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Jan 14

Review: The Paradox Twins by Joshua Chaplinsky

Joshua Chaplinsky’s debut novel The Paradox Twins is an epistolary collage featuring a quartet of narrators sporting varying degrees

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Chris Kelso

Jan 12

Excerpt: The Slotless City from the forthcoming Burroughs & Scotland - Chris Kelso

Burroughs & Scotland “We are walking down a street of worn blue cobblestones rather like the outskirts of Edinburgh when a little boy fal...

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Feature: Jordan A. Rothacker - An Essay “On Process”: In Light of The Death of the Cyborg Oracle

Jordan A. Rockather

Dec 22, 2020

Feature: Jordan A. Rothacker - An Essay “On Process”: In Light of The Death of the Cyborg Oracle

When I was a young budding literary artist, too insecure to yet call myself an artist, I prepared myself for all the important debates I

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Excerpt: Looking for a Kiss - Richard Cabut

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Dec 17, 2020

Excerpt: Looking for a Kiss - Richard Cabut

… Ultimately, Robert didn’t think of himself as a loser. In a way he was arrogant and entitled. People like him weren’t losers

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Douglas A. Martin

Oct 13, 2020

Feature: Douglas A. Martin - ROOM OF THE TROUBLED ONE

The book is always in the context of or in proximity to another one, house too. I make my stacks upon tables and the floor, plans, towers a

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Review: Jordan A. Rothacker's The Death of the Cyborg Oracle

Matt Neil Hill

Oct 8, 2020

Review: Jordan A. Rothacker's The Death of the Cyborg Oracle

Review by Matt Neil Hill Jordan A. Rothacker has written a holy lamb in wolf’s clothing with this short novel – on the surface we have a ...

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Liam Gillick

Sep 29, 2020

Feature: Liam Gillick's The Rak Yoshida - A Novel

By Liam Gillick More Publishers asked me if I would consider producing a new print every day during the first few months of the Corona Vi...

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Review: The Lessons of Diarmuid Hester’s “Wrong”

Chris Kelso

Sep 3, 2020

Review: The Lessons of Diarmuid Hester’s “Wrong”

We come to life in a cold open. We get no initial preparation before the freight-train of self-awareness comes hurtling by

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Thomas Moore

Aug 25, 2020

Feature: Thomas Moore - Writing Alone

I’ve been trying to work out how to write about how I wrote my recent book that just came out. I’m not totally sure I know

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Steve Finbow

Aug 18, 2020

Feature: Steve Finbow - Unrealized Projects – Abandoned Works

Reading Loci – Introduction: Haven’t you got any friends? The ethics of reading – where and when. Auster and Artaud in an automobile.

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Gary J. Shipley

Aug 4, 2020

Feature: Gary J. Shipley - The House Inside the House of Gregor Schneider

And then I’m inside and it feels wrong, unsafe, like I’m returning to the scene of an unsolved crime, a crime that doesn’t have a name yet,

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Review: The Abject Transmutation of Chris Kelso: The Dregs Trilogy

Jared Pappas-Kelley

Jul 29, 2020

Review: The Abject Transmutation of Chris Kelso: The Dregs Trilogy

I wanted the characters to be secondary and the horror of their environments and situations take centre stage to any motivation or arc.

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Ansgar Allen

Jul 21, 2020

Feature: Ansgar Allen - A distended crust

Consciousness appears in this over-run, forgetful layer as a feature of structures bombarded with excitation and left open to its effects.

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invert/extant

Jul 16, 2020

Branwell: A novel of the Bronte brother

There is a virtual launch with Darcy Steinke in conversation with Douglas A. Martin (author of Outline of My Lover, Acker, and the anti t...

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Interview: Zak Ferguson's Sweat Drenched Interiors

Jared Pappas-Kelley

Jul 14, 2020

Interview: Zak Ferguson's Sweat Drenched Interiors

Yes, we all must make our own underground, because there really is no avant-garde, no more room, or spaces allowed for the people

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Feature: Chris Kelso - Creatively Mourning the Novel

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Jul 7, 2020

Feature: Chris Kelso - Creatively Mourning the Novel

This ‘Dark Night of the Internet’s Soul’ is our new story written in HTML-code.

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Zac's Drug Binge: The New GIF Novel from Dennis Cooper

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Jun 29, 2020

Zac's Drug Binge: The New GIF Novel from Dennis Cooper

Out today is Dennis Cooper's newest GIF novel over at Kiddiepunk press.(NSFW) From Kiddiepunk: ZAC’S DRUG BINGE represents an evolution i...

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