Tears of the Trufflepig by Fernando A. Flores. I know him. Fernando is keeping Austin weird. His novel is sort of futuristic. It’s just bonkers.

BG: Is that typical of the kind of novel you like?

CAREY: No. I don’t really read that much futuristic stuff. The best book I read over the summer is The Hospital by Ahmed Bouanani published [for the first time in English] by New Directions. It’s one of the top 10 books I’ve ever read. It’s so strangely brilliant. Bouanani’s no longer with us, but he left us a few books.

BG: How did you come across that book?

CAREY: I’m always impressed by whatever New Directions puts out. We have amazing bookstores in Austin, including Malvern Books, which specializes in smaller presses. They have incredible displays of things you might miss, and this was there.

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