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Svein Jarvoll - a voyage through a realm of the dead which isn’t situated in...
Svein Jarvoll, En Australiareise (A Journey to Australia), 1988.Not long ago, I wrote a brief postabout the Norwegian writer Thure Erik Lund and his mind-boggling tetralogy Myrbråtenfortellingene. As...
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Edmund Trelawny Backhouse - perhaps quite the maddest book on China ever...
Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, Décadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, Earnshaw Books, 2011. In 1898. a young Englishman walked into a homosexual brothel in Peking...
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Daniel A. Hoyt - Utilizing an innovative mashup of genres, ranging from pulp...
Daniel A. Hoyt, This Book Is Not for You, Dzanc Books, 2017.Winner of the inaugural Dzanc Book Prize for FictionUtilizing an innovative mashup of genres, ranging from pulp fiction, dark comedy, and...
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Francesc Serés - an anthology of non-existent Russian writers translated into...
Francesc Serés, Russian Stories, Trans. by Anastasia Maximova and Peter Bush, MacLehose Press, 2013.read it at Google BooksDrift through outer space with a doomed cosmonaut whose engine is 'kaput!';...
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Verónica Gerber Bicecci - a playful novel which uses a conceit (in this case,...
Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Empty Set, Trans. by Christina MacSweeney, Coffee House Press, 2018. excerptRead the first pages here How do you draw an affair? A family? Can a Venn diagram show...
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Juan Luis Martínez - an interdisciplinary study of collage/assemblage art and...
Scott Weintraub, Juan Luis Martínez’s Philosophical Poetics, Bucknell University Press, 2014. read it at Google BooksJuan Luis Martínez’s Philosophical Poetics is the first English-language...
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Andrés Barba - 'Such Small Hands' is a magnificently chilling antidote to...
Andrés Barba, The Right Intention, Trans. by Lisa Dillman, Transit Books, 2018.Nothing is simple for the men and women in Andrés Barba's stories. As they go about their lives, they are each tested by a...
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Christopher Middleton - Each of the thirty-three pieces in Loose Cannons...
Christopher Middleton, Loose Cannons: Selected Prose, University of New Mexico Press, 2014.read it at Google BooksThese uncategorizable writings by a distinguished poet and translator are lively,...
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Donald Westlake - impressive novel of a man with a limited memory trying to...
Donald Westlake, Memory, Hard Case Crime, 2011.www.donaldwestlake.com/blog/THE CRIME WAS OVER IN A MINUTE –THE CONSQUENCES LASTED A LIFETIME Hospitalized after a liaison with another man’s wife ends in...
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Zachary Schomburg - Like the younger sibling of Brautigan’s In Watermelon...
Zachary Schomburg, Mammother,Featherproof Books, 2017.Read an excerptwww.zacharyschomburg.net/The people of Pie Time are suffering from God’s Finger, a mysterious plague that leaves its victims dead...
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Dav Crabes - The plot(s) shift and shutter like a roller-coaster with no...
Dav Crabes, Trafficking and Sexual December, Independently published, 2018. http://davcrabes.blogspot.hr/A collection of short stories, reinterpreted, infused with word hoard detritus,...
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Strange Behaviors - A collection of writing’s freshest and loudest voices,...
Strange Behaviors: An Anthology of Absolute Luridity,Nihilism Revised, 2018.In the land of the lurid, the weird are wonderful, and the behaviors on display are at their strangest. Welcome to Strange...
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Jeremy Gavron - The great majority of lines in this novel are sourced word...
Jeremy Gavron, Felix Culpa, Scribe, 2018.excerptWhose stories deserve to be told? And whose words should do the telling?In Felix Culpa, Jeremy Gavron conjures up a work of extraordinary literary...
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Alicia Kopf - This hybrid novel―part research notes, part fictionalised...
Alicia Kopf, Brother in Ice, Trans. by Mara Faye Lethem, And Other Stories, 2018. www.aliciakopf.net/index.php/about/alicia-kopf/“She thought that it was precisely when things get uncomfortable or...
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Andrea Lowlor - Ultimately, Lawlor has written an intoxicatingly rousing...
Andrea Lowlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Rescue Press, 2017.excerpt: Brooklyn Railexcerpt: LithubIt's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming...
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Philip Sorensen - writes to expose classification’s errors and terminate...
Philip Sorensen, Solar Trauma, Rescue Press, 2018.“Everybody / should be throwing up all of the time,” insists Philip Sorenson’s incendiary and tender second collection Solar Trauma, a book that defies...
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Baltasar Porcel - a "Mediterranean novel flooded with light and bathed in...
Baltasar Porcel, Springs and Autumns, Trans. by John L. Getman, University of Arkansas Press, 2000.read it at Google BooksSprings and Autumns is a compelling novel that chronicles, through the voices...
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James Duthie - fifty-five-year-old self-published account by a deaf Scottish...
James Duthie, I Cycled into the Arctic Circle:A Peregrination, Northern Publishers, 1951.A remarkable Fraserburgh cyclist’s 3,000 mile Arctic adventure has been celebrated in a new limited edition book...
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In Koli Jean Bofane - "In an environment tainted by lethal waves of uranium,...
In Koli Jean Bofane, Congo Inc.: Bismarck's Testament , Indiana University Press, 2018.To the sound of machine gun fire and the smell of burning flesh, award-winning author In Koli Jean Bofane leads...
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Derek Van Gieson - part fine-art book, part travelogue documenting the...
Derek Van Gieson, Enough Astronaut Blood To Last The Winter, Fantagraphics, 2016.See sample pages from this book at Wink.Derek Van Gieson’s Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter is part fine-art...
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