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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
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Short Fiction: Binary Star By Sarah Gerard
Extracted from the novel Binary Star, published earlier this year by Two Dollar Radio, Sarah Gerard's prose, both haunted and haunting, possesses a celestial quality seemingly drawn from the beauty of fluttering, astronomical luminescence and the terror of what feels a near-immeasurable vastness. In Binary Star personal reality becomes the vacuum and the horror of the metaphysical numinous abject. (Photograph by Josh Wool)
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An Interloper In The World: Confessions Of A Heretic Reviewed
Sophia Deboick considers the English-language version of Adam 'Nergal' Darski's autobiography, a work of more than just sensationalism for its own sake, via the Polish people's love for scrambled eggs, The Voice and polarising views on religion
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The Bright Labyrinth: Chance And Repetition
In a selection of excerpts from his recent Strange Attractor-published book, The Bright Labyrinth, Ken Hollings discusses - via John Cage and Edgard Varèse - mass production, organisation, repetition and the (perhaps only) advantage human beings have over machines. (Illustrations by Matthew Frame)
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Verfreundungseffekt: The Translator Is Present – Saskia Vogel Interviewed
This month’s column swings the focus to the unsung hero – the literary translator – but just as much on contemporary Swedish literature and inventive ways of publishing literature in translation. (Portrait of Saskia Vogel by Richard Phœnix)
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Peer Review: Ornate Resignation – Crispin Best Interviews Rebecca Perry
As part of our running Peer Review series, where authors are interviewed by their contemporaries, Crispin Best and Rebecca Perry sit down - at different computers in different locations - to talk about avocados, the key events of 1983 and the titles that could have been for her recently-released book of poems, Beauty/Beauty
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Poetry Column: Oversized Blazer — Sam Riviere On Audun Mortensen
In the first instalment of his new column on contemporary poetry (Poetry Column), Sam Riviere examines - via Sontag, Calvino and the convoluted nature of the 'I' - the work of Norwegian poet, artist and possible anti-Knausgård, Audun Mortensen. (Photograph by Václav Jedlička)
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A Tourist In One’s Own Country: An Interview With Simon Sylvester
Dale Lately speaks to novelist, poet, slam-winning hat-wearer and winner of the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize 2014, Simon Sylvester about nomadic existence, writing from and outside of experience and the history of storytelling
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The Record As Relational Artwork: An Interview With Jon Bywater
Elena Dolcini speaks to the editor of the first volume of the Social Life of The Record series — Everybody Knows This is Nowhere — the companion publication an exhibition exploring the relationship between art and music and geography, particularly focused on New Zealand identity about desperation, dislocation, Neil Young and the perils of immediacy
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L.A. Unbound: James Ellroy Interviewed
Ian Johnston sits down with James Ellroy, veteran and pioneer of contemporary crime fiction, non-fiction and the blurring of those lines — the Demon Dog of American literature — to talk about the glossed-over injustice of Japanese-American internment in World War II, expanding Los Angeles across an entire world and his new novel, Perfidia
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Going Back Home: A Journey Through Estuary Myth And Identity
In an extract from an essay taken from his co-authored collection with Lee Rourke, Trying to Fit a Number to a Name, Tim Burrows discusses the culturally (re)enforced and self-fulfilling stereotypes of the TOWIE Essex and the 'archetypal' UKIP-supporting Essex Man via Samuel Beckett, Wilko Johnson and Mike Leigh
