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J.P. McEvoy published six ingenious novels that unfold solely by way of...
J. P. McEvoy, Slams of Life: With Malice for All, and Charity Toward None, download it hereThe 1920s saw a surge in experimentation with the form of the novel. In Ulysses (1922), James Joyce used a...
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Lost Signals - A tome of horror fiction featuring radio waves, numbers...
Lost Signals, Ed. by Max Booth III & Lori Michelle.Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, 2016.What's that sound? Do you feel it? The signals are already inside you. You never even had a chance. A...
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Eley Williams - This is writing that centres on the weird, tender intricacies...
Eley Williams, Attrib. and other stories, Influx Press, 2016.This debut collection from Eley Williams centres upon the difficulties of communication and the way in which one’s thoughts — absurd,...
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Lewis Freedman - Great wealth passively corrects its crime by making pubic...
Lewis Freedman, Residual Synonyms for the Name of God, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016.In classical rabbinic literature the unpronounceable name of God produces and sacralizes a host of synonyms around what...
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Adam Pendleton - Reframed, reconditioned, and perpetually reoccurring, found...
Adam Pendleton, Becoming Imperceptible, Siglio, 2016. Reframed, reconditioned, and perpetually reoccurring, found images have served as Adam Pendleton’s primary tools and source material throughout his...
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Frances Stark - Her writing is not specifically sited in visual art, but is...
Frances Stark,Collected Writing: 1993–2003, Book Works, 2003.francesstark.com Collected Writing: 1993–2003 brings together many of Frances Stark’s texts for the first time, including essays on artists...
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Albert A. Harrison - Cosmic evolution, space exploration, the search for...
Albert A. Harrison, Starstruck: Cosmic Visions in Science, Religion and Folklore, Berghahn Books, 2007. read it at Google BooksWe live in an era of exploding scientific knowledge about the...
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Charlie Fox - Surreal and provocative, This Young Monster is both a poignant...
Charlie Fox, This Young Monster, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017.This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their...
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Stephen Moles posits that birds are moral receptacles, collecting the most...
Stephen Moles, The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable: Or Beneath the Burnt Umbrella, Sagging Meniscus Press, 2016.www.thedeathofstephenmoles.com/Stephen Moles’ remarkable novel The Most Wretched Thing...
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Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold - an initiate’s account of Palo Mayombe, much...
Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold, Palo Mayombe: The Garden of Blood & Bones, Scarlet Imprint / Bibliothèque Rouge, 2016.Palo Mayombe: The Garden of Blood and Bones is an initiate’s account of this much...
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Jon Padgett - With themes reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti, and...
Jon Padgett, The Secret of Ventriloquism, Dunhams Manor Press, 2016.Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazine, heralds the arrival of a...
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Thomas Fink - poems based on the the Yiddish-English hybrid speech: Russia’s...
Thomas Fink, Yinglish Strophes 1-19, Truck Books, 2009. download Yinglish Strophes 1-19 represents the first nineteen poems in a series based on the the...
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Prabda Yoon - In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on pop culture,...
Prabda Yoon, The Sad Part Was, Trans. by Mui Poopoksakul,Tilted Axis Press, 2017.Includes the stories: Pen in ParenthesesEi PloangThe Disappearance of a She-Vampire in PattayaWinner of a PEN...
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Ida Börjel - At once practical handbook, philosophical inquiry, and series of...
Ida Börjel, Miximum Ca' Canny the Sabotage Manuals, Trans. by Jennifer Hayashida, Commune Editions, 2016.excerpt (pdf)"One of the most important poets in Scandinavia."—Kamilla LöfströmAt once practical...
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Thomas McGonigle - a rollicking pub-crawl through multi-sexual contemporary...
Thomas McGonigle, St. Patrick's Day: another day in Dublin, University of Notre Dame Press, 2016.On Saint Patrick's Day, an Irish American writer visiting Dublin takes a day trip around the city and...
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Sophia Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in...
Sophia Roosth, Synthetic: How Life Got Made, University of Chicago Press, 2017. In the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology...
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Giorgio De Maria - a cult novel, an unholy masterwork of the macabre, more...
Giorgio De Maria, The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel, Trans. by Ramon Glazov, Liveright, 2017) [1970.]Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes...
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Mallory Whitten - In these poems & stories—pleasantly varied in style, form,...
Mallory Whitten, God Box, Monster House Press, 2017.Excerpts: Driveway (Monster House Press)Nine Poems (Muumuu House)Dream (Dark Fucking Wizard)Service Industry (NY Tyrant)Hawaii Poems (Monster House...
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Lionel Ziprin - For decades, Mr. Ziprin, a self-created planet, exerted a...
Lionel Ziprin, Songs for Schizoid Siblings, The Song Cave, 2017. www.dreamtheend.com/?cat=277Harry Smith, John Zorn, Jordan Belson, Thelonious Monk, Bob Dylan, Robert Frank, Bruce Conner - in fact an...
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Mitch Sisskind opens the door to a world of another time, in an unusual mix...
Mitch Sisskind, Do Not Be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight, The Song Cave, 2017.excerptexcerpt 2Admired by Donald Barthelme and Lydia Davis, Mitch Sisskind is a professional satirist whose stories...
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