Veteran New Museum Book Buyer Herbert Pföstl is an Austrian artist, writer, and literary translator. For his bread and butter he has worked with and for books all his life, creating selections for bookstores and private libraries. These selections from Herbert's monthly highlights.
Pföstl is the the author of To Die No More (Blind Pony Books, 2008), Light Issued Against Ruin (The Brother in Elysium, 2014), Schrift-Landschaften (Epidote Press, 2016), and Ideal Forms of Vanishing (The Brother in Elysium, 2021); co-author of Batailles Schleuder with Axel Matthes and László F. Földényi (Matthes & Seitz Berlin, forthcoming 2025); and translator (with Kristofor Minta) of A Shelter for Bells: From the Writings of Hans Jürgen von der Wense (Epidote Press, 2019), as well as a second volume of the writings of Hans Jürgen von der Wense, forthcoming 2026.
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