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John Colburn - collection of mythical prose poems. Daylight hummed the valley...
John Colburn, Invisible Daughter, firthFORTH Books, 2013. Pages of light, John Colburn’s Invisible Daughter is an incandescent folding of language and meaning. In 1979 Minnesota, a town happened. A...
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José Perez Beduya - a shimmering subjectivity—sometimes singular, more often...
José Perez Beduya, Throng, Lake Forest College Press, 2012.Throng is the quietly audacious debut of Jose Perez Beduya, born and educated in the Philippines and now a resident of Ithaca, New York, where...
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Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes - this short novel, the only one published by the...
Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes, P.'s Three Women, Trans. by Margaret A. Neves, Dalkey Archive Press, 2012 In a picaresque journey from youth to old age, P., a wealthy businessman who abhors his real name,...
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Lygia Fagundes Telles - an extraordinary picture of the wonder and the...
Lygia Fagundes Telles, The Girl in the Photograph, Trans. by Margaret A. Neves, Dalkey Archive Press, 2012. Complex and hauntingly beautiful, Lygia Fagundes Telles's most acclaimed novel is a journey...
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Adrian Van Young channels such a diversity of mighty literary voices, you'd...
Adrian Van Young, The Man Who Noticed Everything, Black Lawrence Press, 2013. adrianvanyoung.com/“Adrian Van Young is the secret love-child of so many authors I admire, from Ambrose Bierce to H.P....
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Danielle Collobert - is not a voice responding to conventions or trends in...
Danielle Collobert, Murder, Translated by Nathanaël, Litmus Press, 2013.MURDER is Danielle Collobert's first novel. Originally published in 1964 by Éditions Gallimard while Collobert was living as a...
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Ira Livingston - The problem with God (or evolution or a mechanistic...
Ira Livingston, Where God Comes From: Reflections on Science, Systems, and the Sublime, Zero Books, 2012.Read it at Google BooksWhere God Comes From explores how the sublime and miraculous can be found...
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Toomas Vint - The composition of the novel hovered there in his thoughts with...
Toomas Vint, An Unending Landscape, Trans. by Eric Dickens, Dalkey Archive Press, 2012.An Unending Landscape is a subtle, humorous, mind-bending novel about the origins and fates of three different...
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Wheeler W. Dixon - Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American...
Wheeler W. Dixon, Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema, State Univ of New York Press, 1998. read it at Google BooksTHE EXPLODING EYE: A RE-VISIONARY HISTORY OF...
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Albert Vigoleis Thelen has a narrative style that is variously farcical,...
Albert Vigoleis Thelen, The Island of Second Sight, Trans. by Donald O. White, Overlook Press, 2012. [1953.]Based on the author's own experiences in the 1930's on Mallorca in the years just prior to...
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Urs Widmer - a moralist certainly lurks in Urs Widmer, but a moralist with...
Urs Widmer, My Father's Book, Trans. by Donal McLaughlin, Seagull Books, 2012.In this companion to Urs Widmer’s novel My Mother’s Lover, the narrator is again the son who pieces together the fragments...
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Sophie Calle - I found an address book on the Rue des Martyrs... I will...
Sophie Calle, The Address Book, Siglio, 2012. The Address Book, a key and controversial work in Sophie Calle's oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Having found a lost...
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Barry N. Malzberg - Metafictional SF: Midway through the voyage, the...
Beyond Apollo | 1972, Random House The Men Inside | 1973, Prestige Books Galaxies | 1975, Pyramid Books (Note: all three of these books are out of print, but cheap used copies can be found. In...
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Hugo Loetscher - An ancient legend retold in light of capitalist reality
Hugo Loetscher, Noah: A Novel of the Boom Times, Trans. by Samuel P. Willcocks, Seagull Books, 2012. [1967.]As the current global recession stubbornly persists and financial experts around the world...
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Dominique Eddé - a novel about a group of people who know that they’re in a...
Dominique Eddé, Kite, Trans. by Ros Schwartz, Seagull Books, 2012.Rich and multilayered, with elements of both memoir and fiction, Dominique Eddé’s Kite defies categorization. Beginning in the 1960s...
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Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short Stories from...
Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan, Ed. by Helen Mitsios, Cheng & Tsui, 2011.ExcerptDigital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short...
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Roger Gilbert-Lecomte is considered one of the eminent poets of the...
Black Mirror: The Selected Poems by Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, David Rattray (Translator), Barrytown, 1991.read it at scribdrogergilbertlecomte.com/Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (1907-1943) is considered one of...
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Hob Broun - a writer less of conventional “sentences” than of freewheeling,...
This year I re-read the short story collection Cardinal Numbers byHob Broun. Broun died in 1987 at the age of 37. This collection and his novel Inner Tube, edited by Gordon Lish, remain touchstones for...
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Atticus Davis reveals to us what is at the heart of liberty: hesitance. What...
Atticus Davis, Dumb Stuttering Free, Bedouin Books, 2012Atticus Davis' poems make overtures to truth, the fantasy of modern men, at once with a parcity of line and language, while exploding outward in...
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Pierre Louÿs - one of the few erotic classics in which humor takes precedence...
Pierre Louÿs, The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments, Trans by Geoffrey Longnecker, Wakefield Press, 2010.read it at Google BooksA bestselling author in his...
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