"A spectre is haunting contemporary literary writing, the spectre of necromodernism… a type of modernism in its posthumous state, a necromodernist condition in which writing persists in the ruins of literature’s once-modern ambitions. Necromodernism neither celebrates the new

One of the seven photomontages by John Heartfield (1891-1968), to be included in the "Cook your Grampas: Prague Dada Anthology" I have edited, forthcoming soon via International Arts Centre Prague. DER ALTE WAHLSPRUCH IM „NEUEN“ REICH: BLUT UND EISEN (“The Old Slogan in the

'At once historical fiction, philosophical meditation, and radical experiment, Jonathan Martin is a novel of fire and prophecy, of derangement and divine vengeance, that confronts the reader with the instability of reason and the dangerous allure of belief.'—David Vichnar

Annonce du vendredi noir: @LouisArmxnd’s A TOMB IN H-SECTION now (again) available from Shakespeare & Sons in the comic book section downstairs, snuggled in-between Batman and Joker.

“Necromodernism neither celebrates the new nor nostalgically mourns the old, inhabiting instead a space where cultural memory, media saturation, and infrastructural collapse converge into textual practice. It is neither an elegy for modernism nor a prophecy of what comes next,

Jonathan Martin, always close to the fire, keeping (us) warm… Courtesy @AnsgarAllen & @EquusPress

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PMF set-up with Robert Carrithers, Jo Blin, Michael Rowland...

Setting up for this year's PMF @praguemicrofest at Kampus Hybernská

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Prague Microfestival + Book Fair coming soon!!

very grateful to @DavidVichnar for his close and sustained reading of four of my recents

"Ansgar Allen’s literary-philosophical project enriches contemporary thinking by demonstrating that critique need not command clarity to be instructive. His texts sidestep the expectation that philosophical discourse be coherent, linear, or authoritative. Instead, they teach

"The Experimentalists succeeds strikingly as an accessible synthesis and narrative social history of a milieu long overshadowed by institutional realist canons and by the dominance of American postmodernism in Anglophone accounts of the “new.” It is vivid, entertaining, and often

EQUUS PRESS SEPTEMBER RETROSPECTIVE 9. Richard Makin, MOURNING (2015) Richard Makin’s Mourning is less a novel than an extended textual environment in which language itself enacts the condition of grief. Dispensing with plot and character, the work unfolds through long,

Continuing my review series of small press production, courtesy @press_erratum's very own @AnsgarAllen. This time, three recent tiles by the Izola-based @CoronaSamizdat: Easter (2022), by David Vardeman, Some Features of Living Matter in the Neighborhood of the Sun (2022), by

Přijďte pobejt... letos na PMF halloweenský! Jako vždy v kampusu Hybernská & jako vždy plně dvojjazyčně a zdarma...

PRAGUE MICROFESTIVAL 2025 experimental writing, art, theory, film, performance 31.10 -2.11 @ HYB4, Hybernská 4, Praha 1 https://t.co/CDzvhkQTj0 ALWAYS FREE! PUT IT IN YOUR DIARY!

Proud to have had the honour of translating & putting together the English subtitles to this wonderful unique interview with "The President", the late Mr Bartoška... about his film & theatre career, his 1989 involvement with the "A Few Sentences" manifesto & the Velvet

https://t.co/HJXEY5VVW0 You may remember that, a few months ago, I announced that David Vichnar at Charles University, Prague would be hosting a seminar on indie presses and 'dethrone god' would be one of the books representing Sweat Drenched Press. Well, he's now done a