N - Hemisphere Eleven: A discontinuous continuation of fallen, unfollowable...
N, Hemisphere Eleven, HWORDE/Gnome Books, 2016.read it at Google BooksA discontinuous continuation of fallen, unfollowable imperatives, numbering one thousand three hundred and sixty-one.
View ArticleMark de Silva - By gracefully weaving a study of the psychological effects of...
Mark de Silva, Square Wave, Two Dollar Radio, 2016.excerpt 1An excerpt in Guernica MagazineAn excerpt in The CollagistAn excerpt at Two Dollar RadioA Q&A about the...
View ArticleJung Young Moon - A tour-de-force in automatic writing from South Korea’s...
Jung Young Moon, Vaseline Buddha, Trans. by Yewon Jung, Deep Vellum, 2016.A tour-de-force in automatic writing from South Korea’s eccentric, award-winning contemporary master delves into subconscious...
View ArticleMatthew Mahaney - The surreal contexts of these narratives read like missives...
Matthew Mahaney, The Storm That Bears Your Name, The Cupboard, 2015.It remembers. Or, it is remembered. Secrets thicken in Matthew Mahaney’s The Storm That Bears Your Name, providing spaces through...
View ArticleCorey Zeller - With an acute eye for specifics, Zeller unravels rupturing...
Corey Zeller, You and Other Pieces, Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015.Five PoemsThere’s a village whose main inhabitant is the sound of distant gunfire. Hours float by like the shuffling of blank cards....
View ArticleRut Hillarp - Man (a conductor) and Woman (a writer) attract and repel each...
Rut Hillarp, The Black Curve, Trans. by Saskia Vogel,Readux Books, 2015.The Black Curve is the story of a love affair. Through the radical representation of sexual fantasy, desire, and the foundations...
View ArticlePaul Goldberg comes up with a team of Yiddish-speaking jokester-superheroes...
Paul Goldberg, The Yid, Picador, 2016.www.paulgoldberg.com/A DEBUT NOVEL OF DARING ORIGINALITY, THE YID GUARANTEES THAT YOU WILL NEVER THINK OF STALINIST RUSSIA, SHAKESPEARE, THEATER, YIDDISH, OR...
View ArticleHarold Nicolson - He has devised a method of writing about people and about...
Harold Nicolson, Some People, Faber Finds, 2013. [1927.] On the face of...
View ArticlePedro Lemebel - From Chile’s most provocative novelist, a novel of forbidden...
Pedro Lemebel, My Tender Matador, Grove Press, 2007.Centered around an historical event that changed Chile forever—the 1986 attempt on the life of Augusto Pinochet—My Tender Matador is the most...
View ArticleJ. A. Baker’s immersion in the life of the peregrines of East Anglia...
J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, NYRB Classics, 2004.From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern...
View ArticleTimmy Reed - a history of the unseen world, a beautifully written surreal...
Timmy Reed, The Ghosts That Surrounded Them, Dig That Book, 2015.underratedanimals.wordpress.com/"Reminiscent of Shane Jones and Kevin Brockmeier, but with a style all its own, Timmy Reed’s The Ghosts...
View ArticleShane Jesse Christmass - A novel. A series of itinerant scenes set in...
Shane Jesse Christmass, Police Force as a Corrupt Breeze, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2016.A novel. A series of itinerant scenes set in Washington, Manhattan. Science Fiction. Body. Manhattan. Arrival @ JFK....
View ArticleJoão Gilberto Noll - This metaphysical mystery resembles the films of David...
João Gilberto Noll, Quiet Creature on the Corner, Trans. by Adam Morris, Two Lines Press, 2016.Ranked alongside leading Latin American writers like César Aira and Mario Bellatín—and deeply influenced...
View ArticleHannes Bajohr - 'Timidities' repurposes text gathered from the internet...
Hannes Bajohr, Timidities, Readux , 2015.The pieces in Timidities are created by repurposing text gathered from websites—an erotic amateur fiction site, a BDSM forum, a popular sex advice column....
View ArticleWill Eaves - a miniature but infinite novel. neither a novel nor a poetry...
Will Eaves, The Absent Therapist, CB EDitions, 2014. click here to read a pdf excerpt@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Minion-Regular"; }@font-face { font-family:...
View ArticleLex Brown - a high stakes action-adventure thriller about sibling loyalty,...
Lex Brown, My Wet Hot Drone Summer, Badlands Unlimited, 2015. The year is 2056. Hotshot lawyer Mia Garner needs a fresh start after dumping her cheating boyfriend. So she goes on a cross-country drive...
View ArticleJonathan Barrow - A wild picaresque fantasy, erotically polymorphous... with...
Jonathan Barrow, The Queue, CB Editions, 2014.click here to read a pdf excerptEasy enough to summarize, The queue is difficult to define. Picaresque encounters, recounted at speed, include bizarre...
View ArticleSarah Blackman - a novel about violence—the violence of the fist, of the...
Sarah Blackman, Hex, FC2, 2016.read it at Google BooksAlice is a motherless child, born to a motherless child, and raised with neither care nor grace. Her response to this multiple abandonment is a...
View ArticleRobin McLean’s debut collection of short stories moves seamlessly from...
Robin McLean, Reptile House, BOA Editions, 2015.www.robinmclean.net/The characters in these nine short stories abandon families, plot assassinations, nurse vendettas, tease, taunt, and terrorize. They...
View ArticleWolf Haas - The reader must infer a sensational love story that the author...
Wolf Haas, The Weather Fifteen Years Ago, Trans. by Stephanie Gilardi and Thomas S. Hansen, Ariadne Press, 2009.The Weather Fifteen Years Ago is no conventional narrative. The reader must infer a...
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