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To bid farewell to yet another difficult year for the planet & the world of small publishing, Equus Press’ very own David Vichnar selects 7 of the more interesting books of 2023 by Anti-Oedipus Press, 11:11 Press, Inside the Castle, Expat Press, and Orbis Tertius, among others.
‘He observes every infringement of morality, every psychological disaster; he hears his body fluids murmuring within him; […] his organs grow heavy and gradually turn to carbon. But is it too late to avert the scourge?’ —Artaud, ‘The Theatre and Plague’ Once such a scourge as plague sets in, “aversion” cannot hold—the disintegration of social … Continue reading
Elijah Young reviews three recent Equus releases, Mike Corrao’s Desert Tiles, Performances for the End of Time by Harold Jaffe, and Ryan Madej’s Assassin.
Although difficult, annoying, absurd, and irrevocably tragic for many, 2022 has been a busy and productive year for Equus, with no fewer than 5 new titles seeing the light of the printed page. On New Year’s Eve, Equus Managing Editor David Vichnar takes a quick look at each in its turn.
David Vichnar & Jeffrey Howe sit down with Harold Jaffe to talk about his book Performances for the End of Time, just out with Equus Press in October 2022. EP: What Performances shares with your previous book BRUT (2021) is interest in the (semi)biographical fragment that fuses fact and fiction. Where it differs is its … Continue reading
“Our words are entering a new era,“ writes Richard Makin on page 25 of Work. Boy ain’t that the truth. The world has undergone a paradigm shift and we need a language to reflect this condition, to explore its dimensions, measure its apertures and parameters, put a periscope up and take a look at the … Continue reading
David Vichnar sits down with Richard Makin to talk about his book Work, forthcoming with Equus Press in spring 2022.
David Vichnar and Narmin Ismiyeva sit down with Ansgar Allen to talk about his book Plague Theatre, forthcoming with Equus Press in March 2022. Equus Press: In a typical “Ansgar-Allen-fashion” (thinking here of The Sick List which does the same with the Thomas Bernhard corpus), Plague Theatre brings together various sources – both imagined (the … Continue reading
Michael Rowland’s Infinity in Bits joins Equus Press’ formidable list of books that pose the question, HOW DOES ONE READ THIS? As 272 pages of fragments upon fragments? As a vast textual collage of more and less incoherent micro-narratives? As 78 ekphrases on the paintings/drawings included therein? As 78 illustrations competing with the texts containing … Continue reading
Jeffrey Howe and Narmin Ismiyeva sit down with Michael Rowland to talk about his book Infinity in Bits, forthcoming with Equus Press in October 2021. EP: How do different sections ‘talk’ to one another? Are they to be read chronologically or are the ‘cards’ to be shuffled and new original readings be made out of … Continue reading
Richard Makin (author of Mourning) takes a close look at Phillip O’Neil’s Mental Shrapnel. Cross-section slice through psyche, a channelling via orchestrated acts of disassociation and fracture — Mental Shrapnel is divine comedy too, as the text dredges memory and forgetting (and everything that doesn’t cover) — a desperate hilarity amid the chaos and dark matter, conjuring … Continue reading
David Vichnar & Narmin Ismiyeva sit down with Mike Corrao to talk about his book Desert Tiles, forthcoming with Equus Press in September 2021.
Jeffrey Howe & Narmin Ismiyeva sit down with Ryan Madej to talk about his novel Assassin, forthcoming with Equus Press in September 2021.
R. Sebastian Bennett takes a close look at Holly Tavel’s collection, The Weather in Fritz Bemelmans Park (Equus, 2015). Holly Tavel’s collection, The Weather in Fritz Bemelmans Park, is an imaginative and fulfilling exploration of the mysteries and idiosyncrasies of “knowledge,” power structures, social constructs, intellectual identities, thought processes, and artistic embrace. Simultaneously manifesting 19th-century … Continue reading
David Vichnar of Equus Press continues his series of mini-reviews covering the best of contemporary independent small-press production, each instalment dedicated to some (usually three) of their most recent & interesting titles. In the eighth instalment, the focus is on Paul Hawkins & Sarer Scotthorne’s Hesterglock Press. According to their mission statement, Hesterglock makes “positive … Continue reading
Equus Press are happy to announce a busy publication schedule planned for autumn 2021, aiming to bring out no fewer than six remarkable works by six contemporary experimentalists. Watch this space!
David Vichnar of Equus Press continues his series of mini-reviews covering the best of contemporary independent small-press production, each instalment dedicated to some (usually three) of their most recent & interesting titles. In the seventh instalment, the focus is on Evan Isoline’s Self-Fuck Press. According to their mission statement, the title SELFFUCK is designed “to … Continue reading
David Vichnar of Equus Press continues his series of mini-reviews covering the best of contemporary independent small-press production, each instalment dedicated to some (usually three) of their most recent & interesting titles. In the sixth instalment, the focus is—mono- & polythematically—on the work of D. Harlan Wilson (DHW), his five books brought out by Raw Dog … Continue reading
GlassHouse is the pathology of a convergence of times and places. It’s a snapshot of an object in four dimensions (an event, its antecedents, and its descendants) which has been broken into shards of various perspectives, and then unrolled. Jacques Derrida described the critique of literature as a type of counter-signature to documents, whose meaning narrates a distinct experience … Continue reading
To bid farewell to a difficult 2020 and welcome a more hopeful 2021, David Vichnar of Equus Press has penned a series of mini-reviews covering the best of contemporary independent small-press production, each instalment dedicated to three of their most recent & interesting titles. In the fifth instalment, the focus is on three books—one older, … Continue reading
To bid farewell to a difficult 2020 and welcome a more hopeful 2021, David Vichnar of Equus Press has penned a series of mini-reviews covering the best of contemporary independent small-press production, each instalment dedicated to three of their most recent & interesting titles. In the fourth instalment, the focus is on three books lately … Continue reading
To bid farewell to a difficult 2020 and welcome a more hopeful 2021, David Vichnar of Equus Press has penned a series of mini-reviews covering the best of contemporary independent small-press production, each instalment dedicated to three of their most recent & interesting titles. In the third instalment, the focus is on Seattle-based Sublunary Editions & its … Continue reading
The forms we know, on each scale level, have collected into themselves by accretion, from the debris of previous forms. Earth and Sun are stardust, while we ourselves are comprised of fragment proteins, endocrines, and other factors which have joined electrostatically, having found each other within soups of bioplasm… Our lives are arranged from fragments … Continue reading
To bid farewell to a difficult 2020 and welcome a more hopeful 2021, David Vichnar of Equus Press has penned a series of mini-reviews covering the best of contemporary independent small-press production, each instalment dedicated to three of their most recent & interesting titles. In the second instalment, the focus is on Kansas-based Inside the Castle.
Bidding farewell to a difficult 2020 and welcoming a more hopeful 2021, Equus Press’ very own David Vichnar has penned a series of mini-reviews covering the best of contemporary independent small-press production, each instalment dedicated to three of their most recent & interesting titles. In the first instalment, the focus is on Minneapolis-based 11:11 Press.
“Sinequanon threads of Gonzo journalism tie hot shards of Philip K. Dick’s paranoid fantasies to Kingsley Amis’ insouciant British humour in this 400-page pill, as we are flung between war-torn Sarajevo & post-communist Prague between the early 90s & the late 00s. A war correspondent come psychotherapist, Christopher Mahler, is sequestered into a theatrical vortex … Continue reading
XXXIII We are unorchestrate — dark columns in the great fugue, intersecting spindles of light, neural ganglia. Or, misdoubt, the art of setting stage or disrupting a unique pictorial event: birdlife clinging to an old man in the square. Saints fly down. I’ll make up my own mind about the crew. I’ve got the bag with the … Continue reading
As Iain Sinclair has observed, Makin’s “writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Richard Makin’s WORK continues the “work” of Mourning by taking stock of “the minutiae of the view, the dissenting … Continue reading
As Iain Sinclair has observed, Makin’s “writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Richard Makin’s WORK continues the “work” of Mourning by taking stock of “the minutiae of the view, the dissenting … Continue reading
As Iain Sinclair has observed, Makin’s “writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Richard Makin’s Work continues the “work” of Mourning by taking stock of “the minutiae of the view, the dissenting details,” … Continue reading
Chris Mahler was a top psychologist, but that was before the war in Bosnia. Something happened to him during that war – it left him too traumatised to remember. Jasmina was the love of his life. She was killed in the siege of Sarajevo and his ability to live and love again died with her. … Continue reading
As Iain Sinclair has observed, Makin’s “writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Richard Makin’s Work continues the “work” of Mourning by taking stock of “the minutiae of the view, the dissenting details,” … Continue reading
As Iain Sinclair has observed, Makin’s “writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Richard Makin’s Work continues the “work” of Mourning by taking stock of “the minutiae of the view, the dissenting details,” … Continue reading
As Iain Sinclair has observed, Makin’s “writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Richard Makin’s Work continues the “work” of Mourning by taking stock of “the minutiae of the view, the dissenting details,” … Continue reading
As Iain Sinclair has observed, Makin’s “writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Richard Makin’s Work continues the “work” of Mourning by taking stock of “the minutiae of the view, the dissenting details,” … Continue reading
As Iain Sinclair has observed, Makin’s “writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Richard Makin’s Work continues the “work” of Mourning by taking stock of “the minutiae of the view, the dissenting details,” … Continue reading
Chris Mahler was a top psychologist, but that was before the war in Bosnia. Something happened to him during that war – it left him too traumatised to remember. Jasmina was the love of his life. She was killed in the siege of Sarajevo and his ability to live and love again died with her. … Continue reading
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