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Mochu - Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet,...
Mochu, Bezoar Delinqxenz. Ed. by Edit Molnárand Marcel Schwierin. Sternberg Press, 2023https://themochu.com/Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet, this novel by Mochu...
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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...
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Ed Atkins & Steven Zultanski - The characters find contentment in each...
Ed Atkins & Steven Zultanski, Sorcerer.Prototype, 2023Three friends hang out and share a long and unremarkable conversation about getting dressed, headaches, ticks, compression fantasies, surgery,...
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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...
Natalie Clifford Barney, The One Who is Legion.Snuggly Books, 2023https://www.nataliecliffordbarney.com/"For years I have been haunted by the idea that I should orchestrate those inner voices which...
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Klabund - This hectic, creepy autobiographical story about a young man who...
Klabund, Spook. Trans. by Jonah Lubin.Snuggly Books, 2023“Klabund” was the pseudonym employed by Alfred Henschke (1890-1928), who wrote, from January to April 1921, “during the fever of an illness,”...
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Bori Praper - A cast of hilariously eccentric characters get sucked into a...
Bori Praper, Cynicism Management. River Boat Books, 2013A satirical tour through contemporary Europe, from the Orkney Islands, to airport toilets, Slovenia, and, well, either Africa or the Middle East,...
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Ben Lieberman - a novel in the tradition of the nouveau roman and in the...
Ben Lieberman, Filthy Synechdoche, Corona Samizdat, 2022Filthy Synecdoche is a novel in the tradition of the nouveau roman and in the tradition of no novel at all. A prison guard at a provincial...
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Tim Shaner enlists an imaginary curriculum based in real readings. Its canon...
Tim Shaner, I Hate Fiction, Spuyten Duyvil,2018Tim Shaner’s poet’s novel is a page-turner! He carries all the addictive qualities of wringing the world through poetry with prose, a sense of absolute...
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Solvej Balle - in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We...
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Alvin Lu - Cheng-Ming is an outsider trying to unmask both the fugitive...
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Ángel Bonomini - Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these...
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Jack Hilton - A story of men and women lost, wandering – and angrily dreaming...
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Bryan R Johnson - Zero was the first individual H. sapiens to surpass five...
Bryan R Johnson, Don't Die. Zero, 2023https://protocol.bryanjohnson.com/On his final day alive, Scribe convenes a reunion of his closest friends. Though they’d been separated since a harrowing climb...
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Seong-nan Ha - Here, things almost happen and the weight of their almost...
Seong-nan Ha, Flowers of Mold & Other Stories. Trans. by Janet Hong, Open Letter, 2019 . On the surface, Ha Seong-nan’s stories seem pleasant enough, yet there’s something disturbing just...
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Yordan Radichkov - Under the disguise of something “for children and for...
Yordan Radichkov, We, the Sparrows, 1968 https://en.svilendobrev.com/detski/knigi/nie-vrabchetata/index.htmlNot all books are created equal. Some descend from the civilizational heavens like a shiny...
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Candice Wuehle - a humorous novel based on a popular '90s-era conspiracy...
Candice Wuehle, Monarch, Soft Skull, 2022Candice Wuehle's MONARCH, a humorous novel based on a popular '90s-era conspiracy theory, about a former child beauty queen who falls in love with a fellow...
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Maja Haderlap deals with harrowing subjects - murder, torture, persecution...
Maja Haderlap, Angel of Oblivion, Trans. by Tess Lewis, Archipelago, 2016 Haderlap is an accomplished poet, and that lyricism leaves clear traces on this ravishing debut, which won the prestigious...
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Catherine Axelrad - With a mix of mischief, naivety, pragmatism and...
Catherine Axelrad, Célina, Trans. byPhilip Terry, Coles Books, 2024By the age of fifteen, Célina has lost her father to the sea, a brother to suicide, a sister to tuberculosis, her virginity to a...
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Lionel Erskine Britton - a drama from 1930. in which a giant Computer is set...
Lionel Britton, Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth, 1930A Brain is constructed in the Sahara Desert -- presently It grows larger than the Desert ... It controls the whole activities and does all the...
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Francesco Colonna - weird, erotic, allegorical antiquarian tale.
Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream, Trans. by Joscelyn Godwin, Thames & Hudson; Reissue ed. 2003.The book that inspired Ian Caldwell's bestselling The Rule...
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