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Werner Kofler - "Art must destroy reality," he trumpets, yet, in the spirit...
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Robert Sproat, Stunning the Punters, Faber, 1986.Nine monologues, each in a different voice, make up this unusual fiction debut. Sprout's flawless command of idiom, accent, and syntax here combines...
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Dan Duggan - a book of derelicts, poems from purgatory, stories of...
Dan Duggan, Luxury of the Dispossessed, Influx Press, 2015. Luxury of the Dispossessed, the debut collection from poet and artist Dan Duggan, is a book of derelicts, poems from purgatory, stories of...
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Myriam Gurba - The stories deal with the supernatural feminine and the...
Myriam Gurba, Painting Their Portraits in Winter: Stories, Manic D Press, 2015.In this artfully crafted collection of new short stories by award-winning author Myriam Gurba, nothing is as it seems on...
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Seth Price - a provocative, moving novella about what it means to be a...
Seth Price, Fuck Seth Price, Leopard, 2015.excerptwww.distributedhistory.com/From one of the most influential artists of his generation comes a provocative, moving novella about what it means to be a...
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Christopher Schaberg - Drawing from his own experiences working at an...
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Eduardo Costa is a leading conceptual artist, the co-author of the very first...
Eduardo Costa, Conceptualism and Other Fictions: The Collected Writings of Eduardo Costa, 1965–2015, Ed. by Patrick Greaney, Trans. by Jen Hofer and John Pluecker, Les Figues Press, 2015.Eduardo Costa...
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Adam Tipps Weinstein - With subjects ranging from ‘graveyard shoes’ to...
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Tracey Emin - Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless,...
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Martin Bax - From harbours around the world, the hospital ship picks up...
Martin Bax, The Hospital Ship, New Directions, 1976....the most exciting, stimulating and brilliantly conceived book I have read since Burroughs' novels.—J. G. BallardOut of Martin Bax’s appalling...
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Ben Wardle - not a book about Wire’s seminal album, it is a novel inspired by...
Ben Wardle, Pink Flag, The Antar Press, 2012.This is not a book about Wire’s seminal album, it is a novel inspired by it.A child is abducted in a supermarket, male and female professional killers ride...
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Joseph Ridgwell - a fictionalised account of episodes in the life of beat...
Joe Ridgwell, Burrito Deluxe, Leamington Books, 2015.josephridgwelljr.wordpress.com/The new novel from Joseph Ridgwell. 19 years since its original conception cult author Joseph Ridgwell has produced...
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Craig Gibson - Grim, nasty and highly cynical, laden with gallows humour,...
Craig Gibson, Cider Camp: And Other Tales, Leamington Books, 2015.The debut collection from Craig Gibson.Grim, nasty and highly cynical, laden with gallows humour, Cider Camp has the power to repel and...
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Peter Burnett - The city is like a TV show that wants only to humiliate him,...
Peter Burnett, Odium, Thirsty Books, 2004.peterburnett.info/A man asleep, Rubio flees Paris for the Egyptian desert. He escapes his back-biting colleagues, the proximity of his ex-wife, and the...
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Ashley Farmer - a dizzying digital-agrarian-fever-dream fueled by virtual...
Ashley Farmer, The Farmacist, Jellyfish Highway Press, 2015.www.ashleymfarmer.com/about.htmlStep inside Ashley Farmer's America: a dizzying digital-agrarian-fever-dream fueled by virtual farmers...
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James Nulick - an elegiac and hallucinatory meditation on beauty, loss, and...
James Nulick, Valencia, Nine-Banded Books, 2015.A man checks into a hotel in a Mediterranean city on the banks of the Turia.He is far from home. He holds few possessions. Enough clothing for a week,...
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Sarah Jean Alexander - a scrapbook of poems and of short stories, of...
Sarah Jean Alexander, Wildlives, Big Lucks Books, 2015.two poems @ The QuietusBig LucksI knew it was impossibleThe FanzineHobart x1x2x3New Wave VomitElectric CerealPotluck MagazineEveryday GeniusKeep...
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Oles Honchar - 'The Cathedral' was Honchar's best and, at the same time, most...
Oles Honchar, The Cathedral: A Novel, Trans. by Yuri Tkach and Leonid Rudnytzky, St. Sophia Religious Association of Ukrainian Catholics, 1989.read it...
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Robin Coste Lewis - a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems...
Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems, Knopf, 2015.A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating...
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Svend Åge Madsen - Teasing and intriguing, this unique novel takes readers on...
Svend Åge Madsen, Days with Diam, Trans. by W Glyn Jones,Norvik Press, 1995.One of Denmark's most important experimental novelists, Madsen skirts around realism, but is never entirely realistic....
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