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Fiction

Upending meanings and rewriting sanity

A. L. Kennedy

What is an Author?

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

The one who takes the temperature of widespread amphetamine dreams, who carves out screaming headlines to turn up the heat. The one who makes every morning a dose of paranoia, an uptick of fathomless rage. When it all burns you’ll know – a writer was there at the first, taking words and dipping them in shit, upending meanings and rewriting sanity. The one who writes the speeches for the tiny and furious men. The one who frames every demand, every statement...

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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

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

Pierre Guyotat

“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. OPEN
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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

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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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Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

Words are human things; a great obscurity saturates them…

“So many egoists call themselves artists,” Rimbaud wrote to Paul Demeny on May 15, 1871. Even though that is not always obvious, ‘I’, the first person, is the most unknown person, a mystery that is constantly moving towards the other two, the second and third persons, a series of unfoldings and smatterings that eventually gelled as ‘Je est un autre’. That is why ‘apocryphal’ is a literarily irrelevant concept and ‘pseudo’ a symptom, the very proof that life, writing, is made up of echoes, which means that intrusions and thefts (Borges also discusses them) will always be the daily bread of those who write.

Words from others, words taken out of place and mutilated: here are the alms of time, that squanderer’s sole kindness. And so many others, mostly others who wrote, and many other pages, all of them apocryphal, all of them echoes, reflections. All this flows together into—two centuries...

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Halluzinatorische Chroniken New Yorks

Monograph

Isaac Sidel auf dem schmalen Grat zwischen Politik und Verbrechen

Isaac Sidel steigt höher in der Rangordnung: Als bekanntester Polizeichef des Landes wird er vom Justizministerium auf Promotion-Tour durchs Land...

Jerome Charyn

Der gute Bulle

Monograph

Südöstlich der Insel. Reisenotizen

James Agee durchwandert schreibend Brooklyn: von den alten Stadtteilen im Nordwesten mit ihren Backsteinhäusern über die Brooklyn Bridge und durch...

James Agee

Brooklyn ist

Monograph

In New Yorks Herz der Finsternis

Drogen, Waffengewalt, rivalisierende Gangs, korrupte Cops, ausgebrannte Straßenzüge: Die Bronx ist ein hartes Pflaster, das ständig am Rand eines kollektiven Gewaltausbruchs steht. Allein Baseball und das Yankee Stadium halten den Stadtteil am Leben. Nun droht ein Streik der Spieler den gesamten Borough in den Untergang zu stürzen. Ein letzter Hoffnungsträger...

Jerome Charyn

El Bronx

Monograph

Dialoge sind wie Schusswechsel

Isaac Sidel ist nicht mehr Bürgermeister von New York und noch nicht Vizepräsident der USA. Doch wenn seine Stadt in Gefahr ist, denkt Isaac gar nicht daran, die Zeit bis zur Amtseinführung untätig zu bleiben: Die Bronx soll endgültig entvölkert und zum Übungsgebiet der US-Army werden, und Manhattan liegt in...

Jerome Charyn

Unter dem Auge Gottes

Topics

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

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Bruce Bégout

The limp, voluptuous decadence of the place

I’m not going to talk about my profession here.

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obsession
short stories
contemporary literature
Venice
avant-garde
urbanism

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Donatien Grau

The abandonment of the centrality of the subject

Philology keeps it possible to open a space for the minority.

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Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

How can we remember the way we used to remember? OPEN
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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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Kim Gordon

Where do you go when you disappear? OPEN
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Raphaëlle Milone

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. ABO FR

Jiji-Crycry

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.)

“Here Lies” preceded by “The Indian Culture”

Me, Antonin Artaud, I am my son, my father, my mother, and me.

The two poetic works collected together here as Here Lies preceded by Indian Culture were created as a partly improvised vocal performance dictated during one session on 25 November 1946, based on provisional notes, and transcribed by Artaud’s collaborator Paule Thévenin at Artaud’s pavilion in Ivry-sur-Seine. The two works together form one of the outstanding experiments of Artaud’s final period. Those two works were published in one volume in Paris on 20 January 1948 by the small poetry publisher K...