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Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk - a magical poetry instrument/spellbook for...
Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk, Abra, 1913 Press,2016.www.a-b-r-a.com/Abra is a magical poetry instrument/spellbook for iOS. In this free app, touch words and watch them shift under your fingers. Cast...
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João Gilberto Noll - This metaphysical mystery resembles the films of David...
João Gilberto Noll, Atlantic Hotel, Trans. by Adam Morris, Two Lines Press, 2017.excerptexcerpt 2Just who is the narrator of João Gilberto Noll’s dark and mysterious Atlantic Hotel? First he books a...
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Susan Cokal - Is a picaresque narrative acceptable for exploring the moral...
Susann Cokal, Breath and Bones, Unbridled Books, 2006.In 1884, Famke Summerfugl is ousted from her convent in Denmark for ... sensuousness and pulled from servitude by a second-rate painter named...
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Meredith Quartermain - Who is writing whom, these stories ask in their musing...
Meredith Quartermain, I, Bartleby, Talonbooks, 2015. Read the first story from this book on Meta-Talon.excerptAn InterviewAn Interview with Meredith Quartermain, Part 1An Interview with Meredith...
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Elisabeth Sheffield - A psychological and linguistic exploration of obsession...
Elisabeth Sheffield, Fort Da: A Report, FC2, 2009.read it at Google BooksA psychological and linguistic exploration of obsession and illicit love.While working at a sleep lab in northern Germany,...
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Erin Pringle - These are disturbing stories. A lost child finds sanctuary...
Erin Pringle,The Floating Order, Two Ravens Press, 2009.www.erinpringle.com/ "A collection of rather disturbing short stories. 'Enjoyed' really wouldn't be the right word. 'Impressed' would be nearer...
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Mark Henshaw - I feel like a character in a novel written by myself who runs...
Mark Henshaw, Out of the Line of Fire, Text Publishing, 2016.[1988.]I felt as though I was walking on a precariously thin, transparent laminate between the mirror image of two separate worlds. Any...
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Marian Engel - a mousy, timid librarian is summoned to a remote Canadian...
Marian Engel, Bear, 1976.The winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction,Marian Engel’s most famous – and most controversial – novel tells the unforgettable story of a woman transformed...
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Shirley Hazzard - 'And a sudden stripe of light split earth from sky.'...
Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus, 1980.The masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016), The Transit of Venus won the National Book Critic's Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book...
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Sophie Seita is one of a handful of brilliant ‘new’ poets and...
Sophie Seita, Meat, Little Red Leaves, 2015.excerpt from MeatIn Sophie Seita’s Meat, the witty rigors of the dainty butcher and are butchered (the product of femininity both cleaver and carcass...
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Wladimir Velminski wafts us to the wilder shores of Soviet experimentation:...
Wladimir Velminski, Homo Sovieticus: Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny, Trans. by Erik Butler,MIT, 2017In October 1989, as the Cold War was ending and the Berlin Wall about to crumble,...
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Mark Horvath - Night seeps into daylight, unleashing blood-thirsty...
Mark Horvath, Darkening Places: Essays on Excess,Trans. by Adam Lovasz, Voidfrontpress, 2017. //Night seeps into daylight, unleashing blood-thirsty haecceities. Instead of merely lacerating its...
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Diego Zúñiga - The fractured narrative switches from page to page between...
Diego Zúñiga, Camanchaca, Translated by Megan McDowell,Coffee House Press, 2017.excerptA long drive across Chile's Atacama desert, traversing "the worn-out puzzle" of a broken family--a young man's...
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Jacq Firmin Vogelaar - had it been translated into English, we might now be...
Jacq Firmin Vogelaar, Raadsels van het rund (Enigmas of the Cow)The 1970s were the miraculous decade of American literary postmodernism when some of the wildest and most daring novels were published:...
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Gabriela Torres Olivares - The words are wounds and portals, and her...
Gabriela Torres Olivares, Enfermario, Trans. by Jennifer Donovan, Les Figues Press, 2017. The stories that comprise Gabriela Torres Olivares’ Enfermario explore the ontology of difference through the...
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Wojciech Nowicki - There is no future or past, but rather chains of ideas and...
Wojciech Nowicki,Salki,Trans. by Jan Pytalski, Open Letter, 2017.Lying in bed in Gotland after a writer’s conference, thinking about his compulsive desire to travel—and the uncomfortable tensions this...
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Hugo de Garis - this century’s global politics will be dominated by the...
Hugo de Garis, The Artilect War: Cosmists Vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines, Etc Pubns, 2005.This book’s main idea is...
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Aramaki Yoshio - part post-apocalyptic world, part faux-religious tract, and...
Aramaki Yoshio, The Sacred Era,Trans. by Baryon Tensor Posadas, Minnesota UP, 2017.A brilliant work of speculative fiction, blending science and metaphysics, by a Japanese master of the 1970s New Wave...
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Virgilio Piñera - Laws of gravity are abrogated in this short fiction by a...
Virgilio Piñera, Cold Tales, Eridanos Library, 1988. Laws of gravity are abrogated in this short fiction by a Cuban litterateur. Men swim on dry land, death does not relieve the insomniac of...
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Roberto Arlt - Brutal, uncouth, caustic, and brilliantly colored, The Seven...
Roberto Arlt, The Seven Madmen, Trans. by Nick Caistor. NYRB Classics, 2016.A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature and a crucial work for Julio Cortázar, The Seven Madmen begins when its...
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