January 2010
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February 2010: ASHES GIFTED by Joshua Abelow
Self-obsessed, self-aware, self-referential, self-examining, outrageously self-aggrandizing and endearingly self-deprecating, Joshua Abelow’s ASHES GIFTED is a collection of tongue-in-cheek words and images that could, if it wasn’t such a risky idea, be offered to favorite painters and poets to mix into their work. I Don’t Want to Name Names My name is Joshua Abelow. It...
Jan 31st
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December 2009: GRANDPA ZINN by Chris Wells
In GRANDPA ZINN, Chris Wells tests the Oulipian theory of the textual constraint and its power to produce surreal, subconscious materials. The author, whose presence dominates the seemingly simplistic narrative, makes sure that every letter of the alphabet appears at least once in each sentence, calling attention to the wonderful artificiality of the characters, the situation, and fiction...
Jan 18th
January 2010: KITCHEN TIDBITS by Amanda Laughtland
Doing her share to support the wartime manufacture of superior housewives, Amanda Laughtland delivers KITCHEN TIDBITS, an excerpt from Improving Homes and Lives, a longer manuscript inspired by magazine articles and advertisements from 1943. Postcards to Box 464, her collection of eavesdropped and nostalgic poems, will be published imminently by Bootstrap Productions. From her own kitchen table...
Jan 18th
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October 2009: THE BINDING by Hanoch Levin
A one-act excerpt from the ever-relevant theatrical satire Queen of the Bathtub, THE BINDING marked the rise to notoriety of Hanoch Levin, Israeli playwright, poet, prose master, screenwriter, and stage director. First performed in Tel Aviv in 1970, the play received scathing reviews, won nationwide disapproval, and was deemed blasphemous, unpatriotic, and sickening. Following relentless public...
Jan 18th
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November 2009: BITTER HERB by Stephanie A. Myers
A self-conscious narrative evoking the famous biblical scene at Mount Horeb, BITTER HERB opens with a personal introduction: a literary convention that soon exposes itself as a clever fabrication. Calling attention to her own unreliability, the speaker stages a curious series of defining episodes—nebulous memories, manufactured phobias, imaginary facts, conflicting versions—that undermine...
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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