*Richard Makin’s essay “Makimonos” was recently published in a screw in the shoe Anthology of Challenges (Golden Handcuffs Review). Composed as a series of reflections on Makin’s writing methods, the text can also be read as a defence of unorthodox and experimental approaches to fiction, including such works as Louis Armand’s panoramic novel The Combinations, which was shortlisted for The Guardian‘s 2016 Not-the-Booker Prize. Imagine the outskirts of a vast, futuristic … Continue reading
Second Through Brain begins with the stuccoist Jörg Schuh, distracted by “the huge bosom of maid Hanne from the skyscraper opposite,” losing his footing and falling forty stories to the “sundripped concrete” below where, forty-seven pages later, his brain “radiantly spattered.” As Jörg falls episodes from his life—both “made-up & true”—pass by in thirty-five vivid … Continue reading