Analog Days - (Nvla) by Damion Searls (Paperback)

About the Book

"Analog Days is a snapshot of a circle of friends living through the sorrows and joys of a particular inflection point in history. Amid the ever-present news cycles, watching the world shift around them, they fall back on film and friendship and art as the last bastions of meaning in their fragmented lives. Moving from coffee shops to bars, from New York City to San Francisco, Analog Days immerses us in the individual lives set adrift among the pivotal events of our recent history"--

Book Synopsis

Acclaimed translator Damion Searls's exuberant debut novella navigates the bittersweet tug-of-war between nostalgia and living life meaningfully in a world buzzing with information overload.

Analog Days is a snapshot of a circle of friends living through the sorrows and joys of a particular inflection point in history. Amid the ever-present news cycles, watching the world shift around them, they fall back on film and friendship and art as the last bastions of meaning in their fragmented lives. Moving from coffee shops to bars, from New York City to San Francisco, Analog Days immerses us in the individual lives set adrift among the pivotal events of our recent history.

Review Quotes

Praise for Analog Days

A Best Book of 2025, The New Yorker

A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025

"Analog Days succeeds by rejecting Slope's gimmick and his vague moralizing. Instead, it folds the anxieties and symptoms of its narrator and his friends into its structure and form." --Ryan Lackey, Los Angeles Review of Books

"[Analog Days'] real interest lies in the ordinary power of sensation, rather than the flashbulb sensationalism of event. [It] reveals something far deeper about how we will remember the future." --Kirkus

"Searls's writing is effective not only because of how insightful and playful it often is, . . . but also in the way he maintains our attention as he shifts from one subject to another." --Mark Daniel Taylor, The Masters Review

"Searls . . . offers in these clear-eyed ruminations a Gen Xer's impressions of the technology and violence that shape 21st-century life. . . . It's a stimulating attempt at making sense of a gloomy world." --Publishers Weekly

"More relatable and more timely than ever." --Emily Temple, Literary Hub

Praise for Damion Searls

"I feel that Damion has an unbelievable talent. I must admit that it is sometimes a mystery to me how he does it!" --Jon Fosse, Nobel Prize-winning author of Septology

"Searls is a wonderful writer, funny, compassionate, and unfailingly attentive to all the magical coincidences (or are they?) and twists of human history." --Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or

"Damion Searls is one of the most erudite and original--and provocative--thinkers." --Jennifer Croft, author of The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Damion Searls now verge[s] on being [a] literary household name." --The Nation

"Remarkable." --Percival Everett, National Book Award-winning author of James

"Searls [is] one of our best working translators." --Literary Hub

About the Author

Damion Searls is a renowned translator of the fiction of Nobel laureate Jon Fosse and dozens of other modern classics from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch. A Guggenheim, Cullman Center, and two-time NEA fellow, he is the author of The Inkblots and The Philosophy of Translation.