A SNEAK PREVIEW OF LOUIS ARMAND’S THE COMBINATIONS IN 8 MOVES, by David Vichnar [PART 2 OF 4] Coming this May in 8 octaves, 64 chapters and on 888 pages, Louis Armand’s The Combinations is a “work of attempted fiction” that combines the beauty & intellectual exertion that is chess, with the panorama of futility & … Continue reading
A SNEAK PREVIEW OF LOUIS ARMAND’S MONUMENTAL NEW NOVEL THE COMBINATIONS IN 8 MOVES, by David Vichnar [PART 1 OF 4] Coming this May in 8 octaves, 64 chapters and on 888 pages, Louis Armand’s The Combinations is a “work of attempted fiction” that combines the beauty & intellectual exertion that is chess, with the panorama … Continue reading
Excerpt from Work (a work in progress by Richard Makin, author of Mourning) Work develops further the poetics pursued in Makin’s earlier books, Dwelling and Mourning. Makin’s is a highly fragmented, cut-up textuality (in the present excerpt, divided up into discontinuous numbered paragraphs), full of half-formed sentences, jumbled quotations & paraphrases, obscure allusions, oblique … Continue reading
EQUUS PRESS was established in 2011 between Paris, London & Prague with the objective of publishing new writing that is innovative & conscious of being doubly marginalised: outside the literary establishment defined by the Anglo-American publishing industry, & outside the confines of nationalism, pursuing a broadly cosmopolitan “agenda.” // EQUUS believes that such a doubly marginalised … Continue reading