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One of Pamela Mordecai’s biggest strengths as a writer is her ability to disappear. So, you’re thinking, ‘Wow, that’s the most backhanded compliment I’ve read.’ But it’s true.
She writes in the Caribbean dialect, which is challenging to read initially. Once you relax your eyes, though, and settle into her voice, the rhythm of her...
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‘The Queen’s face is spattered with blood. This is strange for a Wednesday.’
In 9987, the debut novel from Nik Jones, there’s the pervading sense of everything being slightly…off. We follow the unnamed narrator through his frequently meaningless life: from his Total Rental video store, to his cramped bedsit, to the house of his parents,...
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Featuring Lyn Lifshin
MAYBE VENUS DE MILO WASN’T HAPPY WITH HERS
So with one gone,
at least, she could
pose not showing
what was no longer
what it was. Arms.
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Don’t be in much of a rush, my friend. This is going to be a long and terrible journey. Nobody told you that you were leaving, but you don’t have much of a choice.
But where are we going? I couldn’t say.
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I started part 1 of this paper in the middle of a quotation, I will start part 2 also in the middle of a quotation, and I will probably finish this presentation in the middle of another quotation. For, as we know from having lived and studied Postmodernism, quotations were central and essential to...
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