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Robert Cheatham - Theory, anti-data, communitarian, ghostly, hysterical,...
Robert Cheatham,Perforations: After the Remainder: Calls, Comings, Desiderata, Lulu.com, 2014. read it at Google Booksdownload at independent.academia.edu/RobertCheathamA...
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Josep Carner - a masterpiece of modern Catalan poetry. In the widest sense a...
Josep Carner, Nabí, Trans. by J.L. Gili, Carcanet Press, 2004.Josep Carner's Nabí is a masterpiece of modern Catalan poetry. Based on the biblical story of Jonah, it is essentially a Christian poem,...
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Dan Fox celebrates the art in artifice, the let’s pretend in pretentiousness,...
Dan Fox, Pretentiousness: Why it Matters, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2016.What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? In this brilliant,...
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Jack Cox - novel about inheritance, tax law, and ownership, bearing...
Jack Cox, Dodge Rose, Dalkey Archive Press, 2016.excerptEliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When...
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Daniel Medin - That writers from such divergent national and ethnic...
Daniel Medin, Three Sons: Franz Kafka and the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W. G. Sebald, Northwestern UP, 2010.read it at Google BooksFranz Kafka was a self-conscious writer whose texts...
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Subject A. - Some books should be encased in iron and buried in the deepest,...
Subject A., Verses from the Underlands. gnOme, 2016.A collection of the fantastical verses of the suspected serial killer known as Subject A, written during his incarceration in a secure psychiatric...
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Benjamin H. Bratton - In this mosaic we glimpse a future city built with...
Benjamin H. Bratton, Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution, Sternberg Press, 2016.bratton.info/Equal parts Borges, Burroughs, Baudrillard, and Black Ops, Dispute Plan to Prevent Future...
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Barry Webster - Told in a lush baroque prose, this intense, extravagant...
Barry Webster, The Lava in My Bones, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012.A frustrated geologist studying global warming becomes obsessed with eating rocks after embarking on his first same-sex relationship in...
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Jan Ramjerdi - a book whose innovative treatment of story, typography, and...
Jan Ramjerdi, RE.LA.VIR, Fiction Collective 2, 2000. read it at Google BooksRE.LA.VIR renders rape through the narrative filter of an online hypertext program. Juxtaposing savvy technical language and...
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Hisham Bustani - A dazzling exemplar of contemporary experimental Arabic...
Hisham Bustani, The Perception of Meaning, Trans. byThoraya El-Rayyes, Syracuse, 2015.stories: Nightmares of the CityHistory Will Not Be Made On This CouchThis award-winning collection of seventy-eight...
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Serge Brussolo - lucid dreamers called mediums dive into their dreams to...
Serge Brussolo, The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome, Trans. by Edward Gauvin, Melville House, 2016. excerptAn undisputed French master of the fantastic—as prolific as Stephen King; as original as Philip K....
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Marlene van Niekerk - a tale of transmission, disappearance, and utterance,...
Marlene van Niekerk,The Swan Whisperer: An Inaugural Lecture, Trans. by Marius Swart and the author, Sylph Editions, 2015.The Swan Whisperer by Marlene van Niekerk is the literary equivalent of an...
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Matt Tompkins - more than a dozen surreal stories exploring the intersections...
Matt Tompkins, Studies in Hybrid Morphology, tNY.Press,2016.Studies in Hybrid Morphology is a story collection trapped in the body of a scientific journal. Presented as a series of faux-scholarly...
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Paul Nougé - texts by the leader of the Belgian section of the Surrealist...
Paul Nougé,Works Selected by Marcel Mariën , Trans. by Iain White, Atlas Press, 1996.The texts in this volume by the leader of the Belgian section of the Surrealist movement were selected by his old...
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Marcel Mariën - The goal of writing is emancipation from habit. Its aim is to...
Marcel Mariën, Crystal Blinkers, Transformaction Press, 1973.Marcel Mariën (1920-1993) is not the best known of the surrealists – it doesn’t help that he was Belgian. But he has a few claims on our...
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Michael Bible - an elliptical, provocative novella about the profane and the...
Michael Bible, Sophia: a novel, Melville House, 2015.excerptread it at Google Books“You’ll smile with joy turning every page.” —Barry Hannah Reverend Maloney isn’t the world’s greatest spiritual...
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Pablo Katchadjian decided to remix one of Borges’s most renowned short...
Pablo KatchadjianPablo Katchadjian, a respected Argentine novelist, poet and academic, faces up to six years in prison after being accused of ‘intellectual property fraud’. In 2009, he published a...
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Enrique Winter - a slippery, cacophonous, technical marvel of sonic...
Enrique Winter, Sign Tongue, Trans. by David McLoghlin, Goodmorning Menageries, 2015.The title of Enrique Winter’s new chapbook, “Sign Tongue,” translated by David McLoghlin, poses a challenge for...
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Jacques Sternberg - It’s all a question of a certain quality of anxiety....
Jacques Sternberg, Sexualis '95, Trans. by Blair Lowell,Berkley Medallion, 1967.This is a poorly presented book, originally published in French in 1965 with the rather different title Toi, ma nuit....
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Alexander Brener & Barbara Schurz - a disposable piece of anti-literature...
Alexander Brener and Barbara Schurz, Bukaka Spat Here, Vargas Organisation, 2002.A: Bukaka is a relentless, tasteless, walking revolution, she spits and swallows, is weak and indestructible. Her...
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