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Charles Platt - psychedelic porn: within 24 hours society self-destructs in a...
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David Britton – The Citizen Kane of Bad Taste. Truly radical, vicious,...
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Linor Goralik - In turn hilarious and heart-rending, her fictions and poems...
Linor Goralik, Found Life : Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, Ed. by Ainsley Morse, Maria Vassileva, and Maya Vinokour. Columbia University Press, 2017.excerptsOne of the first Russian...
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Aris Fioretos - The book situates itself in a region beyond criticism but...
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R. Zamora Linmark - Vignettes on young urban gay life that read like a poetry...
R. Zamora Linmark, Rolling the R's, Kaya Press, 1997.Author R. Zamora Linmark discusses the book's impact, 20 years after it first came out.Illuminated by pop fantasies, Donna Summer disco tracks, and...
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Micha Cárdenas - The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities
Micha Cárdenas, The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities, Ed. by Zach Blas and Wolfgang Schimacher, Atropos Press (January 12, 2012)The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing...
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Max Yeh constructs a hitherto unknown correspondence between the Chinese Ming...
Max Yeh, Stolen Oranges: Letters Between Cervantes and the Emperor of China, a Pseudo-Fiction, Kaya Press, 2017.A Chinese American historian discovers six anonymous documents in Spanish and Chinese in...
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Johannes Urzidil - these stories illustrate this very point: that no one can...
Johannes Urzidil, The Last Bell,Trans. by David Burnett,Pushkin Press, 2017.A maid who is unexpectedly left her wealthy employers' worldly possessions, when they flee the country after the Nazi...
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Carlos Maleno - At a New Year’s Eve party, a dead woman turns up alive again,...
Carlos Maleno, The Irish Sea, Trans. by Eric Kurtzke,Dalkey Archive Press, 2017.At a New Year’s Eve party, a dead woman turns up alive again, after passing through a mysterious post-mortem way station...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature, ed. by Joseph Tabbi, 2017. read it at Google BooksThe digital age has had a profound impact on literary culture, with new technologies opening up...
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Noémi Lefebvre - Schoenberg’s music, Thomas Mann’s writing and the aftermath...
Noémi Lefebvre, Blue Self-Portrait, Trans. by Sophie Lewis, Les Fugitives, 2017. excerpt (Granta)The inner monologue of a woman haunted by German composer Arnold Schoenberg's portrait,...
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Paul Stanbridge - a retelling of Don Quixote combined with a recreation of...
Paul Stanbridge, Forbidden Line, Galley Beggar Press, 2017.Read the first chapter here.FORBIDDEN LINE is a monster. It’s fat, uncompromising and gloriously eccentric. Which is as it should be – since...
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Ariana Harwicz - This is a brutal, wild book – it’s impossible to come out...
Ariana Harwicz, Die, My Love, Trans. by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff,Charco Press, 2017.excerptIn a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons – embracing exclusion yet...
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Kevin Davey’s stupendous brain-teaser of a novel offers a stream of...
Kevin Davey, Playing Possum,AAAARGH! Press, 2017.Playing Possumby Kevin Davey is an exuberant modernist reminder that T S Eliot was a fan of detective fiction, Charlie Chaplin and the music...
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Francis Spufford - a homage to the action-packed works of 18th-century...
Francis Spufford, Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York, Scribner, 2017.The spectacular first novel from acclaimed nonfiction author Francis Spufford follows the adventures of a mysterious young man in...
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David Hayden - This collection comprises a miscellany of vignettes that are...
David Hayden, Darker with the Lights on: Stories, Little Island Press, 2017.Driven ceaselessly, hypnotically forward by a powerful, deeply felt narrative force, the stories in this debut collection...
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Étienne Barilier - an imaginary correspondence between two critics, one of...
Étienne Barilier, Chinese Piano or Dueling over a Recital, Trans. by Benjamin Ivry, Bautz, Traugott, 2015. Yuja Wang: a novel heroineOne often talks about the Chinese pianist more because of her sexy...
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Constance DeJong - a forgotten classic of narrative prose innovation. Working...
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Philip Sandifer - By a wide margin the best thing anyone has written on Nick...
Philip Sandifer, Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right, Eruditorum Press, 2017.www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/author/phil/Eruditorum Press is pleased to announce the publication of...
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Mat Laporte defamiliarizes our understanding of the status quo through a...
Mat Laporte, Rats Nest, Book Thug, 2016.Mysterious and sometimes hallucinogenic, RATS NEST builds a narrative out of the complexity and dialectical uncertainty that many people feel about being alive...
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