Analog Days

A novella by Damion Searls

October 21, 2025 • 4.5 x 7 • 120 pages • 9781566897396

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.

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.

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