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Jürg Laederach here pursues the ambition of forcing all of human existence...
Jürg Laederach, The Whole of Life, Trans. by Geoffrey C. Howes, Dalkey Archive Press, 2014.“I can assure you that no movie will ever achieve the speed of prose. Human beings just haven’t realized that...
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Giulio Mozzi - In the eight stories of this collection, we see a steady...
Giulio Mozzi, This Is the Garden, Trans. by Elizabeth Harris, Open Letter Books, 2014.“I read Giulio Mozzi’s first book with real enthusiasm. What struck me most was his everyday language. Even when...
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Miriam Elia - satire in which Peter and Jane grapple with Tracey Emin-style...
Miriam Elia, We Go to the Gallery. 2014.miriamelia.co.uk/Miriam Elia’s new take on a 1960s Ladybird book.Peter, Jane and Mummy go to a gallery and learn about sex, death and contemporary art.Have you...
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Timmy Reed - Doubts were our only comfort, all of us tiny and terrified of...
Timmy Reed, Tell God I Don’t Exist. Underrated Animals Press, 2013.“Timmy Reed’s stories are so strange and so funny that it’s impossible to stop reading them. There is a great imagination at work in...
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Julia Deck - both an engrossing murder mystery and a gripping exploration of...
Julia Deck, Viviane: A Novel, The New Press, 2014.Les Éditions de Minuit, publisher of Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet, rarely publishes a debut novel. Jean Echenoz, current star of this...
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Marcelle Sauvageot - a narrative, hovering between the genres of memoir,...
Marcelle Sauvageot, Commentary. Trans. by Christine Schwartz Hartley, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013.Commentary is a narrative—hovering between the genres of memoir, theory, and fiction—told by a dying...
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Cari Luna - The occupants of Thirteen House are NYC’s invisible people,...
Cari Luna, The Revolution of Every Day. Tin House Books, 2013.cariluna.com/In the midnineties, New York’s Lower East Side contained a city within its shadows: a community of squatters who staked their...
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Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly - The poems zip in and out of multiple...
Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly, Too Animal, Not Enough Machine: Have You Seen Gretel?, Sundress Publications, 2013.There is nothing mechanical about Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly's chapbook, Too...
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Philip Terry retells the story of the Norman Conquest from the point of view...
Philip Terry, Tapestry. Reality Street, 2013. Taking as its starting point marginal images in the Bayeux Tapestry, which have been left largely unexplained by historians, Terry retells the...
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J. M. Ledgard - The real subject of his book is scale: the vastness of time...
J. M. Ledgard, Submergence. Vintage, 2012.excerpt“I can call spirits from the vasty deep,” the Welsh rebel Owen Glendower boasts in Shakespeare’s Henry IV. “Why, so can I, or so can any man,” replies...
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Daniel Spoerri one day mapped the objects lying at random on the table of his...
Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams, Dieter Roth, & Roland Topor, Anecdoted Topography of Chance, Something Else Press, 1966.Introduction (pdf)An Anecdoted Topography of Chance is...
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Lydia Davis - A body of work probably unique in American writing, in its...
Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't: Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called “the best prose stylist in America”Her stories may be...
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Christine Wertheim - a verbo-visual experiment integrating handmade drawings...
Christine Wertheim, mUtter-bAbel, Counterpath Press, 2013.christine-wertheim.com/MUTTER-BABEL, a graphic and textual exploration of ugly archaic feelings and their troubling social effects. It is a...
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Gro Dahle's stanzas showcase multiple voices and surprise readers as a home...
Gro Dahle, A Hundred Thousand Hours, Trans. by Rebecca Wadlinger. Bilingual edition. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013.The book-length poem A Hundred Thousand Hours is both one of the most celebrated and...
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Frederick Farryl Goodwin - Here, characters are re-cast in a "strange mix of...
Frederick Farryl Goodwin, Galactic Milk: The Five Questions of Mortality, Miami University Press, 2013.GALACTIC MILK: THE FIVE QUESTIONS OF MORTALITY is the second collection of poems by American poet...
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Melissa Broder - Every airplane is sleep.I point my finger at a jetliner to...
Melissa Broder, Scarecrone, Publishing Genius Press, 2014.www.melissabroder.com/The SCARECRONE StorySample Poems“Astral Locket” at New HiveTwo poems at Illuminati Girl Gang“I Give a Convincing Sermon”...
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Elizabeth Mikesch - a subversive text of lingual dissonance in which vocality...
Elizabeth Mikesch, NICETIES: Aural Ardor, Pardon Me. Calamari Press, 2014.ColumbiaSporkHeavy FeatherKGB Bar LitSleepingfishThe Center for FictionSimilar Peaks“If you’re weary of mild, obedient prose,...
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Paul Curran - slowly it unveils and embodies what happens when a sensitive...
Paul Curran, Left Hand, Civil Coping Mechanism, 2014.excerptpaul-curran.tumblr.com/paulcurrran.blogspot.jp/“Left Hand is every reason why Paul Curran is one of the smartest, most daring, meticulous,...
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Nathanaël - From out of agile and Celinian ellipses, Nathalie Stephens...
Nathanaël,Sisyphus, Outdone.Nightboat,2012.Here, Nathanaël engages the catastrophal—photographic, translative, architectural—calling to the scene a discrepant combinatory of voices including Ingeborg...
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Ed Steck - Somewhere over the rainbow and far from Oz there is a Garden whose...
Ed Steck, The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013.Composed in part from technical military intelligence text, Ed Steck's The Garden: Synthetic...
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