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Erika Burkart is without a doubt the most unique, lyrical voice in contemporary Swiss literature.                          ...

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Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. "Hers is the most authentic voice I've heard from the expat fifties. She brings to life a seminal decade in literary and sexual history, one that she and her fellow expats, coming home, passed on to the next generation...

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Fiction. "Beautifully raw and honest, Adam Berlin's novel follows two characters through the long darkness in New York after 9/11. This is about the running, the drinking, the standing still, and the unquantifiable missing. Berlin's book is shatte...

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Fiction. "This powerful novel, which pays out its rewards gradually, carefully, but also crisply, dare I say electrically, may be Joshua Corey's first, but it feels exactly like the highly satisfying product of the fully formed imagination that bi...

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Fiction. Over 20 Years of Stories. "What a pleasure to have all these stories by Lewis Warsh in one volume! They tend to be low-key, almost off- hand, but each with a poetic kernel that infects and defuses throughout, which makes them (though it i...

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Poetry. Annotated and translated from the Russian by Henry W. Pickford. "Loseff is one of the chief representatives of Russian exilic poetry, a great master of ironic postmodern verse. Pickford's work merits the highest recognition: this perfectly...

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Poetry. "The implicit heart of Gavronsky's imaginary meditation lies in the daunting similarity of the dialogues on the two fronts of the war between terror and authority." Harold Bloom, from the preface "A rip-roaring read. Somewhere between Apol...

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The wild is always unprecedented, but never inconsistent. This is the knowledge that makes American scholarship American. Norman Finkelstein offers unprecedented insights here whose facts consist of one Soul purpose: Friendship. Here the imaginati...

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The dates are important to mention in order to put the open sensuality in the novel in perspective., that is, pre-AIDS, when male-male sexuality was being liberated from its centuries-long subterranean hiddenness into a visibility if only, in this...

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New York Times "111 Held in St. Patrick's AIDS Protest" December 11, 1989 While some 4,500 people demonstrated outside St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday, several dozen disrupted the Mass at 10:15 A.M. to protest John Cardinal O'Connor's recent sta...

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Fiction. "Laynie Browne channels the energy of Mira in a book that is both charred and luminous. Her writing is a gift of abrasion, making the body of the reader a portal too. Who is arriving? Who is very near? The intensity of this narrative carr...

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Peter OOLeary delves into arcane, biblical and mystical texts as well as the art of iconic architecture to deliver a new poetry. Reminiscent of both Robert DuncanOs OPassagesO and Ronald JohnsonOs Ark, these verses draw influence from the aether o...

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Billie is a Senior at East Winston High when she tutors Ted, the star of the basketball team. But Ted has a drinking problem. He also has a minor fetish, a request that leads Billie on a vicarious search for herself through the characters in the b...

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The first book devoted to the work of the Objectivist Poets: Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, Lorine Niedecker. Though not a historical study, Heller explores the modernist roots of the Objectivist tradition and illumi...

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Amelia has the ability to levitate. During her wanderings through dream galleries, costumed performances, and future libraries she meets Clara (an elusive photographer), Sebastion (part human, part lion) and a chorus of cynics who exist only in pa...

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Novel, memoirs, textbook, manifesto? What exactly, dear reader, do you hold in your dirty hands? Asmodeus calls it Sublime Smut; Beelzebub prefers Profound Pornography Transgressive Literature is the term of choice among most devils (everyone in H...

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