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Helen Adam belonged to the avant-garde, but she was not a formal innovator....
Helen Adam, A Helen Adam Reader, Ed. by Kristin Prevallet, National Poetry Foundation, 2007.A HELEN ADAM READER, edited, with Notes and an Introduction by Kristen Prevallet, is a voluminous collection...
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Elena Poniatowska "reports"" the life story falling somewhere between fact...
Elena Poniatowska,Here's to You, Jesusa!, Trans. by Deanna Heikkinen,Penguin Books, 2002. [1969.] Chapter OneA remarkable novel that uniquely melds journalism with fiction, by Elena...
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Driss ben Hamed Charhadi - He was an illiterate shepherd and petty drug...
Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, ALife full of Holes:A Novel Recorded and Translated by Paul Bowles, Harper Perennial, 2008.One of the most unusual literary innovations ever produced, A Life Full of Holes is...
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Fran Ross - a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus...
Fran Ross, Oreo, New Directions; Reprint ed, 2015.[1974.]read it at Google BooksA pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York...
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Nadja Spiegel - Constructing virtuoso depictions of life in a style that lets...
Nadja Spiegel, Sometimes I Lie and Sometimes I Don't, Trans. by Rachel McNicholl, Dalkey Archive Press, 2015.Love, injury, deception, uncertainty, and self-sacrifice: debut author Nadja Spiegel is...
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Alexander Goldstein - there had not been a better stylist writing in Russian...
Alexander Goldstein, The Quiet FieldsIwas reluctant to tackle The Quiet Fields mostly because I didn’t want to be left without any Goldstein novel to look forward to reading. This may sound a bit...
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Jens Peter Jacobsen - This highly influential late-19th century Danish novel...
Jens Peter Jacobsen, Niels Lyhne, Trans. by Tiina Nunnally, Penguin Classics, 2006.read it hereNiels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his...
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Andrew Battershill - A darkly humorous novel about a boxer with some fight in...
Andrew Battershill, Pillow,Coach House Books, 2015.read it at Google Booksandrewbattershill.tumblr.com/From BoatsBlimpmallowChocolate Milk for Miles!Most of the things Pillow really liked to do were...
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Leila S. Chudori - Going back and forth between Jakarta and Paris in 1965 and...
Leila S. Chudori, Home, Trans. by John H. McGlynn, Deep Vellum, 2015. // The Lontar Foundation, 2015.See an excerpt from the English translationAn epic saga of “families and friends entangled in the...
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Anna Kovatcheva - starkly memorable imagery, strangeness that feels natural...
Anna Kovatcheva, The White Swallow, Gold Line Press, 2015.www.kovatcheva.com/The White Swallow has so many things going for it — starkly memorable imagery, strangeness that feels natural to the story,...
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TrenchArt Monographs - experiments in language, and the aesthetic essays in...
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time ed by Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place,Les Figues Press, 2015.From 2005–2013, the TrenchArt book series was the cornerstone of Les Figues Press. The...
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The Best Small Fictions 2015 - a celebration of the diversity and quality...
The Best Small Fictions 2015,ed by Robert Olen Butler and Tara L. Masih, Queen's Ferry Press, 2015.It takes many small things to make something big. Fifty-five acclaimed and emerging writers—including...
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S. Kay - Selfies, sexbots, and drones collide in these interwoven...
S. Kay, Reliant, tNY.Press, 2015.Selfies, sexbots, and drones collide in these interwoven nanofictions about a society before, during, and after its collapse. With dazzling humor and insight, debut...
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Rich Ives takes the reader through a series of meditations inspired by tools,...
Rich Ives, Sharpen, tNY.Press, 2014.It’s a catalog that you can’t order anything from. A manual with no instructions. In Sharpen, Rich Ives takes the reader through a series of meditations inspired by...
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Thomas Demand & Ben Lerner - Demand’s work lures the viewer into a reality...
Thomas Demand & Ben Lerner, Blossom, Mack Books, 2015. The texts and images presented here are part of Blossom, a collaboration between the artist...
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Wendy Walker's world is a world of mystery, castles, architectural wonders,...
Wendy Walker, The Secret Service, Sun & Moon Press, 1992.wendywalker.com/grand baroque novel, intrigue a la Raymond RousselRead an excerpt (pdf) The Secret Service came into being one night in 1976...
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Brian Catling - a sprawling fantasy set in colonial Africa, populated by...
Brian Catling, The Vorrh, Vintage, 2015.www.briancatling.net/index.phpPrepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moore has called “a phosphorescent...
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Henry Dumas was able to penetrate, almost like an archeologist, those areas...
Henry Dumas, Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas, Coffee House Press, 2003.Henry Dumas’s fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity....
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Alessandro Spina - 'The Confines of the Shadow' are among the most...
Alessandro Spina, The Confines of the Shadow, Trns. by André Naffis-Sahely, Darf Publishers, 2015.Volume 2 will appear in the Fall of 2016, with Volume 3 to follow in 2017."Civilisation," muses the...
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