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György Spiró - Equal parts Homeric epic, brilliantly researched Jewish...
György Spiró, Captivity, Trans. by Tim Wilkinson. Restless Books, 2015.The epic bestseller and winner of the prestigious Aegon Literary Award in Hungary, Captivity is an enthralling and illuminating...
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Carlos Velázquez - a collection of seven surreal, unrelentingly ironic, and...
Carlos Velázquez, The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories, Trans. by Achy Obejas, Restless Books, 2016.The much-anticipated English-language debut of “one of the most original and entertaining voices of...
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Jerrold Levy and Richard Negro - 'Poems by Gerard Legro' was meant to be a...
Jerrold Levy and Richard Negro, Poems by Gerard Legro, BookThug, 2016.In the spring and summer of 1949, Jerrold Levy and Richard Negro—two teenage pranksters with the right mix of bad attitude and...
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Martí Sales - In a style that combines the avant garde tradition with an...
Martí Sales, Huckleberry Finn, Trans. by Elisabet Ràfols and Ona Bantjes-Ràfols, BookThug, 2015.Enter the world as seen through the eyes of Huckleberry Finn—a weary and defeated landscape, but one of...
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Claudia Apablaza - These stories talk about the body, technologies and...
Claudia Apablaza, Everyone Thinks I’m a Fakir. Edicola, 2014.excerptThese stories talk about the body, technologies and postmodernity in the creation of the person carrying these violent constructions:...
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Luis Landa - These stories speak of music, drugs, obsessions, anger, failure,...
Luis Landa, I Don’t Intend to Complain, Edicola, 2013.The characters in these stories are marked by an introspective nature. Occasionally naive, somewhat lost, they struggle against their problems...
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Berit Ellingsen - a surreal, unpredictable work bringing together...
Berit Ellingsen, Not Dark Yet,Two Dollar Radio, 2015.beritellingsen.com/twitter.com/BeritEllingsenBrandon leaves his boyfriend in the city for a quiet life in the mountains, after an affair with a...
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Lindsay Stern - Enter the Town of Shadows, where noise is ‘the color of...
Lindsay Stern, Town of Shadows,Scrambler Books, 2012.excerptslindsay-stern.com/"That the fresh and haunting new voice Lindsay Stern exercises in TOWN OF SHADOWS is difficult to classify ought to serve...
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Mieko Kanai - Writing becomes an act of unknowing, an act of obfuscation....
Mieko Kanai, Word Book, Trans. by Paul McCarthy. Dalkey Archive Press, 2009.Like the surfaces of a jagged crystal, each story in this collection shows an entirely different facet when viewed from a...
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J. S. Breukelaar - A sci-fi novel of sentient stars, a cyborg samurai...
J. S. Breukelaar, American Monster, Lazy Fascist Press, 2014.excerpt + excerpt 2www.thelivingsuitcase.com/‘A deeply original post-apocalyptic novel. Like William S. Burroughs set in Philip K. Dick’s...
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Anne Boyer - a book of mostly lyric prose about the conditions that make...
Anne Boyer, Garments Against Women, Ahsahta Press, 2015.excerptwww.anneboyer.com/GARMENTS AGAINST WOMEN is a book of mostly lyric prose about the conditions that make literature almost impossible. It...
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Kay Boyle - whether Boyle is focusing on the role a doomed horse plays in a...
Kay Boyle, Three Short Novels: The Crazy Hunter; The Bridegroom's Body; Decision,New Directions, 1958.By far, Kay Boyle was the best literary discovery of 2014 for me, and I have the Buried book...
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Jean-Noël Schifano - the city where he lived for many years is a one “of bad...
Jean-Noël Schifano, Chroniques Napolitaines (1984)French-Italian writer Jean-Noël Schifano’s Chroniques Napolitaines (1984) contains six tales built around actual persons and events from the Naples of...
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Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas - the aim of this...
Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas, Ed. by Matteo Pasquinelli, Meson Press, 2015.downloadWith texts by Benjamin Bratton, Orit Halpern, Adrian Lahoud, Jon Lindblom, Catherine...
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'A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative' articulates and delineates the newest and...
A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative, Ed. by Jan Alber, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Brian Richardson,The Ohio State University Press, 2015.A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative offers a collection of foundational...
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Brian Richardson
Brian Richardson, Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction,Ohio State University Press, 2006.read it at Google BooksBrian Richardson presents a study that explores in...
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Phil Jourdan - A mix of allegory, satire, randomly generated numbers, spam...
Phil Jourdan, What Precision, Such Restraint, Perfect Edge, 2013.read it at Google Bookswww.slothrop.comA young man seeking to hack into his own unconscious mind.An academic conference on the...
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Édouard Dujardin - the first use of the monologue interieur and the...
Édouard Dujardin,We'll to the Woods No More, Trans. by Stuart Gilbert, New Directions, 1990. read it at Google BooksThis book retains its importance as the first use of the monologue interieur and the...
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Where You Are - 16 Artists, Writers, Thinkers and 16 Personal Maps. Each one...
Where You Are, Published & Edited by Visual Editions, 2015.you can read, see, explore it all here“Beautiful, unexpected ruminations on our place in the world” — The New York Times“We really like...
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Tom Bradley is one of the most exasperating, offensive, pleasurable, and...
Tom Bradley, Elmer Crowley: a katabasic nekyia. Illustrations by David Aronson and Nick Patterson. Mandrake of Oxford Press, 2014.tombradley.org/Aleister Crowley is thinking about Germany’s late...
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