Scope and Contents Amazon.com reviewer. "When I write my reviews, I often include references to other books that link to the one I've just read, whether thematically or chronologically or theoretically or spiritually or even just randomly--but for "The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet" I'm not sure I can even randomly select a work that links to it. Unique and ambitious, Reif Larsen's debut isn't a classic, but its nicely done. Tecumseh (family name adopted four generations earlier by his Finnish immigrant ancestor) Sparrow (named for the sparrow that crashed into the window of his birthing room) is a 12-year-old boy born on a Montana ranch to his gruff cowboy father and scientist mother in search of a phantom beetle. T. S. is a normal boy--except he always calls his mother Dr. Clair, he hardly ever talks to his father (well, strike that, that could be considered normal 12-year-old-boy-behavior)-and he is an accomplished and published technical artist and cartographer. When he receives a call from the...

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First published by Grove Press in 1968, this edition was typeset and printed by Johanna Drucker. On several pages, light blue markings are printed under the text as a sort of abstracted female genitalia area. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The covers were designed by Steve Venright. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book depicts a facsimile of the protagonist's journal and mysterious disappearance complete with photographs, maps, found scraps of paper, notations on an outer column of the page with the offset diary on an inner column.Amazon.com review: "At one time, Lydia and Christopher were lovers as well as travel companions; now they are merely fellow travelers. While on a trip to Morocco, Lydia notices a small mark on her hand which begins to grow and spread in thin, tattooed lines that only she can see. Eventually, the marks reveal themselves to be a detailed map of an unknown land, and Lydia begins to understand that these marks, invisible to all but herself and a mysterious Moroccan man named Layesh, will lead her on a strange and perilous journey. The Tattooed Map is Lydia's journal of the days and weeks leading up to her disappearance. Each page contains her daily experiences--her growing shock and fear as the map unfolds itself, her deteriorating relationship with Christopher,...

Scope and Contents This edition includes an introduction to "The Tenant" by Thoms Ligotti, the Kafka-ish novel itself, four short stories and reproductions of nine surealistic drawing.J from NY Amazon.com: Roland Topor's "The Tenant" is nothing if not original; the author impresses his nightmarish worldview without leaving us a moment to draw breath, and as we read deeper and deeper into the tragic tale of M. Trelkovsky we can't help but share his vision, at least for the duration of the novel. I've long been a fan of the 1976 Roman Polanski film and often wondered why it was so obscure. After reading Topor's novel, I had to appreciate how beautifully Polanski translated this very complex and disturbing work to the screen. Comparing it with the movie you realize Polanski left out only what he absolutely had to, and that wasn't much. At the outset it seems that Trelkovsky is an average joe who lives in a world of material necessity, habitual discourtesy from others, and bullies. Actually I think this...

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Amazon.com: combination of poetry, prose, and graphic art from a Czech Surrealist who once painted the surface of a frozen lake. The twelve full-color pictures that form the book's central motif are from a 1976 Danish calendar and executed by froissage, a particular method invented by Novak of interpreting the lines formed by crumpling TC. The text to the art was written overnight in the spirit of automatism, and, again sixteen years later. The volume also includes poems from Novak's alter ego, Mr. Hadliz, as well as a conversation between the author and his subject. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated as Black Series No.2. Includes reproductions of two drawings by Franciska Themerson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This novel deals with self-revelations of an American academic who is trying to write an introduction for a book that he has just completed, "Guilt and Innocence in Hutler's Germany." The book can be opened to almost any page and read as fragments of self-contained poetry. It has many Joycean elements in its presentation.Reviews in Dalkey Archive at their Web site:by H. L. HixWilliam H. Gass's The Tunnel, whatever its virtues, is not an inviting book. Even a reader willing to endure its length and its narrator's unrelenting bitterness must overcome its subordination of plot to other concerns: the book does not proceed from a to b along a "straight line" of narrative or exposition, revealing all relevant information before or as it is needed, but moves in a less ordered (or differently ordered) way that its author conceives as a more accurate replication of human consciousness. Its releasing and withholding information with little regard for plot means that The Tunnel offers more to...

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This novel deals with self-revelations of an American academic who is trying to write an introduction for a book that he has just completed, "Guilt and Innocence in Hutler's Germany." The book can be opened to almost any page and read as fragments of self-contained poetry. It has many Joycean elements in its presentation. This version of the book has a collaged yellow Jewish star on page 30 with the inscription "JUDE" whereas the purchased version on its release did not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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More than 80 riffs, rants, and mini-fictions by two old BUMS, er, that is, masters - perfectly complemented by the avant-comic artistry of T. Motley!' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The letters are from Danielewski's monumental novel, "House of Leaves," published as a separate work that demonstrates a mother's love for her son. The letters are written by the fictional character, Pelatina H. Lieve to her son Johnny Truant. The typography changes and fluctates as the mental status of Pelatina deteriorates. These letters are just one of many levels of creative, experimental fiction in Danielewski's remarkable story. The Sackner Archive contains the first edition hard and soft cover bookls of "House of Leaves." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of two novels. Things deals with a young French lower middle class couple in the post-WWII era who are marketing researchers. They want to be acquire possessions but do not have the necessary job skills or work ethnic to become wealthy. A Man Asleep is an existensionlist story about a nameless person that is written entirely in the second voice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Publishers Weekly: Inimitable British writer Lodge (Small World; The Art of Fiction) is at his best in another of his comedies of manners set in the academic world. His 10th novel is distinguished by gentle satire, vigorous intelligence, sometimes ribald humor and a perspicacious understanding of the human condition. At the fictitious University of Gloucester, science and literature collide in the persons of 40-something Ralph Messenger and Helen Reed. Ralph's research as the director of cognitive science and his wit and charisma as an explicator of artificial intelligence make him a bit of a star in Britain, and with the ladies. He delights in opportunities for extramarital activities within the confines of the don't-ask-don't-tell arrangement he's established with his wife. Ralph's worthy opponent, newly widowed Helen, a novelist and Henry James devotee, has come to the university to teach creative writing. Helen represents the religious conflict common to Lodge's characters. She...

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Robert Zend contributed an experimental story "The Key" to this volume. He" emigrated from Hungary to Toronto and became one of Canada's most singular and experimental writers. His works include Zero to One, My Friend Jeronimo, Arbormundi and Beyond Labels. His masterwork, OAB, in two volumes, appeared in 1985, the year he died." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Amazon.com: Thoughts of Sorts, one of Georges Perec's final works, was published posthumously in France in 1985. With this translation, David Bellos, Perec's preeminent translator, has completed the Godine list of Perec's great works translated into English and has provided an introduction to this master of systematic versatility. Thoughts of Sorts; is a compilation of musings and essays attempting to circumscribe, in Perec's words, my experience of the world not in terms of the reflections it casts in distant places, but at its actual point of breaking surface. Perec investigates the ways by which we define our place in the world, reveling in list-making, orientating, classifying. This book employs all of the modes of questioning explored by his previous books, and, as the same time breaks new ground of its own, ending with a question mark in typical/atypical Perec fashion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Susie Bright in her introduction writes: "Get in, get out, don't linger. It sounds like a pornographic maxim, but it's actually Raymond Carver's axiom about how to craft the perfect short story. Erotic literature, in our lifetimes, has usually fit his bill. It's short, all right. Sexy stories have typically been told in punch lines, bawdy tales, quickies from a raconteur. I've seen erotic anthologies that proposed to tell a story in under a hundred words, then under fifty. Erotic storytellers have beaten the devil, then the censor, and finally the clock. There's an untold parable behind the quick and the hot. Sexual writing has suffered under a lot of shame, and that's made it difficult to thrive. In a great deal of America's publishing history, you had to be a beatnik or a pornographer to get your hands on any form of erotica, whether crude or existential. A couple decades ago, when commercial literary publishers began to produce erotic volumes of their own, they did so with two...