Book Club: The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector – DAY 1
Day 1 of an in-depth dialogic inquiry into Clarice Lispector’s short fiction, in which her embrace of the body, linguistic innovations, and interrogations of gender, sexuality, and the boundaries of the human are discussed.
The Weather Changed, Summer Came and So On – Pedro Carmona-Alvarez
The prose style is what a Scandinavian writer might assume an American reader considers quintessentially Scandinavian: clean, simple, efficient, sort of minimalist, like something from Ikea.
By taking issue with the conventions in the discourse around art, beyond aesthetics, the selected contributors deeply interrogate objects, labor conditions, and the transparency within ethics.
Pool Party Trap Loop – Ben Segal
Segal’s work stands alone in its strange, winding, sudden candor.
The Story of My Teeth – Valeria Luiselli
The wider current to which this book belongs probably cannot sustain many more publications of this type without incurring some sort of backlash.
Wrack Lariat – Heller Levinson
In these Hinges, “How much of” acts as the pivot for each poem, there is usually one word as the particle, and a line or two as the postulate, which causes the whole piece to surge with contemplative meaning.
Warren has always identified as black, although he could easily be mistaken for white. His daughter has been raised Jewish but now learns of her own black identity.
Three Moments of an Explosion – China Miéville
Miéville has always been interested in more than simply making us shiver.
Garments Against Women – Anne Boyer
What’s the difference between wide hope and desperation? I was trying to hold everything together, all at once.
The Dirty Dust – Máirtín Ó Cadhain
There are no philosophers or historians in the dirty dust, only gossips and fabulists.