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Wrights & Sites: A Mis-Guide To Anywhere - Mindful of at least a few of the...
Wrights & Sites, A Mis-Guide to Anywhere, Wrights & Sites, 2006.www.mis-guide.com/anywhere.htmlpress release (pdf)mis-guide.blogspot.com/Mindful of at least a few of the ironies,...
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Daniel Sada will be remembered in Mexico as a literary titan of his time, one...
Daniel Sada, Almost Never: A Novel, Trans by Katherine Silve. Graywolf Press, 2012.excerptThis Rabelaisian tale of lust and longing in the drier precincts of postwar Mexico introduces one of Latin...
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David James Keaton - At once an ode to films and music, a wild tale of...
David James Keaton, The Last Projector. Broken River Books. Halloween, 2014.davidjameskeaton.com/The Last Projector is a dense, convoluted, funhouse-mirror-Russian-nesting-doll work of absolute...
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Carlos Franz - an investigation into the depths of both human cruelty and...
Carlos Franz, The Absent Sea, Trans. by Leland Chambers. McPherson & co, 2011.The Absent Sea is the English-language debut of one of the most important Chilean novelists living, a major novel that...
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Paul Holman - Part magical diary, part dreamscape, part Situationist dérive...
Paul Holman,Tara Morgana, Scarlet Imprint, 2014.paulholman.drupalgardens.com Tara Morgana is a work of pure magical writing. The title comes from the fusion of the Tibetan devi with Morgan Le Fay who...
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Ulrich Becher - With this voluminous novel, akin in its meticulous...
Ulrich Becher, The Woodchuck Hunt. Crown Publishers, 1977.March 1938: The Viennese journalist Albert Trebla, fight- er pilot in the First World War, flees from Nazi-occupied Austria to neutral...
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Dorthe Nors - short story collection that best melds the universal or...
Dorthe Nors, Karate Chop, Trans. by Martin Aitken. Gray Wolf, 2014. story The Heronwww.dorthenors.dk/The first book in English by an acclaimed Danish writer: “beautiful, faceted, haunting stories . ....
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Ludvig Holberg - Fantastic adventures at the center of the earth await a...
Ludvig Holberg, The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground. Bison Books, 2004. [1741.] www.gutenberg.org/files/27884/27884-h/27884-h.htmFantastic adventures at the center of the earth await a...
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Susana Medina - a naughtily cerebral novel about our relationship with...
Susana Medina, Philosophical Toys, Bilingual edition, Araña Editorial, 2012, Trans. by Rosie Marteau with the author... And Anne McLean. // Dalkey Archive Press, 2015.www.susanamedina.net/Home.html...
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Gerald Murnane - Murnane, a genius, is a worthy heir to Beckett. Murnane...
Gerald Murnane, A Million Windows, Giramondo, 2014.read it at Google Books A publisher many years ago said that Gerald Murnane was a Proust who had never left Combray. Both parts of this statement...
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Germán Espinosa - It’s not every day you discover a literary masterpiece that...
Germán Espinosa, La tejedora de coronas (The Weaver of Crowns)It’s not every day you discover a literary masterpiece that pushes all the right buttons for you, which you enter like a parallel world to...
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H. G. Adler - modernist masterpieces worthy of comparison to those of Kafka...
H. G. Adler, The Wall: A Novel, Trans. by Peter Filkins. Random House, 2014. Compared by critics to Kafka, Joyce, and Musil, H. G. Adler is becoming recognized as one of the towering figures of...
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Juan José Saer sometimes cited as the most important Argentine writer of the...
Juan José Saer, The One Before, Trans. by Roanne Kantor, Open Letter, 2015.The One Before is a triptych of sorts, consisting of a series of short pieces—called "Arguments"—and two longer...
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ustwo: Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores places finger-prompted protagonist...
MONUMENT VALLEY: FORGOTTEN SHORES (Developed and published by ustwo)An eight-level add-on—costing a little over $2 per month, much to the disgust of some mobile gamers expecting developers to give...
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Tom Lichtenberg - His stories are not driven by action but by mood and...
Tom Lichtenberg, Secret Sidewalk, Pigeon Weather Press, 2009.read it here or hereTom's website: www.pigeonweather.comSecret Sidewalk is a kind of '1001 Nights' as told by a boy to his younger brother...
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Shanxing Wang - From this personal experience, Wang has created a work of...
Shanxing Wang, Mad Science in Imperial City. Futurepoem Books, 2005."MAD SCIENCE IN IMPERIAL CITY is propelled by the personal loss and trauma Shanxing Wang experienced during the political turbulence...
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal - a fictional letter to the English philosopher Francis...
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, The Lord Chandos Letter.Trans. by Joel Rotenber, NYRB Classics, 2012.Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Strauss’s...
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Lodovico Pignatti Morano - As the narrator stalks Nicola through the streets...
Lodovico Pignatti Morano, Nicola, Milan. Semiotext(e), Jun 2014 It was the lies he told that reminded me of that past of mine that I hadn't encountered in a while. He was telling me the kinds of lies...
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Dia Felix builds an extraordinarily rich and inventive language to carry the...
Dia Felix, Nochita. City Lights, 2014.www.diafelix.comDaughter to a divorced new age guru, Nochita wanders through the cracks of California's counter-culture, half feral child, half absurdist prophet....
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Andreas Embirikos - the 8-volume erotic novel of Andreas Embirikos. It is the...
Andreas Embirikos, Megas Anatolikos (The Great Eastern).This is to inaugurate a new category of this blog. It will be an idiosyncratic overview of works not translated into any language that I can read...
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