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Michael Coffey - In this book, part memoir, part criticism, and part poetry,...
Michael Coffey, Samuel Beckett Is Closed, ORBooks, 2018.http://michaelcoffeyauthor.com/excerpt: http://michaelcoffeyauthor.com/excerpt/A powerful, genre-defying meditation, with Beckett at its origin,...
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Bernard Mandeville - this masterpiece of 18th-century British satire sparked...
Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees: OrPrivate Vices, Publick Benefits, PenguinClassics, 1989. [1714.]read it hereor hereOriginally published in book form in 1714, this masterpiece of...
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Lee Siegel - a satirical romp among the bloviated windbags of academia, a...
Lee Siegel, Love in a Dead Language, University of Chicago Press, 1999.Love in a Dead Language is a love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce, and a murder mystery rolled into...
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Trevor Miller - A nightclub promoter returns to town and is thrown into an...
Trevor Miller, Trip City, Bleep, 2021. / Avernus Creative Media, 1989.In the summer of 1989, when Trevor Miller’s Trip City was first released with a five-track cassette EP by A Guy Called Gerald,...
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Jean Renoir - sentimental frippery about the life and love of Captain Georges...
Jean Renoir, The Notebooks of Captain George,Trans. by Norman Denny, Little, Brown andCo., 1966.Oo la la! Remember when a French novel was only one kind of novel? Well this is that kind of novel, a...
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Alain-Paul Mallard - a Borgesian account of an Austrian writer who despises...
Alain-Paul Mallard, An Evocation of MatthiasStimmberg, Trans. by Sarah Pollack, WakefieldPress, 2021.“Misanthropy is a kind of humanism; humanism is also a kind of misanthropy.” —Matthias StimmbergA...
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Botho Strauss - In six linked sections, couples both longstanding and...
Botho Strauss, Couples, Passersby, Trans. byRoslyn Theobald, Northwestern UniversityPress, 1996.rad it at Google BooksThe six linked sections of Couples, Passersby present...
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SPLM (Society for the Propagation of Libidinal Materialism) - selection of...
min.reportSPLM, Ed. by Vincent Le and Audrey Schmidt From the outer demons that brought you the cult of Dionysus, the Brethren of the Free Spirit, Acéphale and the CCRU comes SPLM, Society for the...
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Robert Pinget - The interest is not in the form, it is precisely everything...
Robert Pinget, Graal Flibuste, Trans. by AnnaFitzgerald, Dalkey Archive Press, 2015.This early work by the landmark Swiss author Robert Pinget is unlike any other he produced over his long career;...
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Malte Persson - The narrator makes contact with the discarded film project’s...
Malte Persson, Fantasy, Trans. by Saskia Vogel,Readux Books, 2013.In shadowy Stockholm bars and apartments, a charismatic artist tracks down the cast and producers of a failed fantasy film. She...
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Michèle Métail - The genre of poems that may be read both forward and...
Michèle Métail, Wild Geese Returning, Trans.by Jody Gladding, NYRB Classics, 2017.For nearly two thousand years, the condensed language of classical Chinese has offered the possibility of writing poems...
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Mateiu Caragiale - Guided by an amoral opportunist, the shadowy narrator and...
Mateiu I. Caragiale, Rakes of the Old Court: ANovel, Trans. by Sean Cotter, NorthwesternUniversity Press, 2021. [1929.]Widely regarded as the greatest Romanian novel of the twentieth century, Mateiu...
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Rudolfo Anaya - She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under...
Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima, Warner Books, 1994.downloadExquisite prose and wondrous storytelling have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English. Indeed, Anaya's tales...
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Timothy Dexter - Bottom of the page unleashes onslaught of pilcrows, daggers,...
Timothy Dexter, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones: or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress, 1802.download or read it here or here "Pickle"--- as this digest is commonly known --- is a collection of...
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Ernest Vincent Wright - The novel is written as a lipogram and does not...
Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby, 1939.excerptWritten from the perspective of a self-deprecating narrator, 'Gadsby' is - at its core - a tale of a town in a state of concerted rebirth. In an effort to...
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I Transgress - Transgressive fiction encourages the pursuit of knowledge and...
I TRANSGRESS: An Anthology Of Transgressive Fiction, Ed. by Chris Kelso, Salo Press, 2019.excerpts‘Transgressive fiction encourages the pursuit of knowledge and actively criticises the monolithic,...
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Gerry Reith's best writing was marked by mordant wit and controlled...
Neutron Gun Reloaded: A Gerry Reith Reader, Nine-Banded Books, 2020.On April 7 1984, in the small city of Sheridan Wyoming, Gerard Bennet Reith died at his writing desk of a self-inflicted gunshot to...
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Felix Riesenberg - three-hundred-some pages of fragments. Some are little...
Felix Riesenberg, Endless River, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.Continuing my way through the works of Felix Riesenberg, the long-forgotten American merchant mariner-engineer-writer, I took up his...
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qntm - An antimeme is an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, prevents people...
qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division, 2020.https://qntm.org/fictionhttps://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/qntm-s-author-pageread it at Google BooksAn antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an...
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Infinity Land Press Anthology presents artists and writers who overstep the...
Anthology, Ed. by Steve Finbow, Infinity LandPress, 2021.Twenty-three works of art and literature, twenty-three works of discord and desire, zones of contact and regions of conflict, a glossary of the...
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