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.
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.