Interviews
Adverbially Yours… an interview with Daniel Handler
The Complete Rain Taxi Interview with the author of Adverbs and A Series of Unfortunate Events…really.
Reviews
Fiction
The London Novels
Colin MacInnes
In the three novels collected here, MacInnes portrays innocents attempting to navigate the underbelly of 1950’s London.
Paraspheres
edited by Rusty Morrison and Ken Keegan
This anthology, as its subtitle “Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction” suggests, challenges how we categorize literature—and collects some superb stories in the process.
Arbitrary Tales
Daniel Borzutzky
Borzutzky’s first collection of stories run playfully amok, confronting ideology and the lack thereof, and appropriating, sometimes demolishing, received literary forms.
Now You See It… Stories from Cokesville, PA
Bathsheba Monk
In her debut novel, Monk makes the fictional town of Cokesville the main character of the story, a rusted-out belt of humanity quickly approaching ghost town status.
You, Me, and the Insects
Barbara Henning
Henning follows the inner life of an artist and yoga enthusiast through stream-of-consciousness diaristic entries as she searches for a philosophy to live by.
Wide Eyed
Trinie Dalton
Amidst the detritus of pop culture, moments of real pathos and power shine through in this collection of short stories.
In the Forest of Forgetting
Theodora Goss
The stories in Theodora Goss’s first story collection enmesh the fantastic in the real, and the relationship between the two is often at the heart of her fiction.
NONFICTION
The Yage Letters Redux
William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of City Lights, the publisher has expanded this collection of correspondence between Burroughs and Ginsberg with previously unpublished material.
In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country
Etel Adnan
A gorgeous, multi-layered prose poem/poetic essay, Adnan’s latest work represents a journey through the historical disasters and literary movements of the 20th century.
Half-Real
Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds
Jesper Juul
As video games increasingly dominate Western popular culture and command more of the American leisure dollar than motion pictures, it’s only natural that theory-heads would attack the subject.
The Week-End Book
edited by Francis Meynell
This delightful miscellany has been resurrected after a 51-year nap, providing necessary information about sandwich bread and super novas. Don’t face the weekend without it!
ART and Photography
The Cement War
Mark Steenerson
This book by musician, poet, artist, and photographer Mark Steenerson evokes the sloughs of despond so convincingly that it takes an effort to haul yourself out of them after closing the book.
POETRY
Splay Anthem
Nathaniel Mackey
Two ongoing series interweave in Mackey’s latest, a mythic and cultural melange that shows the poet at the height of his powers.
I Love Artists
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Covering four decades of writing, this new and selected poems offers a linguistic equivalent to the visual work of artists, using poetry to dramatize perception.
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Sawako Nakayasu
Nakayasu’s highly structured yet exploratory volume intrigues its reader from title to final page, considering questions of truth and artificiality.
Saint Ghetto of the Loans, Grimoire
Gabriel Pomerand
Originally published in 1950, this neglected work of Lettrist metagraphics by provacateur Pomerand is now saved from obscurity.
Whole Milk
Jim Goar
Goar’s Whole Milk proves that Grade A, vitamin-rich poetry doesn’t need to come in a fancy package to be enjoyable.
Mixed Genre
PP/FF
edited by Peter Conners
This anthology collects short pieces, the prose poems and flash fictions attributed by the title.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
The Many Sides of Rick Veitch:
Can’t Get No, Crypto Zoo, and The Maximortal
The extreme, the cynical, the difficult… all find expression in the comics genius that is Rick Veitch.
Fun Home
Alison Bechdel
A departure from Bechdel's beloved Dykes to Watch Out For is a smart, moving, and serious memoir in comics form.
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