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Teresa Porzecanski illustrates well here how this sense of exile is central...
Teresa Porzecanski, Sun Inventions and Perfumes of Carthage: Two Novellas, Trans. by Johnny Payne and Phyllis Silverstein, University of New Mexico Press, 2000. read it at Google BooksTeresa...
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Sylvie Weil has borrowed from new habits to create an unusual genre: the...
Sylvie Weil, Selfies, Les Fugitives, 2019.http://sylvieweil.com/en/Taking selfies is not the exclusive preserve of millennials. In Selfies, Sylvie Weil gives a playful twist to the concept of...
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Moyshe Kulbak - a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic...
Moyshe Kulbak, The Zelmenyaners: A Family Saga, Trans. by Hillel Halkin,The New Yiddish Library, 2013.read it at Google BooksA “masterpiece” of a comic novel following four generations of a Jewish...
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Paul Kerschen - What if John Keats had not died in Rome at twenty-five, just...
Paul Kerschen, The Warm South: A novel, Roundabout Press, 2019.https://warmsouth.com/http://www.paulkerschen.com/read it at Google BooksThe daringly imagined, masterfully realized story of poet John...
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Ctrlcreep - Angels, androids, AI, gods. From sexbots to suicide booths, we...
Ctrlcreep,Fragment,Independently Published, 2019.neotene (@ctrlcreep) · TwitterEverything you need to know about the universe. The collected short stories and selected microfiction of the elusive...
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Jurgis Kunčinas - This remarkable love story, told by an unnamed narrator and...
Jurgis Kunčinas, Tūla, Trans. by Elizabeth Novickas, Pica Pica Press, 2016.excerptThe unnamed narrator of Jurgis Kuncinas's Tula is our tour guide through the infamous poverty-stricken bohemian quarter...
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Luis Martín Santos - 'The bravura and lyricism of the prose, the casual...
Luis Martín-Santos,Time of Silence, Trans. by George Leeson, Columbia University Press, 1989. [1962.]An enveloping haze of dedicated rationalism fails to save a young scientist from the less...
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Ryan Madej - Rife with vice and a pervading sense of loss, the decaying urban...
Ryan Madej, The Threshold and the Key, Voidfront Press, 2019.http://www.marianas-trench.com/https://twitter.com/ryanmadej79Rife with vice and a pervading sense of loss, the decaying urban landscape of...
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Cameron McCabe - outstanding avant garde crime novel, metacrime murder...
Cameron McCabe, The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor, Picador, 2016. [1937.] The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor is a crime novel, arguably a whodunnit, by Ernest Borneman writing as Cameron McCabe. It...
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Erik Niedling - is a bildungsroman about the friendship between artists. They...
Erik Niedling with Ingo Niermann, Burial of the White Man,With contributions by Ann Cotten, Jakob Nolte. Sternberg Press, 2019.https://erikniedling.com/Burial of the White Man is a bildungsroman about...
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Judy Radul addresses the increasingly obsolete medium of television by way of...
Judy Radul, This Is Television, Sternberg Press, 2019.https://cargocollective.com/judyradul/This-is-TelevisionTelevision as cultural container, and as intermedia interface with the book as medium.This...
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Alf MacLochlain trousers suggest perplexing difficulties: how best to put...
Alf MacLochlain, Corpus in the Library: Stories and Novellas, Dalkey Archive Press, 1996.borrow it hereIn this collection of two novellas and seven short stories, Alf MacLochlainn comically reduces...
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William Melvin Kelley - An African-American reads James Joyce might be an...
William Melvin Kelley, Dunfords Travels Everywheres, Doubleday, 1970.borrow it hereAn African-American reads James Joyce might be an easy way to describe this novel, as Kelley takes us on a strange...
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Fe Orellana - journalist for a sensationalist newspaper, moves through the...
Fe Orellana, Woman Hanging from a Rope, Trans. by Jessica Sequeira, Floricanto Press, 2019.Marina (story)Beatriz, a journalist for a sensationalist newspaper, moves through the passages and galleries...
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Erik Martiny - With its playful, manic prose and delightful...
Erik Martiny, The Pleasures of Queueing, Mastodon, 2018.He aspires to solitude and sobriety. His parents thrive on exuberance and the production of babies on an industrial scale.When Olaf Montcocq...
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Lucebert - It was the experimental and enigmatic quality of his verse that...
Lucebert [Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk], The Collected Poems: Volume 1, Trans. by Diane Butterman, Bilingual ed., Green Integer, 2010.The Dutch poet and painter Lucebert (pseudonym for Lubertus Jacobus...
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Ana Clavel - her literary and multimedia oeuvre is marked by its queerness....
Ana Clavel, Desire and Its Shadow,Trans. by Jay Miskowiec, Aliform Publishing, 2006.Soledad awakes to find herself invisible, standing in the middle of Mexico City. Is she really invisible, or have...
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Jacques Reda - his style is an homage to the long sentence made of complex...
Jacques Réda, Europes, Trans. by Aaron Prevots, Host Publications, 2009.Bilingual edition . In EUROPES, published in French in 2005 and appearing here as a complete bilingual edition, Jacques Reda...
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Adam Scovell - an unusual story of obsession where a narrator’s mania is told...
Adam Scovell, Mothlight, Influx Press, 2019.https://celluloidwickerman.com“The idea was lost but the memory was there.”Phyllis Ewans, a prominent researcher in Lepidoptera and a keen walker, has died...
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Juan José Millás - A nicotine- and porn-addicted Spanish misanthrope secretly...
Juan José Millás, From the Shadows, Trans. by Thomas Bunstead and Daniel Hahn, Bellevue Literary Press, 2019. read it at Google BooksLaid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines...
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