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Franz Innerhofer - In his depiction of Holl’s earliest years, action is...
Franz Innerhofer, Beautiful Days. Trans. by Anselm Hollo. Urizen Books, 1977Come on, then!Stay right there!Keep still now!Life on a hill-farm, a country childhood: eleven years of servitude, fear and...
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Dimitris Lyacos - an all-in-one densely layered poem, play, postmodern epic,...
Dimitris Lyacos, Z213: EXIT,Trans. by Shorsha Sullivan,Shoestring Press, 2016excerptsentangled narratives and dionysian frenzy: an interview with dimitris lyacosZ213: EXIT is the first installment of...
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Nay Saysourinho - Who is human? Who is bot? Who is animal? Is someone “real”...
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Logan Berry - A cursed book wrought from a cursed planet, a fetish-object...
Logan Berry, (Run-Off Sugar) Crystal Lake, 11:11 Press, 2021Camp Crystal Lake is on fire, and everything's been exhumed!!! In the burning forest it's impossible to distinguish between the killers, the...
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Edward Sanders - So, if you are looking for a fantastical view of the 1960s...
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Leif Høghaug - Hadeland is a shadow home where spooks, ghosts, angels and...
Leif Høghaug, The Calf, Trans. by David M.Smith. Fum d'Estampa Press, 2024We meet our narrator in an underground office where he sharpens pencils, shreds paper, makes coffee for the other employees...
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David Bingham - a somewhat grandiose science fiction. It is K-Mart...
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Stéphane Vanderhaeghe examines American works that defy traditional narrative...
Stéphane Vanderhaeghe, Dear Incomprehension:On American Speculative Fiction. University ofAlabama Press, 2024A poetic meditation on the challenges and pleasures of contemporary speculative fictionDear...
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Genese Grill
Genese Grill, Portals: Reflections on the Spirit inMatter, 2022https://genesegrill.wixsite.com/websiteintroductionWe live in a world that abounds with all manner of material things. Unfortunately,...
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Freya Stark muses on the seasons, the effect light has on a landscape at a...
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A Brief History of Authoterrorism - eight contemporary authors take aim...
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Mochu - Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet,...
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Sam Watson - a book that shocks and confronts but the message is that the...
Sam Watson, The Kadaitcha Sung, Penguin, 1990"The Kadaitcha Sung tells the story of Tommy Gubba, son of Koobara, son of the chief of the Kadaitcha clan, and Fleur, a white woman, of Northern European...
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Carmen Pellegrino - a haunting and magical novel based around the existence...
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Zebulon House - a psychotronic pornotopia after the future. In this...
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Yuxin Zhao - 'The Moons' wants to mess with our assumptions about the nature...
Yuxin Zhao, The Moons: Fire Rooster to Earth Dog. Calamari Archive, 2024The Moons documents an intimate affair between two women living on opposite sides of Earth, a relationship confined mostly to a...
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Ed Atkins & Steven Zultanski - The characters find contentment in each...
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Michael Salu - Conversing with Dante, Yoruba metaphysics and probabilistic...
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Kelly Krumrie - Girls go blind, do math, wage hunger strikes, weigh...
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Natalie Clifford Barney - one of the great classics of modernism, this highly...
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Klabund - This hectic, creepy autobiographical story about a young man who...
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Bori Praper - A cast of hilariously eccentric characters get sucked into a...
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Ben Lieberman - a novel in the tradition of the nouveau roman and in the...
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Tim Shaner enlists an imaginary curriculum based in real readings. Its canon...
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Solvej Balle - in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We...
Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume(Book I), Trans. by Barbara J. Haveland 2024Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative...
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