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Nick Sousanis - A stunning work of graphic literature that exists...
Nick Sousanis, Unflattening, Harvard University Press, 2015.spinweaveandcut.com/The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal...
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Daniel Arasse - By demonstrating that we don't really see what these...
Daniel Arasse, Take a Closer Look, Trans. Alyson Waters, Princeton University Press, 2013.What happens when we look at a painting? What do we think about? What do we imagine? How can we explain, even...
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Tomas Espedal dwells on the notion that working is required in order to live...
Tomas Espedal, Against Nature, Trans. by James Anderson, Seagull Books, 2014.In contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedal’s work stands out as uniquely personal; it can be difficult to separate the...
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Hilary Plum - a bold meditation on idealism, anger, and the American home...
Hilary Plum, They Dragged Them through the Streets: A Novel, Fiction Collective 2, 2013. read it at Google BooksRead excerpts in Berfrois and at the Sultan’s Seal.www.hilaryplum.com/A veteran of the US...
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Steven Hendricks - Readers enter a narrative rabbit hole through bedtime...
Steven Hendricks, Little is Left to Tell, Starcherone Press, Chapter One, available at The Brooklyn Railstevenhendricks.com/This poetic debut novel takes readers down a rabbit-hole through the tales...
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Yuri Mamleyev - a sort of metaphysical detective story. “On the one hand, the...
Yuri Mamleyev, The Sublimes, Trans. by Marian Schwartz, Haute Culture Books, 2014.An excerpt “Yuri Mamleyev’s grim and crazy novel revolutionized Russian literature.” – Le Monde “This book will change...
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Hugo Charteris is a curious novelist, an odd man out among his generally...
Hugo Charteris, The Tide is Right. Dalkey Archive Press, 1992.This remarkable novel, suppressed in 1957 and published here for the first time, is concerned with a day in the life of a stagnant,...
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Sade Murphy - this collection of prose poems, is a catalog of violence and...
Sade Murphy, Dream Machine, co-im-press, 2014.excerpt 1 + excerpt 2Dream Machine, Sade Murphy's debut collection of prose poems, is a catalog of violence and somnambulant obsessions. This numerological...
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Veza Canetti - In simple language that sometimes takes on the cadences of the...
Veza Canetti, The Tortoises, Trans. by Ian Mitchell, New Directions, 2007. read it at Google Books Spare, dark, and cinematic, The Tortoises describes life in the Nazi reign...
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Jacob Paul - The second in Paul’s thematic trilogy exploring the relationship...
Jacob Paul, A Song of Ilan, Jaded Ibis Press, 2015.www.jacobgpaul.com/The second in Jacob Paul’s thematic trilogy exploring the relationship between spirituality, religion and terrorism, A Song of Ilan...
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Kevin Maloney - It whistles with the wit of Brautigan, stings with the heart...
Kevin Maloney, Cult of Loretta, Lazy Fascist Press, 2015.excerptkevinmaloney.net/“I haven’t read a book this great, this funny, this original, this emotional, this bonkers in quite some time. It’s a...
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Lou Robinson - A surreal novel and prose poems deal with the power of...
Lou Robinson, Napoleon's Mare, Fiction Collective 2, 1991.read it at Google BooksThe novella and prose poems making up this volume gush forth in a stream of consciousness, leaving powerful and...
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Agnes Martin - Rather than identifying herself with her Minimalist peers,...
Agnes Martin, Writings, Hatje Cantz Publishers; Bilingual ed., 2005.Agnes Martin's abstract works adhere to no catalogue of rules but appear instead as contemplative, intuitive signs. Her "floating...
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Igor Vishnevetsky - Closing the gap between the contemporary Russian novel...
Igor Vishnevetsky, Leningrad, Trans. by Andrew Bromfield. Columbia University Press, 2013. read it at Google BooksClosing the gap between the contemporary Russian novel and the masterpieces of...
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I. P. Snooks - Thanks to the interdimensional revelations, it is now possible...
I. P. Snooks. Be Still, My Throbbing Tattoo. gnOme, 2015.QUEEN ELIZABETH II IS DEAD … Thanks to the interdimensional revelations contained within Be Still, My Throbbing Tattoo, it is now possible to...
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Jen Craig - A novella so free of rules that it feels revolutionary. Pages fly...
Jen Craig, Panthers and the Museum of Fire.Spineless Wonders, 2015.excerptJen Craig’s new novella is about walking, memory and writing. The narrator walks from Glebe to a central Sydney café to return...
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Amelia Rosselli - a virtuoso, subversive, neo-Petrarchan sequence of poems....
Amelia Rosselli, Hospital Series, Trans, by Deborah Woodard, Roberta Antognini and Guiseppe Leporace, New Directions, 2015.Hospital Series, a bruisingly intimate colloquy with an elusive lover, is...
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Alberto Laiseca - a visionary, erudite, cruel, surreal, uproarious, smutty,...
Alberto Laiseca, Los Sorias. Simurg, 1998.albertolaiseca.blogspot.com/Alberto Laiseca is the buried giant of world literature. Without his wild imagination, which surpasses even the most baroque and...
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José Hernández - a masterpiece of world literature. Those interested in the...
José Hernández,The Gaucho Martin Fierro, Trans. by Catherine E. Ward, State University of New York Press, 1974. Introduction by the translator Martin Fierro the Gaucho The Return of Martin Fierro The...
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Mike Heppner's novels offer a plethora of pleasures—rich local color, gonzo...
Mike Heppner, We Came All This Way, Thought Catalog Books,2015. excerptClick here to read the first two chapterswww.mikeheppner.com/We Came All This Way is the first novel in eight years...
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