Care of Wooden Floors – Will Wiles
“A room is a manifestation of a state of mind . . . We make our rooms, and then our rooms make us.”
Promising Young Women – Suzanne Scanlon
Scanlon implicates the reader in the same system that has produced these “promising young women,” “career patients” seen by their doctors as projects, fodder for academic papers, or books.
The Obscene Madame D – Hilda Hilst
This publication of Hilst’s THE OBSCENE MADAME D may just be the literary miracle of 2012.
The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira – César Aira
What does writing have to do with saving the dying?
To make such critiques work in a novel, you should be equally as rigorous about your aesthetics as you are about your morals.
Stein has written a novel that re-shapes itself upon each reading depending solely on the reader’s tack.
Safe as Houses – Marie-Helene Bertino
The stories in SAFE AS HOUSES read as a combination of rough sandpaper and its smooth result.
The Cardboard House – Martín Adán
In a new edition, THE CARDBOARD HOUSE loses the raw feel of a manifesto.
Serving as a prequel to TRAINSPOTTING, it’s clear there won’t be a “happy” ending to this book.
In Between Days – Andrew Porter
Love that was supposed to last forever doesn’t end, exactly; rather it becomes transmuted into nostalgia for what used to be but is no longer livable.