In Jim Jarmusch's "Father Mother Sister Brother" (2025), there's a bookshelf in the house of the father (Tom Waits). It reminded me of a bookshelf in Jarmusch's "Paterson" (2016) that features "The Walk", a book by Robert Walser (1878-1956), translated by Christopher Middleton and my friend Susan Bernofsky and published by New Directions in 2012. As I scanned the bookshelf in the new movie, I was thrilled to see another book translated by a friend of mine: Geoffrey Brock's translation of the collected poems of Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) as "Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950", which was published by Copper Canyon in the US in 2002 and Carcanet in the UK in 2004. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 9 January 2026)