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Allison Parrish - computer-generated novel based on a dream dictionary
Allison Parrish, I Waded In Clear Water downloadHello ThereI'm Allison.This is the repository for my NaNoGenMo 2014entry, I Waded In Clear Water (pdf).The procedure(Taken from the Preface)This novel...
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Stefan Grabiński - psycho-fantasies, doom-saturated tales of lonely men lost...
Stefan Grabiński, The Motion Demon. Trans. by Miroslaw Lipinski. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. Macabre trains and maverick railwaymen inhabit the world of THE...
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Jörg Fauser - What you are about to read is, in many ways, like nothing else...
Jörg Fauser, Raw Material, translated by Jamie Bulloch,The Clerkenwell Press, 2014.The best book I've read since I came out of prison -- Howard MarksBukowski meets Withnail on schnapps. As beautiful a...
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Carlos Maria Dominguez - a Borgesian book about books, exploring the almost...
Carlos Maria Dominguez, The House of Paper. Trans. by Nick Caistor. Harcourt; 2005.Bluma Lennon, distinguished professor of Latin American literature at Cambridge, is hit by a car while crossing the...
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Véronique Olmi - a haunting and thought-provoking story about how a mother's...
Véronique Olmi, Beside The Sea. Trans. by Adriana Hunter. Tin House Books, 2012.A single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink hot chocolate and go to the...
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Desmond Kon Zhicheng Mingdé - Beaded through this book, Desmond Kon’s...
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé,I Didn’t Know Mani Was A Conceptualist. Math Paper Press, 2014. “This collection of poetry by interdisciplinary artist Desmond Kon is an invitation to ‘jump into the spray...
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Cyrille Martinez - A surreal parable very, very loosely based on Andy Warhol...
Cyrille Martinez, The Sleepworker. Trans by Joseph patrick Stancil, Coach House Pr4ess, 2014. excerpt (pdf)read it at Google BooksJohn is a poet. Only John almost never writes poems, because he...
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Idra Novey - Place is poetry for me. Understanding where I am, and where I’m...
Idra Novey, Clarice: The Visitor, Sylph Editions - Cahiers, 2014.http://www.idranovey.com/bioIn this cahier, American poet Idra Novey explores multiple notions of translation through two sequences of...
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Mariano Azuela - Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The...
Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs . Trans. by E. Munguia Jr., Modern Library, 2002.read it hereThe Underdogs is considered the most influential novel of the Mexican Revolution. It is a classic story in...
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Selah Saterstrom - a riveting, visceral novel written in a style that...
Selah Saterstrom, Slab, Coffee House Press, 2015.www.selahsaterstrom.org/On a slab that's all Katrina left of her Mississippi home, Tiger tells her story, and it is as American as Horatio Alger,...
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Nikos Engonopoulos - Perhaps more so than any other poet he adapted...
Nikos Engonopoulos, Selected Poems, Trans. by David Connolly. Harvard University Department of the Classics, 2014.excerptexcerpt 2Nikos Engonopoulos belongs to a little-known yet extremely active and...
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Richard McGuire - every page of this book illustrates the same corner of the...
Richard McGuire, Here. Hamish Hamilton, 2014.www.richard-mcguire.com/From one of the great comic innovators, the long-awaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision. Richard McGuire’s Here is the...
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Wolfgang Koeppen is the most important German novelist of the past seventy...
Wolfgang Koeppen, Youth: Autobiographical Writings. Trans. by Michael Hofmann. Dalkey Archive Press, 2014.Wolfgang Koeppen is the most important German novelist of the past seventy years: a radical,...
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Evelyn Hampton - a stunning first collection of stories that take place in...
Evelyn Hampton, Discomfort. Ellipsis Press, 2015.Read a story from the collection online:“Mole” in Bomb Magazine“Girl” in The Brooklyn Rail“Discomfort” in Harp & AltarIn startling, often...
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A Thousand Forests in One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction
A Thousand Forests in One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction. Ed. by Valerie Milres, Open Letter, 2014. A Thousand Forests in One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction brings...
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Olga Sedakova - a unique introduction to her oeuvre, bringing together a...
Olga Sedakova, In Praise of Poetry.Trans. and Ed. by Caroline Clark, Ksenia Golubovich & Stephanie Sandler.Open Letter, 2014.olgasedakova.com/eng/“Olga Sedakova is one of the most respected and...
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Mary Burger - a brilliant intervention on the aftereffects of teleological...
Mary Burger, Then Go On, Litmus Press, 2012.The formal inventiveness of Mary Burger’s writing in part derives from her questioning of received ideas but also from the sheer pleasure she seems to take...
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Lee Klein - An intricately layered debut novel that manages to reorganize the...
Lee Klein,The Shimmering Go-Between: A Novel, 2014.An OMG exploration of WTF . . . If Willful Suspension of Disbelief were a race in the literary Olympics, this moving and luminous debut would set the...
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Nathaniel Farrell - Part historical fiction and part nature poem, NEWCOMER...
Nathaniel Farrell, Newcomer. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014.Part historical fiction and part nature poem, NEWCOMER takes place in a wartime landscape estranged by nostalgia and American story-telling. A...
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Felipe Benítez Reyes tracks the nonsensical, disorienting, and rather...
Felipe Benítez Reyes, The Errant Astrologers. Trans. by Emily Toder. Ugly Duckling Presse; Reprint ed., 2013.This three-act play in verse by Spanish poet, novelist, and dramaturge Felipe Benítez Reyes,...
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