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Dany Laferrière is Immortal
I first became aware of the Haitian-Canadian writer Dany Laferrière through reading his phenomenal 2010 novel, I Am a Japanese Writer, an exploration of national, cultural, and racial identity.

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Posted by Eric Obenauf on 20 January, 2016 1 comment |

An Interview with Melanie Finn
In September, we will publish the second novel by Melanie Finn, The Gloaming, a rich, compelling, adventurous novel of consequences that was shortlisted for The Guardian's 'Not the Booker Prize.' Following is an interview with Finn about her work.

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Posted by Eric Obenauf on 19 January, 2016 0 comments |

Good on ya Upstate New York
The gentleman who works with us on film development and does the cinematography and provides the soundtrack not only for The Removals, but also for our first feature, I'm Not Patrick, is an acclaimed drone musician named Mike Shiflet, who has had his praises sung by NPR and Pitchfork. Shiflet is on mini-tour this long weekend in upstate New York.

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Posted by Eric Obenauf on 15 January, 2016 0 comments |

Design of the Week | In Praise of Fargo
A couple weeks ago I was lamenting the predictability of what I think of as MFA writing, evident in much contemporary literature, but also in pretty much every single TV show or film produced these days, even the independent features, while proclaiming the merits of gonzo endings.

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Posted by Eric Obenauf on 13 January, 2016 0 comments |

Come Outside and Look at Our Flamethrower
You should check out Bellflower. That shit is wild.

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Posted by Eric Obenauf on 12 January, 2016 2 comments |

The New New Title Sequence
We've been watching the Making a Murderer Netflix series, which is absolutely maddening. The opening title sequence follows the super-imposed, layered, fade-through style that most new shows seem keen to riff off of, but I believe was made popular by True Detective.

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Posted by Eric Obenauf on 11 January, 2016 0 comments |

#FridayReads -> Square Wave by Mark de Silva
Check this excerpt from Mark de Silva's Square Wave, which drops next month, praised earlier this week as "the closest we get to David Mitchell on LSD."

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Posted by Eliza Wood on 08 January, 2016 0 comments |

Officially Endorsing the Em Dash
Couples fight about a lot of things, I'm sure. Eliza and I argue about whether it is imperative I only use em dashes in my blog posts.

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Posted by Eric Obenauf on 07 January, 2016 2 comments |

Holiday Reading
I managed to read two books for pleasure over holiday vacation. The first was Elena Ferrante's much celebrated My Brilliant Friend, and the second was Michael Bible's Sophia.

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Posted by Eric Obenauf on 05 January, 2016 0 comments |

#FridayReads | Binary Star by Sarah Gerard
What better way to ring in 2016 than with an excerpt from a novel we published in January 2015, which went on to become "One of the breakout American independent books of the year."

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Posted by Eric Obenauf on 01 January, 2016 0 comments |

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