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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
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Mia Farrow, Female Erasure & The Vampire Daddies Of Hollywood
In an extract form issue two of Somesuch Stories, through the lens of Mia Farrow Phliipa Snow considers the vampiric effect on and reaction of Hollywood's women of its men – the twisted and plentiful “Daddies”, looking for their daughter binary, to feed from and reshape
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Collapsed Horizon: Philip K Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, 40 Years On
In the fortieth anniversary year of Philip K Dick's fortieth novel, Eli Lee finds a prescient and poignant work of grief, less concerned with sci-fi predictions of the future than with exorcising the ghosts of the past and confronting the quiet horror of addiction in the present
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The Heart Of The Original: John Higgs On Alistair Fruish’s The Sentence
In Alistair Fruish's groundbreaking one-sentence novel, author John Higgs finds – rather than the cold work of a computerised neural network one might be expecting – a piece of work that is testament to, both, the future of artistic originality and the human element of those works
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Verfreundungseffekt: Once More with Feeling — Sophie Collins’ Currently & Emotion
One of the TLS' books of the year, Jen Calleja explores Sophie Collins' translation as activism through her recent Test Centre anthology, Currently & Emotion, and discusses contemporary translation, readership and the pleasures and pains of putting together a book. (Portrait of Vahni Capildeo by Richard Phœnix)
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Southern Ohio Gothic: An Interview With Donald Ray Pollock
Speaking to the author of The Heavenly Table about empathy with darkness, dead presidents and grotesquery, Sean Kitching finds a writer in possession of both a confident, unique - even defiant - sense of voice and serial doubts about his own success.
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Verfreundungseffekt: On Being ‘Non-Native’ & An Interview With Marta Dziurosz
In August's edition of her literature in translation column, Jen Calleja considers the rising tide of xenophobia legitimatised by Brexit, the gathering popularity of Polish culture (from the written word to recorded sound), and speaks to English-to-Polish translator Marta Dziurosz. (Illustration by Richard Phoenix)
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It Never Goes Away: West Virginia, Witch Hunt and Onesies With Juliet Escoria
Following the release of her newest book, Witch Hunt, Juliet Escoria speaks with fellow author Luke B. Goebel about mental health, relocating from San Diego to West Virginia, intra-marital artistic jealousy and the mechanics of breakfast buffets
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War Of The Certain: John Higgs Interviewed
The KLF, the cult of the individual and the bollocks of neoliberalism are all up for discussion alongside Robert Anton Wilson, multiple model agnosticism, and a sincere optimism about the upcoming generation when Ben Graham meets with author John Higgs
