Scorch Atlas
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Scorch Atlas
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Author : Blake Butler
language : en
Publisher: featherproof books
Release Date : 2009-09-09
Scorch Atlas written by Blake Butler and has been published by featherproof books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-09 with Fiction categories.
In this striking novel-in-stories, a series of strange apocalypses have hit America. Entire neighborhoods drown in mud, glass rains from the sky, birds speak gibberish, and parents of young children disappear. Millions starve while others grow coats of mold. But a few are able to survive and find a light in the aftermath, illuminating what we’ve become. In “The Disappeared,” a father is arrested for missing free throws, leaving his son to search alone for his lost mother. A boy swells to fill his parents’ ransacked attic in “The Ruined Child.” Rendered in a variety of narrative forms, from a psychedelic fable to a skewed insurance claim questionnaire, Blake Butler’s full-length fiction debut paints a gorgeously grotesque version of America, bringing to mind both Kelly Link and William H. Gass, yet imbued with Butler's own vision of the apocalyptic and bizarre.
Sky Saw
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Author : Blake Butler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Sky Saw written by Blake Butler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fiction categories.
Another disturber from the author of Nothing and There Is No Year.
Dear Incomprehension
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Author : Stéphane Vanderhaeghe
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2024-03-12
Dear Incomprehension written by Stéphane Vanderhaeghe and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book "tackles a broad swath of contemporary literature currently labeled 'speculative fiction.' A blurring of genres that includes science fiction, modern fairy tales, and avant-garde experimental fiction, these works are extremely popular but also derive from highly sophisticated philosophical and aesthetic sensibilities, ones that call into question and uproot the very foundations of stories and storytelling. Because such fictions subvert most conventional narrative devices--plot, recognizable characters, verisimilitude, logic, legibility--they deliberately confound almost any kind of conventional reading and criticism. ... To do such a literature justice, the traditional frameworks of literary criticism fail, and Dear Incomprehension is more of an extended philosophical essay than it is a traditional work of criticism, as oblique and unconventional in its voice, tone, and methods as the texts it illuminates"--
Nothing
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Author : Blake Butler
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-10-11
Nothing written by Blake Butler and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The acclaimed author of Scorch Atlas offers a deeply candid and wildly original look at insomnia in this “superbly lyrical” memoir (Paste Magazine). Invoking scientific data, historical anecdote, Internet obsession, and figures as diverse as Andy Warhol, Gilles Deleuze, John Cage, Anton LaVey, Jorge Luis Borges, Brian Eno, and Stephen King, Butler traces the tension between sleeping and conscious life. And he reaches deep into his own experience—from disturbing waking dreams, to his father’s struggles with dementia, to his own epic 129-hour bout of insomnia—to reveal the effect of sleeplessness on his imaginative landscape. The result is an exhilarating exploration of dream and awareness, desperation and relief, consciousness and conscience—a fascinating maze-map of the borders between sleep and the waking world by one of today’s most talked-about writers.
There Is No Year
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Author : Blake Butler
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-06-07
There Is No Year written by Blake Butler and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-07 with Fiction categories.
"Butler is an original force who is fearless with form. . . . [an] inventive and deeply promising young author." —Time Out New York "[Butler's] sentences. . . twist and evolve, and there's a perverse joy that comes from watching just how his paragraphs are shaped, of tracing their contractions and rhythms." —Flavorpill With echoes of Justin Taylor, Tony O’Neill, and Dennis Cooper, breakout novelist Blake Butler delivers a wildly inventive, impressionistic novel of family, sickness, and the wrenching birth of art. Evocative of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves and the films of David Lynch, There Is No Year offers a fractured, dystopian parable about the struggle and survival of art, identity, and family. As the Toronto Globe and Mail says, “if the distortion and feedback of Butler's intense riffing is too loud, you may very well be too boring.”
Three Hundred Million
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Author : Blake Butler
language : en
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date : 2014-10-14
Three Hundred Million written by Blake Butler and has been published by Harper Perennial this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-14 with Fiction categories.
An unforgettable novel of an American suburb devastated by a fiendish madman—the most ambitious and important work yet by “the 21st century answer to William Burroughs” (Publishers Weekly). Blake Butler’s fiction has dazzled readers with its dystopian dreamscapes and swaggering command of language. Now, in his most topical and visceral novel yet, he ushers us into the consciousness of two men in the shadow of a bloodbath: Gretch Gravey, a cryptic psychopath with a small army of burnout followers, and E. N. Flood, the troubled police detective tasked with unpacking and understanding his mind. A mingled simulacrum of Charles Manson, David Koresh, and Thomas Harris’s Buffalo Bill, Gravey is a sinister yet alluring God figure who enlists young metal head followers to kidnap neighboring women and bring them to his house—where he murders them and buries their bodies in a basement crypt. Through parallel narratives, Three Hundred Million lures readers into the cloven mind of Gravey—and Darrel, his sinister alter ego—even as Flood’s secret journal chronicles his own descent into his own, eerily similar psychosis. A portrait of American violence that conjures the shadows of Ariel Castro, David Koresh, and Adam Lanza, Three Hundred Million is a brutal and mesmerizing masterwork, a portrait of contemporary America that is difficult to turn away from, or to forget.
30 Under 30
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Author : Blake Butler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
30 Under 30 written by Blake Butler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
30 stories from 30 of the top young writers under the age of 30 writing today.
Atlas Of Butterflies And Diurnal Moths In The Monsoon Tropics Of Northern Australia
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Author : Michael Braby
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2018-12-07
Atlas Of Butterflies And Diurnal Moths In The Monsoon Tropics Of Northern Australia written by Michael Braby and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-07 with Science categories.
Northern Australia is one of few tropical places left on Earth in which biodiversity—and the ecological processes underpinning that biodiversity—is still relatively intact. However, scientific knowledge of that biodiversity is still in its infancy and the region remains a frontier for biological discovery. The butterfly and diurnal moth assemblages of the area, and their intimate associations with vascular plants (and sometimes ants), exemplify these points. However, the opportunity to fill knowledge gaps is quickly closing: proposals for substantial development and exploitation of Australia’s north will inevitably repeat the ecological devastation that has occurred in temperate southern Australia—loss of species, loss of ecological communities, fragmentation of populations, disruption of healthy ecosystem function and so on—all of which will diminish the value of the natural heritage of the region before it is fully understood and appreciated. Written by several experts in the field, the main purpose of this atlas is to compile a comprehensive inventory of the butterflies and diurnal moths of northern Australia to form the scientific baseline against which the extent and direction of change can be assessed in the future. Such information will also assist in identifying the region’s biological assets, to inform policy and management agencies and to set priorities for biodiversity conservation.
The Colossus Of Maroussi
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Author : Henry Miller
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2010-05-18
The Colossus Of Maroussi written by Henry Miller and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-18 with Fiction categories.
Henry Miller’s landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond’s backpack. Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent travel writers such as Pico Iyer and Rolf Potts. The book Miller would later cite as his favorite began with a young woman’s seductive description of Greece. Miller headed out with his friend Lawrence Durrell to explore the Grecian countryside: a flock of sheep nearly tramples the two as they lie naked on a beach; the Greek poet Katsmbalis, the “colossus” of Miller’s book, stirs every rooster within earshot of the Acropolis with his own loud crowing; cold hard-boiled eggs are warmed in a village’s single stove, and they stay in hotels that “have seen better days, but which have an aroma of the past.”
Conceptualisms
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Author : Steve Tomasula
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2022-02-15
Conceptualisms written by Steve Tomasula and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with Fiction categories.
"Anyone who looks beyond the bestseller lists can see that the literary landscape outside its commercial walls is just as varied as that of visual art, just as wild, just as conceptual: novels in the form of dioramas, narratives read through virtual-reality glasses, or told as a series of tweets, stories told as recipes, poems in skywriting, genetic code, pixels, skin-as well as print and sound. The 100+ prose works and poems that make up Conceptualisms all have the strangeness authors have always given ordinary speech in order to transform it into literature. In fact, this strangeness, or unfamiliarity, may be the very core of what makes writing literature, and pushed to its boundaries, what makes literature conceptual. Experimental, conceptual, avant-garde, hybrid, surfiction, fusion, radical, slip-stream, avant-pop, postmodern, self-conscious, innovative, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing, alternative, anti- or new literature.... Across the years, a variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry and hybrid writing that, like conceptual visual art, foregrounds its ideas, explores new forms, challenges mainstream writing traditions, strives for ways to speak to the present. Along with whatever else they do, they ask, Why isn't this also literature?-and keep the boundaries of literature flexible and unresolved. Now, for the first time, here is an anthology that offers an overview of this other tradition as it lives in the early decades of the 21st century. The first major anthology of this other tradition, Conceptualisms presents writing by over 90 authors, across three generations, representing a plethora of aesthetics and approaches to their subjects. Readers will recognize authors who have shaped the nature of contemporary writing, such Lydia Davis, Charles Bernstein, Nathaniel Mackey, David Foster Wallace, and Claudia Rankine. They'll also find authors, and responses to the canon, that they haven't yet encountered. Conceptualisms is a book of ideas for writers, teachers and scholars, as well as readers who wonder how many ways literature can live"--