Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke – Eric LaRocca
The book is really about how brief and tenuous our own self-composure actually is. Maybe we are all about to be pushed over the edge.
Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer (Part 1)
We can get very serious about how kinship relationships are threatened by the violence of global capitalism. We have to practice, play with, flirt with ways of kinning that build resilience in the face of that.
Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories/Anti-Stories – Subimal Misra
WILD ANIMALS PROHIBITED is a remarkable collection of strange, unwelcoming stories, with a serious desire to disrupt complacent attitudes of the literary world.
Little Bird – Claudia Ulloa Donoso
Reading LITTLE BIRD is a bit like reading a dream journal by someone who took her dream journal very seriously: someone who never got bored or cynical, someone who remained committed to communicating with her subconscious, someone in love with what language can do to reality.
This process is non-linear and has gaps.
Vibratory Milieu – Carrie Hunter
One reads in what becomes a surrender to a waking dream-state where language, isolated from its context, becomes seriously playful and casually transcendental.
The Vegas Dilemma – Vi Khi Nao
Taken together, this is not only a good book, it’s a book of possibility, one that lays out the risks, dangers, and rewards of unconventionality.
Jack Ruby and the Origins of the Avant-Garde in Dallas – Robert Trammell
Dallas in particular, makes weirdos, the truth of whose identities are more fruitfully explored at a bar stool than in a congressional commission.
Theater is a fabulous place to explore what futurists call predictive modeling, every scenario has been worked through in world theater.
Ross’s writing probes and tests assumptions that we often take for granted, and raises questions that will leave the reader musing, long after a story is finished.