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Rein Raud - This Estonian novel draws on the trope of American Westerns in...
Rein Raud, The Brother, Trans. by Adam Cullen, Open letter, 2016. The Brother opens with a mysterious stranger arriving in a small town controlled by a group of...
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taylor jacob pate - This series of interconnected confessional-cum-fairy-tale...
taylor jacob pate, Becoming the Virgin, Action Books, 2016.Simultaneously enchanting and brutal, taylor jacob pate’s debut book Becoming the Virgin is a work of desperate intensity. This series of...
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Ed Atkins - A mixture of prose-poetry, theatrical script and sort-of-stories,...
Ed Atkins, A Primer for Cadavers, Afterword by Joe Luna, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2016.ED ATKINS interview by Hans Ulrich ObristOne of the most widely celebrated artists of his generation, Ed Atkins...
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Daniel Y. Harris has composed a wild poetic drama through realms of eros and...
Daniel Y. Harris, The Rapture of Eddy Daemon, BlazeVOX, 2016. www.danielyharris.com/Finally: a posthuman translation of Shakespeare. I'm glad Daniel Y. Harris beat...
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"Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense" convenes a...
Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense, Ed. by Caroline A. Jones, David Mather and Rebecca Uchill, MIT Press, 2016.Experience offers a reading experience like no other. A heat-sensitive...
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Carlos Fonseca Suárez - Loosely based on the fascinating life story of the...
Carlos Fonseca Suárez, Colonel Lágrimas, Trans. by Megan McDowell, Restless Books, 2016. excerptexcerpt 2A dazzling debut about the demented final project of a brilliant mathematician,...
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Pablo Ruiz - What myths have been thought up to explain the transition from...
Pablo Ruiz, Four Cold Chapters on the Possibility of Literature: (Leading Mostly to Borges and Oulipo), Dalkey Archive Press, 2014.What can be said about the silence that precedes a poem or a story?...
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Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories
Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories, Ed. by Jorge F. Hernandez, Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2008.Literature is perhaps Mexico's best landscape, encompassing both past and present,...
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Gösta Oswald - This relatively short poetic work primarily inspired by...
Gösta Oswald, RondoGösta Oswald was a prodigy of the Swedish modernist scene, publishing his first collection of poetry at the age of nineteen. His tragic death in a drowning accident in 1950, when he...
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Marlon L. Fick - The Nowhere Man follows the life and travels of an American...
Marlon L. Fick, The Nowhere Man, Jaded Ibis Press, 2016.The Nowhere Man follows the life and travels of an American novelist, Bolivar Collins, from his youth to adulthood through the later half of the...
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Valery Oisteanu, king/queen/jack of all dada/east village “Absurdistan” –...
Valery Oisteanu, Anarchy for a Rainy Day, Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2015. WARNING! EXPLOSIVE! KEEP AWAY FROM SAFE ACADEMIC WRITING CUBICLE OFFICES AND C.I.A. POETRY...
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The Time Complex. Post-Contemporary - Human agency and experience lose their...
The Time Complex. Post-Contemporary, Ed. by Armen Avanessian and Suhail Malik, Name Publications, 2016.downloadEdited by Armen Avanessian and Suhail Malik, designed by Federico Pérez Villoro with...
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Jen George - Combining slapstick, surrealism, erotica, and social criticism,...
Jen George, The Babysitter at Rest, Dorothy, 2016. Five stories—several as long as novellas—introduce the world to Jen George, a writer whose furiously imaginative new voice calls to mind Donald...
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Larissa Pham - a meditation on power and the self, in addition to being an...
Larissa Pham, Fantasian, Badlands Unlimited, 2016.larissapham.com/An unnamed narrator’s life at Yale takes a dizzying turn when she meets a girl who looks just like her. Drawn into each other’s social...
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Lauren Hilger - a masterful expose of filmic proportions. In each poem is a...
Lauren Hilger, Lady Be Good,Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016.laurenhilger.com/Lauren Hilger’s debut is a masterful expose of filmic proportions. In each poem is a film beckoning to be viewed, emotional...
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Ádám Lovász - a wonderful mashup of critique and mysticism, deconstruction...
Márk Horváth and Ádám Lovász,The Isle of Lazaretto, Schism Press, 2016.twitter.com/AdamRefuterBooks are there to amaze us: Márk Horváth and Ádám Lovász have certainly done that. I'm not sure I've read...
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Marc Anthony Richardson has found a way to describe in words the inability to...
Marc Anthony Richardson, Year of the Rat, Fiction Collective 2, 2016.excerptread it at Google Bookswww.marcanthonyrichardson.com/Winner of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction PrizeIn Year of the...
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John Colasacco is equal parts savant, madman, and humanist. The fiction he...
John Colasacco, Two Teenagers, Horse Less Press, 2016."I like this book a lot. I found a lot of surprises in the way the sentences worked. I was taken down a path cognitively and then thrust into a...
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B. R. Yeager - Genocidal businessmen. Apocalyptic visions. CGI-coated...
B. R. Yeager, Worlds of Ruin, Five Quarterly, 2015.Click here to read WORLDS OF RUINbryeager.wordpress.com/When one plays a game, they inhabit what Johan Huizinga refers to as the ‘Magic Circle’–a...
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Patrick Jagoda - Contributing to fields as diverse as literary criticism,...
Patrick Jagoda, Network Aesthetics, University Of Chicago Press, 2016. read it at Google Bookswww.patrickjagoda.com/The term “network” is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell...
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