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Weaponising Speculation - a non-traditional assembly which has as its impetus...
Weaponising Speculation, ed. by Caoimhe Doyle, punctum books, 2014.downloaddublindust.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/weaponising-speculation-schedule/Distinct from the norm. Distinct even from the academic...
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Barbara Browning - Vivienne has a paramour whose identity must be kept...
Barbara Browning, The Correspondence Artist. Two Dollar Radio, 2011.excerptwww.thecorrespondenceartist.com/barbarabrowning.info/barbarabrowning.info/Welcome.html"The Correspondence Artist is smart,...
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Youssef Rakha - a suspenseful, erotic, riotous novel and an urgent,...
Youssef Rakha, The Book of the Sultan's Seal: Strange Incidents from History in the City of Mars. Trans. by Paul Starkey, Interlink Books, 2014.excerptIt’s hard to imagine a debut more thrilling than...
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Edgar Saltus is a scientific pessimist, as witty, as bitter, as satirical, as...
Edgar Saltus, The Philosophical Writings of Edgar Saltus, Foreword by Chip Smith. Underworld Amusements, 2014.“Considered individually, The Philosophy of Disenchantment and Anatomy of Negation would...
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French Decadent Tales - A unique anthology of 36 of the best decadent tales...
French Decadent Tales. Ed by Stephen Romer. Oxford University Press, 2013.read it at Google Books"He had become the dandy of the unpredictable."A quest for new sensations--and an avowed desire to...
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Petrus Borel - Champavert was the archetypal collection of the French "contes...
Pétrus Borel, Champavert: Immoral Tales. Tras. by Brian Stableford. Borgo Press, 2013.[1833.] read it at Google Booksor scribdChampavert was the archetypal collection of the French...
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Nab Saheb & Denys X. Arbaris - a collaborative exploratory tract on the...
Nab Saheb & Denys X. Arbaris. Bergmetal: Oro-Emblems of the Musical Beyond. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.read it at Google Booksbergmetal.blogspot.com/Bergmetal is an...
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Raoul Eshelman - we have entered a new, monist epoch in which aesthetically...
Raoul Eshelman, Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism. The Davies Group Publishers, 2008.chapter 1There is a widespread feeling that postmodernism is on its way out. However, up to now there has...
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Robert Samuels - This book argues that we have moved into a new cultural...
Robert Samuels, New Media, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory after Postmodernism: Automodernity from Zizek to Laclau. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.excerptThis book argues that we have moved into a new...
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Henry Green - the unstopping, tissueless sentences traveling without delay of...
Henry Green,Loving; Living; Party Going, Penguin Classics; Revised edition, 1993.“Green's remains the most interesting and vital imagination in English fiction in our time.”— Eudora Welty "His novels...
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Ann Sterzinger feature self-immolating loser protagonist who spiral into...
Ann Sterzinger, NVSQVAM (Nowhere), Nine-Banded Books, 2011.Somebody said that alienation was a disease of the middle class. Probably Marx, but Lester Reichartsen doesn't have time to look it up. A...
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Colin Feltham - Rejecting rose-tinted clichés and niceties, he affirms the...
Colin Feltham, Keeping Ourselves in the Dark, Nine-Banded Books, 2015.In Keeping Ourselves in the Dark, psychotherapist cum “anthropathologist” Colin Feltham presents a kaleidoscopic survey of the...
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Uwe Tellkamp - So blunt, so radical, so void of illusion—life in the GDR has...
Uwe Tellkamp, The Tower, Trans. by Michael Mitchell, Allen Lane, 2014.excerptIn derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking...
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Sharona Muir - An imaginative, delightful field guide to animals that seem to...
Sharona Muir, Invisible Beasts. Bellevue Literary Press, 2014.Lines blur between the human and animal worlds in this richly detailed debut from Muir (The Book of Telling), which is part fantasy novel,...
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Germán Sierra - Dating from the eighteenth century to the present day, this...
Germán Sierra, Standards. Editorial Pálido Fuego S.L., 2013.germansierra.tumblr.comWhen Pálido Fuego, the publisher that has worked to bring such voices as Mark Leyner and Lars Iyers to audiences in...
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After Sebald: Essays & Illuminations - a useful, if flawed, book, pulling...
Jon Cook, ed. After Sebald: Essays & Illuminations. Full Circle Editions, 2014.Even before I opened up the book, I wondered about the front cover of Full Circle Edition’s new title After Sebald....
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Matthew Thurber - Mice couriers, man-tree love, sushi-chef assassins,...
Matthew Thurber, Infomaniacs, PictureBox, 2014.www.pictureboxinc.com/blogs/muk-luk/www.matthewthurber.com/www.1800mice.com/INFOMANIACS is a graphic novel printed on paper all about the Internet. A...
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Simogo: The Sailor's Dream is less of a game and more of an interactive...
Simogo, The Sailor's DreamThe Sailor’s Dream is in typical Simogo style of interactive story telling. The game is already receiving rave reviews from people so let’s see how it is. The Sailor’s Dream...
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Osama Alomar - a pamphlet of strange, darkly comic, super-short fiction....
Osama Alomar, Fullblood Arabian, Trans. by C. J. Collins. New Directions, 2014.Eleven Stories in ConjunctionsSeven Pieces in The Ampersand ReviewOsama Alomar, in his poetic fictions, embodies the...
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John Dermot Woods - a mordant, deadpan collection of more than one hundred...
John Dermot Woods, The Baltimore Atrocities. Coffee House Press, 2014.www.johndermotwoods.com/A whodunit without the who, this illustrated compendium of mayhem and misfortune spirals out from an...
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