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The Secret Life of Literature

The Secret Life of Literature

The Secret Life of Literature

by Lisa Zunshine

ISBN: 9780262046336

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 15, 2022

An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
In a Sound World

In a Sound World

In a Sound World

by Victor Segalen

Edited by R. W. M. Hunt and Marie Roux

Afterword by David Toop

ISBN: 9781907222801

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: December 14, 2021

Works by the polymathic French author Victor Segalen, including a previously untranslated essay, a novel, and a libretto.
Picture Cycle

Picture Cycle

Picture Cycle

by Masha Tupitsyn

Introduction by Kevin Killian

ISBN: 9781635901047

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: November 19, 2019

A multigenre investigation of the personal and cultural annals of memory, identity, and spectatorship, both on and off the screen.
Sleeveless

Sleeveless

Sleeveless

Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019

by Natasha Stagg

ISBN: 9781635900965

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: October 8, 2019

Essays and stories on fashion, art, and culture in the New York of the 2010s.
The Householders

The Householders

The Householders

Robert Duncan and Jess

by Tara McDowell

ISBN: 9780262042710

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 24, 2019

How the poet Robert Duncan and the artist Jess made the household part of their separate and collaborative creative practice.
Bad Writing

Bad Writing

Bad Writing

by Travis Jeppesen

ISBN: 9783956794100

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: September 17, 2019

Essays that forge a path to a truly radical “bad” modernism in art and literature.
Appendix Project

Appendix Project

Appendix Project

Talks and Essays

by Kate Zambreno

ISBN: 9781635900767

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: April 23, 2019

On the ongoing project of writing about grief; Zambreno's addendum to Book of Mutter.
Sympathy for the Traitor

Sympathy for the Traitor

Sympathy for the Traitor

A Translation Manifesto

by Mark Polizzotti

ISBN: 9780262537025

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 29, 2019

An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.
Fascination

Fascination

Fascination

Memoirs

by Kevin Killian

Edited by Andrew Durbin

ISBN: 9781635900408

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: December 11, 2018

A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement.
Vile Days

Vile Days

Vile Days

The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985–1988

by Gary Indiana

Edited by Bruce Hainley

ISBN: 9781635900378

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: November 13, 2018

Gary Indiana's collected columns of art criticism from the Village Voice, documenting, from the front lines, the 1980s New York art scene.
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