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HOTEL PEREC @vlakmagazine @anarchitectonic #georgesperec #ladisparition #erasurism

Freely downloadable via atelierlouisarmand.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/lun…

THE TONGUE MACHINE | out today with Schism Neuronics in paperback and free to download schismpress.tumblr.com/neuronics ansgarallen.com/the-tongue-mac…

THE GENERAL | OUT NOW erratumpress.com/the-general

Another recent title just made available via Barnes & Noble is Michael Rowland's THE UNNAMEABLE OBJECT (2025), "an epic experiment in collective memory and literary excess which assembles fragments of memoir, fiction, satire, and hallucination into a polyphonic chronicle of Prague’s literary underground." DM us for free e-book review copies. barnesandnoble.com/w/the-unnameab…

"How do you replicate a feeling in a way that doesn’t seek to make it relatable? How do you enact it instead?" spoke to Mathilde Montpetit from The Auflauf about GLANTZ ( @EquusPress ), and some big news regarding @MinorLits 's 2026 plans ... linked below

‘Imagine somewhere a great and splendid hall where everything is done to produce joy and merriment – but the entrance to this hall is a nasty, muddy, horrible stairway, and it is impossible to pass without getting disgustingly soiled and admission is paid by prostituting oneself, and when day dawns the merriment is over and all ends with one’s being kicked out again. But the whole night through everything is done to keep up and inflame the merriment and pleasure.’ The editorial work is nearing completion on PAINTING EYES ON CHAOS, Phil O'Neil's final text he completed just before his untimely demise last autumn. Off to the typesetter presently, available for pre-order review copy already. Envisaged publication: late April. Here's a back cover sneak preview, more info to follow.

...or welcome to Prague by the incomparable Nathan Anderson is the latest full length book from C22! Another masterpiece from a master of their form, you'll want to check it out right away! wp.me/pe92fG-iG

a peek inside JONATHAN MARTIN @EquusPress a novel about a man of the same name who set fire to York Minster in 1829 and was committed to Bedlam that same year

"Poetry that defiantly wriggles away from being apprehended or at least reduced to singular resonance or meaning..." Angela Meyer reviews @LouisArmxnd's INFANTILISMS (Puncher & Wattmann, 2024) cordite.org.au/reviews/meyer-…

the second newsletter of the International Theory-Fiction Consortium is *now out* theoryfictionconsortium.substack.com/p/newsletter-f…

The newest from @kenjisiratori —750 pages on bio-mechanical linguistic collapse.

Feeling grateful for writers, publishers, and translators of unconventional literature. ⁦@Dalkey_Archive⁩ @DeepVellum⁩ @equuslitteraria ⁦@LouisArmxnd⁩ ⁦@maxdaniellawton⁩ #literatureintranslation #weirdlit

"Taken together, these works demonstrate that necromodernism is not so much a movement as a contagion, not so much a style as a condition of writing. In Armand’s writing, literature persists only by metabolizing its own cadaver, surviving in ruins, endlessly looping through its own exhaustion, and his Golemgrad stands as necromodernism’s most monumental instantiation: a city of the dead, built from the ruins of literature, where writing persists not despite collapse but through it." @DavidVichnar on @LouisArmxnd's GOLEMGRAD PENTALOGY (Equus & Alienist, 2016-2025) as an architectural structure of necromodernist fiction. Courtesy Heavy Feather Review.

“What makes Hermeslang so fascinating is that traditional literary and visual semiotics fail to grasp the rich synthesis of theology, poetry, philosophy, and personal visions that is maintained in an unresolvable tension -- Edward J. Matthews

I feel like I had missed this great essay on PLATS, but last year is quite a blur. Includes an interesting diagram of the 6 'plats'. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/the….

"Louis Armand’s work insists that writing itself is necrotic: literature is not about the undead, it IS undead. Across the “Golemgrad Pentalogy”, this necromodernism takes on multiple forms: the golem as artificial life, the vampyr as cultural parasite, the glitch as systemic seizure, the tomb as textual infrastructure. Narrative itself becomes a necromantic process, telling stories animated by ghosts, characters stitched together from dead body parts, plots built from textual scraps." Many thanks to Joseph Schreiber (@roughghosts) at @MinorLits for publishing my piece on @LouisArmxnd's monumentally complex GOLEMGRAD PENTALOGY as necromodernist megatext, a recursive framework in which characters, motifs, and structures return as revenants, with some new critical vocabulary developed, composed of concepts such as golemic ontology, thanatotechnics, ruinality, metastatic narrativity, and posthumous subjectivity. minorliteratures.com/2026/01/29/lou…

Happy publication day--on this day of days--to Louis Armand's LUNGFISH, a multi-layered work of docufiction, weaving myth, memory & true crime into a sprawling narrative of Australia & its shadows. Hailed by Glendyn Ivin as "a stream of conscience machine gun fever dream" and as "Necromodernist travel writing from another dimension” by Wayne Bradshaw, LUNGFISH fuses a nation’s myth, personal memory, & true crime into a volatile multimedia text, where childhood scenes bleed into archives & black-site geopolitics intrudes on the everyday. DMs us for review e-copies, print copies available via LULU and, soon enough, from Ingram Spark. For more information visit: equuspress.wordpress.com/lungfish/

I wrote a review of Glantz (2025), a very, very excellent novella by @TobiasvRyan from @EquusPress . Strong start to the year in fiction for this reader. thevisionarycompany.net/2026/01/16/imp…

Sci-fi goes lo-fi when @rg_vasicek stalks the roiling wastelands of factories, media, tech, vague politics and debased human relationships. He transforms each into something achingly odd yet instantly familiar. J.G. Ballard would approve. tinyurl.com/bbheuuhk

A new volume of lo-fi anti-memoir from ⁦@rg_vasicek⁩ !