“The Culture of Lies” by Dubravka Ugresic [Excerpt]
This fall, we'll be reissuing Dubravka Ugresic's聽The Culture of Lies,聽 The death of the model Leafing long ago through an anthology of science-fantasy stories, in which authors from many countries were represented, I stumbled across an unusual sentence; 鈥淚 stayed at a girlfriend鈥檚 house till the small hours ...
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Morse, My Deaf Friend
There鈥檚 little to say about a series of prose poems that willfully refuse to identify pronoun antecedents. Or perhaps there are a million things. The poems in Morse, My Deaf Friend鈥 the chapbook by Milo拧 Djurdjevi膰 published by Ugly Duckling Presse as part of their Eastern European Poets Series鈥 will be confounding to ...
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Latest Review: "Morse, My Deaf Friend" by Milo拧 Djurdjevi膰
The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Vincent Francone on Milo拧 Djurdjevi膰’s Morse, My Deaf Friend, translated by the author and published by Ugly Duckling Presse. The chapbook itself is short鈥攃locking in at 32 pages鈥攁nd is yet another beautiful work of print done by Ugly Duckling. ...
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Why This Book Should Win: "Mama Leone" by Miljenko Jergovi膰 [BTBA 2013]
As in years past, we will be highlighting all 25 titles on the BTBA Fiction Longlist, one by one, building up to the announcement of the 10 finalists on April 10th. A variety of judges, booksellers, and readers will write these, all under the rubric of “Why This Book Should Win. You can find the whole series by clicking ...
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Mama Leone
Like Scotts or High Elvish, childhood is simultaneously both a real language and a totally made-up one. We all spoke it once, but in the time since we spoke it last we鈥檝e forgotten enough that our own memories can seem, if not incomprehensible, then at least significantly garbled. Being adults鈥攎eaning, being creatures ...
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Latest Review: "Mama Leone" by Miljenko Jergovi膰
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Josh Billings on Miljenko Jergovi膰’s Mama Leone, translated from the Croatian by David Williams and published by Archipelago Books. Josh Billings has reviewed for The Literary Review in the past, and is also a writer and a translator from Russian. His two ...
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CYCLOPS [Why This Book Should Win the BTBA]
Similar to years past, we鈥檙e going to be featuring each of the 25 titles on the BTBA Fiction Longlist over the next month plus, but in contrast to previous editions, this year we鈥檙e going to try an experiment and frame all write-ups as 鈥渨hy this book should win.鈥 Some of these entries will be absurd, some more ...
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