I submit that playing along once in a while with games like Olafsson’s, games about the game of fiction, can be a useful reminder of how fiction works on us.
GeNtry!fication: Or, the Scene of the Crime – Chaun Webster
GeNtry!fication isn’t just a book of poetry that dances around a question. It is an experimental essay that delves deep and also inducts its readers into the process by asking difficult questions that the author himself is seeking.
how do I net thee – Shira Dentz
This collection illuminates how, like language, memory is slippery, and how our inability to capture real life is a spectacular failure that gives rise to poetry.
The progress to be made, then, is to be sentenced to the book, go through the door, dive into the black hole.
Revenge of the Translator – Brice Matthieussent
You could also say that it was her most transgressive, subversive move to forego revenge, content instead to disappear.
The book should’ve been called anything other than DEAD GIRLS.
The Fifth Woman – Nona Caspers
Caspers’s prose unifies form and content in a spectacular way as she writes the facts of grief, doing justice to both its devastation and transcendence, the sublime surreality it bestows on the world through the mere fact that one must continue to live in it.
Where the Bird Disappeared – Ghassan Zaqtan
Time isn’t linear, and it’s in this way that the book resists both nationalist and anti-nationalist narratives about how a Palestinian people have progressed or failed.
Cinema in the Digital Age – Nicholas Rombes
I associate theaters less with the quiet company of unknown others, and more with the annoyance of an introvert forced to enjoy herself in public.
Steele said in an interview that he was interested in the blog as a “vehicle to tell jokes,” which partially gets at what the entries feel like.