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Ducks, Newburyport

Ducks, Newburyport (Paperback)

By Lucy Ellmann

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ISBN: 9781771963077

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Published: Biblioasis - September 10th, 2019

In 2019's most ambitious novel Ellmann puts us in the mind of one of literature's most neglected characters; an average woman and mother doing her best in a world that respects neither women nor mothers. Rambunctiously political, tenderly personal, and profoundly humanist, Ellmann's simple respect for her protagonist's thoughts, feelings, faults, & successes is revolutionary. And on top of everything else in this towering achievement of a novel, you'll find yourself desperately rooting for a mountain lion.

Josh

The Hole

The Hole (Paperback)

By Jose Revueltas, Amanda Hopkinson (Translator), Sophie Hughes (Translator)

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ISBN: 9780811227780

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Published: New Directions Publishing Corporation - October 30th, 2018

The Hole is a cross between Blood Meridian, Train Dreams, and Jean Genet’s works set in prisons. Yes, Revueltas fits all of that into into this little explosive seed. Reading it is about a four hour experience; one hour to read it and three hours to stare at a wall recovering from it.

Josh

Confessions of the Fox

Confessions of the Fox: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jordy Rosenberg

$27.00

ISBN: 9780399592270

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Published: One World - June 26th, 2018

One part sexy rogue’s tale, one part intellectual exploration of the nature of history, one part examination of how people are marginalized by the powerful, all wrapped up in a tale of frustrated love and surveillance, this wild novel wriggles through genres, tones, and themes like a Dickensian pickpocket disappearing into a crowded London street. You won’t read anything like it this year. One of my favorite books of 2018.

Josh

Oraefi: The Wasteland

Oraefi: The Wasteland (Paperback)

By Ofeigur Sigurosson, Lytton Smith (Translator)

$16.95

ISBN: 9781941920671

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Published: Deep Vellum Publishing - October 2nd, 2018

Easy to summarize, but impossible to explain Oraefi is a strange amalgamation of explorer’s tale, travelogue, historical fiction, collection of dramatic monologues, and celebration of place names. Ostensibly the story of a scholar who nearly dies while exploring a wasteland in Iceland, the story meanders through multiple layers and narrators like a stream flowing from the glacier to the forest to the sea. It’s a wild ride, unlike anything you’ve read.

Josh

feeld

Feeld (Paperback)

By Jos Charles

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ISBN: 9781571315052

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Published: Milkweed Editions - August 14th, 2018

How do you write poetry when the language you’re supposed to write in excludes you? How do you find your voice when at least some of the world denies you even exist? In feeld, Charles invades these questions by building an alternative English, one closer to the overt grammatical chaos of Middle English, that allows for a different kind of exploration into how we make languaged-meaning from who we are as people.

Josh

Confessions of the Fox

Confessions of the Fox: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jordy Rosenberg

$27.00

ISBN: 9780399592270

Availability: Hard to Find--Contact us for More Info

Published: One World - June 26th, 2018

One part sexy rogue’s tale, one part intellectual exploration of the nature of history, one part examination of how people are marginalized by the powerful, all wrapped up in a tale of frustrated love and surveillance, this wild novel wriggles through genres, tones, and themes like a Dickensian pickpocket disappearing into a crowded London street. You won’t read anything like it this year. One of my favorite books of 2018.

Josh

Houses of Ravicka

Houses of Ravicka (Paperback)

By Renee Gladman

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ISBN: 9780997366662

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Published: Dorothy a Publishing Project - November 2017

What do you hear when you hear a house settle? Why do you dream when you move to a new apartment? What is your sense of direction? Houses of Ravicka is something like Escher noir written by Charlie Chaplin and edited by Gertrude Stein. Gladman is a genius, one of our greatest contemporary experimental writers & Houses is a breathtaking exploration of what it means to live in and with cities.

Josh

Calamities

Calamities (Paperback)

By Renee Gladman

$18.00

ISBN: 9781940696270

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Published: Wave Books - September 6th, 2016

Gladman is one of our most exciting and innovative writers, stretching the boundaries of every genre and style she attempts. Calamities is a collection of short essays about everything from navigating the trivialities of daily life to the very nature of narrative and writing.

Josh

Bottom’s Dream

Bottom's Dream (Hardcover)

By Arno Schmidt, John E. Woods (Translator)

ISBN: 9781628971590

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Published: Dalkey Archive Press - September 23rd, 2016

What do you get for the reader who’s already read everything? Arnot’s Schmidt’s massive, ambitious novel is finally in English in this beautiful edition. For lovers of language, literature, and the infinite possibilities created by putting one word after another on a piece of paper.

Josh

Cosmos

Cosmos (Paperback)

By Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt (Translator)

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ISBN: 9780802145628

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Published: Grove Press - November 15th, 2011

“It will be difficult to continue this story of mine. I don’t even know if it is a story. It is difficult to call this a story, this constant ... clustering and falling apart ... of elements ...”. Leaving Warsaw on foot, Witold, our neurotic and sputtering narrator, would like to escape the Polish bourgeoisie. Instead he finds himself trapped in a rural inn, with his increasingly absurd obsessions. A pleasure akin to that of reading Flann O’Brien, Kafka, Bruno Schulz.

Jamie

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