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.
Francesco Pacifico’s CLASS is both a contribution to and, at its best, a subversion of the genre of gentrifier kunstlerroman.
Thus Bad Begins – Javier Marías
Like so many young Spaniards of the transition, Juan never questions his elders, as though pointing out Muriel’s hypocrisy might lead to the return of the Franco regime.