March 7, 2010
Copenhagen
by Katrine Marie Guldager (Book Thug, 2009, Translated from the Danish by P.K. Brask)
Eleven short stories that twist geographically, socially, restlessly, and perspicaciously through the city. Often mundane, then suddenly tragic, related with a matter-of-factness that is also forgiving. You can read all 82 pages in one sitting, which for that reason (and the fragility of the characters and also the unassailable whiteness of Copenhagen) makes me want to compare the book to a stack of rice cakes. In a good way. I like rice cakes. Or else I wouldn’t be recommending the book.
$20
February 21, 2010
Boons & The Camp
by David Ohle (Calamari, 2009)
Double feature. Two Ohle novellas in one.
$12
Hello Failure
by Kristen Kosmas (Ugly Duckling, 2009)
I’m no drama critic, but what I love about the playwright Eugène Ionesco I also love about Kristen Kosmas’ Hello Failure. (Satire and wit without embitterment.) But George Hunka says it better:
“Kristen Kosmas is one of the most exciting and accomplished new voices in the American theater… Her story of seven submariners’ wives marries Chekhovian realism to a language reminiscent of Gertrude Stein for one of the best new plays of the season.”
$12
The Difficult Farm
by Heather Christle (Octopus, 2009)
When is too much honesty not enough?
$12
February 7, 2010
Encyclopedia A-E
Anthology (Encyclomedia, 2006)
Essays and artwork by Morgan Adamson, Afua Kafi-Akua, Laylah Ali, Jess Arndt, Ron Athey, Kelli Auerbach, Chiara Barzini, Susan Bernstein, Louky Bersianik, Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Bracho, Popahna Brandes, Julianna Bright, Rebecca Brown, Tisa Bryant, Ak Burns, Mary Cappello, Jonathan Ceniceroz, Greg Chandler, Barbara Christian, Jaime Cortez, Brenda Coultas, Paula Cronan, Brent Cunningham, Samuel R. Delany, Matthew Derby, Bob Doto, Rikki Evenson, Thalia Field, Harrell Fletcher, Sandy Florian, Diana George, William Gillespie, Michael Gizzi, Robert Gluck, Billy Gomberg, Minal Hajratwala, Duriel Harris, Jordan Harrison, Katie Hays, Patrick Herbert, Tanya Hollis, Joanna Howard, Erika Howsare, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Laird Hunt, Sara Jaffe, Xylor Jane, Jeff Johnson, John R. Keene, Jr., Miriam Klein-Stahl, Kate Kunath, Sarah Labrie, Ana M. Lara, Catherine Liu, Kenyetta Lovings, Sarah Madsen, Katherine Mann, Sara Marcus, Melissa Maristuen, Dawn Lundy Martin, Carole Maso, Andrew MacAleavey, Annie Medina, James Meetze, Bernadine Mellis, Miranda F. Mellis, Talan Memmott, EE Miller, K. Silem Mohammad, Eileen Myles, Christian Nagler, Kofi Natambu, Kirthi Nath, Cynthia Nelson, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Alice Notley, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Akilah Oliver, Sally Oswald, Micah Perks, M. Nourbese Philip, Praba Pilar, Corinna Press, Frances Richard, Deborah Richards, Damien Riggs, Lisa Robertson, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Kate Schatz, Carolee Schneemann, Christine Schutt, Gail Scott, Sara Seinberg, Prageeta Sharma, Sun Yung Shin, Mahwash Shoaib, Zak Smith, Juliana Snapper, Anna Joy Springer, Christopher Stackhouse, Vincent Standley, Suzanne Stein, Chuleenan Svetvilas, Livia Tenzer, Padcha Tuntha-Obas, Deb Olin Unferth, Fred Wah, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Wadrop, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michelle Weinberg, Celia Wiley, Diane Williams, Ronaldo V. Wildon, and Matt Wolf. Damn.
$25