Theorizing Sound Writing – ed. Deborah Kapchan
THEORIZING SOUND WRITING describes itself as not just describing or analyzing sound, but as a form that “is the inscriptive dimension of listening” — the trace that listening leaves behind.
The Last Wolf & Herman – László Krasznahorkai
If Bernhard was, however reductive the term, the Alpen-Beckett (Beckett of the Alps), then László Krasznahorkai might in turn be called the Alföld-Bernhard, the Bernhard of the Great Hungarian Plain.
A Theory in Tears – Cassandra Troyan
I used to cling to this pet theory: if everyone ejaculated, the world would be a different place.
Go, Went, Gone – Jenny Erpenbeck
A system that uses and relies on lists and numbers never can account for lives, but only for bodies — dead or alive.
The cosmic, the Unfathomable Voice gains its authority primarily through rhythm, meter, and form. What it actually says, however true, is an afterthought.
The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks – Aaron Shurin
Sitting beside Aaron, bathed together in the afternoon light, he points to his apartment windows, the structural yieldings to the sky.
After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography – Chris Kraus
It’s not hard to see in this a massive FUCK YOU to Acker.
The toggling between and stacking up of intensifiers and alternatives vividly brands the narrative of August with a symbol of equivocation and transition.
When we die, we all become fictional characters.
The Fabrications – Baret Magarian
By employing the omniscient method, Magarian is almost necessarily ruling out the kind of detailed probing of his characters’ psychological states we have perhaps come to expect in fiction.