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Nick Francis Potter - A masculinity cult seeks the advice of their mothers...
Nick Francis Potter, New Animals, Subito Press, 2016.nickfrancispotter.tumblr.com/A young pioneer woman wanders into an oilfield guarded by a temporary Goliath who used to date her mother. An aspiring...
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Ramsey Scott - these epistolary essays, personal narratives, meditations on...
Ramsey Scott, The Narco-Imaginary: Essays Under the Influence, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016.Written according to its own dictum, “language is the universal inebriant,” these epistolary essays, personal...
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Hirato Renkichi - Once called “the Marinetti of Japan” by David Burliuk,...
Hirato Renkichi, Spiral Staircase: Collected Writings, Trans. by Sho Sugita, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016.Once called “the Marinetti of Japan” by David Burliuk, Hirato Renkichi produced a unique brand of...
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Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly - The book is a celebration of the seven deadly...
Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, Diaboliques: Six Tales of Decadence, Trans. by Raymond N. MacKenzie,Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2015. With its six trenchant tales of perverse love, Diaboliques proved so...
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Paul Griffiths lets Ophelia recount her story in her own words. Literally....
Paul Griffiths, Let Me Tell You. Reality Street, 2008.extracts in Golden Handcuffs Review No.8reading notes by Anthony Millerwww.disgwylfa.com/Home_Page.htmlwww.musicandliterature.org/no-7So: now I...
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Bing Xu presents a new graphic novel—one composed entirely of symbols and...
Bing Xu, Book from the Ground: from point to point, MIT Press, 2016.www.xubing.com/Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have...
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Angélica Freitas whips up a powerful tonic for even the most stubborn case of...
Angélica Freitas, Rilke Shake, Trans. by Hilary Kaplan, Phoneme Media, 2015.Rilke Shake’s title, a pun on milkshake, means in Portuguese just what it does in English. With frenetic humor and linguistic...
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Roland Rugero explores the concepts of miscommunication and justice against...
Roland Rugero, Baho!: A Novel, Trans. by Christopher Schaefer, Phoneme Media, 2016.excerptIn Baho!, the first Burundian novel ever translated into English, the 28-year-old Roland Rugero uses elements...
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Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub - Two of the most exacting directors of...
Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Writings, Ed., trans. and with an introduction by Sally Shafto,Sequence Press, 2016.A text is spoken; it merges the sphere of ideas, from which it comes, with an...
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Peter Bichsel - very short, deceptively simple stories about people who are...
Peter Bichsel, And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the Milkman, Trans. by Michael Hamburger, Marion Boyars Publishers, 1968.These are very short, deceptively simple stories about people...
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Beat Sterchi - the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who...
Beat Sterchi, Cow, Trans. by Michael Hoffman, Pantheon, 1990. [1983.]The Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a Gastarbeiter. He is bound for...
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Douglas Piccinnini explores the possibilities of storytelling, in the way...
Douglas Piccinnini, Story Book, The Cultural Society, 2015.Story Book envisions a new wave of storytelling through a series of narratives that swarm around the blurred edges of being and in a twisting...
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Max Porter - Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief,...
Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers: A Novel, Faber & Faber, 2015.Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden,...
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Craig Wallwork - Here, there are talking camels, and should you ever want to...
Craig Wallwork, Quintessence of Dust, Kuboa Press, 2012.E-Book, FREEcraigwallwork.blogspot.hr/Quintessence of Dust delivers a world where the Minotaur exists in modern society, drinks in bars and is...
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László Földényi's book, part history of the term melancholy and part analysis...
László Földényi, Melancholy, Trans. by Tim Wilkinson, Yale University Press, 2016.Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.”...
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Christine Henseler - This book applies models that reflect the fluid,...
Christine Henseler, Spanish Fiction in the Digital Age: Generation X Remixed, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.read it at Google Bookswww.christinehenseler.com/This book applies models that reflect the fluid,...
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Chris Campanioni dissects post-capitalist, post-Internet, post-death culture;...
Chris Campanioni, Death of Art, CR Press, 2016.Death of Art dissects post-capitalist, post-Internet, post-death culture; our ability and affinity to be both disembodied and tethered to technology,...
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Kenward Elmslie - An extremely demanding work that makes Borges seem like a...
Kenward Elmslie, The Orchid Stories, Doubleday, 1973. www.kenwardelmslie.com/A classic work of American fiction and a masterpiece of eccentric detail.Praised by John Ashbery as...
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Minae Mizumura - A smart, literate reimagining of Wuthering Heights, moved...
Minae Mizumura, A True Novel, Trans. by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Other Press, 2013.mizumuraminae.com/eng/index.htmlA remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar JapanA True Novel...
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Emily Abendroth tells us that society effectively criminalizes some of our...
Emily Abendroth, ]EXCLOSURES[,Ahsahta, 2014.Exclosures 1-8There are militarized zones that ] Exclosures [ tracks, between our lived lives and the exclusionary logics that we are required to contain...
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