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In Heaven Everything Is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch
In Heaven Everything Is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynchedited by Cameron Pierce, Eraserhead Press, 2013.For over thirty-five years, David Lynch has remained one of the weirdest, most challenging,...
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Darby Larson - It is a puzzle machine of engrossing order, deceptively simple...
Darby Larson, Irritant, Blue Square Press, 2013.Darby Larson @ Twitter'There are two books I’ve read only ever in bed somewhere on the cusp of sleep and waking drunk in the logic of their sentences,...
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Brian Dillon’s work immerses itself in space, place, ruins, and the residues...
Brian Dillon, Sanctuary, Sternberg Press, 2011.briangdillon.wordpress.com/ Ruins of the 20th CenturySanctuary is a fiction set in the ruins of a Modernist building on the outskirts of a city in...
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A.T. Grant - a bildungsroman in which a boy's parents give him a dead body...
A. T. Grant, Collected Alex, Caketrain, 2013.sample"There is a great imagination at work in the brilliant Collected Alex, a fiction that becomes increasingly complex in each of its three parts, the...
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Courtney Maum - Part travelogue, part eulogy—a marriage ending within and...
Courtney Maum, Notes from Mexico, The Cupboard, 2013.courtneymaum.tumblr.com/Winner of The Cupboard’s 2012 Annual Contest, Courtney Maum’s Notes from Mexico is part travelogue, part eulogy—a marriage...
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Elizabeth J. Colen examines 20th / 21st century conspiracy theories from a...
Elizabeth J. Colen. Waiting Up for the End of the World. Illustrated by Guy Benjamin Brookshire, Jaded Ibis Press, 2012.elizabethjcolen.blogspot.com/Elizabeth Colen’s ambitious Waiting Up for the End...
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Travis Jeppesen - a post-punk nouveau roman; artfully fractured vision of...
Travis Jeppesen, The Suiciders, Semiotext(e), 2013.'During the first decade of the second millennium, a group of seven friends—Zach, Lukas, Adam, Matthew, Peter, Arnold, and Taylor—occupy an...
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Jeff Jackson - a coming-of-age story for people who hate coming-of-age...
Jeff Jackson, Mira Corpora, Two Dollar Radio, 2013.deathofliterature.com/EXCERPTSMeet the Chorines in THE COLLAGISTMy Year Zero in GUERNICA Mira Corpora is the debut novel from acclaimed playwright...
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John Lucas - A veritable successor to Douglas Adams. Why are the Galaxy's...
John Lucas, Faster Than Life, Dedalus,2002.Blending exuberant inventiveness with subtle satire, Faster Than Light is a novel that will appeal not just to fans of humorous science fiction, but to anyone...
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Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio - A magical picaresque novel: a chair puts down roots...
Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio, Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui, Trans. by Margaret Jull Costa, Dedalus, 2000. [1952.]These are the adventures of a magical little boy which will appeal to both children...
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Arndt Niebisch - The avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century...
Arndt Niebisch, Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of Technology and Communication, Palgrave, 2012.Read it at Google BooksThe avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century...
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Tom Sandqvist shows that Dada did not emerge fully formed in Zurich but grew...
Tom Sandqvist, Dada East: The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, The MIT Press, 2006. Dada -- perhaps the most famous and outrageous of modernism's artistic movements -- is said to have begun...
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Mikhail Elizarov - Protagonist learns that a number of books by forgotten...
Mikhail Elizarov, The Librarian,Ad Marginem, 2011.Protagonist learns that a number of books by forgotten Soviet writer Gromov possess magical properties, and different groups of readers are in the...
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Reed Russia: An Anthology of New Voice
Elena Shubina, ed., Read Russia!: An Anthology of New Voicesreadrussia2013.com/Download the Read Russia AnthologyRead Russia!: An Anthology of New Voices presents a new gift to American and...
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Victor Rodríguez Núñez elevates the mysticism and mystery of poetry through...
Victor Rodríguez Núñez, Every Good Heart is a Telescope, Trans. by Katherine M. Hedeen, Toad Press, 2013.Poetry always has the feel of mysticism and mystery, or maybe this feeling is a stereotype left...
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Pierre Mac Orlan - It must be established as a law that adventure in itself...
Pierre Mac Orlan, A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer, Trans. by Napoleon Jeffries. Wakefield press, 2013.Pierre Mac Orlan’s 1920 Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer was at once a paean to the...
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Feliz Lucia Molina - Part Valley strip mall heaven memoir, part encyclopedia...
Feliz Lucia Molina, Undercastle,Magic Helicopter Press, 2013. Part Valley strip mall heaven memoir, part encyclopedia of transistor feelings, part lonely caregiver, part philosopher pen pal, and so...
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Noah Falck - Though I Don’t Know You, I Think You Could Probably Stop the Rain
Noah Falck, Celebrity Dream Poems, Poor Claudia, 2013.“I walk for hours through a meadow,/my pockets leaking bacon bits” – this is how Noah Falck sees Bill Clinton, and more importantly, how Noah Falck...
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Jack Christian - Family is deep structure and invention—it is its own school...
Jack Christian, Family System, Center for Literary Publishing, 2012.Winner of the 2012 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Elizabeth Willis“Jack Christian’s marvelous first collection is as smart...
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Matthew Winston - A tale of television schedules and loneliness, in the voice...
Matthew Winston, This Coming Fall, Pilotless Press, 2013.A tale of television schedules and loneliness, in the voice of a tired man that echoes in the gaps between the declarations from the TV screen....
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