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Jan Millsapps - Three women – three generations – all linked by a mysterious...
Jan Millsapps, Venus on Mars, Jaded Ibis Press, 2014. [Venus on Mars will be published in multiple editions, including interactive multimedia iBook, ebook, full-color print, black and white print and...
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Steven Seidenberg - philosophy with an unreliable narrator, fiction plotted...
Steven Seidenberg, Itch. RAW ArT PRESS, 2014.www.sjseidenberg.com/Neither classifiable as fiction nor philosophy, ITCH recounts its narrator's arousal to the possibility of narration, while dredging...
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Marianne Hauser - These accounts of expatriates and lost children situate us...
Marianne Hauser, The Collected Short Fiction of Marianne Hauser. Fiction Collective 2, 2005.Marianne Hauser's short fiction is a literary documentary of exile, the other-worldly travelogue of an...
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Amy Catanzano - narrative flow becomes a kind of quantum fluid, bifurcating...
Amy Catanzano, Starlight in Two Million: A Neo-Scientific Novella. Noemi Press, 2014.excerpt Winner of the 2012 Noemi Press Book Award for Fiction. "Amy Catanzano's 'neo-scientific' novella is...
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Drew Kalbach manages to write short lyrics that are somehow incredibly punchy...
Drew Kalbach, Spooky Plan. Gobbet, 2014.drewkalbach.blogspot.com/www.actuarylit.com/?author=2Drew Kalbach’s Spooky Plan is spooky—an uncanny directive working in and out of time. The speaker operates...
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Aimee Parkison - Kidnapped girls trapped in a remote theater surrounded by...
Aimee Parkison, The Petals of Your Eyes. Starcherone Books, 2014.www.aimeeparkison.com/The debut novel by an award-winning author of short stories.Kidnapped girls trapped in a remote theater surrounded...
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Joyelle McSweeney explodes the twinned and dangerous notions that images are...
Joyelle McSweeney, Salamandrine: 8 Gothics, Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2013. He who shrinks from the flames will never command Salamanders.- Arthur Edward Waite"One would not make love to a Salamandrine...
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Teppei Ando - Fantastically morbid drawings depicting the kind of suffering...
Teppei Ando, 18 Levels of Hell. Murder Dollhouse, 2014.www.tumblr.com/tagged/teppei-andomurderdollhouse.com/shop/vimeo.com/teppeiando/videosWith the second volume of Murder Dollhouse books I went in a...
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Patrícia Galvão - a book about the voices, clashes, and traffic of a city in...
Patrícia Galvão, Industrial Park.Trans. by Elizabeth Jackson & K. David Jackson.University of Nebraska Press, 1993. [1933.]A member of Brazil's avant-garde in its heyday. Patrícia Galvão (or to...
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Joshua Corey - a darkly glamorous existential noir in the late modernist...
Joshua Corey, Beautiful Soul: An American Elegy. Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2014.http://www.joshua-corey.comRuth, a bored and frustrated young mother in the Chicago suburbs, is haunted by the letters she...
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Jean-Patrick Manchette pushes the situationist strategy of dérive and...
Jean-Patrick Manchette, The Mad and the Bad. Trans by. Donald Nicholson-Smith, New York Review Books Classics, 2014. [1972.]Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous...
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Melissa Kwasny - What can we learn about being human from non-human forms of...
Melissa Kwasny, The Nine Senses, Milkweed Editions, 2011.In this groundbreaking fourth collection comprised of exquisitely crafted prose poems, Melissa Kwasny examines the world around her with the...
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Edgar Calabia Samar - on the one hand a young man’s frustrated attempt to...
Edgar Calabia Samar, Eight Muses of the Fall. Trans. by Mikael de Lara Co and Sasha Martinez. Anvil Publishing, 2013. excerptsedgarsamar.com/ Eight Muses of the Fall is on the one hand a young man’s...
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Bob Schofield - a surreal flash-fiction for every day in June: A vicious...
Bob Schofield, The Inevitable June. theNewerYork Press, 2015bobschofield.tumblr.com/Somewhere between prose and poetry and a graphic-novel, The Inevitable June is the story of your mind: a room with no...
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Kevin Thomas - Using his captivating illustrations and no more than a handful...
Kevin Thomas, HORN! The Collected Reviews. OR Books, 2014.therumpus.net/author/kevin-thomas/Most reviewers take thousands of words to do what Kevin Thomas does in nine exquisitely detailed...
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Jordan Scott has taken a lifetime of stuttering and turned it to audacious...
Jordan Scott, Blert, Coach House Books, 2014.View an Excerptread it at Google BooksYou monsoon across the alphabet, croon turbulence, and whisper: A is for alligator, against the Mississippi marooned...
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Sommer Browning - Pain is followed by compassion is followed by laughter, and...
Sommer Browning, Backup Singers. Birds, LLC, 2014.With BACKUP SINGERS Browning follows up her sold out debut, Either Way I'm Celebrating, with an even rawer and starker, and again darkly humorous...
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Pedro Mairal - the visions of a now dead painter/prophet as seen through the...
Pedro Mairal, The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra. Trans. by Nick Caistor, New Vessel Press, 2013.At the age of nine, Juan Salvatierra became mute following a horse riding accident. At twenty, he...
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Gábor Schein - Péter makes contact with his dead father one last time and...
Gábor Schein, Lazarus! Trans. by Ottilie Mulzet, 2010.excerptsLazarus, an unflinching investigation of what it means to be the child of Holocaust survivors in postwar Hungary, is Gábor Schein's second...
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The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography - an ongoing...
The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography. Mode A, an imprint of This Press, 2006.www.thegrandpiano.org/THE GRAND PIANO is an ongoing experiment in collective autobiography by ten...
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