Their Days Are Numbered is a new year-long project authored by the collective Entropy community. It is a collaborative online novel written by the Entropy community on a weekly basis.…
Alex Kalamaroff
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Pies and Tarts for Dinner and Dessert by Stéphane Reynaud Melville House, November 2014 192 pages – Melville House / Amazon Everyone who knows me knows this: I am a pie…
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With increasing frequency, whenever we encounter the term “plot” in literary criticism, we’re told to treat it as an unfashionable hat. In her recent New Yorker essay, “An Answer to…
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Literature
And So Join Me In This Toast To Monster Blood (Part I)
by Alex Kalamaroff October 31, 2014The ooze was loose! And we wanted to swim in it. Whether it was Nickelodeon slime, Monster Blood, or that troublingly viscous concoction Tom Rodak made during lunch by mashing…
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I want to read something fun. I want to read something nigh-incomprehensible. Or something surreal and sickly sardonic. Something Gutter Operatic. I want to read every book I…
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Consider them second homes. Or read this as a transcontinental road map — with destinations that have all been given a hearty thumbs-up by us here at Entropy. Whether you need a novel to…
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Over at Everyday Genius hot tamale Michael Seidlinger has been flashing us with some works-in-progress by a variety of writers, which made me think about the genre “Works-In-Progress” in general,…
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It’s always intriguing when reading a translated book to imagine what the original language looks and sounds like. How did we get from here to there, from—in this instance—early twentieth-century…
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Welcome to a world that’s a bit bleaker even than our own, where desolation is the daily bread and death more common than kindness. By my rough guesstimate, in total…
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Although the books I’m forever meaning to read are piled high already — these towers of tomes that will one day most likely crush me — there are still more books I’m gearing up…
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For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014 256 pages / Amazon / Goodreads For Today I Am a Boy, the debut novel by…
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The TV Sutras by Dodie Bellamy Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014 240 pages / UDP / Amazon Look into the living room overcrowded with stuff and see her seated there,…
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LiteratureReview
Kissing the Asshole of Comedown: D. Foy’s Made To Break
by Alex Kalamaroff April 8, 2014Made To Break by D. Foy Two Dollar Radio, March 2014 202 pages / Amazon / Two Dollar Radio / Goodreads It could be the start of a horror…
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Sometimes students ask me, “Why must every book be so sad?” Tell us, why does 87% of literature view the human condition an unpleasant, mordant, smelly thing? Really, isn’t this…