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The last novel by Ascher/Straus
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Composed of one hundred thirty-one pieces divided midway by a solid red page, Headless World confronts the invention of Time within the universe of human experience, memory and desire. Impressionistic, disruptive, and hermetically philosophical, this is a strangely alluring, disturbingly prophetic, and comically horrifying novel. The edges between human reality and inhuman fantasy are sharply observed and imbued with saturated colors, sensual cravings, sonic banality, ontological mystery, theatrical cruelty, and an encroaching trans-human future. "There's something uncanny about Headless World, as if Death was broadcasting a mysteriously encoded sit-com to let us know it's on its way, or as ...
Fox (literature, emeritus, Michigan State U.), himself a part of the loose post-Beat literary movement he calls the Invisible Generation, presents selections from the work of 33 unheralded writers of the past 40 years, including himself. A brief biography is included for each author. The material for the collection has been previously published in little magazines and small literary press publications.
Authors of The Menaced Assassin, The Other Planet and Red Moon/Red Lake, the noted collaborative team of Ascher/Straus contemplates the materials of the writer's life in this new work, which explores the boundary between novel and notebook. A novel that takes up the tasks of the journal can also be read as a journal that documents the materials in the novel. In ABC Street the narrative of place and life of the mind work together to build up a panoramic view of related lives with no epic pretensions.
Three decades ago this magical, speculative novel anticipated the Internet, the fatal attraction of televised celebrity, and our obsession with inhabiting an unmoored electronic future. The Other Planet has never been more relevant than today, and beckons to new generations of intrepid readers.
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Issue 12 of Your Impossible Voice features new work from Ascher/Straus, Joel Tomfohr, Nicole Brodsky, Michael J. Coene, Jennifer Lee, Venegas James, Nick Roth, Kara Vernor, Stephanie Mataya, Jonathan Louis Duckworth, Gabrielle Lessans, Eli Sahm, Johnny Ray Huston, and Jennifer Marcus, as well as new translations of Bhaskar Chakrabortty (Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee) and Marina Tsvetaeva (Mary Jane White). Cover art by J. Harker Shawy