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Marc Behm - in many ways, a silly and in parts disturbing novel. But there's...
Marc Behm, Eye of the Beholder,Arcadia Books; New ed., 2017.The Eye of the Beholder is a cult classic that inspired both French and English film adaptations.Joanna Eris has a bad habit of marrying men...
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Take Six: Six Portuguese Women Writers - their subject matter ranges from...
Take Six: Six Portuguese Women Writers, Ed. and trans. by Margaret Jull Costa, Dedalus, 2018. Take Six is a celebration of six remarkable Portuguese women writers: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen,...
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Patrick Lundborg
Patrick Lundborg, Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way Of Life, Independently published, 2012. previewA groundbreaking book from the author of the...
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Sam Mills - 'The Quiddity of Will Self' is perhaps flawed, but it’s also a...
Sam Mills, The Quiddity of Will Self, Corsair,2012.The ghost of a beautiful young woman, Sylvie, hovers outside the window of Will Self's study. She is seeking to influence his latest novel, before she...
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Victor Rodríguez Núñez elevates the mysticism and mystery of poetry through...
Victor Rodríguez Núñez, tasks, Trans. by Katherine M. Hedeen,co-im-press, 2016.Víctor Rodríguez Núñez's tasks [tareas] is an award-winning poetry collection, the recipient of Spain's Rincón de la...
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Marosa di Giorgio transforms everything it touches—a lily, a head, a hare, a...
Marosa di Giorgio, I Remember Nightfall, Trans. by Jeannine Marie Pitas, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017.EXCERPTEXCERPT 2EXCERPT 3from Clavel y tenebrario (Carnation and Tenebrae Candle, 1979)I Remember...
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David Luke synthesizes scientific research on extraordinary experience...
David Luke, Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience, Muswell Hill Press, 2017.Synthesizes scientific research on extraordinary experience occurring under the influence of...
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The Anthology of Non-Existent Books - If this anthology did not exist,...
The Anthology of Non-Existent Books, Compiled by Kiwa Kujundaja, Paranoia, 2014./http://www.paranoia.ee/0ra/The Anthology consists of seventeen original bilangual Estonian-English experimental booklets...
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Taavi Novek - a meditation on being human, metahuman and animal. nechers is a...
Taavi Novek, Nechers, Paranoia,2016.a meditation on being human, metahuman and animal. nechers is a bold look at the main subjects of our time, over-fishing, pollution, fast food, digital...
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Rachael Mead - The book offers us an embodied sense of secular ritual in its...
Rachael Mead, The Flaw in the Pattern, UWAP Poetry, 2018.Book extractHighly Commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript**** "This is an alive, refreshing and, quite...
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Johanna Hedva - takes the ferocious compulsion to escape (from capitalism,...
Johanna Hedva, On Hell, Sator Press, 2018.http://onhell.website/http://johannahedva.com/On Hell transcribes a body broken by American empire, that of ex-con Rafael Luis Estrada Requena, hacking itself...
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Joseph Battell - a dialogue between a sixteen-year-old girl, Ellen, and a...
Joseph Battell, Ellen, Or the Whisperings of an Old Pine, 1903.read it hereJoseph Battell’s Ellen, Or the Whisperings of an Old Pine (1903, second edition 1908) is a book I learned about from the...
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Matei Calinescu - A literary jewel of eccentricity seen as an ethical...
Matei Calinescu, The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter, Trans. by Adriana Calinescu and Breon Mitchell, NYRB Classics, 2018. [1969.]Ugly, unkempt, a haunter of low dives who begs for a living...
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Helene Sommer - exellent collection of stories compiled over a few years. The...
Helene Sommer, I was (t)here.,UBI BALTO, Lithuania, 2009. www.helenesommer.net/The artist book I was (t)here. is a collection of stories compiled over a few years. The sources are newspapers, books,...
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Mario Praz - In form, it is a description, room by room, object by object, of...
Mario Praz, The House of Life, Trans. by Angus Davidson, David R Godine; Reprint, 2010.Mario Praz (1896 1982) was among the great scholar / critics of the last century. His studies of iconography and...
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The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu [aka KLF] - Everything is slippery and...
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, 2023: a trilogy, faber and faber, 2017.Well we're back again,They never kicked us out,twenty thousand years of SHOUT SHOUT SHOUTDown through the epochs and out across...
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Mark Manning [Zodiac Mindwarp] - Funny, brutal and above all rigorously...
Mark Manning, Crucify Me Again, Codex Books, 2000.Deliberately ignoring the conventions of autobiography, Mark Manning, the artist formerly known as Zodiac Mindwarp, presents a vivid series of...
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Ludwig Hohl manages to establish an enigmatic simplicity where poetry and...
Ludwig Hohl, Ascent, Trans. by Donna Stonecipher, Black Square Editions, 2012.Two young men with very different personalities set out to climb a mountain. Ull, decisive and competent, has his eye on...
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Shaun Usher - Lists of Note is a constantly surprising A-Z of what makes us...
Shaun Usher, Lists of Note, Canongate Unbound, 2014.http://www.listsofnote.com/Humans have been making lists for even longer than they've been writing letters. They are the shorthand for what really...
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Wolfgang Hildesheimer - Plagued by incessant rumination, the narrator’s...
Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Tynset, Trans. by Jeffrey Castle, Dalkey Archive Press, 2016.Tynset takes place during a sleepless night, but as the work unfolds it becomes apparent that the circumstances of...
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