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Fiction

It was another 75° day in LA.

Kim Gordon

The Pitch

Where do you go when you disappear?

It was another 75° day in LA. The kind that can either make you gloriously happy to live in such perfect warmth in February or want to make you want to go home and lay down and turn on the TV for a little feeling of connection to life outside of Cali. Those goddamn Santa Ana winds were beginning to whip around. I know the clichés about them creating madness. As I walked around the garage I couldn’t help wonder what her...

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Diane Williams

How about some string?

I said “Would you like a rope? You know that haul you have is not secured properly.” ABO DE

Stephen Barber

J.G. Ballard’s self-declared ‘Immodest Proposal’ for a global war-alliance to exact the destruction of America demonstrates the provocatory zeal of his last fiction plans, as well as their enduring prescience. OPEN
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Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

Words are human things; a great obscurity saturates them… OPEN
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A. L. Kennedy

When it all burns you’ll know – a writer was there at the first… ABO DE FR

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Dodie Bellamy

All that pent up terror and rage

A stupid tweet by a nobody, meant as a parody, somehow goes viral and the internet offers up death threats.

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Pierre Guyotat

The matrix for »Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats«

“This text was written at the end of 1962, after my return from Algeria. For me the text is the matrix for Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats.” P.G.

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war experience

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Maaza Mengiste: Of Interest to the General Public

Halluzinatorische Chroniken New Yorks

Monograph

Big Guy im schmutzigen Spiel von Geld, Politik und Verbrechen

Isaac Sidel, Bürgermeister New Yorks und ehemaliger Polizeichef, spielt jetzt in der ganz großen Politik mit. Die Demokraten haben ihn zum Vizepräsidentschaftskandidaten gekürt, um dem glücklosen Strahlemann J. Michael Storm einen Volkshelden zur Seite zu stellen. Die legendäre Glock inklusive. Dabei stimmt in New York gar nichts mehr. Die halbe...

Jerome Charyn

Citizen Sidel

Monograph

»Ich bin der schlimmste Alptraum, den Sie jemals hatten«

Isaac Sidel kandidiert fürs Amt des Mayors von New York City. Marilyn lernt Joe Barbarossa, den Drogencop mit den eigenen Methoden, kennen und lieben. Sidel wütet sowieso lieber unter Dealern, als sich politisch verschleißen zu lassen.

Jerome Charyn

Montezumas Mann

Monograph

Das Prequel zur legendären Isaac-Sidel-Serie

Isaac Sidel, Deputy Chief Inspector mit unorthodoxen Methoden, herrscht über das härteste Pflaster New Yorks wie ein Patriarch. Babyhuren, marodierende...

Jerome Charyn

Marilyn the Wild

Monograph

Little Angel Street

Mit einem Erdrutschsieg ist Isaac Sidel zum Bürgermeister von New York City gewählt worden. Bevor er endgültig sein Amt antritt, heißt es, eine mysteriöse White-Power-Bande dingfest zu machen, die Obdachlose tötet. Dazu wirft Sidel sich wieder einmal in Lumpen und verschwindet unter dem Decknamen Geronimo Jones in den Untergrund von...

Jerome Charyn

Little Angel Street

Topics

Autofiction—Metafiction
- autobiography
- Theory of fiction
- memory
- fiction
- autofiction

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I.V. Nuss

Pregnancy is the weirdest condition

The seahorse is the chosen metaphor for pregnant trans men

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contemporary literature
motherhood
homosexuality

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Raphaëlle Milone

He would say “Never work!”

Old-school publisher, avant-garde dandy, undisputed expert on the global history of Dada: Raphaëlle Milone paints an intimate but unsparing portrait of a man who belonged perhaps to a dying breed but is still remembered vividly.

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Stephen Barber

Twenty-four hours in state of unconsciousness

Now this spectral city will become the site for execrations and lamentations, now time itself will disintegrate and void itself… ABO

Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

How can we remember the way we used to remember? OPEN
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When life’s hard, time’s a motherfucker going slow

Soham Gupta

In his photographs and texts, Calcutta-based Soham Gupta forces the tension that arises between fiction and real-life conditions in as yet unseen ways. ABO DE FR

Angelika Meier

Your story begins with a tunnel.

The lost cause is the only one worth fighting for. OPEN
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Books

Allison Grimaldi Donahue: The History of Breathing

Gleb J. Albert (ed.), Nikolaj Evreinov, ...: The Steps of Nemesis

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): “Here Lies” preceded by “The Indian Culture”

Yes, magic exists!

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.)

A Sinister Assassin

from myself / to myself / who is it that comes / and who is it that goes?

Antonin Artaud’s very last work, prior to his death in March 1948, is the most extraordinary element of his entire body of work – and is the element now most enduringly inspirational, for contemporary artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, choreographers, and others inspired by Artaud – through its fiercely exploratory, extreme and combative forms, along with its dissolutions and negations of forms, focused above all on the human anatomy, as well as on sonic experimentation and on provocations for innovation in...