Sara Magenheimer - Narrative is always under construction. The preferred...
Sara Magenheimer, Beige Pursuit, Wendy’s Subway, 2019.but also anguished, hesitant, and precarious: she feels around for sympathetic energies and familiar faces along the way. Along what way? A book...
View ArticleCollected Voices in the Expanded Field - a collectively written novel...
Collected Voices in the Expanded Field, 11:11 Press, 2020.downloadCollected Voices in the Expanded Field is a collectively written novel composed of 34 unique voices from the expanded field. TABLE OF...
View ArticlePergentino José - Magical realism meets Greek mythology in this collection...
Pergentino José, Red Ants, Trans. by Thomas Bunstead,Bilingual ed., Deep Vellum, 2020.A literary triumph by one of Mexico's most promising young authors, Red Ants is the first ever literary translation...
View ArticleRä di Martino takes the viewer into a suspended and indefinite time, an...
Rä diMartino, Afterall (A Space Mambo),Nero Editions, 2020.https://www.alessandrochiodo.com/afterall/A deserted landscape and a sky without atmosphere, a world inhabited by either small communities or...
View ArticleOleg Woolf - Reminiscent of Bruno Schulz, a vivid, surreal evocation of a...
Oleg Woolf, Bessarabian Stamps: Stories, Trans.by Boris Dralyuk, Phoneme Media, 2015.Reminiscent of Bruno Schulz’s Street of Crocodiles, Oleg Woolf’s Bessarabian Stamps — a cycle of 16 stories set...
View ArticleJulia Kerninon - A female manifesto for a writer’s life (...) a lyrical...
Julia Kerninon, A Respectable Occupation,Trans.by Ruth Diver, Les Fugitives, 2020.Read ‘Whats on Julia Kerninon’s Bookshelf?’ in Albertine‘The best early training for a writer is an unhappy childhood,’...
View ArticleOlga Ravn creates language as poetic data, seducing us with her soft-natured...
Olga Ravn, The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century, Trans. by Martin Aitken, Lolli, 2020.The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth.The crew of the Six-Thousand Ship...
View ArticleHelen Marten - The psychic excitements of wind, dust and weather merge with...
Helen Marten, The Boiled in Between, PrototypePublishing Ltd., 2020.excerpt: https://brooklynrail.org/2020/12/fiction/from-The-Boiled-in-BetweenThe Boiled in Between is the debut novel by Turner...
View ArticleThe Lost Letters of Flann O'Brien - Insightful, hilarious, innovative....
The Lost Letters of Flann O'Brien, 2021.Discovered in a disused cupboard in a Dublin pub during lockdown, The Lost Letters of Flann O'Brien contains 107 never-before-seen letters written to the cult...
View ArticleAudrey Szasz - an experimental concept novel based on the real-life crimes of...
Audrey Szasz, Tears of a Komsomol Girl, Illustrated by Karolina Urbaniak, Infinity Land Press, 2020.Tears of a Komsomol Girl is an experimental concept novel based on the real-life crimes of Soviet...
View ArticleGraham Freestone - we cannot extirpate the experience of paranormality from...
Graham Freestone, Tractatus Pneumatologico Philosophicus, Centre for Experimental Ontology, 2019.https://centreforexperimentalontology.com/author/grahamfreestone/The Tractatus is largely an exploration...
View ArticleLeonor Fini - This novella’s ambiguous narrator sets off for the isolated...
Leonor Fini, Rogomelec, Trans. by WilliamKulik and Serena Skwersky, Wakefield Press, 2020.‘Originally published in French in 1979, Rogomelec was the third of Leonor Fini’s novels. All the qualities of...
View ArticleAscher/Straus [Sheila Ascher and Dennis Straus] - one of the indispensible...
Ascher/Straus, The Menaced Assassin, McPherson; 2nd ed., 1989.http://www.ascher-straus.com/http://www.ascher-straus.com/the_menaced_assassin_38811.htmThe dazzling fusion of hard-boiled dialogue,...
View ArticleMaria-Mercè Marçal - “I am of those laid low by light. Under the implacable...
Maria-Mercè Marçal, The Passion according toRenée Vivien, Trans. by Kathleen McNerney andHelena Buffery, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2020.In this often poetic and lyrical novel by the revered Catalan...
View ArticleKenneth Warren - a book is organized as a guidebook that enables the reader...
Kenneth Warren, Captain Poetry’s SuckerPunch: AGuide to theHomeric Punkhole, 1980–2012, BlazeVOX [books], 2012.Called by Andrei Codrescu, “one of the few and great readers of American poetry,” Warren...
View ArticleKeston Sutherland - Paranoid Ears: a comical, wild, and delirious sifting...
Keston Sutherland, Scherzos Benjyosos, The Last Books, 2020.SCHERZOS BENJYOSOS is a set of four poems, scherzos in prosimetrical blocks, a comical, wild, and delirious sifting through the carnage of...
View ArticleWouter Kusters - a certain kind of philosophizing may result in confusion,...
Wouter Kusters, A Philosophy of Madness: TheExperience of Psychotic Thinking, The MIT Press, 2020.The philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy: a philosopher draws on his experience of...
View ArticleAtlas of Anomalous AI - A wildly associative constellation of ideas, stories,...
Atlas of Anomalous AI, Ed. by Ben Vickers & KAllado-McDowell, Foreword by Bill ShermanLike a snake eating its tail, artificial intelligence exists in a circular relationship with its human...
View ArticleIlarie Voronca - Telling the story of a young man who has a specialist...
Ilarie Voronca, The Confession of a False Soul,Trans. by Sue Boswell, Snuggly Books, 2021.[1942.]Originally published in 1942, and here presented for the first time in English, expertly translated...
View ArticleRion Amilcar Scott - a boundary-shattering collection of linked stories set...
Rion Amilcar Scott, The World Doesn't Require You: Stories, Liveright, 2019.The World Doesn’t Require You announces the arrival of a generational talent, as Rion Amilcar Scott shatters rigid genre...
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