I Am the Brother of XX – Fleur Jaeggy
The private self will not be saved by rationality.
Much as the likeness of glazed cheeseburger, enlarged to unappetizing dimensions, beckons distastefully from deli windows citywide, Duffy’s subjects are larger than life and irksome.
Anatomy of Thought-Fiction: CHS Report 2214 – Joanna Demers
The line between fiction and nonfiction, the creative and the critical, may have by now become blurrier and blurrier, but perhaps there is after all a point where to call an act of writing “fiction” only obscures that work’s actual achievement
16 Ways to Break a Heart – Lauren Strasnick
This is what LA whispers to its lovers — let passion be your only guide.
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.