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Judson Hamilton - celebration of the oddball, those who defy the normal way...
Judson Hamilton, Gross in Feather, Loud in Voice, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017.The incantations of tattoos, a child raised in a shopping mall, whale hearts and the whisperings of graffiti - the stories of...
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The Laboratory Planet - Alien Capitalism: Xenopolitics of the Anthropocene
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Ute Holl - We've all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like...
Ute Holl, Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics, Amsterdam University Press, 2017.We've all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like we've been in a trance. This book takes that experience...
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Déborah Danowski & Eduardo Viveiros de Castro - offer a bold overview and...
Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, The Ends of the World, Polity, 2016.excerptThe end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic; at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental...
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Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv - In future there will exist more and...
Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv, Turn Illness into a Weapon, KRRIM, 2002.During the times more remote there existed astrological maps in which the governors of your brain took names like moon...
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Asaf Schurr eloquently plays on the disquieting relationship between friends...
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James Knight - Set in a surreal totalitarian state populated by spies,...
James Knight, Mono, Cipher Books, 2015.read it at Google Booksthebirdking.com/Set in a surreal totalitarian state populated by spies, vampires, robots and chimpanzees, Mono offers the reader a...
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Naoyuki Ii - A rare work of fiction focused simply on a man of integrity,'The...
Naoyuki Ii, The Shadow of a Blue Cat, Trans. by Wayne P. Lammers, Dalkeyread it at Google BooksBusinessman Yuki Yajima is fifty-one years old. He and his wife, Asako, are the parents of two daughters:...
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The Word for World Is Still Forest - we suggest you stray far from paths cut...
The Word for World Is Still Forest, Ed. by Anna-Sophie Springer, K. Verlag, 2017.annasophiespringer.net/"Taking its title from Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1972 novella, The Word for World Is Still Forest...
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City Primeval. New York, Berlin, Prague - a personal journey through time in...
City Primeval. New York, Berlin, Prague, curated by Robert Carrithers & Louis Armand, Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2017excerpt 1 + excerpt 2 (by Louis Armand)CITY PRIMEVAL is a constellation of...
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Drew B. David - This is a work of marginality, of malarkey, as it were. Happy...
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Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski - Drawing from...
Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life, Random House, 2015.A transformative, fascinating theory—based on robust and groundbreaking...
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Artur Lundquist - "the hallucinatory memoir of a poet in a coma.". He...
Artur Lundquist, Journeys in Dream and Imagination,Trans. by Ann B. Weissmann and Annika Planck, Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1991.In 1981 the author, a well-known 75 year old Swedish poet, suffered a...
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Writers Who Love Too Much : New Narrative Writing 1977-1997 - a major...
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Olivia Locher - In Ohio it’s illegal to disrobe in front of a man’s portrait....
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Russell Persson - The Narváez expedition continues to be a failed one, of...
Russell Persson, The Way of Florida, Little Island Press, 2017.excerptwww.russellpersson.comRelentless, urgent and above all musical, this expertly crafted début novel recasts the tragic story of the...
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Brian Willems at how nonsense and sense exist together in science fiction,...
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Jean-Jacques Schuhl - Consisting of memories, mixing real and invented people...
Jean-Jacques Schuhl,Ingrid Caven: A Novel, Trans. by Michael Pye, City Lights Publishers, 2004. A novel about the life of German cabaret singer and film actress Ingrid Caven, who was...
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Holly Tavel - The 18 stories in this collection offer a kaleidoscopic view of...
Holly Tavel, The Weather in Fritz Bemelmans Park, Equus Press, 2015.hollytavelediting.com/If the past is a foreign country, childhood is a vanished civilization filled with mysterious monuments and...
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Richard Makin - Owing much to Nouveau Roman particularity and the decadence...
Richard Makin, Work,Great Works, 2003-06.We're not going to forget it, the opening screen: poultry, jack or tin and paper case, ditto section. You have to move in close to read all this, using...
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