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This novel of exile focuses on the disassociative aspects of culture shock, language barriers, and political evolution. "Alicia Kozameh’s 259 Leaps is a surprising, engaging, exhilarating book from a gifted writer with a major tale to tell—the contemporary experience of exile—not only because of her prison experience in Argentina and her wandering years in many countries, but... (more)

The Two-Fold Vibration

by Raymond Federman

Learning to Love You More

by Miranda July, Harrell Fletcher

The best of the groundbreaking website learningtoloveyoumore.com, which asks ordinary people to complete out-of-the-ordinary assignments--with extraordinary results. In a world obsessed with "reality" programming, the collaborative public art project known as "Learning to Love You More" offers a refreshing take on how actual people think, act, and love. Created by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher,... (more)

V: WaveSon.nets / Losing l'Una

by Stephanie Strickland

Prize-winning poet and hypertext pioneer Stephanie Strickland pushes the boundaries of the printed word to create a completely original poetic experience. V is an invertible volume with two beginnings. Turning the volume from WaveSon.nets to Losing L'una and back again, over and over, creates a fluidity that extends to the poems themselves: words slip and pour across numbers that have their own lives. V 's muse... (more)

Assassination Rhapsody (Semiotext)Derek Pell

Assassination Rhapsody (Semiotext)

by Derek Pell

great collage/graphic art novel on JFK theories

Steps under Water: A Novel

by Alicia Kozameh

Steps Under Water is a novel drawn from Alicia Kozameh's experiences as a political prisoner in Argentina during the "Dirty War" of the 1970s.

Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories (Book & CD)

Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories (Book & CD)

by Alan Licht

Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art’s roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism, Dada, and later the Fluxus group and the pioneering efforts of the American composer and artist John Cage. In the wake of this groundbreaking work, sound art began to mature into a movement, and artists explored the interactive possibilities... (more)

Voyeur

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Mathias, a timorous, ineffectual traveling salesman, returns to the island of his birth after a long absence. Two days later, a thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned and mutilated. With eerie precision, Robbe-Grillet puts us at the scene of the crime and takes us inside Mathias’s mind, artfully enlisting us as detective hot on the trail of a homocidal maniac. A triumphant display of the techniques of the “new... (more)

3D Shape: Its Unique Place in Visual Perception

3D Shape: Its Unique Place in Visual Perception

by Zygmunt Pizlo

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008. The uniqueness of shape as a perceptual property lies in the fact that it is both complex and structured. Shapes are perceived veridically—perceived as they really are in the physical world, regardless of the orientation from which they are viewed. The constancy of the shape percept is the sine qua non of shape perception; you are not actually studying shape if... (more)

Why Did I Ever

by Mary Robison

After a ten-year silence, Mary Robison has emerged with a novel so beguiling and funny that it has brought critics and her live-reading audiences to their feet. Why Did I Ever takes us along on the darkest of private journeys. The story, told by a woman named Money Breton, is submitted like a furious and persuasive diary--a tale as fierce and taut as its fictional teller.

Bear v. Shark: The Novel

by Chris Bachelder

Given a relatively level playing field -- i.e., water deep enough so that a shark could maneuver proficiently but shallow enough so that a bear could stand and operate with its characteristic dexterity -- who would win in a fight between a bear and a shark? In this fiercely funny, razor-sharp satire of our media-saturated culture, the sovereign nation of Las Vegas is host to Bear v. Shark II. After a... (more)

Alice in Wonderland.Andre Gregory, The Manhattan Project

Alice in Wonderland.

by Andre Gregory, The Manhattan Project

Avalovara (Latin American Literature Series (Dalkey Archive Press).)

Avalovara (Latin American Literature Series (Dalkey Archive Press).)

by Osman Lins, Gregory Rabassa

A work remarkable for both its form and execution, Avalovara belongs to the tradition of contemporary writing that Gregory Rabassa calls "the inventive novel." These novels include such works as Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch and Italo Calvino's Mr. Palomar, and are "narratives where the author produces the raw materials and hands them over for the reader to give them shape or structure and sometimes meaning." ... (more)

My Life

by Lyn Hejinian

Recognized today as one of the great works of contemporary American literature, My Life is at once poetic autobiography, personal narrative, a woman's fiction, and an ongoing dialogue with the poet and her experience. Upon its first Sun & Moon publication in 1987, the book began (and continues to be) taught in hundreds of college and university courses.

The Last Time I Saw You

by Rebecca Brown

In The Last Time I Saw You , author Rebecca Brown returns to the obsessive, darkly humorous voice that has earned her comparisons to Samuel Beckett and Djuna Barnes. Some of the tales in this collection are told in the scrappy, breathless voice of a naÃ¯f on the verge of a terrible revelation. Others are noir-baroque monologues that collapse in on themselves as a speaker at last abandons a much-needed delusion.... (more)

Nova Swing (Gollancz SF)

by M. John Harrison

Set in the unique world first featured in the award-winning Light, here is a story of love, murder, and intergalactic noir on the razor’s edge of the imagination, as envisioned by the incomparable M. John Harrison. Not far from Moneytown, in a neighborhood of underground clubs, body-modification chop shops, adolescent contract killers, and sexy streetwalking Monas, you’ll find the Saudade Event Site: a zone of... (more)

Malone Dies

by Samuel Beckett

'Malone', writes Malone, 'is what I am called now'. On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is intermittent and contradictory, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs; wittier, jauntier, and capable of wilder rages than "Molloy". The sound I liked best had nothing noble about it. It was the barking of... (more)

Landscape in Concrete

by Jakov Lind

Sergeant Gauthier Bachmann is the perfect Nazi soldier. But after a horrifying defeat at Voroshenko, where most of his Eighth Hessian Infantry Regiment was slaughtered in a single instant, Bachmann was declared mentally unfit to serve. Incapable of accepting this judgment, and of returning to his girlfriend and a quiet life as a gold- and silversmith, Bachmann wanders the war-ravaged countryside, trying to find a... (more)

El Maravilloso Universo de La Magia

by Enrique Barrios

Este libro trata de desestabilizar la mente logica del lector, proponiendole otra forma de mirar la existencia, enfocada desde un nivel mas elevado. Sus objetivos son tres: desplazar el punto focal de su conciencia de si llevandola hacia un nivel mas elevado, mas proximo a la Divinidad. Liberarle de las limitaciones que la mente le ha impuesto. Y de este modo, consciente de su Divinidad y ya liberado de... (more)

Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer: (Seuenos Del Seductor Abandonado : Novela Vodevil) (Latin American Women Writers)

Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer: (Seuenos Del Seductor Abandonado : Novela Vodevil) (Latin American Women Writers)

by Alicia Borinsky

This post-modern, award-winning novel's vaudeville qualities--with characters shuffling on and off the page in rapid succession--are complemented by its exhilarating air of parody. DREAMS draws ingeniously upon the sentimentality and ephemera of popular culture--quoting radio and TV shows, song lyrics, newspaper items, and bits of gossip--while also offering a sterner, more nuanced view of public and private... (more)

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by Alicia Kozameh

by Raymond Federman

by Miranda July, Harrell Fletcher

by Stephanie Strickland

by Derek Pell

by Alicia Kozameh

by Alan Licht

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

by Zygmunt Pizlo

by Mary Robison

by Chris Bachelder

by Andre Gregory, The Manhattan Project

by Osman Lins, Gregory Rabassa

by Lyn Hejinian

by Rebecca Brown

by M. John Harrison

by Samuel Beckett

by Jakov Lind

by Enrique Barrios

by Alicia Borinsky