Lady Chatterley’s Brother The first ebook in the new TQC Long Essays series,  called “an exciting new project” by Chad Post of Open Letter and Three Percent. Why can't Nicholson Baker write about sex? And why can Javier Marias? We investigate why porn is a dead end, and why seduction paves the way for the sex writing of the future.
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New @ TQC: JC Hallman & AWP
We’ve just published the text of the remarks that JC Hallman will be making on his panel at this year’s AWP conference. Why would we publish something like this? I think if you read it, you’ll understand.
Personally, I hope to be there in person to see this thing get delivered.
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- Recently Published: The Hospital for Bad Poets by JC Hallman Milkweed has just published The Hospital for Bad Poets, a short story collection by JC Hallman, author of two previous works of nonfiction. The...
- Review of My Little War by Louis Paul Boon @ TQC The latest review at The Quarterly Conversation is My Little War by Louis Paul Boon, published by the Dalkey Archive. Here’s a bit of what...
- Two new Reviews at TQC We’ve just published reviews of Comrades by Marco Antonio Flores and A Jury of Her Peers by Elaine Showalter. Comrades, published earlier this year, is...
- Anthologies Are Kafka’s Spot in Publishing JC Hallman is still blogging up a storm about his book over at the Tin House blog. (And, for about the 18th time, we've published...
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Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
Creatively structured, well-executed epic novel of rural South Africa from 1950 - 2000. Takes on a lot and lives up to it magnificently. Highly recommended.
A book that's an interview about the book you're supposedly holding in your hands. Creative, potent, and full of life. Just what metafiction should be. Read my post on it.
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The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
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