Of note, an upcoming collection of poems by Joël Gayraud from Pierre Mainard editions, based on encounters with sculptures in the studio of the surrealist sculptor Virginia Tentindo. In (a translation) of the author’s own words: "When I first entered Virginia Tentindo's studio, it was like stepping through the looking glass. There, under a canopy [...]
News on the horizon of a new book of stories from S.D. Chrostowska that are bound to be of interest to marvel hunters everywhere as well as anyone who enjoyed her previous oneirico-utopian novel The Eyelid or her book of incendiary fragments. Here is the intriguing description from the publisher's page: A hunter of giant [...]
Absence is its own kind of presence. Uncertainty and breakdown of categorical delineation is a space of possibility. -Ghost Paper Archives The “After People” project is fascinating new collective mythological endeavor from a group called the Ghost Paper Archives. A kind of game played across different locations in which the reporters explore, photograph, characterize and [...]
Michel Zimbacca 29 July 1924 - April 1 2021 Screenshots from the film L’Invention du monde (Michel Zimbacca & Jean-Louis Bédouin, 1953) (subtitles translated by Kenneth Cox) Quetzalcoatl, le serpent emplumé (Michel Zimbacca, 1952) Ni d'Eve, ni d'Adam (Michel Zimbacca, 1969) * A touching and very enthralling tribute from Joël Gayraud can be read here [...]
At long last, the Surrealist Almanac for 2020 has been released! A download link for the PDF can be found here. Edited by Tim White, the idea behind the theme was "to create a surrealist almanac for 2020 - a future calendar - around the theme of ‘what should be’. This would take the form [...]
or The (im)Parting of Friends at Unbanyokatulinys’s Eggs A new novel by Casi Cline At its heart, Seven Stories is a novel about the search for truth. A group of seven animals meet under a sacred tree called Unbanyokatulinys, and become fast friends. As they grow older, their conversations with each other become philosophical and [...]
As old as tomorrow... With untold floors of FRESH exciting MERCHANDISE, exquisite fixturing, a large, easy-to-use PARKADE OF THE DAMNED and a fine staff of ATTENTIVE SALES ENTITIES... It’s OLD MALL! This volume presents the results of parallel surrealist expeditions to “old malls” in two North American cities. Undertaken in early 2020, these “gothic” experiences [...]
Now available from Coach House Books and bookstores, a stunning new journey into the oneiric wonderland from S.D. Chrostowska: In Greater America, with sleep under siege, this lucid and prophetic novel of ideas depicts the end of human reverie. "S. D. Chrostowska achieves unexpected buoyancy in spite of the intensity of her material. Permission, certain [...]
“Either this is madness or it is hell.’ ‘It is neither,’ replied the voices of the sphere, ‘it is simply more reality.” Fresh on the heels of Mattias Forshage's new novel... Another surrealist, dimension-hopping novella by Merl Fluin has just been released online for free! Having already read it, we can confirm it is a [...]
