ROGOMELEC is a collection of surrealist vignettes, conjoined by non-sequiturs. The novel is opaque, and that’s how Fini likes it.
No. 91/92: A Diary of the Year on the Bus – Lauren Elkin
Elkin adopts Georges Perec’s diaristic form and heightened engagement not only to lovingly render a place but also to represent the self within the collective of the Parisian community.
This novel is a miraculous feat: a novel that denounces injustice, advocates for the elderly and the ill, and clearly advocates for access to abortion, without giving up style or literary verve.
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell – Brian Evenson
Evenson’s fiction reads cumulatively like satire on endemic human weaknesses that at last have provoked a supernatural break with a reality no longer able to contain them.
Cozarinsky’s latest book Milongas is rooted — or, in this case, afloat — in gossip.
PERMAFROST isn’t the conventional, happily-ever-after fairytale-esque story . . . Baltasar shows that although life may be grim and cruel, one must carry on and entrust that there is a glimmer of hope to be found somewhere.
Throughout HONEY MINE, the path to embodiment is, always, having sex with women. There is no other course, and who would want there to be?
As in her prior novels, Ducornet presents us with another world of radiant surrealism, only now she goes into outer space with a novel that works as a throwback to the pulp space operas.
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke – Eric LaRocca
The book is really about how brief and tenuous our own self-composure actually is. Maybe we are all about to be pushed over the edge.
Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories/Anti-Stories – Subimal Misra
WILD ANIMALS PROHIBITED is a remarkable collection of strange, unwelcoming stories, with a serious desire to disrupt complacent attitudes of the literary world.