Fiction. PORN-ANTI-PORN displays the body in pain & passion as it's never been displayed before. Fired at the reader from opposing directions, the texts are brief, erotic, anti-erotic, fiercely funny. PORN-ANTI-PORN is, finally, a brilliantly nuance...
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Fiction. When Hy ("Mememo") Grader jumped or was pushed off the balcony of the famous art and literary club known as The Cliff Dwellers (founded 1907 as The Attic Club), a terrible event occurring on the same date (September 8) as Hy's father's deat...
Fiction. A woman possessed by an inexplicable hatred for her husband plans his death on their forthcoming trip to Mexico. It is unwittingly facilitated by a young girl with whom the husband falls in love.
Fiction. Driven by an unquenchable thirst for the unknown and boundless imagination, a boy learns about the nature of life in an idyllic pre-WW II Poland and nightmarish WW II Ukraine. Life in Yuriy Tarnawsky's latest novel is shown to have the warm...
Fiction. Experimental. Middle-aged bachelor Franklin Thompson and his widowed Mother Audrey live together in a quiet small town. But their lives are periodically marred by the repeated attacks of a horrid mental disorder which they share. These atta...
Fiction. Winner of the 2017 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel. Dr Michael H.J. Tizard never quite got what he wanted from life, suffering quietly as his mentor took the professional plaudits and romantic affections that were rightly his...
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. In EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE: A COLLECTION OF STATEMENTS thirty-four writers and critics reflect upon how literature puts itself to the test in an effort to make itself new. Those reflections assume very different shapes, ...
Fiction. Art. Film. Q↔A: AN AUTO-INTERVIEW is, at heart, as its title suggests, an auto-interview by novelist and art and photography critic James R. Hugunin. It delves into the nature of his work, both literary and critical, and offers and discusse...
Fiction. Written by Charles Hood and illustrated by Christine Mugnolo. Winner of the 2016 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel. "Charles Hood has a unique voice and style. Sentences are sometimes fragmented on edge of abstraction, then sha...
Fiction. Anthology. OFFBEAT/QUIRKY is the first of a new series of books by JEF. It is an anthology of innovative fiction with a difference, of forty-six of the bravest voices in literature writing today.
Poetry. Fiction. "SCIENCE FICTION is a love poem disguised as a hate poem. The unreliable narrator lashes out sometimes against aliens, America, and closer enemies of the mind and heart. It rhythmically pulses. It unravels the psyche. It contradicts...
Fiction. "Harold Jaffe is a master of the disembodied voice. These fictions — transgressive, political, dryly comic — are grounded in an ancient tradition, that of the speech of the storyteller. Interlocutors talk as if out of dark caves, and the re...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Critical essays on photography from the journal Afterimage, 1977-1988, by James R. Hugunin, recipient of the David Logan Award for Distinguished New Writing in the Field of Photography.
Fiction. The fourth JEF novel by the author of the classic novels APOSTROPHE/PARENTHESIS (2007), AMBIGUITY (2012), and MEANWHILE (2014). This novel cuts Kramer's deepest swath yet through New York City via the interior monologue of one of its most f...
Literary Nonfiction. Are you still wondering who is that boy at the beginning of Bergman's Persona and what the damn movie is all about? And what is the point of those near-silent seven minutes at the end of Antonioni's L'Eclisse? And what happens i...