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Christopher Coe - a prose poem really, and maybe one of the most...
Christopher Coe, I Look Divine, Bruno Gmunder Verlag, 2013. [1987.]excerptNicholas is beautiful, wealthy and hopelessly vain. With his older brother in tow, he jets from one glamorous scene to another:...
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Michel Butor - a classic of first-generation French postmodernism, a nouveau...
Michel Butor, Degrees. Trans. by Richard Howard. Dalkey Archive Press, 2005. / Simon and Schuster, 1961.On Tuesday, October 12, 1954, Pierre Vernier, a teacher in a Paris lycee, begins setting down an...
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Patricio Pron - a purposefully fragmented mystery narrative, unconstrained by...
Patricio Pron, My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain: A Novel, Trans. by Mara Faye Lethem, Vintage, 2014.story Rhododendron, Tradescantia, Tillandsia, BromeliaThe American debut of one of Granta’s...
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DEVOURING THE GREEN anthology of cyborg/eco-poetry questions the increasingly...
DEVOURING THE GREEN: fear of a human planet: a cyborg / eco poetry anthology. Ed. by Sam Witt. Jaded Ibis Press, 2015.The inspiration for DEVOURING THE GREEN anthology arose from the editor’s and...
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Pedram Navab - disturbing and provocative story of Tess, a third-year medical...
Pedram Navab, Without Anesthesia, Jaded Ibis Press, 2015.“Dear Tess, we cut you up today.” So ends and begins the disturbing and provocative story of Tess, a third-year medical student whose...
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Bruce F. Kawin - Brilliantly pitching the aesthetics of novelty against those...
Bruce F. Kawin, Telling It Again and Again: Repetition in Literature and Film, Dalkey Archive Press, 2015.How do writers and filmmakers use repetition? It is useful when accenting an idea, but, in this...
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Raymond Bock - an original and unsettling portrait of Quebec, from the...
Raymond Bock, Atavisms, Trans. by Pablo Strauss, Dalkey Archive Press, 2015.Atavisms is an original and unsettling portrait of Quebec, from the hinterland to the metropolis, from colonial times to the...
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Lauren Foss Goodman - A story about the passed-along People, about how we are...
Lauren Foss Goodman, A Heart Beating Hard, University of Michigan Press, 2014.Read for free on the webVisit the author's websiteA Heart Beating Hard is about looking long and deep into the invisible...
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Amanda Ackerman attempts to write the language of plants. From a tale of two...
Amanda Ackerman, The Book of Feral Flora, Les Figues Press, 2015.Amanda Ackerman’s The Book of Feral Flora collapses distinctions between narrative, poetry, and prose. Grafting stories to stones and...
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Joey Yearous-Algozin's verbatim transcription of three years of voicemail...
Joey Yearous-Algozin, Holly Melgard’s Friends & Family, Bon Aire Projects, 2014. For three years, Joey Yearous-Algozin transcribed Holly Melgard’s voicemails.in a new mode of um exquisite...
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Literature Translation Institute (LTI) of Korea - 23 Korean stories from the...
Literature Translation Institute (LTI) of Korea, 23 Korean stories download it hereAsia Publishers presents some of the very best modern Korean literature to readers worldwide through its new Korean...
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Thor Garcia - By turns defiant, paranoid, brooding, absurd and knock-down...
Thor Garcia, Only Fools Die of Heartbreak: Stories, Equus Press, 2013. thorgarcia.wordpress.com/From Thor Garcia, author of the monumental The News Clown—whose “flashy, satirical style keeps the...
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The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside - The...
Diedrich Diederichsen, Anselm Franke, eds., The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside, Sternberg Press, 2013.With contributions by Sabeth Buchmann, Mercedes Bunz, Diedrich...
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James Chaffee - This is the sort of genre-pulverizing feat you would expect...
James Chaffee, São Paulo Blues, Enigmatic Ink; 2 ed., 2013.What could be worse than stumbling on the mutilated corpses of a scad of Brazilian hookers? How about falling hard for a Brazilian prostitute...
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Andrea Kneeland - This might well be one of the finest books to show the true...
Andrea Kneeland, How to Pose for Hustler, Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015.andreakneeland.com/He tells me he misses me and that the night before he watched a porno and the girl in the porno looked like...
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Louis Armand - What do a crashed satellite, a string of bizarre murders and a...
Louis Armand, Cairo, Equus Press, 2014. atelierlouisarmand.wordpress.com/excerpt 1 & excerpt 2“Frightening, hilarious, insane…” What do a crashed satellite, a string of bizarre murders and a...
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Literature Translation Institute (LTI) of Korea - 23 Korean stories from the...
Literature Translation Institute (LTI) of Korea, 23 Korean stories download it hereAsia Publishers presents some of the very best modern Korean literature to readers worldwide through its new Korean...
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Thor Garcia - By turns defiant, paranoid, brooding, absurd and knock-down...
Thor Garcia, Only Fools Die of Heartbreak: Stories, Equus Press, 2013. thorgarcia.wordpress.com/From Thor Garcia, author of the monumental The News Clown—whose “flashy, satirical style keeps the...
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Joseph Pintauro - "All you who exploit your ability to be dead". 'The Rabbit...
Joseph Pintauro, The Rabbit Box, Harper & Row, 1970.Something about this poetry differs so much from any kind of poetry I've read. Not only is it so mysterious, but it's beautiful and relatable. If...
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Ernst Kreuder - The characters in the novel counter the enforced seriousness...
Ernst Kreuder, The Attic Pretenders, Putnam, 1948.His 1946 work The Society of The Attic concerned a secret associations view of imagination and reality and was well received. He also wrote works like...
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