Little Bird – Claudia Ulloa Donoso
Reading LITTLE BIRD is a bit like reading a dream journal by someone who took her dream journal very seriously: someone who never got bored or cynical, someone who remained committed to communicating with her subconscious, someone in love with what language can do to reality.
Vibratory Milieu – Carrie Hunter
One reads in what becomes a surrender to a waking dream-state where language, isolated from its context, becomes seriously playful and casually transcendental.
The Vegas Dilemma – Vi Khi Nao
Taken together, this is not only a good book, it’s a book of possibility, one that lays out the risks, dangers, and rewards of unconventionality.
Jack Ruby and the Origins of the Avant-Garde in Dallas – Robert Trammell
Dallas in particular, makes weirdos, the truth of whose identities are more fruitfully explored at a bar stool than in a congressional commission.
Ross’s writing probes and tests assumptions that we often take for granted, and raises questions that will leave the reader musing, long after a story is finished.
Distant Fathers – Marina Jarre
Marina Jarre offers the reader a slow unraveling of the beauty of childhood . . . a time understood through sensation and stark moments of emotional clarity.
Distant Fathers – Marina Jarre
Some writers are made to pen memoirs.
The Luminous Novel – Mario Levrero
Literature offers no shelter, no comfort or rescue from the total crisis, and Levrero questions any attempt to claim literature as a respite or an escape.
If THE SICK LIST is an unconventional academic novel for its form, it captures one of the academic novel’s principal tropes here: anti-intellectualism.
Just as American fiction has undergone a change because of the influence and confluence of writers and writing on the internet, there’s a similar evolution in Percesepe’s stories.