tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12379621559531237892024-02-19T08:50:54.621-08:00Guide Dog BooksGuide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-39241565556839777402014-12-12T06:02:00.000-08:002014-12-12T06:02:02.295-08:00Review of How to Read<i>Readers' Favorite</i> has given <a href="http://www.eckhardgerdes.com/" target="_blank">Eckherd Gerdes</a>' experimental textbook <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Eckhard-Gerdes/dp/1935738682/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418392881&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+read+gerdes" target="_blank">How to Read</a></i> a <a href="https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/37991" target="_blank">5-star review</a>. Read it <a href="https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/37991" target="_blank">here</a>.Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-50807704870303033882014-11-26T12:25:00.000-08:002014-11-26T12:25:00.195-08:00Fiction International<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The <a href="http://fictioninternational.sdsu.edu/wordpress/catalog/issue-47-phobiaphil" target="_blank">latest issue</a> of <i><a href="http://fictioninternational.sdsu.edu/wordpress/catalog/issue-47-phobiaphil" target="_blank">Fiction International</a> </i>contains work from three GDB authors: <a href="http://eckhardgerdes.com/" target="_blank">Eckhard Gerdes</a>, <a href="http://jaffeantijaffe.sdsu.edu/" target="_blank">Harold Jaffe</a> and <a href="http://www.dharlanwilson.com/" target="_blank">D. Harlan Wilson</a>.Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-27557030378419642312014-11-02T13:38:00.000-08:002014-11-02T14:00:51.603-08:00GDB Authors in 2014Check out some of the works published by GDB authors in 2014. All of them have been keeping very busy . . .<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Annihilation-Novel-Southern-Reach-Trilogy/dp/0374104093/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414963927&sr=8-1&keywords=vandermeer+annihilation" target="_blank">Annihilation</a></i></div>
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<i><a href="http://lance olsen theories of forgetting" target="_blank">Theories of Forgetting</a></i></div>
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<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Terminal-Biography-Biographizer-Trilogy/dp/1935738585/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414964155&sr=1-1&keywords=hitler+the+terminal+biography" target="_blank">Hitler: The Terminal Biography</a></i></div>
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<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Freud-Penultimate-Biography-Harlan-Wilson/dp/1935738577/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414964177&sr=1-1&keywords=freud+the+penultimate+biography" target="_blank">Freud: The Penultimate Biography</a></i></div>
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<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Douglass-Autobiography-D-Harlan-Wilson/dp/1935738569/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414964203&sr=1-1&keywords=douglass+the+lost+autobiography" target="_blank">Douglass: The Lost Autobiography</a></i></div>
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<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Primordial-Abstraction-D-Harlan-Wilson/dp/0989239152/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414964226&sr=1-1&keywords=primordial%3A+an+abstraction" target="_blank">Primordial: An Abstraction</a></i></div>
Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-61866255074059269282014-10-01T07:45:00.002-07:002014-10-01T07:48:03.951-07:00Official Release<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today marks the official publication date for the paperback and kindle editions of our latest title, <a href="http://eckhardgerdes.com/" target="_blank">Eckhard Gerdes</a>' <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Eckhard-Gerdes/dp/1935738682/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1412173470&sr=8-2&keywords=how+to+read+gerdes" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">How to Read</a>! We're very excited about this book. Gerdes is a veteran author and the longtime editor-in-chief of <i><a href="http://www.experimentalfiction.com/" target="_blank">Journal of Experimental Fiction</a>. </i>Here's the cover description and some blurbage:</span><br />
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long, our educational system has oversimplified the practice of reading while
pretending that only one method works: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Read
as fast as you can, from beginning to end, in a straight line, without skipping
anything. The fastest reader is the best reader and gets the gold star and the
certificate for free ice cream! </i>This, of course, punishes deliberate,
careful students and booklovers who delight in the process and incorporate what
they read into their everyday lives. The dominant method of reading works
for simple linear texts, but it is by no means the only way to go about reading
and excludes many other types of texts. In <i>How to Read</i>, veteran
novelist, editor and educator Eckhard Gerdes reveals 81 different approaches for
reading, opening up new horizons that restrictive educators have been blocking
from view for far too long. This innovative guidebook will enrich the
experience of textuality for young and old readers alike.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dazzled by a book since Queneau's <i>Exercises in Style</i>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How to Read</i> will definitely shake things
up.” </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: right;">—<a href="http://blackscatbooks.com/" target="_blank">Derek Pell</a>, author of </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: right;">X-Texts </i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: right;">and </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: right;">The Little Red Book of Adobe LiveMotion</i></div>
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across the Parisian walls in May 1968: <i>Be realistic, ask the impossible</i>.
That's precisely what Eckhard Gerdes does on every page of his critifiction
about how to read, which is to say about how to write, which is to say about
how to rewrite, which is to say about how to un-write. It's ingenious,
impossible revolution all the way down.” </span></span><span style="color: #2a303e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: right;">—<a href="http://www.lanceolsen.com/" target="_blank">Lance Olsen</a>, author of </span><i style="color: #2a303e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: right;">Architectures of
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Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-2051540735102220702014-09-25T17:56:00.003-07:002014-09-25T17:56:31.750-07:00Preorders for How to ReadThe <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Gerdes-Eckhard-ebook/dp/B00NVPN12K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411692040&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+read+gerdes" target="_blank">kindle edition</a> of Eckhard Gerdes <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Gerdes-Eckhard-ebook/dp/B00NVPN12K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411692040&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+read+gerdes" target="_blank">How to Read</a></i> is now available. If you're interested in innovation modes of readings texts—scores of innovative modes, in fact—this is your book.Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-47984187992096763702014-08-04T04:27:00.001-07:002014-08-12T11:38:44.837-07:00How to Read<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our next title, <a href="http://www.eckhardgerdes.com/" target="_blank">Eckhard Gerdes</a>' <i>How to Read</i>, an experimental textbook on innovative reading practices, will be published in October and is currently available for <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/read" target="_blank">preorder</a>.Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-46085284342038786772014-03-22T06:55:00.002-07:002014-03-22T10:40:11.178-07:00Kindle Countdown Deal for The Irreal ReaderBeginning on March 25, there will be a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Irreal-Reader-G-S-Evans-ebook/dp/B00GR02WPS/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1395496094&sr=8-1&keywords=the+irreal+reader" target="_blank">Kindle Countdown Deal</a> for <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Irreal-Reader-G-S-Evans-ebook/dp/B00GR02WPS/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1395496094&sr=8-1&keywords=the+irreal+reader" target="_blank">The Irreal Reader</a></i>. The price will begin at 99 cents and go up one dollar per day. Here's the schedule:<br />
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This is a great opportunity to take advantage of a true masterwork. <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Irreal-Reader-G-S-Evans-ebook/dp/B00GR02WPS/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1395496094&sr=8-1&keywords=the+irreal+reader" target="_blank">The Irreal Reader</a> </i>is a collection of the best international stories and essays from the<i> <a href="http://www.cafeirreal.com/" target="_blank">The Cafe Irreal</a>. </i>Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-18181608107164595802014-02-01T06:21:00.003-08:002014-02-01T06:21:44.006-08:00World Fantasy Award<br />
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Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-71292338372976300072013-12-01T06:16:00.004-08:002014-02-01T06:17:58.156-08:00Goodreads Giveaway CompleteCongratulations to Karen Mikusak from Detroit, Michigan. She won a free paperback copy of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Irreal-Reader-G-S-Evans-ebook/dp/B00GR02WPS/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1384911538" target="_blank">The Irreal Reader: Fiction & Essays from The Cafe Irreal</a> </i>in <a href="http://www.guidedogbooks.com/" target="_blank">Guide Dog Books</a>' recent Goodreads giveaway. <i>The Irreal Reader </i>is currently available in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Irreal-Reader-G-Evans/dp/1935738348/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1384911538&sr=8-1" target="_blank">paperback</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Irreal-Reader-G-S-Evans-ebook/dp/B00GR02WPS/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1384911538" target="_blank">Kindle</a> formats.Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-73588270308625758532013-11-19T17:46:00.002-08:002013-11-19T17:46:46.294-08:00Czech Literary Portal & Goodreads GiveawayThe paperback edition of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Irreal-Reader-G-Evans/dp/1935738348/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384911538&sr=8-1&keywords=the+irreal+reader" target="_blank">The Irreal Reader: Fiction & Essays from The Cafe Irreal</a></i> was officially released today and mentioned in the <a href="http://www.czechlit.cz/en/new-books/the-irreal-reader-fiction-essays-from-the-cafe-irreal/" target="_blank">Czech Literary Portal</a>. A lot went into the creation of this anthology; naturally we're very proud of it. Below are a few different places where you can check it out. Reviews are appreciated!<br />
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Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-33635062496856430212013-11-14T08:12:00.005-08:002013-11-14T08:12:52.895-08:00The Irreal Reader<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Available now from Guide Dog Books: <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/irreal-reader/" title="Irreal Reader, The"><em>The Irreal Reader</em></a> collects the best fiction from <em><a href="http://www.cafeirreal.com/" target="_blank">The Cafe Irreal</a>.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>The Cafe Irreal: International Imagination</i>, a pioneering web-based literary magazine, first went online in 1998 with the intention of publishing a type of fantastic fiction most often associated with writers such as Franz Kafka, Kobo Abe and Jorge Luis Borges. To this end, it has published more than 250 authors from over 30 countries. In the course of the past fifteen years, it has also seen its editors nominated for a World Fantasy Award and been named by <i>Writer’s Digest</i> as one of the Top 30 Short Story Markets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In this anthology, edited by G.S. Evans and Alice Whittenburg<i>, </i>Guide Dog Books presents a selection of the fiction and essays from <i><a href="http://www.cafeirreal.com/" target="_blank">The Cafe Irreal</a> </i>that take us most definitively into the realm of the Irreal. These include pieces by Diploma de Honor Konex winner Ana María Shua (Argentina), Michal Ajvaz (winner of the Magnesia Litera prize in the Czech Republic), Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Simic, and Pushcart Prize winners Bruce Holland Rogers and Caitlin Horrocks.</span></div>
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Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-35780279119592092432013-10-21T14:21:00.001-07:002013-10-21T14:22:47.976-07:00White Indians<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://kingsenglish.indiebound.com/event/michael-gills-white-indians?utm_source=Events+This+Week+October+22-26&utm_campaign=ETW+10-21-13&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">launch</a> for GDB's next book, Michael Gills' <i>White Indians</i>, is on Thursday, October 24, at <a href="http://kingsenglish.indiebound.com/event/michael-gills-white-indians?utm_source=Events+This+Week+October+22-26&utm_campaign=ETW+10-21-13&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">The King's English Bookshop</a>. In this memoir, Gills' recounts his experience as a participant at a Native
American Sundance ceremony on Zuni Territory, New Mexico, in July 2005. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here are a couple of blurbs:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Gills’ beautifully written prose in <i>White Indians</i> combines
his warring natures—the daring macho infused crazy man with the earth-reverent
husband and father. This book is a reminder that we Americans still live on a
continent that recently was a wilderness, and that we all possess an atavistic
need to interact with it. For those of us not so good as Michael Gills at
camping, hiking, and white-water rafting, he’s offered us a thrilling armchair
version.” —Diane Wakoski, author <i>The Diamond Dog</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Each word is a spark, every sentence a sizzling fuse. The
whole of <i>White Indians</i> is a sun-white conflagration, cleanly
and cleansing. The intensity of this visionary memoir is the core of its
message. Michael Gills sojourned in the heart of light and he has returned to
his home world with that light still clinging to his every utterance. I shall
never be the only reader grateful for his revelations—and a little frightened
of them.” —Fred Chappell, <i>Ancestors and Others: New and Selected
Stories</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>White Indians </i>will be available in paperback and ebook formats. Please check out the book's <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18486004-white-indians" target="_blank">Goodreads page</a>.</span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-15863280389090972122013-07-16T14:40:00.001-07:002013-08-18T11:24:06.607-07:00The Irreal Reader: CoverComing in November from GDB . . .<br />
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<br />Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-8723959537837115032013-05-24T08:30:00.001-07:002013-08-07T04:39:54.227-07:00The Irreal Reader: Description & TOC<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In November, Guide Dog Books will release <i>The Irreal Reader: Fiction & Essays from The Cafe Irreal</i>, edited by G.S. Evans and Alice Whittenburg. We're very excited about this anthology and it's been a long time in the making. Here is the cover description and the full table of contents.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>The Cafe Irreal: International Imagination</i>, a pioneering web-based literary magazine, first went online in 1998 with the intention of publishing a type of fantastic fiction most often associated with writers such as Franz Kafka, Kobo Abe and Jorge Luis Borges. To this end, it has published more than 250 authors from over 30 countries. In the course of the past fifteen years, it has also seen its editors nominated for a World Fantasy Award and been named by <i>Writer’s Digest</i> as one of the Top 30 Short Story Markets. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">In this anthology, Guide Dog Books presents a selection of the fiction and essays from </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">The Cafe Irreal </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">that take us most definitively into the realm of the Irreal. These include pieces by Diploma de Honor Konex winner Ana María Shua (Argentina), Michal Ajvaz (winner of the Magnesia Litera prize in the Czech Republic), Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Simic, and Pushcart Prize winners Bruce Holland Rogers and Caitlin Horrocks.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>CONTENTS</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Preface</span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>FICTIONS</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center; text-indent: 13.5px;">TERRY DARTNALL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Santa Fe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ANA MARÍA SHUA</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From <i>Geisha House</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From <i>Botany of Chaos</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">EWALD MURRER</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From <i>The Diary of Mr. Pinke</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">KEVIN SEXTON</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Spindler </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">KUZHALI MANICKAVEL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kisi Shayar Something Something</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cats and Fish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Because We Are Precious and Brave</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">CHARLES SIMIC</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Seven Prose Poems</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">NORMAN LOCK</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unreal Geography</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Cruelty of Poetry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">VANESSA GEBBIE</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Storm Warning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Note-Takers</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PETER CHERCHES </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From <i>Mr. Deadman</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">JIŘÍ KRATOCHVÍL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Sad Play</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From the Pulps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PAUL BLANEY</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Restaurant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I Came Highly Recommended</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I Dreamed and in My Dream</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I Walked Out</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How the Universe Works</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">GREG JENKINS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I Feel My Temperature Risin'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">CAITLIN HORROCKS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Herzenboogen's Theory of Collective Truth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">GUIDO EEKHAUT</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just Words</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">GIRIJA TROPP</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cellular</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">MICHAL AJVAZ</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The City and Heaven</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">LEE WILLIAMS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Kn!ghts of Slipway Seven</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">GLEYVIS CORO</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Fever</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BOB THURBER</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shuteye</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ALEXANDRA BERKOVÁ</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From <i>Magoria</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">D.E. LUCAS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of the Minotaur</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">B E TURNER</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Comedy of Art</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">MAURICIO ROSALES</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Poster</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">RICHARD KOSTELANETZ</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Openings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">HARRY WHITE</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Best of the Besht</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Witness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Ledger Angel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BRIAN BISWAS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Betrayal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">JIRI VALOCH</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">semantical studies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">J.B. MULLIGAN</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Man in the Red Raincoat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Message</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A White Chair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">UTAHNA FAITH</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All Girl Band</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">EMILIO MARTINEZ</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">News from Burgundia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">D. HARLAN WILSON</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Giraffe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">DAVID RAY</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Seven Pieces of Meat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">VIT ERBAN</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Small, Cold Sun</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Belly of the Centipede</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">STEPHANIE HAMMER</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mayoral Morbitas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PETER GRANDBOIS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sewing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">TOMÁŠ PŘIDAL</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From <i>The Coconut Ape</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">JOSÉ CHAVES</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All I Misunderstood as a Man Makes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Complete Sense as a Parrot</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>THEORETICAL WRITINGS</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">G.S. EVANS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What Is Irrealism?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ALICE WHITTENBURG</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On International Imagination</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Waking Dream: A Review of Kazuo </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ishiguro's </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Unconsoled</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">G.S. EVANS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Irrealism Is Not a Surrealism: A </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Consideration of Analogon #32</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Irrealism and the Visual Arts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">G.S. EVANS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From “American Irrealism and the Cult of </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Experience”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From “Defining Irrealism: Scientific </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Development and Allegorical Possibility”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">G.S. EVANS</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A Response to “Defining Irrealism” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Response to “A Response to </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">‘Defining Irrealism’”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">G.S. EVANS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Irrealism and the Dream-State</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ALICE WHITTENBURG</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From “Finding the Strange in the Familiar: Irreal Stories by Women Writers”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">G.S. EVANS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Magical Realism and Its Meanings: A Not So Necessary Confusion</span></div>
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GARRETT ROWLAN</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Irrealism and Ambient Music</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">G.S. EVANS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This Could Be a Pipe: Foucault, Irrealism and <i>Ceci n'est pas une pipe</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">G.S. EVANS AND ALICE WHITTENBURG</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After Kafka: Kafka Criticism and Scholarship as a Resource in an Attempt to Promulgate a New Literary Genre</span></div>
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Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-80734600975393734352013-05-13T09:41:00.002-07:002013-05-13T09:41:36.927-07:00Revolutionary Brain on Kindle<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpRFT5VkJ_6ci8qAA60tb_eBr6hPG1QUuUv5-f_QuQAfI13dc-_vFF18Hx5v30tgxA-6P_15vpq8VX9jtCKR1w1Ake_0U8A5kmgRyZIUfK6wHsgr6okEkddVPUb8FgOF_fQUy_yHtf29s/s1600/frontcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpRFT5VkJ_6ci8qAA60tb_eBr6hPG1QUuUv5-f_QuQAfI13dc-_vFF18Hx5v30tgxA-6P_15vpq8VX9jtCKR1w1Ake_0U8A5kmgRyZIUfK6wHsgr6okEkddVPUb8FgOF_fQUy_yHtf29s/s320/frontcover.jpg" width="204" /></a>Harold Jaffe's <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Brain-ebook/dp/B00CQTH006/" target="_blank">Revolutionary Brain: Essays & Quasi-Essays</a></i> is now available on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Brain-ebook/dp/B00CQTH006/" target="_blank">Kindle</a>. Get it for $2.99 for a limited time.<br />
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Also check out the Kindle edition of Jaffe's <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Twitter-150-50-Word-Stories-ebook/dp/B006QG9LAW/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1368462868&sr=8-1&keywords=anti-twitter" target="_blank">Anti-Twitter</a></i>, currently ranked #1 in the Satire category at Amazon. It is available as a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Twitter-150-50-Word-Stories-ebook/dp/B006QG9LAW/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1368462868&sr=8-1&keywords=anti-twitter" target="_blank">free download</a> for the next 24 hours.<br />
Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-44116980246059153432013-05-01T13:30:00.000-07:002013-05-01T13:30:32.754-07:00Monstrous Creatures for FREE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For a limited time, <a href="http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/" target="_blank">Jeff VanderMeer</a>'s <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Monstrous-Creatures-Explorations-Articles-ebook/dp/B00551PEXW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1367421316&sr=1-1&keywords=monstrous%20creatures&buffer_share=c3faa&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=Buffer%253A%252BRaw%2520Dog%2520Screaming%2520Press%252Bon%252Bfacebook" target="_blank">Monstrous Creatures: Explorations of Fantasy through Essays, Articles and Reviews</a></i>, is available for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Monstrous-Creatures-Explorations-Articles-ebook/dp/B00551PEXW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1367421316&sr=1-1&keywords=monstrous%20creatures&buffer_share=c3faa&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=Buffer%253A%252BRaw%2520Dog%2520Screaming%2520Press%252Bon%252Bfacebook" target="_blank">FREE on Kindle</a>. Here's a description of the book:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"An entertaining, eclectic chronicle of modern fantastical fiction, <i>Monstrous Creatures</i> delivers incisive commentary, reviews, and essays pertaining to permutations of the monstrous, whether it’s other people’s monsters, personal monsters, or monstrous thoughts. A two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, Jeff VanderMeer is one of speculative fiction’s foremost voices. For the past 20 years, he has not only written weird literary fiction translated into 20 languages, but written about it extensively, influencing the way people think about fantasy through reviews in major papers like <i>The Washington Post</i> and <i>The New York Times</i>, as well as through interviews, thoughtful essays, blog posts, teaching, and guest-speaking. <i>Monstrous Creatures</i>, a follow-up to his 2004 nonfiction collection <i>Why Should I Cut Your Throat?</i>, collects all of his major nonfiction from the past five years, including such controversial pieces as “The Romantic Underground,” “The Triumph of the Good,” and “The Language of Defeat”. Interviews with writers like Margo Lanagan and China Miéville are an added bonus, creating a dialogue with VanderMeer’s own interpretations of the monstrous in the fantastical."</span></span>Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-22091177567474158262013-03-03T10:08:00.001-08:002013-03-03T10:08:03.436-08:00Possible Architect 9 & 10Episodes <a href="http://architecturespossibility.squarespace.com/blog/2013/2/27/possible-architect-09-davis-schneiderman-pt-1.html" target="_blank">9</a> and <a href="http://architecturespossibility.squarespace.com/blog/2013/2/27/possible-architect-10-davis-schneiderman-pt-2.html" target="_blank">10</a> are now available at the website for <a href="http://www.lanceolsen.com/" target="_blank">Lance Olsen</a>'s <i><a href="http://www.architecturesofpossibility.com/" target="_blank">Architectures of Possibility</a></i>. Professor, critic and novelist <a href="http://davisschneiderman.com/" target="_blank">Davis Schneiderman</a> talks about writing and publishing in the age of digital distraction and auto summarizes <i>Alice in Wonderland </i>in 85 words.Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-78893423633213812332013-02-23T15:48:00.000-08:002013-02-23T15:48:01.303-08:00Praise for Revolutionary Brain<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here are some recent blurbs from interviews of <a href="http://www.jaffeantijaffe.com/" target="_blank">Harold Jaffe</a>'s <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Brain-Harold-Jaffe/dp/1935738321/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361663189&sr=8-1&keywords=revolutionary+brain" target="_blank">Revolutionary Brain</a></i>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"Both alarming and playful, <i>Revolutionary Brain</i> is an accessible read that offers neither authoritative explanations nor easy resolutions to today’s problems of digital overload; instead, the book, by its own example, attempts to illustrate how art and activism can shock us out of complacency." </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">—<i>New Orleans Review</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">"[I]t is what Jaffe does with others’ words that makes his writing riveting. Along with poignant, startling, disturbing." </span><span style="background-color: white;">—<i>San Diego Gay & Lesbian News</i></span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">"I found myself pondering his words and meanings on every page. It was enjoyable; it was thought-provoking, at times it was comedic, and one that I will need to read many times to get the full gist of his meanings." </span><span style="background-color: white;">—<i>San Diego Free Press</i></span></span>Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-8265458894075685802013-02-19T10:19:00.000-08:002013-02-19T10:19:05.368-08:00Interview with Harold Jaffe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Harold Jaffe has in interview in the latest issue of <i><a href="http://web4.uwindsor.ca/rampike" target="_blank">Rampike</a></i>, a longstanding innovative Canadian-American journal, in which he talks extensively about his latest book, <i><a href="http://www.rawdogscreaming.com/revolutionary.html" target="_blank">Revolutionary Brain</a>. </i>Here's the cover description:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In this timely collection of essays and "quasi-essays," acclaimed novelist and critic Harold Jaffe explores the intricate vicissitudes of millennial culture. Gesturing, in a philosophical shorthand, toward a kind of pop Armageddon, <i>Revolutionary Brain</i> is at once thesis, allegory, and surreal comedy, demonstrating just how far we, and the natural world we have debased, have fallen. Obsessed with technology, we are incapable of reconstructing ourselves. By way of Jaffe's elegant prose and perfect pitch, our collective disability is laid bare at the 11th hour. <i>Revolutionary Brain</i> is a powerful cry for a brave new aesthetics that turns towards, not away, from our tormented globe.</span></span>Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-48247924529638343302013-02-19T05:30:00.000-08:002013-02-19T05:31:25.683-08:00Technologized Desire on Kindle<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">D. Harlan Wilson's <a href="http://www.dharlanwilson.com/technologizeddesire.html" target="_blank"><i>Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction</i>,</a> is now available on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Technologized-Desire-Selfhood-Postcapitalist-ebook/dp/B00BH8U1TO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1361279777&sr=8-2&keywords=technologized+desire" target="_blank">Kindle</a>. The Nook will follow in the next week or so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's the <a href="http://www.dharlanwilson.com/techdesiretoc.pdf" target="_blank">Table of Contents</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In <i>Technologized Desire</i>, D. Harlan Wilson measures the evolution of the human condition as it has been represented by postcapitalist science fiction, which has consistently represented the body and subjectivity as ultraviolent, pathological phenomena. Operating under the assumption that selfhood is a technology—i.e., a creative projection from the body encompassing everything from language to electronic machinery—Wilson studies the emergence of selfhood in philosophy (Deleuze & Guattari), fiction (William S. Burroughs' cut-up novels and Max Barry's <i>Jennifer Government</i>), and cinema (<i>Army of Darkness</i>, <i>Vanilla Sky</i>, and the Matrix trilogy) in an attempt to portray the schizophrenic rigor of twenty-first century mediatized life. We are obligated by the pathological unconscious to always choose to be enslaved by capital and its hi-tech arsenal. The universe of consumer-capitalism, Wilson argues, is an illusory prison from which there is no escape—despite the fact that it is illusory.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D. Harlan Wilson's book of literary and cultural criticism, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Technologized-Desire-Selfhood-Postcapitalist-Science/dp/193329373X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359849161&sr=8-1&keywords=technologized+desire" target="_blank">Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction</a></i>, will be available on Kindle and Nook soon. Here are a few blurbs and passages from some reviews:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"A
common accompanying theme ... of postcapitalist science fiction is dystopian
post-humanism: a merging of the biological self with technology with disastrous
global consequences. Such stories swarm with clones, cyborgs, and virtual
realities. These latter stories have a tendency to dehumanize the human, many
seeming to strive to answer the question, 'What is humanity?' while characters
plug or jack or dial into virtual, highly technologized existences. With this
backdrop of science fiction, along with that of decades of culture, philosophy,
politics, and history as its base, and expanding his science fiction data field
to include cinema as the prevailing mass medium for such fiction, prolific
fiction and non-fiction author D. Harlan Wilson's <i>Technologized Desire:
Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction</i> is an ambitious
undertaking, analyzing the currents of all these information flows and
examining them for patterns and meaning with a keen, postmodern eye." <b><i>The
New York Review of Science Fiction</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"With
or without choice, Wilson's technologized subjects explore the possibilities
left them through 'science fiction texts [...] that can be read as
technocultural phenomena as well as sources that read into the nature of
technoculture.' This is the fruitful outcome of Wilson's project—a series of
deft and interesting analyses of the ways in which specific sf texts map the
position of the technologized self within the postmodern world ... I would
recommend the book highly to anyone interested in any of the texts under
analysis and for those interested in postcapitalism or sf as a proscriptive
genre. Although the level of theoretical engagement would make <i>Technologized
Desire </i>a difficult text for all but the most advanced graduate students, I
could easily see using it in the classroom as a model for graduate students on
how to integrate multiple theories by multiple theorists into a persuasive
argument." <b><i>Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"<i>Technologized
Desire</i> proves itself to be a rich addition to the growing canon of
21st-century critical theory and literary criticism. Wilson is an author who
expresses a clear concern for the future; his book is an urgent text of keen
observation and wide-reaching social commentary that warrants nothing less than
a careful, thoughtful read." <b><i>Rain Taxi</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Wilson's
text serves not only as a well-informed addition to science fiction criticism
and theory, but also as a critique of postmodem society and the direction it is
headed. Utilizing examples from postcapitalist films, novels, and comic books,
Wilson provides a dynamic analysis of science fiction as a way to view
postmodern capitalism and its effects on society and individuals." <b><i>FemSpec</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Postmodern
SF, Wilson suggests, has recovered from the panic of cyberpunk and begun to
treat the human as body as a commodity-self that can free itself from the
technological ... Ultimately, Wilson's book is a quick read, except where he
chooses to quote Bukatman and Deleuze-Guattari. It could serve as an entry into
SF and postmodern fiction and film." <b><i>Journal of the Midwest Modern
Language Association</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"As
time goes on, will humanity become less human? <i>Technologized Desire:
Selfhood and the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction</i> is a discussion of
science fiction and its relation to the future of mankind and its relationship
to technology. Analyzing the works of many writers, D. Harlan Wilson brings
readers some original philosophy about the conclusions we can draw for the
future of mankind, by simply looking at science fiction. <i>Technologized
Desire</i> is an utterly fascinating read that deserves a place in any literary
studies collection." <b><i>Midwest Book Review</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"By
and large, his interpretations are right on the money: Wilson's analyses are
almost always rich, insightful, and convincing. Thus, Crowe's and Raimi's films
demonstrate the impossibility of a 'natural' self even while guilefully
suggesting the opposite; Burroughs' trilogy advances postcapitalist (i.e.,
hypercapitalist) 'reality'; and the Wachowskis' MATRIX films recapitulate all
of this with an eye toward 'the futurological dimension of a postcapitalist
dystopia,' as well as the history of science fiction itself. In addition,
Wilson's key concern—that capitalist critique be added to the otherwise
exemplary work begun by Bukatman—constitutes a valuable contribution to recent
scholarship on postmodern science fiction." <b><i>Science Fiction Studies</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Wilson
mobilized a pantheon of twentieth century commentators from Freud to Benjamin,
to Baudrillard and Lacan, to Jameson and Zizek, to, finally, Deleuze and
Guattari—'poet laureates of technocapitalism' ... [D]espite being a deceptively
concise book, <i>Technologized Desire </i>... is a more than worthy addition to
sf scholarship. I can appeal both to those deeply entrenched in the discourses
of capitalist posthumanity and to beginners whom the book will send outward to
other critical texts invoked by Wilson." <b><i>Extrapolation<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"In
<i>Technologized Desire</i>, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic
ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed
in the language of science fiction. Here, images of prosthetic subjects,
zombies, cut-ups and armies of the medieval dead actually slip off the pages of
literature to become the terminal hauntology of these technologized times. <i>Technologized
Desire</i> is nothing less than a brilliant data screen of future memories.
Read it well: it's a survival guide for bodies flatlined by the speed of
accelerating technology." <b>Arthur Kroker</b>, author of <i>The
Postmodern Scene</i> and <i>Panic Encyclopedia</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Describing
an impressively wide arc from high-toned cultural theory to cyberpunk fiction
to techno-centered cinema, Wilson advances his theory that 'the only choice
available to the postmodern subject ... is rooted in a dependency on ... the
ultraviolent schizophrenic production of the commodity-self.' <i>Technologized
Desire</i> is a bright, brazen, evocative reading of technology, the body, and
the art that is inaccurately labeled science 'fiction'." <b>Harold Jaffe</b>,
author of <i>Straight Razor</i>, <i>15 Serial Killers</i> and <i>Beyond the
Techno-Cave: A Guerilla Writer's Guide to Post-Milennial Culture</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"D.
Harlan Wilson’s <i>Technologized Desire: Selfhood and the Body in
Postcapitalist Science Fiction</i> is a fantastic book. One of the finest
theoretical examinations in the field, it is also eminently readable and highly
incisive. With this, Wilson has written a major work, one that will stand out
(and above) in science fiction studies. Both great fun and wonderfully
intelligent, how could you go wrong? Highly recommended.”<b> Gary Hoppenstand, </b>editor
of <i>The Journal of Popular Culture</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Postmodern analysis of science fiction doesn’t
get any better than this. Jump in and see how far down the rabbit hole goes.” <b>William
Irwin</b>, editor of <i>The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the
Real</i> and <i>More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded</i></span><!--EndFragment-->
Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-86706894964770524852012-12-07T07:15:00.003-08:002012-12-07T07:15:45.868-08:00Now Available: Revolutionary BrainWe are happy to announce that our latest title, Harold Jaffe's <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Brain-Harold-Jaffe/dp/1935738321/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1354892919&sr=8-5&keywords=revolutionary+brain" target="_blank">Revolutionary Brain: Essays & Quasi-Essays</a></i>, is now available for purchase. Here is a <a href="http://guidedogbooks.blogspot.com/2012/11/revolutionary-brain-press-release.html" target="_blank">press release</a>.Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-3100097356836580822012-12-06T09:58:00.002-08:002012-12-06T09:58:23.534-08:00RDSP Holiday Gift GuidePlease have a look at <a href="http://inveteratemediajunkies.com/2012/12/04/raw-dog-screaming-press-rdsp-holiday-gift-guide/" target="_blank">Raw Dog Screaming Press's Holiday Gift Guide</a> over at <a href="http://inveratemediajunkies.com/">InverateMediaJunkies.com</a>. Among many fine selections is <a href="http://www.lanceolsen.com/" target="_blank">Lance Olsen</a>'s <i><a href="http://architecturesofpossibility.com/" target="_blank">Architectures of Possibility</a></i>, currently available in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Architectures-Possibility-After-Innovative-Writing/dp/1935738194/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353533317&sr=1-1&keywords=architectures+of+possibility" target="_blank">paperback</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Architectures-Possibility-Innovative-Writing-ebook/dp/B007JWCNMA/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1353533317&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Kindle</a> editions, and best read, it appears, with a glass of Snooty Fox Cabernet Sauvignon in the presence of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424060/" target="_blank">Scarlett Johanssen</a>.Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-12341645272796806612012-11-21T13:55:00.000-08:002012-12-07T07:16:52.759-08:00Revolutionary Brain Press Release<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trade Paperback: 127 pages, 7.5x9.25, $13.95, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ISBN: 978-1-935738-32-9</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Guide Dog Books is proud to announce the release of Harold Jaffe’s <i>Revolutionary Brain, </i>a collection of
essays and quasi-essays from one or our most brilliantly innovative provocateurs.
Known for his unique style of “docufiction” and “literary terrorism,” Jaffe has
made a career out of exposing the latent realities embedded in our
media-saturated consciousness, not just in the US but globally. In <i>Revolutionary Brain</i>, he takes his cue
from theorist Julia Kristeva, as he demonstrates how we revel in—and ultimately
worship—our chronic state of cultural abjection, which increasingly spirals out
of control as we plunge ever further into the realm of (dis)information and
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Revolutionary
Brain</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> harnesses its critical and creative energy from an extraordinary variety
of sources and artifacts, including ethnocide, activist art, popular film,
ethical sacrifice, legislated porn, enraged elephants, and electronic hubris.
It will appeal to a wide readership, theorizing with the broad erudition of
Baudrillard, Žižek and Virilio while entertaining with the eclectic comedy of
Coover, Roth, and Barthelme.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the Back of the Book<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this
timely collection of essays and "quasi-essays," acclaimed
novelist and critic Harold Jaffe explores the maddening chord changes of
millennial culture. Gesturing, in a philosophical shorthand, toward a kind of
pop Armageddon, <i>Revolutionary Brain </i>is at once thesis,
allegory, and surreal comedy, demonstrating just how far we, and the natural
world we have debauched, have fallen. Obsessed with technology, we are
incapable of reconstructing ourselves. By way of Jaffe’s elegant prose and
perfect pitch, our collective disability is laid bare at the 11<sup>th</sup>
hour. <i>Revolutionary Brain</i> is a powerful cry for a brave new
aesthetics that turns towards, not away, from our tormented globe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Advance Praise for <i>Revolutionary
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I was
transfixed in this volume by Jaffe’s incisive blows to the hypocrisy of
flag waving, nation building, and the lethal intent by our leaders
who stride the globe in bloody boots commanding the 99 percent to obey the
law and get to work in the marketplace of nightmarish dreams. Jaffe
has missed absolutely nothing in delineating our expiring Kultur.
Brilliant.” REGINA KRUMMEL, editor
of <i>Prison Poetry by Shackled Women: The Gates Clang Shut</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The bravura
essays in Harold Jaffe's collection, <i>Revolutionary Brain</i>, challenge the
conscience and consciousness of their readers. This witty and explosive book is
an indictment of injustice and spurious morality and a call to art and
enlightened activism as healing alternatives.” JONATHAN BAUMBACH, author of <i>You: Or the Invention of Memory<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Brainy and
groovy, thoughtful and post-literary, these essays on contemporary media
madness are Jaffe at his best: poignant, inventive, right between the eyes of
corporate culture.” ELOY FERNÁNDEZ
PORTA, author of <i>Emocionese asi</i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harold Jaffe is the author of
20 volumes of fiction, “docufiction,” novels and essays. His writings have been
anthologized widely, translated into numerous languages, and the recipient of
several awards. Jaffe is editor of <i>Fiction
International</i> and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at San Diego
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<!--EndFragment-->Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237962155953123789.post-34003881613924925852012-11-18T12:04:00.004-08:002012-11-18T12:04:49.570-08:00Lance Olsen: Berlin Prize Fellow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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GDB author <a href="http://www.lanceolsen.com/" target="_blank">Lance Olsen</a> recently announced that he will be living and writing at the American Academy in Berlin from late December 2012 through early June 2013 as the Mary Ellen van der Heyden Berlin Prize Fellow, walking the same halls as some of the all-time literary greats, among them Susan Howe, Anne Carson, Jeffrey Eugenides, Arthur Miller, and C. K. Williams. Congratulations to Lance on a much-deserved honor!Guide Dog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697985108938610389noreply@blogger.com