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Hubert Aquin - As he awaits trial, a young separatist writes an espionage...
Hubert Aquin, Next Episode.Trans. by Sheila Fischman. New Canadian Library, 2001.First published in l965, Hubert Aquin’s Next Episode is a disturbing and yet deeply moving novel of dissent and...
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The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers - There are women writing short...
The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers, Richard Thomas, ed., Black Lawrence Press, 2015.There are women writing short stories today that take chances, risks—you might even call their work...
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Carrie Lorig collides poetic and essay forms, and rides their cataclysmic...
Carrie Lorig, The Pulp Vs. The Throne, Curbside Splendor Publishing, 2015.excerptVI. Dreadful ContactIn the boundless and strange The Pulp vs. The Throne, Carrie Lorig collides poetic and essay forms,...
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Iain Pears has always written complex books – his latest, Arcadia, has 10...
Iain Pears, Arcadia, Faber & Faber Fiction, 2015.Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other worlds.He embarks on the story of Jay, an...
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Jeff Fort - Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian...
Jeff Fort, The Imperative to Write: Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot and Beckett, Fordham University Press, 2014. Is writing haunted by a categorical...
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Mark Katzman’s weird and wonderful Playdate looks like a poem and reads like...
Mark Katzman, Playdate, Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015.www.markkatzman.net/“Mark Katzman’s weird and wonderful Playdate looks like a poem and reads like a novel. Fast, ever so fast and on point, it...
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Colin Fleming - People living inside a noise machine discuss romance, a small...
Colin Fleming, The Anglerfish Comedy Troupe, Dzanc, 2015.In eighteen thematically linked stories, Colin Fleming explores the ways in which relationships end, with a focus on the void a loved one leaves...
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Susana Moreira Marques - A tender, lyrical and intimate meditation on death...
Susana Moreira Marques, Now and at the Hour of Our Death, Trans. by Julia Sanches, And Other Stories, 2015.A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never...
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David McGowan - The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark...
David McGowan, Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart Of The Hippie Dream, Headpress, 2014.www.davesweb.cnchost.com/index.htmlThe very strange but nevertheless...
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Guadalupe Nettel - With raw language and a brilliant sense of humor, both...
Guadalupe Nettel, The Body Where I was Born, Trans. by J.T. Lichtenstein, Seven Stories Press, 2015.From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood—in which she was born...
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Kate Marshall shows how the banal circulation technologies underlying modern...
Kate Marshall, Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction, University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Corridor offers a series...
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Adrian Jones Pearson - Idiosyncratic, wry, and ambitiously constructed, Cow...
Adrian Jones Pearson, Cow Country, Cow Eye Press, 2015.www.coweye.org/index.htmWhen a down-on-his-luck educational administrator arrives into the makeshift bus shelter of Cow Eye Junction, he finds a...
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Agustín Fernández Mallo - one of the most daring literary experiments of...
Agustín Fernández Mallo,Nocilla Dream, Trans. by Thomas Bunstead, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2015.Nocilla Dream is one of the most daring literary experiments of recent years, exploring the mysterious...
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Gregor Hens - investigates the irreversible effects of nicotine on thought...
Gregor Hens, Nicotine, Trans. by Jen Calleja.Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2015.Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the...
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Iván Repila - Two brothers, Big and Small, are trapped at the bottom of a...
Iván Repila, The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse, Trans. by Sophie Hughes, Pushkin Press, 2015excerptread it at Google BooksA brave, original allegory of our modern world 'It looks impossible to get...
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Multiples: 12 Stories in 18 Languages by 61 Authors - stories are told and...
Multiples: 12 Stories in 18 Languages by 61 Authors, Adam Thirlwell, ed., Portobello Books, 2013.Like Chinese whispers, the rules of this literary game are simple: the first writer translates an...
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Aluísio Azevedo - one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels...
Aluísio Azevedo, The Slum, Ed. and trans. by David H. Rosenthal, Oxford University Press, 2000. [1890.]read it at Google BooksFirst published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is...
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Giambattista Basile - the first integral collection of authored, literary...
Giambattista Basile, The Tale of Tales [Pentamerone], Nancy L. Canepa,Wayne State University Press, 2007. [1634./1636.]read it at Google Books or hereThe Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy...
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Rebekah Rutkoff interprets protagonists as if they were figures in a dream....
Rebekah Rutkoff, The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions,Semiotext(e) (October 30, 2015)As any good magician or psychoanalyst knows, it's the deliberate chalking of a particular square that...
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Derek McCormack - a play script “séance”: a fashion show by the dead for the...
Derek McCormack, The Well-Dressed Wound, Semiotext(e), 2015.Derek McCormack WebsiteThe Well-Dressed Wound is Derek McCormack's play script "séance": a fashion show by the dead for the living. In the...
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