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        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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.
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