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Uwe Tellkamp - a novel that overflows and overpowers: it is rendered in...
Uwe Tellkamp, The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country, Penguin UK; Reprint ed., 2017.ExcerptRead the first chapter hereIn derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid...
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Nélida Piñon - ''No destiny could resist the colossal excesses of this...
Nélida Piñon, The Republic of Dreams,Trans. by Helen Lane,University of Texas Press, 1991. [1984.]This mesmerizing novel, first published in 1989, marks the debut in English of one of the most...
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Kristen Roupenian - There are genre switches, shock endings, even a fairy...
Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories, Gallery/Scout Press, 2019.Cat Person (New Yorker)What It Felt Like When “Cat Person” Went ViralFrom the author of “Cat...
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Kristen Alvanson - Genre-defying fiction that accelerates “cross-cultural...
Kristen Alvanson, XYZT, Urbanomic, 2019.https://u000187904.photoshelter.com/index‘We’ve been told that there’s no difference between us and them.’ On this premise the protagonists of XYZT contrive a...
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Alan Trotter - noir novel in wild collapse: violence jostles with boredom,...
Alan Trotter, Muscle, Faber & Faber, 2019.https://alantrotter.com/excerptexcerpt (3:am)Box and _____ are a pair of toughs in ahard-boiled city ripped straight from the pulps—they go where they’re...
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Marija Peričić - inspired by the complex and bizarre story of Kafka's papers,...
Marija Peričić, The Lost Pages, Allen & Unwin, 2017.It is 1908, and Max Brod is the rising star of Prague's literary world. But when a rival appears on the scene, Max discovers how quickly he can...
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Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher - In his long poem on the desaparecidos--the...
Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher, Cadavers, Trans. by Roberto Echavarren and Donald Wellman. Cardboard House Press, 2018."In CADAVERS, his long poem on the desaparecidos--the disappeared victims of...
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Ayad B. Rahmani - Adopting Kafka as a lens to examine modern concepts in...
Ayad B. Rahmani, Kafka’s Architectures: Doors, Rooms, Stairs and Windows of an Intricate Literary Edifice, McFarland, 2014. read it at Google BooksAdopting Kafka as a lens to examine modern concepts...
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Maurice Roche - Compact is one of the most compellingly original works of...
Maurice Roche, Compact, Trans. by Mark Polizzotti, Dalkey Archive Press, 1988. [1966.]Sample pages at Typographie & Littérature Maurice Roche has been called “the most interesting novelist in...
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Éric Plamondon recasts the American western frontier into a surreal, timeless...
Éric Plamondon, Mayonnaise: A Novel, Trans.by by Dimitri Nasrallah, Véhicule Press, 2018. Writer Richard Brautigan was a counter-cultural icon of the 1960s. In Mayonnaise, the second novel of Éric...
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David Detrich - a verbal collage of Surrealist texts, fiction, poetry,...
David Detrich, Big Sur Marvels & Wondrous Delights,Innovations Press, 2001.davidwdetrich.wordpress.com/www.innovative-fiction-magazine.comThis is an artist's novel that takes place in Big Sur,...
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Matthew Roberson rewrites Ronald Sukenick's classic fiction of the sixties,...
Matthew Roberson, 1998.6, Fiction Collective 2, 2002.Fetishists, dreamers, voyeurs, internet porn addicts, granola-heads, drug dealers, dorks, liars, layabouts, workaholics, sex maniacs, TV junkies,...
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Mark Beyer was a naive artist who took perverse pleasure in satirizing the...
Mark Beyer, Agony, New York Review Comics, 2016.excerptENJOY THE ECSTASY OF AGONY. Amy and Jordan are just like us: hoping for the best, even when things go from bad to worse. They are menaced by...
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Terry Andrews - “those of you who don’t recognize sex when it happens outside...
Terry Andrews, The Story of Harold, Avon Books, 1974."For now -- Relax! And come with me. You have no choice: I've invited you. We will have a lot of sex. You are going to laugh a great deal -- people...
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Syeus Mottel - After a period devoted to the intensive study of solid...
Syeus Mottel, CHARAS, The Improbable Dome Builders, The Song Cave & Pioneers Work, 2017.[1973.]Introduction written by R. Buckminster Fuller.Includes a new interview between Michael Ben-Eli &...
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Friederike Mayröcker - Tumult, ferocity, flow, exaltation, immersion:...
Friederike Mayröcker, Scardanelli, Trans. by Jonathan Larson, The Song Cave, 2018. excerptIn SCARDANELLI, Friederike Mayröcker, one of the most well-known poets in Austria, associated with the...
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John Myers - this verse novella offers us a map to a borderless and...
John Myers, Smudgy and Lossy, The Song Cave, 2018. SMUDGY AND LOSSY, the first collection of poetry by Idaho-based poet John Myers, offers us a map to a borderless and psychedelically...
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Ben Borek - a hilarious, epic romp of a novel encompassing, in its burlesque...
Ben Borek, Sissy, Boiler House Press, 2018.excerptTen years after the cult hit Donjong Heights, Ben Borek is back with another brilliantly surreal and darkly comic satire, SISSY.Sissy is an hilarious,...
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Han Yujoo - This transfixing experimental novel questions where sleep ends...
Han Yujoo, The Impossible Fairy Tale: A Novel, Trans. by Janet Hong, Graywolf Press, 2017.excerpt A chilling, wildly original novel from a major...
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Maria Popova - An intricate tapestry in which the lives of various scientific...
Maria Popova, Figuring, Pantheon, 2019.excerptFiguring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across...
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