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Erling Kagge - The book expands the concepts of silence and noise beyond...
Erling Kagge, Silence: In the Age of Noise, Pantheon, 2017. What is silence?Where can it be found?Why is it now more important than ever?In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days...
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THE COLLECTION_ Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard - one big step...
THE COLLECTION_ Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, Ed. by Tom Leger & Riley MacLeod, Topside Press, 2012.A dynamic composite of rising stars, The Collection represents the depth and range...
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Augusto Abelaira - a masterfully constructed narrative device not only...
Augusto Abelaira, O Bosque Harmonioso [The Harmonious Forest],Lisboa, O Jornal, 1982.licobodiscivacacotopelinamgdevogradivenliptordugalsenturfgalipntocsersagalmutpvarNo, this is not some...
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Nathanaël - From out of agile and Celinian ellipses, Nathalie Stephens...
Nathanaël, Feder, Night Boat, 2016. A singularly adventurous contribution to the worlds of mystery fiction, philosophy, and photography With an English as ebullient as it is macabre, Nathanaël’s novel...
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Thure Erik Lund - His dream novel, he told me, was a novel that starts here...
Thure Erik Lund, Myrbråtenfortellingene Let’s talk about Norwegian literature. No, we’re not going to talk about Karl Ove Knausgaard; we’re going to quote him:You wouldn’t have read him, there’s a...
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Bad Kid Catullus - his famously sexy, savage, tender and scurrilous poems...
Bad Kid Catullus, Ed. by Jon Stone and Kirsten Irving, Sidekick Books, 2017.http://sidekickbooks.com/booklab/books/bad-kid-catullus/Gaius Valerius Catullus was Ancient Rome’s most notorious...
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Ernst Herbeck - The space between a list of plain facts and the nonsense by...
Ernst Herbeck, Everyone Has a Mouth, Trans. by Gary Sullivan, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012."This is a poetry that eludes rhetoric and the loud color of sky and sea."—The Los Angeles ReviewMy Last...
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Steven Seidenberg - a dramatic intensification of Seidenberg’s career-long...
Steven Seidenberg, Situ. Black Sun Lit, 2018.www.sjseidenberg.com/Behold: a body, mind, and voice situated in place, in time and space—moving, moved, and immovable. Steven Seidenberg’s SITU is a...
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Futures and Fictions - In what ways could we imagine a world different from...
Futures and Fictions, Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed, Simon O’Sullivan, Eds., Repeater, 2017.read it at Google BooksIn what ways could we imagine a world different from the one in which we currently...
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Wallace Markfield tells his tale with high hilarity and a savage empathy from...
Wallace Markfield, Teitlebaum's Window, Dalkey Archive Press, 1999. [1970.] Welcome to Brighton Beach of the 1930s and early '40s as filtered through Simon Sloan, from youth to would-be...
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Luis Sagasti - How do we even begin to narrate the history of the world?...
Luis Sagasti, Fireflies, Trans. by Fionn Petch, Charco Press, 2018.How do we even begin to narrate the history of the world? Where do we start, and where do we end? Fireflies is Sagasti’s bold and...
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Teolinda Gersão - a story that leads readers down multiple paths, through...
Teolinda Gersão, City of Ulysses, Trans. by Jethro Soutar and Annie McDermott, Dalkey Archive Press, 2017.excerptA man and a woman meet in Lisbon and fall in love. City of Ulysses is their story, and...
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J. V. Foix was instrumental in introducing the European avant-garde movements...
J. V. Foix, When I Sleep Then I See Clearly, Trans. by David H. Rosenthal, Persea Books, 1989.When I sleep, then I see clearlyTo Joana GivanelWhen it rains I dance alone Dressed in algae, gold, and...
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Esther Kinsky - Written in language that is as precise as it is limpid,...
Esther Kinsky, River, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018.Esther Kinsky's RIVER is a novel that follows a young woman's memories of her past through reminiscences brought about by her walks alongside the...
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Leon Forrest - Fabulous, wildly comic, and Ulysses-like. a huge oratorio of...
Leon Forrest, The Bloodworth Orphans, University Of Chicago Press, 2001.Leon Forrest, acclaimed author of Divine Days, uses a remarkable verbal intensity to evoke human tragedy, injustice, and...
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Ramón Pérez de Ayala - what's weird about this one is that it doesn't read...
Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Belarmino and Apolonio, Trans. by Murray Baumgarten and Gabriel Berns, University of California Press, 1971. [1921.]Belarmino and Apolonio (1921) marks the beginning of the stage...
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The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe - a gold-mine of information and a...
The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe, Ed. by Peter de Voogd and John Neubauer,Bloomsbury Academic, 2008.read it at Google BooksThe intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers in...
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Kenneth Patchen's work and ideas regarding the role of artists paralleled...
Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight, New Directions, 1961. (+ 2017.) Kenneth Patchen sets off on an allegorical journey of his own in which the far boundaries of love and...
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Matthew Remski - Half cartoon and half ritual, Silver asks: Does photography...
Matthew Remski, Silver, Insomniac Press, 1998.matthewremski.com/wordpress/books/fiction/Matthew Remski's second novel, Silver, is an absurdist eulogy for the 20th century with a cast of thousands,...
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Lawrence Sutin - Spanning over two centuries, this inventive novel follows...
Lawrence Sutin, When to Go into the Water, Sarabande Books, 2009.This short novel, interlaced with vintage postcard images, details in small chapters the life of Hector de Saint-Aureole, the author of...
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