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Fugue State Press
Fugue State Press (established 1992) is a small New York City fiction publisher, specializing in the experimental novel. Novelist James Chapman is the founder and publisher. It has published 28 titles to date, including work by Chapman, Joshua Cohen, Stephen Dixon, Noah Cicero, Shane Jones, Ben Brooks, Prakash Kona, Eckhard Gerdes, André Malraux, W. B. Keckler, Vi Khi Nao, J. A. Tyler, and I Rivers. Both American and international authors are represented. The books are distributed in the United States by Small Press Distribution (SPD). Books Publications have included: * ''Story of A Story and Other Stories: A Novel'' by Stephen Dixon * ''Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto'' by Joshua Cohen * ''The Kingdom of Farfelu/Paper Moons'' by André Malraux * ''The Human War'' by Noah Cicero * '' Stet'' by James Chapman * ''The Failure Six'' by Shane Jones Shane Geoffrey Jones (born 3 September 1959) is a New Zealand politician. He served as a New Zeala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Chapman (author)
James Chapman (born 1955) is an American novelist and publisher. He was raised in Bakersfield, California, has lived in New York City since 1978, and is the author of ten novels to date. His work combines experimental technique with a direct emotionality, often dealing with the anguish inherent in human communication. Excerpted in many print and online magazines, his work has won a Notable Stories in ''StorySouth''s Million Writers Award, and been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize. Earlier books (to 2000) In his first novel, ''Our Plague (A Film from New York)'' (1993), the protagonist is an underground filmmaker alienated from his own body, disgusted by his own careerism, and awash in apocalyptic visions. Not a lucid book, rather a difficult one, though energetic and full of unexpected choices. The story in the brief ''The Walls Collide as You Expand, Dwarf Maple'' (1993) seems almost desiccated: a young woman grows up, meets a man on a train, and lives with him i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Malraux
Georges André Malraux ( , ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as information minister (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first cultural affairs minister during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–1969). Early years Malraux was born in Paris in 1901, the son of Fernand-Georges Malraux (1875–1930) and Berthe Félicie Lamy (1877–1932). His parents separated in 1905 and eventually divorced. There are suggestions that Malraux's paternal grandfather committed suicide in 1909."Biographie détaillée" , André Malraux Website, accessed 3 September 2010 Malraux was raised by his mother, maternal aun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Press Publishing Companies
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Book Publishing Companies Based In New York (state)
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stet (novel)
''Stet'' is a novel by the American author James Chapman; it was published by Fugue State Press in 2006. Plot summary ''Stet'' tells the life story of a visionary Soviet filmmaker named Stet who lives through Stalin's repressions, manages to direct his first feature film, but ends up in a prison camp for various offenses against the bureaucracy. The novel is narrated in a "Russian" voice, by an ostensible third-person narrator who is nevertheless full of opinions and bitter aphorisms. Despite his third-person status, the narrator seems to be a major character in the book. The tone of the book is black humor, and often entirely pessimistic, as it delineates the difficulties of living as an artist who does not accept or worry about the judgments of his surrounding world. Yet the character of the filmmaker Stet, to whom aesthetic ecstasy remains available throughout his trials, seems to give the reader an alternative to the pessimism of the narrator. Themes *Stet is a proofreader' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Press Distribution
Small Press Distribution (SPD) is a non-profit literary arts organization located in Berkeley, California. As their name indicates, the core of their mission is to act as an umbrella distributor and marketer for hundreds of smaller literary publishers. SPD's primary mission is to get the books of their publishers out to bookstores, libraries, book wholesalers, and directly to readers and writers. History SPD was founded in 1969 by Peter Howard of Serendipity Books and Jack Shoemaker of Sand Dollar Press. The fledgling organization provided small-scale distribution services for only five publishers. Initially called Serendipity Books Distribution, it was renamed Small Press Distribution by the late 1970s. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the organization periodically assembled the new titles of their publishers into printed catalogs, thus providing a vital link to underground literature for writers and readers around the US. By 1980, SPD was distributing the books of about 40 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Rivers
I Rivers is the pen name of an anonymous Singapore-born Malaysian Malaysian may refer to: * Something from or related to Malaysia, a country in Southeast Asia * Malaysian Malay, a dialect of Malay language spoken mainly in Malaysia * Malaysian people, people who are identified with the country of Malaysia regard ... author, whose first novel, ''Black Magic Woman # Zero Point Negro'' was published in 2004 by Fugue State Press. Although biographical details are scant, an article by Thor Kah Hoong states that Rivers' actual first name is Joe, and that he studied economics in the United States in the early 1990s; he may be presumed to have been born around 1970. He is married and is the father of one child. His first novel was described by Arnold Skemer of ZYX Magazine as follows: "Certainly hallucinatory and oft breaking into song, this novel goes in many directions with names of characters from the realm of fantasy, such as 'Mother Mary,' 'Wild Flowers,' 'Fire Worm,' with ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vi Khi Nao
Vi Khi Nao is a cross-genre writer from Long Khánh, Vietnam. She is a graduate of the MFA program at Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes Prize, the Feldman Prize and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award. She was the 2022 recipient of Lambda Literary's Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize. She won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016 for her short story collection, ''A Brief Alphabet of Torture''. Her poetry collection, ''The Old Philosopher'', won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. ''Sheep Machine'' is an ekphrastic work written in response to Leslie Thornton's film of the same name. It was featured in ''The Paris Review'' as one of Sabrina Orah Mark's favorite books of 2019. It was also a Staff Pick at Small Press Distribution and Drawn & Quarterly. PEN America called it "a puzzle of a book that challenges the very way we read and consider words." She has been a semi-regular contributor to the literary annual '' N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckhard Gerdes
Eckhard Gerdes (born 1959) is an American novelist and editor. Life Eckhard Gerdes was born in 1959 in Atlanta, Georgia, and has lived in Switzerland, Germany, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Katanga, the Republic of South Africa, as well as in several locations throughout the United States in Illinois, Georgia, Iowa, Alaska, and California. He has three children and five grandchildren. He earned his MFA in Fiction Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also holds an MA in English from Roosevelt University in Chicago, and a BA in English from the University of Dubuque in Iowa. Work Perhaps best known for his novels, his work reflects experimental technique, sometimes ignoring time, space, or cause-and-effect, in the service of stories of individuals struggling to transcend fear and limitation. His critical work on modern and post-modern literature has appeared in the Review of Contemporary Fiction, the American Book Review, and, recently, has in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bookslut
Jessa Crispin (born c. 1978 in Lincoln, Kansas) is a critic, author, feminist, and the editor-in-chief of ''Bookslut'', a litblog and webzine founded in 2002. She has published three books, most recently ''Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto'' (2017). Early life Crispin is from Lincoln, Kansas; she has described both her hometown and upbringing in her family as very conservative. She attended Baker University in Kansas for two years before leaving without a degree. Literary career Crispin began her literary career as publishing outsider who started her blog ''Bookslut'' on the side while working at Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas. She eventually came to support herself by writing and editing the site full-time. ''Bookslut'' ran for 14 years, with the last issue announced in May 2016. ''Bookslut'' received mentions in many national and international newspapers, including ''The New York Times Book Review'' and ''The Washington Post''. In 2005 Crispin kept a diary ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prakash Kona
Prakash Kona Reddy (born 1967) is an Indian novelist, essayist, poet and theorist who lives in Hyderabad, India. He is currently a professor at the Department of English Literature, School of English Literary Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad. He writes in English, and is the author of the many books to date. Bibliography *''Conjurer of Nights'' *''How I Invented Myself as "Prakash Kona"'' *''Nunc Stans'' CROSSING_CHAOS_enigmatic_ink.html" ;"title="reative Non-fiction: 2009, CROSSING CHAOS enigmatic ink">reative Non-fiction: 2009, CROSSING CHAOS enigmatic ink, Ontario, Canada*''Words on Lips of a Stranger'' [2005, Writers Workshop, Calcutta] *''Pearls of an Unstrung Necklace'' [Fiction: 2005, Fugue State Press, New York] *''Literary Criticism: A Study of Pluralism (Wittgenstein, Chomsky and Derrida)'' [Theory: 2004, Wisdom House Publications, Leeds, England] *''Streets that Smell of Dying Roses'' *''Poems for Her (as Kona Prakash Reddy) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Brooks (author)
Ben Brooks (born 1992 in Gloucestershire) is the author of the novels: '' Grow Up'', ''Fences'', ''An Island of Fifty'', ''The Kasahara School of Nihilism,'' ''Upward Coast and Sadie'', ''Lolito, Everyone Gets Eaten'' '','' and ''Hurra.'' Writing for children, he has published the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller ''Stories For Boys Who Dare to Be Different'', ''Stories For Boys Who Dare to be Different 2'', ''Stories For Kids Who Dare to be Different'', ''The Impossible Boy'', and ''The Greatest Inventor''. His first non-fiction book for adults, ''Things They Don't Want You To Know'', was published by Quercus in September 2020. He contributed the story 'Kimchi or a Partial List of Misappropriated Hood Ornaments' to Frank Ocean's '' Boys Don't Cry,'' accompanying the release of 2016 album ''Blonde''. Awards * 2014 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize for Lolito * 2015 Somerset Maugham Award The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
