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Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz - Through the door of a Swiss inn the reader steps...
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Beauty on Earth. Trans. by Michelle Bailat-Jones. Onesuch Press, 2014. [1927.]C. F. Ramuz (1878-1947) is one of French-speaking Switzerland's best-known writers. The territory...
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Manuel Zapata Olivella focuses on the lives of the inhabitants of a poor...
Manuel Zapata Olivella, Chambacú: Black Slum. Trans. by Jonathan Tittler, Latin American Literary Review Press, 1989.A powerful novel set amidst the misery of a mosquito-infested island, near the...
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Takehiko Fukunaga - I'll never wake up until I die, which is bound to happen...
Takehiko Fukunaga, Flowers of Grass. Trans. by Royall Tyler. Dalkey Archive Press, 2012.Outside Tokyo, a tuberculosis sanatorium in the village of K has a six-bed ward that the narrator, an aspiring...
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Patrick Boltshauser - A sideways view of the “coming of age” experience,...
Patrick Boltshauser, Rapids. Trans. by Peter O. Arnds. Dalkey Archive Press; 2014.A sideways view of "coming of age,"Rapids is the story of a young man who moves to a strange city and finds himself...
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Ray Johnson - considered the progenitor of Correspondence art, blurred the...
Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson, 1954-1994, ed. by Elizabeth Zuba. Siglio, 2014.Ray Johnson, considered the progenitor of Correspondence art, blurred the boundaries between life and art,...
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Sasha Steenson - The family bought a rural plot & planted a garden. The...
Sasha Steenson, House of Deer. Fence Books, 2014.Sasha Steensen’s third volume is a lyric inquiry into a personal history of the back-to-the-land idealism of the 1970s, with its promises and failings,...
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Megan Martin - Stuffed with imagi-nary men, future bathtub deaths, sick black...
Megan Martin, Nevers, Caketrain Journal and Press, 2014.Download the SAMPLE PDF"Megan Martin's muscular, gleaming prose contends with how we as humans cope with the itchy banality of reality. Stuffed...
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Suzanne Doppelt - The supernatural, ventriloquism, table-turning, magic...
Suzanne Doppelt, The Field Is Lethal. Trans by Cole Swensen. Counterpath Press, 2010.Translated from the French by Cole Swensen. The supernatural, ventriloquism, table-turning, magic carpets, ghosts,...
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William VanDenBerg - Writing with a deranged lyricism that recalls Matt Bell...
William VanDenBerg, Lake of Earth. Caketrain Journal and Press, 2014.williamvandenbergwrites.com/“The captivating stories in Lake of Earth are meticulously crafted and full of sure-handed description....
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Ann Quin - A member of a group of British avant-garde writers, Quin is one of...
Ann Quin, Berg, Dalkey Archive Press, 2001. [1964.]"A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father...." So begins Ann Quin's first novel, which...
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Zakhar Prilepin - Sasha Tishin and his friends are members of the Founders,...
Zakhar Prilepin, Sankya. Trans. by Mariya Gusev and Jeff Parker. Disquiet, 2014.excerptSasha “Sankya” Tishin, and his friends are part of a generation stuck between eras. They don’t remember the Soviet...
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Trevor Owen Jones attempts to leave the discourse of the university behind...
Trevor Owen Jones, The Non-Library. Punctum Books, 2014. download book I have been forced to become . . . a librarian. ~ Georges BatailleThe Non-Library is a...
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Elisabeth Tonnard - The Invisible Book is a book produced in limited edition...
Elisabeth Tonnard, The Invisible Book. 2012.elisabethtonnard.com/works/the-invisible-book/The Invisible Book is a book produced in limited edition at the affordable price of €0. It will work as a...
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Aaron Kunin - The Mandarin is written almost entirely in dialogue; as a...
Aaron Kunin, Grace Period: Notebooks, 1998-2007, Letter Machine Editions, 2013.excerptAccording to Frances Burney, 'Awkwardness is, perhaps, more interesting than grace.' Forfeiting the opportunity to...
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Where You Are - 16 Artists, Writers, Thinkers and 16 Personal Maps. Each one...
Visual Editions, Where You Are, 2013.16 Artists, Writers, Thinkers and 16 Personal Maps. Each one exploring the idea of what a map can be. The result is a book of maps that will leave you feeling...
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Ágota Kristóf - The young twins are thoroughly immoral – they lie, blackmail,...
The Notebookby Ágota Kristóftranslated by Alan Sheridanintroduction by Slavoj Žižek(Grove Press, October 1988; CB Editions, March 2014)The Illiterateby Ágota Kristóftranslated by Nina Boginintroduction...
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Sampson Starkweather - Distinct but kindred, these books are like four...
Sampson Starkweather, THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER. Birds, LLC, 2013.As Jared White points out in his introduction to THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER, "We live in an era when a...
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Nicholas Rombes’s “10/40/70″ series is one of the freshest, most...
Nicholas Rombes, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing. Two Dollar Radio, 2014.thehappinessengine.net/therumpus.net/author/nicholas-rombes/Rombes’ Blue Velvet Project at FilmmakerRoberto Acestes...
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Matt Longabucco - A collection of savage directives from some other time,...
Matt Longabucco, Everybody Suffers: the Selected Poems of Juan Garciá Madero, Trans. by Matt Longabucco. O’clock Press, 2014.In 1976, Mexican-born poet Juan García Madero, aged 17, ventured into the...
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Fanny Howe - classics whose characters wrestle with serious political and...
Fanny Howe, Radical Love: Five Novels, Nightboat Books, 2006.NIGHTBOAT BOOKS is proud to present this historic volume, a collection of five critically acclaimed novels by Fanny Howe, originally...
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