"About the body I know very little, though I am steadily trying to improve myself, in the way animals improve themselves by licking," begins Gladman's agreeably personal and expansively philosophical first collection of four fictional...
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Renee Gladman, Author . Krupskaya $11 (145p) ISBN 978-1-928650-18-8
Following up on her 2000 debut Juice (Kelsey Street), Gladman here pushes West Coast "new narrative" further into Kafka- and Poindexter-esque territory. A form of elliptical prose taken up in the '90s by writers like Dodie Bellamy, Mary...
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Renee Gladman, Author . Kelsey Street $16.95 (60p) ISBN 978-0-932716-68-2
These four small-press poetry titles, available from the nonprofit Small Press Distribution, are published by fellow poets or poet collectives. And except for the Albon, all were designed by the poet Jeff Clark, who works under the name Quemadura....
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Renee Gladman, Dorothy (SPD, dist.), $16 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-0-9844693-0-7
Gladman's murky, eerie new novel (after To After That) leads a linguist into a foreign city on the brink of annihilation and creates for her a lonely foray into self-discovery. In the dystopian land of Ravicka, people speak in extravagant gestures,...
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Renee Gladman. Dorothy (SPD, dist.), $16 trade paper (168p) ISBN 978-0-9844693-2-1
Gladman welcomes us back to the city-state of Ravika, the site of her 2010 novel, The Event Factory, where paved roads are stories and the lives of buildings and their inhabitants are so closely entwined that “the despair” causing the city’s...
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Renee Gladman. Wave (Consortium, dist.), $25 (144p) ISBN 978-1-940696-28-7
Fiction writer Gladman’s elusive and exquisite nonfiction collection investigates the potential and limitations of writing and narrative. The book comprises vignettes that are both critical and personal. In each one, Gladman (The Ravikians)...
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Renee Gladman. Dorothy, a Publishing Project, $16 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-0-9973666-6-2
Gladman inverts 1984 in her inventive fourth novel set in the dystopian future country of Ravicka (after Ana Patrova Crosses a Bridge); it is narrated by a mid-level bureaucrat called the Comptroller, who is referred to as both a man and a woman in...
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Renee Gladman. Solid Objects, $18 (56p) ISBN 978-0-9862355-8-0
Gladman’s strange and hypnotic novella (following Houses of Ravicka) depicts a woman moving through a dreamlike world and trying to find meaning in its inexplicable shifts. Upon discovering a sentence in a language that “wasn’t English” written on a
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Renee Gladman. Dorothy, $16.95 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-948980-23-4
The scintillating and unclassifiable latest from Gladman (Houses of Ravicka) takes the form of an interview with a writer named Renee Gladman about her attempt to write a lesbian romance. The conversation, which takes place over several years with...
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Renee Gladman. Dorothy, $16.95 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-948980-25-8
This slippery and stimulating novella from Gladman (Calamities), which was originally published in 2008, explores the writing process behind one of her unpublished novels and the relationship between writing and living. The story begins with Gladman
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