Ignacio Matte Blanco hypothesized the nature of unconscious logic, as opposed...
Ignacio Matte Blanco, The Unconscious as Infinite Sets: An Essay in Bi-logic, Routledge, 1981.read it at google BooksA systematic effort to rethink Freud's theory of the unconscious, aiming to separate...
View ArticleWill Bernardara Jr - Simultaneously a novella of stunning and sudden...
Will Bernardara Jr, America, Void Front Press, 2018.Simultaneously a novella of stunning and sudden hyperviolence, an all-too-brief examination of cultural, pharmacological, and emotional dis-ease and...
View ArticlePhilip Best charts the shattered psychic landscape of the early 21st century...
Philip Best, Alien Existence,Infinity Land Press, 2016.Alien Existence is a disquieting selection of original artworks and all-new text by Philip Best. Amplifying the dark themes of recent Consumer...
View ArticleCarlos de Oliveira - If upon the first reading I was sure that Finisterra was...
Carlos de Oliveira, Finisterra,Carlos de Oliveira’s brief novel is a thing of exceptional, exquisite beauty. It’s one of the rare cases when the expression “to paint with words” is not just a glib...
View ArticleShaun Prescott - 'The Town' offers an experience of profound estrangement,...
Shaun Prescott, The Town, Faber & Faber, 2018.But there had been a war. Everyone was certain of it, though it had been a long time since.This is Australia: an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of...
View ArticleSher Doruff - the first in a series of novellas emerging from a writing...
Sher Doruff, Last Year at Betty and Bob's: A Novelty, Open Humanities Press, 2017.download hereLast Year at Betty and Bob’s: A Novelty is the first in a series of novellas emerging from a writing...
View ArticlePaolo Volponi - He splits the language the way scientists split the atom to...
Paolo Volponi, The Worldwide Machine: a novel, Grossman Publishers, 1967.The essay-novel, or the novel of introspection or symbolic action, has only recently caught on in Italy. Moravia is sexually...
View ArticleAbel Posse - With a crew of prostitutes, representatives of multinationals,...
Abel Posse, Dogs of Paradise, Trans. by Margaret Sayers Peden, Trafalgar Square, 1992.log in and borrowBrilliant, profound and startlingly comic, here is a transformation of the old stories about the...
View ArticleMichael Krüger - world-weary characters seek—and only temporarily find—solace...
Michael Krüger, The God Behind the Window, Trans. by Karen Leeder and Peter Thompson, University of Chicago Press, 2018.The thirteen stories of Michael Krüger’s The God behind the Window capture the...
View ArticleTeodor Parnicki uses novel and surprising literary structures: interview (or...
Teodor Parnicki, Ostatnia powieść (The Last Novel)In world literature there is a special category: the Great Unfinished Novel. It comprises such early-20th century classics as Robert Musil’s The Man...
View ArticleJonathan Basile - an in-depth exploration of one of literature’s greatest...
Jonathan Basile, Tar for Mortar: "The Library of Babel" and the Dream of Totality, Punctum Books, 2018.Read an Excerpt from Tar for Mortar Here!Tar for Mortar offers an in-depth exploration of one of...
View ArticleLisa Adkins - Speculative time is a time in which pasts, presents, and...
Lisa Adkins, The Time of Money, Stanford UP, 2018.Speculation is often associated with financial practices, but The Time of Money makes the case that it not be restricted to the financial sphere. It...
View ArticleAnne Serre - Each sentence evokes a dream logic both languid and circuitous...
Anne Serre, The Governesses, Trans. by Mark Hutchinson, New Directions, 2018.excerpt‘In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the...
View ArticleDonald Newlove - story of alcoholic Siamese twins who play jazz in trad bands...
Donald Newlove, Sweet Adversity, Avon Books, 1978.Sweet Adversity is easily one of the most ambitious American novels of the last fifty years. And if you weren’t reading new American fiction back in...
View ArticleHarvey Thomlinson - an experimental novel set in a depressed factory town in...
Harvey Thomlinson, The Strike, Lucid Play Publishing,2018.Ground breaking and important…should become one of the most analyzed techniques in literary fiction. -- Experimental WritingThis unconventional...
View ArticleExperimental Literature: A Collection of Statements - 34 writers and critics...
Experimental Literature: A Collection of Statements, Jeffrey R Di Leo and Warren Motte, Editors. JEF Books, 2018.In EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE: A COLLECTION OF STATEMENTS thirty-four writers and critics...
View ArticleChristina Milletti - Watch out what you wish for: in these stories, tall...
Christina Milletti, The Religious and Other Fictions, Carnegie Mellon, 2006.Keen, tender, at times perverse, The Religious and Other Fictions ventures into the uncanny zones of the imagination and...
View ArticleGil Orlovitz - "After struggling with its gimmicks of style... its elaborate...
Gil Orlovitz, What Are They All Waiting For? Stories, Poems & Essays: 1944-1962. Tough Poets Press, 2018.What Are They All Waiting For? is an anthology of long out-of-print works by...
View ArticleChristopher Norris - Hunchback ‘88 is a book... or a novel mirror of haunted...
Christopher Norris, Hunchback ‘88, Permanent Sleep Press, 2018.steakmtn.com/Hunchback-88Hunchback ‘88 is a book... or a novel mirror of haunted house ferox... or a puzzle in no rush to be solved... or...
View ArticleMartin Riker - When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the...
Martin Riker, Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return, Coffee House Press, 2018. www.martinriker.com/excerptWhen Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him,...
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