John Eidswick - The peaceful life of 17th century New England Puritan farmer...
John Eidswick, The Language of Bears, Amazon Digital Services LLC, 2017. free preview The peaceful life of 17th century New England Puritan farmer Adam Green is ripped apart when he finds a television...
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George Choundas, The Making Sense of Things, FC2, 2018.Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction PrizeA grand tour of the edges of our lives, where glory and significance riot against the...
View ArticleSarah Blackman - In the town, to truly see, one had to decipher the logic by...
Sarah Blackman, Hex, Fiction Collective 2, 2016.read it at Google Booksread it onlineThe debut novel by Sarah Blackman (award-winning author of Mother Box and Other Tales) Hex explores the ways one...
View ArticlePatrick Lawler's novel is about resonance, echoes, and naming; about hiding...
Patrick Lawler, Rescuers Of Skydivers Search Among The Clouds, Fiction Collective 2, 2012.excerptread it at Google BooksWinner of the 2013 CNY Book Award for Fiction.When you step inside Patrick...
View ArticleDarius James - Every racial stereotype about black people comes to...
Darius James, Negrophobia: An Urban Parable: A Novel, Citadel Press, 1992. After Bubbles Brasil, a white teenager, is placed under a voodoo spell, she enters a world populated by every...
View ArticleJosé Eustasio Rivera's seminal novel about the geographical vastness and...
José Eustasio Rivera, The Vortex: A Novel, Trans. by John Charles Chasteen, Duke University Press Books, 2018. [1924.]read it at Google BooksPublished in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of...
View ArticleMikhail Gigolashvili - book about the strange time when Ivan the Terrible...
Mikhail Gigolashvili, The Secret Year (Тайный год), 2017.I already started this book about the strange time when Ivan the Terrible left both the throne and Moscow for a while... the novel’s cover...
View ArticleJorge Barón Biza - Only now discovered in English, a modern Argentinian...
Jorge Barón Biza, The Desert and Its Seed, Trans. byCamilo Ramirez, New Directions, 2018.read it at Google BooksAn undiscovered modern Argentinian classic, based on the tragic lives of the renowned...
View ArticleEugene Batchelder - One of the maddest books ever. A sea-serpent wrecks a...
Eugene Batchelder, A Romance Of The Sea-serpent, Or, The Ichthyosaurus, 1850. downloadMaddest book I ever read. A sea-serpent wrecks a ship, eats the passengers and some passing...
View ArticleDavid McLean & Jennifer Chesler - Love hate murder sex – the boiling down of...
David McLean & Jennifer Chesler, The Philosophy of Extremism, lulu.com, 2017.twitter.com/david_c_mcleandavidcmclean.wordpress.com/This book details the philosophy of extremism. Chesler developed...
View ArticleFrancis Ponge - Called the “poet of things,” Ponge often centers his poems...
Francis Ponge, Nioque of the Early-Spring, Trans. by Jonathan Larson, The Song Cave, 2018.excerptexcerptexcerptOn the 50th anniversary of its publication,The Song Cave is honored to publish the first...
View ArticleAllan Stoekl - The work of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Raymond...
Allan Stoekl, Politics,Writing, Mutilation: The Cases of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris, and Ponge, University Of Minnesota Press, 1985.read it at Google BooksPolitics, Writing, Mutilation was...
View ArticleMarcus Malte - a fantastic novel chiseled by a writer whose style is...
Marcus Malte, The Boy. (2016) Not available in English. Original French title:Le garçon.Remember, back in September, when I introduced you to the Rentrée littéraire and I told you I’d visited a...
View ArticleFernando Iwasaki - the book contains “chilling and wrenching stories of...
Fernando Iwasaki, Grave Goods,Trans. by Steven J. Stewart, Blood Bound Books, 2014.excerptThe RitualTo Troy, HelenNobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has said Fernando Iwasaki’s work “delights and...
View ArticleEugene Vodolazkin - the captain told of water that bathed the atmosphere and...
Eugene Vodolazkin, The Aviator, Trans. by Lisa Hayden, Oneworld Publications, 2018.From award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory, love and loss spanning...
View ArticleJoAnna Novak's entrancing, disturbing and beautiful "cortége" is part hellish...
JoAnna Novak, Noirmania, Inside the Castle, 2018.excerptwww.joannanovak.comIn taut percussive muscular language JoAnna Novak wields a fierce hammer. Here are tuff poems cast in a bright element in the...
View ArticleNikos Gabriel Pentzikis - Parnassian picture-perfect story of a conjugal...
Nikos Gabriel Pentzikis, The Novel of Mrs Ersi, 1966.When asked about the great literary events that happened in 1922, you will immediately come up with the most renowned products of the annus...
View ArticleYuri Buida - A remote, police-run settlement called the Ninth Siding exists...
Yuri Buida, The Prussian Bride, Trans. by Oliver Ready, Dedalus Books, 2015'One day I found out that my little native town used to be called not Znamensk but Wehlau. Germans had lived here. This had...
View ArticleValentinas Klimašauskas - a conceptual adventure novel, a theme park where...
Valentinas Klimašauskas, Alphavilnius: A Strange Adventure of Arnold Sputnik, The Starling Bureau, 2008.selectedletters.lt/This novel within a novel begins when an aspiring author suffering from...
View ArticleBabak Lakghomi - In the space of a hundred pages, Lakghomi wroughts a unique...
Babak Lakghomi, Floating Notes, Tyrant Books, 2018.Floating Notes is a novella of mystery, murder, intrigue, and love. In the space of a hundred pages, Lakghomi wroughts a unique narrator, a god in a...
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