Dadaoism

Dadaoism PDF Author: Justin Isis
Publisher: Chomu Press
ISBN: 9781907681141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Dadaoism is the first anthology from Chomu Press. Editors Justin Isis and Quentin S. Crisp have selected twenty-six novellas, short stories and poems setting out an aesthetic manifesto of rich and stimulating prose style, explosively unhindered imagination and anarchic experimentation. From Reggie Oliver's 'Portrait of a Chair', in which consciousness is explored from the point of view of furniture, to John Cairns' 'Instance', a nano-second by nano-second account of a high-speed telepathic conversation, to Julie Sokolow's 'The Lobster Kaleidoscope' in which naive wordplay acts as a foundation for existentialist philosophy in a story of inter-species love; from those such as Michael Cisco, with growing followings, to unexpected new voices such as Katherine Khorey, Dadaoism sets out to present a mystery tour of the literary imagination and to demonstrate that outside of exhausted mainstream realism and uninspired genre tropes, contemporary English-language writing is thriving and creatively vital."

Dadaoism

Dadaoism PDF Author: Justin Isis
Publisher: Chomu Press
ISBN: 9781907681141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Book Description
Dadaoism is the first anthology from Chomu Press. Editors Justin Isis and Quentin S. Crisp have selected twenty-six novellas, short stories and poems setting out an aesthetic manifesto of rich and stimulating prose style, explosively unhindered imagination and anarchic experimentation. From Reggie Oliver's 'Portrait of a Chair', in which consciousness is explored from the point of view of furniture, to John Cairns' 'Instance', a nano-second by nano-second account of a high-speed telepathic conversation, to Julie Sokolow's 'The Lobster Kaleidoscope' in which naive wordplay acts as a foundation for existentialist philosophy in a story of inter-species love; from those such as Michael Cisco, with growing followings, to unexpected new voices such as Katherine Khorey, Dadaoism sets out to present a mystery tour of the literary imagination and to demonstrate that outside of exhausted mainstream realism and uninspired genre tropes, contemporary English-language writing is thriving and creatively vital."

We Bury the Landscape

We Bury the Landscape PDF Author: Kristine Ong Muslim
Publisher: Queen's Ferry Press
ISBN: 0983907153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like

I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like PDF Author: Justin Isis
Publisher: Chomu Press
ISBN: 9781907681011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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A collection of obsessive and yet crystalline stories set in contemporary Japan, written with savvy that is flawlessly streetwise, literary and metaphysically profound all at once. Futuristic in outlook, up-to-the-minute in setting and sophisticated in influence, these are stories for those who feel that literature has not caught up with the 21st century.

Crandolin

Crandolin PDF Author: Anna Tambour
Publisher: Chomu Press
ISBN: 9781908178190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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In a medieval cookbook in a special-collections library, near-future London, jaded food and drink authority Nick Kippax finds an alluring stain next to a recipe for the mythical crandolin. He tastes it, ravishing the page. Then he disappears...So begins an 'adwentour' that quantum-leapfrogs from Central Asia in the Middle Ages to Russia under Gorbachev, from the secrets of confectionery to the agonies of making a truly great moustache, from maidens in towers to tiffs between cosmic forces. Food, music, science, fruitloopery, superstition, railways, bladder-pipes and birth-marked Soviet statesmen; all are present in an extraordinary novel that is truly 'for the adwentoursomme'.

Nemonymous Night

Nemonymous Night PDF Author: Df Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913766283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Mike was a hawler, although he would have spelt it differently had he known the word at all. At this stage, it was unclear what a hawler was-or what a hawler did. But Mike knew he was one and probably knew what one was and what one did, even if he didn't know the name itself." Nemonymous Night is a tale of magic and dream. A rich collage of the British townscape and psyche. A spiral of details, mundane things imbued with significance and significant things that feel mundane. More outsider art than portrait. Missing children and angel wine - ocean liners and helicopters - and a drill vehicle bound for the core of the earth. DF Lewis's remarkable novel is brought back into print again, for the first time in hardcover.

Link Arms with Toads!

Link Arms with Toads! PDF Author: Rhys Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907681080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Self-reflective mirrors looking for their own reflections. Towns that migrate to the moon. Prisoners of elaborate dungeons and gigantic miniature solar systems. Robots, ghosts, rascals, explorers, troubadours, apemen and yetis. All are present in the multiverse of inversion and invention that is Link Arms with Toads! Rhys Hughes is a unique figure in contemporary fiction whose speculative whimsicality is not so much balanced as trampolined by tensile prose and puckish pensiveness. Link Arms with Toads! forms the ideal introduction to his work.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 23

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 23 PDF Author: Stephen Jones
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 178033091X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Book Description
The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers. As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers a comprehensive overview of the year in horror, a necrology of recently deceased luminaries, and a list of indispensable addresses horror fans and writers. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror remains the world's leading annual anthology dedicated solely to presenting the best in contemporary horror fiction.

Drowning in Beauty

Drowning in Beauty PDF Author: Justin Isis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781943813599
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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From the ashes of countless decayed Modernities comes Neo-Decadence, a profaned cathedral whose broken stained glass windows still glitter irregularly in the harsh light of a Symbolist sun. Behind this marvellously vandalised edifice, a motley band of revellers picnic in the graveyard of the Real, leaving behind all manner of rotting delicacies and toxic baubles in their wake. During the last eighty years, world culture has seen an explosion of popular aesthetics, art-forms and the movements associated with them: clothing, trends in fashion, tattoos, recreational drugs, musical sub-cultures, cosmetics, photography--all of which can be the subject of obsessions, damnations and salvations. Devices and formats, initially vulgar, are worshipped, only to be forgotten by all but the few initiates who, through their maniacal fixations, manage to uncover their hidden allure. These twelve stories and their preceding manifestos, then, arise from a shift in aesthetic consciousness: synaesthesia, ecstasy in extremes, the Divine and Infernal alike seen through a neurasthenic lens of supreme focus.

Another Example of Indulgence

Another Example of Indulgence PDF Author: John Elliott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Nothing But a Star

Nothing But a Star PDF Author: Jeremy Reed
Publisher: Chomu Press
ISBN: 9781907681240
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Nothing But a Star is an eclectic mix of poetry, essays, song lyrics and more. Forming an exquisite scrapbook of moods, memories, counter-culture lore, literary extravagance and unschooled imagination, the book offers us a chance to linger in what J.G. Ballard (one of Reed's admirers) called "the visionary present," the imaginary future that exists already around us. With poetry that perfectly captures moments of fascination and inspiration in London, an essay on the suicides of Hart Crane and Harry Crosby, a playscript for a version of The Picture of Dorian Gray set in the 21st century, a pop libretto written for Marc Almond and based on J-K Huysmans' A rebours, Nothing But a Star is an assured marriage of decadence with the futuristic, glittering with the sequins of a pop culture sensibility."