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Hitmen and animals in the California Goldrush

Monday, July 2, 2012

If you liked Deadwood, I recommend you read The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. The German translation by Marcus Ingendaay was published last week – normally I’d go for the original but since Ingendaay is a truly gifted translator and some of the humour is quite subtle, I’d consider the translation nonetheless.

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PRIVATE READINGS

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

There is something utterly beautiful about people reading you a story – after all, it’s not without reason that it’s often one of the favourite things that children like their parents to do, and children know about fun, after all.
So what a great idea to curate a festival that does just that: people reading to [...]

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THE JOY OF COLOUR

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Colour, of course, is essential, metaphorically and quite literally. As is language, and when the two meet, weird things can happen. We like to entertain ourselves by coming up with odd ideas for our subtitles to divide up those rather lengthy interviews we feature in mono.kultur – from chess moves to classic comic gap fillers [...]

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2012 Beach Road North

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Joseph Riippi’s new novella A Cloth House is too good to be true.

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BLACK BOX

Friday, May 25, 2012

I’ve recently and finally got around to reading Jennifer Egan’s hyped novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, which at first I was highly skeptical of but ended up loving. Egan treads a fine line between high and low, but won’t shun a spoonful of pop if it works, so it’s not really surprising that [...]

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: THE WHITE REVIEW

Thursday, April 19, 2012

The White Review revives that ancient and venerable tradition of print again: the literary journal – and it does so with style and chuzpe. A savvy and addictive mixture of intellectual rigour and modern pop culture, the Review effortlessly presents theoretical essays, short stories, art criticism, poetry and interviews side by side, all held together [...]

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The word to cure the world. A praise for Broken Dimanche Press

Monday, April 2, 2012

In the beginning was the word and the man didn’t know how to use it.
Expelled from Paradise, he kept erratically wandering, expanding and populating, while the world grew old, hurt and tired. The dawn of the days approaches, unless we look for the cure.
The administration of prescribed word compounds, in exact and very precise quantities [...]

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HABBA HIDEOUT

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Perhaps not as overwhelming as SXSW, but there’s some good stuff happening over at the amazing Hablizel Verlag this weekend.

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A New Turn of the Screw

Sunday, February 26, 2012

A new edition, a new chance to discover the “ur-text of postwar fiction” – and indeed it feels like the only book to (re-)read right now, given the kind of soundbites that are going to show up here over the next few weeks…

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KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA IN BERLIN #3

Monday, February 20, 2012

Martin Zet’s campaign Deutschland schafft es ab (‘Germany gets rid of it‘) in the framework of the 7th Berlin Biennale gave rise to strong reactions and polarized the public opinion. His call for donations of Thilo Sarrazin’s book Deutschland schafft es ab was criticized not only in numerous media reports, but the Berlin Biennale also received [...]

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