The Chronicles of Michel du Jabot is Eckhard Gerdes's 733-page novel, written over roughly ten years between 2008 and 2018, much of it by hand. Begun before his wife Persis's death and finished aft...
Plague City, Genelle Chaconas's first novel, won the 2019 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel.
The book is a William S. Burroughs-style cut-up that reads as much like poetry as fiction. ...
"The Greatest Place on Earth" is an absurdist allegory: a respected psychology professor is recruited by "The Bureau" to investigate a town whose residents have collectively gone mad. The premise s...
Picky Hunting: A Journal of the Plague Year is the first volume of Hugunin's Picky Papers, the pandemic-era project he would carry across three full-color books and more than eleven hundred pages.
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Those Brave As the Skate Is is two books in one binding: an innovative novel followed by a separately demarcated manifesto on Pescetarealism, the aesthetic program Patrick Keller coined in 2010. Th...
The Marble Corridor is the middle book of Ryan Madej's Midtown Tetralogy, a four-novel cycle set in a decaying urban-shadow city called Midtown. The other three appeared from VoidFront Press and Or...
Death at Half Mast (2019) is the English version of Denis Emorine's French novel La mort en berne, published by 5 Sens Editions in Geneva in 2017. It is the first of his novels in English.
Its prot...
Porn-Anti-Porn is one hundred and ten docufictions that hold the body in pain and the body in pleasure inside the same frame, the texts brief, erotic, anti-erotic, fiercely funny, fired at the read...
Finding Mememo: A Book in Search of an Author opens with a fall. Hy Grader, called Mememo, drops from the balcony of the Cliff Dwellers, Chicago's storied art and literary club, and the fall rings ...
The Iguanas of Heat (2019) is the companion novel to Warm Arctic Nights, the two titles JEF released the same year. Where the memoir looks back at a wartime childhood, this one turns outward into m...
Warm Arctic Nights is a fictive memoir, the form Tarnawsky used to set a boy's idyllic pre-war Polish childhood against his nightmarish wartime Ukrainian adolescence. Presenting the book the year i...
Understanding Franklin Thompson is Jim Meirose's novel for JEF, published in 2019 as Journal of Experimental Fiction vol. 73 in the Offbeat/Quirky Editions line.
Franklin Thompson and Mother Audrey...
