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Hilda Mundy - over the course of seventy prose poems, inspired by...
Hilda Mundy, Pyrotechnics: A Spineless Essay of Ultraist Literature, Trans. by Jessica Sequeira, We Heard You Like Books, 2017. In Pyrotechnics: A spineless essay of Ultraist literature (1936), over...
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Arnaldo Calveyra - »Letters that seems to be written as if by a tree, so much...
Arnaldo Calveyra, Letters So That Happiness, Trans. by Elizabeth Zuba, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018.Argentine poet Arnaldo Calveyra’s first book of poetry, Letters So That Happiness (Cartas para qe la...
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Karol Irzykowski - Pałuba (1903; “The Hag”) was a bold experiment antedating...
Karol Irzykowski, Pałuba, 1903.One of the most eccentric figures of the Polish Neoromantic literary world (he described himself as the first Polish Decadent) and scorned by the reading public during...
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Víctor Català [Caterina Albert i Parads] - this work undoubtedly constitutes...
Víctor Català, Solitude, Trans. by David H. Rosenthal, Readers International, 1992. [1905.]Beautiful, industrious, and intelligent Camilla is taken to an isolated hermitage in the Pyrenees by her lazy...
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Julián Herbert, known previously mostly as a poet, is now — with this playful...
Julián Herbert, Tomb Song: A Novel, Trans. by Christina MacSweeney,Graywolf Press, 2018.excerptexcerpt 2excerpt 3An incandescent new voice from Mexico, for readers of Ben Lerner and Rachel CuskSitting...
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Michael Giacometti - In each story, Giacometti inhabits a different voice,...
Michael Giacometti, My Life & Other Fictions: A collection of short stories and why they were written, Spineless Wonders Publishing, 2017.When seminal author Jorge Luis Borges observed that ‘the...
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Jeet Thayil catapults you straight into the gloriously bacchanal universe of...
Jeet Thayil, The Book of Chocolate Saints, Faber & Faber, 2018.excerptThe Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or...
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Joe Frank - Reading radio dramatist Frank's vivid collection of eight short...
Joe Frank, The Queen of Puerto Rico: And Other Stories, William Morrow & Co., 1993.http://www.joefrank.comA debut short fiction collection by the popular radio dramatist features a surrealistic...
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MLA Chernoff - a fun, volatile compilation of “pomes” inspired by internet...
MLA Chernoff, Delet This, Hybrid Heaven, 2018.MLA Chernoff's debut collection, delet this, is a fun, volatile and disarming exhibition of satire, internet culture, flarf, memes, and dreams. The...
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Jesús Moncada - a fantastic compendium of Catalán history as seen through the...
Jesús Moncada, The Towpath, Trans. by Judith Willis, HarperCollins, 1995. excerptDuring the Great War, the Spanish town at the centre of this novel turned into a boom-town, due to the...
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - one of the greatest expressions ever of the...
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Narcotics: Nicotine, Alcohol, Cocaine, Peyote, Morphine, Ether + Appendices (Image to Word), Trans. by Soren gauger, Twisted Spoon Press,...
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Laura Lindstedt plays with genres from essay to poetry, transitioning from...
Laura Lindstedt, Oneiron, Trans. by Owen Witesman, Oneworld, 2018.Seven women meet in a white, undefined space seconds after their deaths. Time, as we understand it, has ceased to exist, and all bodily...
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Veronika Simoniti - A linguistic experimentalist in the tradition of Julio...
Veronika Simoniti, Mere Chances,Trans. by Nada Groselj, Dalkey Archive Press, 2018.Mere Chances collects some of Veronika Simoniti's most singular and strange stories. A linguistic experimentalist in...
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Natasha Stagg - The new world is scary, mobile, and facile. Hysterical,...
Natasha Stagg, Surveys: A Novel, Semiotext(e), 2016.natashastagg.com/Wryly mirroring the classic, female coming-of-age narrative, Natasha Stagg's debut traces a few months in the life of Colleen, a...
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Jean Louis Schefer - The Ordinary Man of Cinema signaled a shift from the...
Jean Louis Schefer, The Ordinary Man of Cinema, Max Cavitch, Noura Wedell and Paul Grant, Semiotext(e), 2016.The first English translation of a foundational work in cinema studies and the philosophy...
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Eimar O'Duffy - Set in a future world devastated by the development of...
Eimar O'Duffy, King Goshawk and the Birds, Dalkey Archive Press, 2017.[1926.]Originally published in 1926, King Goshawk and the Birds is the first installment of O’Duffy’s Cuanduine trilogy, which also...
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Jeanne Graff - Vzszhhzz captures the glancing intersections of a loose group...
Jeanne Graff, Vzszhhzz, Semiotext(e), 2018.Find herean extractexcerpt (3:am)A novel that captures the glancing intersections of a loose group of artists and lawyers, restaurateurs, philosophers,...
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Brinsley MacNamara [John Weldon] - Its meta-narrative nature prefigures the...
Brinsley MacNamara, The Various Lives of Marcus Igoe, Dufour Editions, 1996. [1929.] Irish man of letters MacNamara is peraps best known for his brilliantly perceptive satire, The...
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Enrique Larreta earned renown as a writer with La gloria de don Ramiro, one...
Enrique Larreta,The Glory Of Don Ramiro: A Life in the Times of Philip II,1908.read/download it hereEnrique Larreta, in full Enrique Rodríguez Larreta, (born March 4, 1875, Buenos Aires, Argentina—died...
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Walter Willis and Bob Shaw - science fiction fan fiction. It is an allegory...
Walter Willis and Bob Shaw, The Enchanted Duplicator, fanzine, 1954.Jophan and his Shield of UmorIntroductionThe Enchanted Duplicator was first published in February 1954. It was written as a...
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