We’re interested in literature that is visionary—embracing or interrogating Mystery as it enacts a sense of ecstasy or otherworldly consciousness/experience. But I think that, in terms of aesthetics, there’s such a wide variety of ways to render that, and so many different topics or perspectives could lend themselves to that work. We are also interested in work that promotes interfaith and/or intercultural exchange.
Mega Man 3 by Salvatore Pane Boss Fight Books, 2016 168 pages – Boss Fight / Amazon Salvatore Pane’s Mega Man 3 warps its reader into a shared past, where the flickering…
Written Lives by Javier Marías Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Penguin Modern Classics, 2016 (First published in English by New Directions in 2006) 208 pages – Penguin /Amazon The great figures in…
Fake Missed Connections by Brett Fletcher Lauer Softskull Press, 2016 225 pages – Softskull / Amazon It’s not so much that I have thought of committing suicide in a really real…
Proxies: Essays Near Knowing by Brian Blanchfield Nightboat Books, 2016 200 pages – Nightboat / Amazon I have not read Brian Blanchfield’s new collection of essays, Proxies: Essays Near Knowing. The book,…
VHS and Why It’s Hard to Live by Tatiana Ryckman Zoo Cake Press, 2016 Zoo Cake Confession: I often judge books by their covers. Hey, aesthetics matter, right? Or, if…
Pretentiousness: Why It Matters by Dan Fox Coffee House Press, 2016 144 pages – Coffee House / Amazon Some might take a book about pretentiousness as a bit, well, pretentious—especially if…
Currently, the topics of race and racism dominate the US media, with Claudia Rankine and Ta-Nehisi Coates as central figures in the conversation. Rankine’s collection of non-traditional poems, Citizen: An…
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Times of Joseph Cornell Other Press, 2015 – reprint (originally published in 1997) 592 pages – Other Press / Amazon What do we make…
Now and At the Hour of our Death by Susan Moreira Marques Translated by Julia Sanches And Other Stories, 2015 128 pages – And Other Stories / Amazon Portuguese journalist Susana…
The Other Serious: Essays For The New American Generation by Christy Wampole HarperCollins, 2015 256 pages – Harper / Amazon Essayist Christy Wampole puts herself in the grand tradition of…
On Writing by Charles Bukowski (edited by Abel Debritto) Ecco, 2015 224 pages – Ecco / Amazon On Writing by Charles Bukowski, edited by Abel Debritto, is a book Bukowski…
“This is the commonly reigning form of barbarism: that one doesn’t even realize that morality is a matter of taste.” — Pierre Klossowski Social media offers us an opportunity…
Letter to a Future Lover by Ander Monson Graywolf Press, 2015 160 pages – Graywolf / Amazon Subtitled “Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Libraries,” Ander Monson’s…