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Sara Tuss Efrik - a hellish three-part fairy tale of wombs and charred rooms...
Sara Tuss Efrik, The Night's Belly, a triptych, Trans. by Paul Cunningham, Toad Press, 2016.1.In my last post about translation and Ali Taheri Araghi’s anthology of contemporary, underground poetry...
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Sam Coll - a thoroughly Irish take on the big parodic postmodern novel in the...
Sam Coll, The Abode of Fancy, The Lilliput Press, 2016.extractinterviewinterview 2'We Irish are a shallow people, albeit perversely fair perhaps, as cruel to others as to ourselves, treasuring the...
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Mário de Andrade - a landmark precursor of Latin American magical realism....
Mário de Andrade, Macunaíma, Trans. byE. A. Goodland,Random House, 19848. [1928.]Announcing a major literary event: here is the first translation into English of a landmark precursor of Latin American...
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Chris Dankland - A very loose narrative holds the pieces together as these...
Chris Dankland, Weed Monks, Gumroad. 2016.“Weed Monks” reveals Chris Dankland to be the red-eyed man of the dank lands. Chris Dankland is the one that Madvillain referred to their award-winning hit...
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Design Fiction identifies the current fascination with fiction across art,...
EP Vol. 2 . Design Fiction, Alex Coles, Ed., Sternberg Press, 2016.Contributions by Paola Antonelli, The Atlas Group (1989–2004), Alex Coles, Anthony Dunne, James Dyer, Umberto Eco, Experimental...
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Marvin Cohen - We cooked our meals by rubbing our bodies together while...
Marvin Cohen, Others, Including Morstive Sternbump: 40th Anniversary Edition, Tough Poets Press, 2016.www.marvincohen.net/This new paperback edition of Others, Including Morstive Sternbump has been...
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Visions of Discovery: New Light on Physics, Cosmology, and Consciousness -...
Visions of Discovery: New Light on Physics, Cosmology, and Consciousness, Cambridge University Press, 2010.read it at Google BooksWorld-leading researchers, including Nobel Laureates and rising young...
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Jason DeBoer's experimental fictions were created by disintegrating and then...
Jason DeBoer, Annihilation Songs: Three Shakespeare Reintegrations,Stalking Horse Press, 2016.Killing the Dogs of Kathmandu, by Jason DeBoerThe Execution Of The SunWith Annihilation Songs: Three...
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Gerard Reve - a novel that is not only a masterpiece but a cornerstone manque...
Gerard Reve, The Evenings, Trans. by Sam Garrett, Pushkin Press, 2016.[1947.]'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is...
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Steven Dunn's writing is here, like a visceral intervention across the...
Steven Dunn, Potted Meat, Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2016.www.stevencdunn.com/Potted Meat, a novel set in a decaying town in southern West Virginia, follows a young boy into adolescence as he struggles with...
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Patrick Stuart & Zak Sabbath - Lethal gardens, soul-rending art galleries,...
Patrick Stuart & Zak Sabbath,Maze of the Blue Medusa, Satyr Press, 2016.Infinite broken night. Milky alien moons. Wavering demons of gold. Held in this jail of immortal threats are three perfect...
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Melchior Vischer - Proclaimed as the “first Dada novel” & the “literary...
Melchior Vischer, Second Through Brain: a novel, Trans. by David Vichnar & Tim König, Equus Press, 2015.Proclaimed as the “first Dada novel” & the “literary equivalent of Cézanne,” Melchior...
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The Planetary Turn - the planetary model of art, culture, and...
The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Amy J. Elias and Christian Moraru, Northwestern University Press, 2015.A groundbreaking essay collection that...
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Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, many newly...
Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned : Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition, Ed. by Gretchen Schultz and Lewis Seifert, Princeton UP, 2016.The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into...
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Albertine Sarrazin - a cult rebel classic. Fear of capture, memories of her...
Albertine Sarrazin, Astragal, Trans. by Patsy Southgate, New Directions, 2013.Patti Smith on the long-lost novel she’s carried with her for almost 40 years.As if the reader were riding shotgun, this...
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Gabriel Blackwell - Dubbed a commonplace book—a collection of quotations to...
Gabriel Blackwell, Madeleine E.,Outpost19, 2016. www.gabrielblackwell.comA commonplace book, arranging passages from critics considering Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo,...
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duncan b. barlow - Gilles, dreamer of dark and beautiful dreams, spinner of...
duncan b. barlow, Of Flesh and Fur, The Cupboard, 2017.www.duncanbbarlow.com/When even the inner parts of a heart squall with want, calling out a compulsion to procreate, to propagate, to continue the...
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Maria Fusco - Combining fact and fiction, traversing scales of distance and...
Maria Fusco, Legend of the Necessary Dreamer, VanguardEditions, 2017. excerptexcerpt 2mariafusco.net/'A modest epic written in real-time, Maria Fusco’s Legend of the...
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Daïchi Saito proposes a personal reflection on language and the image, a...
Daïchi Saito, Moving the Sleeping Images of Things Towards the Light, Daïchi Saito offers a personal reflection on language and image. Saito doesn't write at an expert to theorize practice, but instead...
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across & beyond - a transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts,...
across & beyond. ed. by Ryan Bishop, Kristoffer Gansing, Jussi Parikka, Elvia Wilk, Sternberg Press, 2017. a transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and InstitutionsContributions...
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