Studies in Hybrid Morphology – Matt Tompkins
Matt Tompkins’ Studies in Hybrid Morphology might be perused as a codex of potential trans-human identities.
The 7th Man – Melanie Rae Thon
“Someone has to die so that the rest of us shall value life more,” said Virginia Woolf, and Thon deftly animates this theorem.
OBLIVION’s task is a vital one: to recover Russia’s collectively repressed memories of the prison labor camps under Stalin.
Ways to Disappear – Idra Novey
As happens from time to time with critically successful artists, it is almost a fait accompli that the world discovers disparities between the quality of the art and the quality of the creator.
This novel reads like a master-class in workshopped excess, rattling off, with cloying exhaustiveness, every trick in the experimental fiction handbook: abruptly shifting voices, the omission of pronouns, the stylized eschewing of punctuation, relentlessly conspicuous obliquity, semi-ironic deployment of recherché archaisms, etc., etc.
This is not a fictionalized memoir of transformation and recovery, but a book that burns in your hands, something sharp and terrifying that bites back.
Companion to an Untold Story – Marcia Aldrich
In the genre of literature about suicide, Aldrich’s book distinguishes itself by avoiding the urge to put the pieces back together again.
Margaret the First – Danielle Dutton
An inspiration for how one might approach one’s life and one’s art — “rejecting any clocklike vision of the world.”
The Folly of Loving Life – Monica Drake
Drake desperately wants us to know that hipsters have colonized, but we cannot lament loss without knowing what we’ve lost.
Willful Disregard – Lena Andersson
How the casual communication becomes the unanswered text, how the crush becomes unrequited love — that is, defined by lack — how someone becomes themself, alone, that phenomena deserves a novel like WILLFUL DISREGARD.