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Ars Cogitanda - Cast as the footnotes to an invisible text, the beings...
Ars Cogitanda. footnote to silence. gnOme. 2014.. Characters such as Gertrude, the sinoburius fossil and Stanley the long-dead Australopithecine anchor narrative components of the text, as limited as...
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Don't come up for air - contains experimental forms like divorce papers, a...
Don't come up for air, theNewerYork, 2015.The fourth volume of our experimental literature anthology and the first with color throughout, Book IV contains experimental forms like divorce papers, a...
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Mara Beller - Using extensive archival research, Beller shows how Bohr and...
Mara Beller, Quantum Dialogue. University of Chicago Press, 1999."Science is rooted in conversations," wrote Werner Heisenberg, one of the twentieth century's great physicists. In Quantum Dialogue,...
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John Henry Ryskamp - Throwing together patches of history, art theory,...
John Henry Ryskamp, Nature Studies, Fiction Collective 2, 1998.With affinities to the 1980s phenomenon of appropriation art, journalist and critic Ryskamp puts himself into his novel, much as Cindy...
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Frédéric Forte - poems “staged” on the page. A simple vertical line of 3...
Frédéric Forte, Minute-Operas. Trans. by Daniel Levin Becker, Ian Monk, Michelle Noteboom, and Jean-Jacques Poucel. Burning Deck, 2015.Frédéric Forte’s Minute-Operas are poems “staged” on the page. A...
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Carmen Boullosa - a richly imagined evocation of the volatile Tex-Mex...
Carmen Boullosa, Texas: The Great Theft. Trans. by Samantha Schnee, Deep Vellum Publishing, 2014.excerptLoosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, Carmen Boullosa’s...
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A. G. Porta - an investigation of the limits of language, fiction, and the...
A. G. Porta, The No World Concerto. Trans. by Darren Koolman and Rhett McNeil, Dalkey Archive Press, 2014.excerptThe many layers of The No World Concerto center around an old screenwriter, holed up in...
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Antônio Moura Antonio Moura's third collection has the clarity and urgency of...
Antônio Moura, Silence River. Trans. by Stefan Tobler. ARC Publications, 2012.This is a selection of Antonio Moura's previously published books and the first in English/Portuguese. It has the clarity...
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Farran Smith Nehme - The utterly winning, wholly delightful, totally...
Farran Smith Nehme, Missing Reels.Overlook Press, 2014.excerptselfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/The utterly winning, wholly delightful, totally cinematic debut novel of young love, old movies, and an epic...
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Göran Sonnevi attempts “a commentary on everything”: politics, current...
Göran Sonnevi, Mozart's Third Brain, Trans. by Rika Lesser, Yale UP, 2012.Winner of the 2006 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize, Swedish writer Göran Sonnevi is undoubtedly one of the most important...
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Dimitri Verhulst - It is announced that Jesus Christ is to visit Belgium. The...
Dimitri Verhulst,Christ's Entry into Brussels. Trans. by David Colmer. Portobelo, 2014.It is announced that Jesus Christ is to visit Belgium in a few weeks time, on its national day, the 21st of July....
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David Jones - "Very probably the finest long poem written in English this...
David Jones, Anathemata, Chilmark Press, 1963. davidjonessociety.weebly.com/about.html"The poem is a sinewy, inventive, sensitive, vigorous, devoted, not at all a crackpot or homiletic operation....
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Pierre Boulle - A group of scientists dissatisfied with world conditions...
Pierre Boulle,Desperate Games. Trans. by David Carter, Hesperus Classics, 2014.Predating The Hunger Games, Pierre Boulle, author of The Planet Apes, imagines a world governed by science and brutality...
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Antonio Porta - a post apocalyptic novel set shortly after the collapse of...
Antonio Porta, The King of the Storeroom, Trans. by Lawrence R. Smith. Wesleyan, 1992.With this experimental, futuristic novella about a violent postcapitalist society, the late Italian author (he died...
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Beau Rice - An experiment between the epistolary and the ectype, Tex is a...
Beau Rice, Tex, Penny-Ante Editions, 2014.In the twenty-first century, relationships have been transformed in unprecedented ways. Technology has birthed a paradoxical space between isolation and...
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Gérard Macé - A beautifully rendered essay on the brief life of Jean-Francois...
Gérard Macé, The Last of the Egyptians. Trans. by Brian Evenson, Burning Deck,2011.“About Champollion I knew: that he did not go to Egypt with Napoleon, that he never saw the actual Rosetta stone, only...
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Elfriede Czurda makes strongly visible the fragmentary, arbitrary,...
Elfriede Czurda, Almost 1 Book / Almost 1 Life. Trans. by Rosmarie Waldrop.Burning Deck, 2012.This volume contains almost all of Elfriede Czurda’s first book (with the untranslatable title ein griff =...
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Chu T'ien-wen - postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay...
Chu T'ien-wen, Notes of a Desolate Man, Trans. by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin. Columbia UP, 2000.read it at Google BooksWinner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern,...
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Gerhard Roth - a triumphant refutation of the death of modernism: a lucid,...
Gerhard Roth, The Autobiography of Albert Einstein,Trans. by Malcolm Green, 1993. [1972.]Gerhard Roth’s first “novel,” originally published in 1972, is a triumphant refutation of the death of...
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Ludwig Harig - Four adults, a child and a cat travel from Germany to...
Ludwig Harig, The Trip to Bordeaux, Trans. by Susan Bernofsky. Burning Deck, 2003.Four adults, a child and a cat travel from Germany to Bordeaux. Harig tells their adventures in humorous permutations,...
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