Apostrophe/Parenthesis

Apostrophe/ParenthesisApostrophe Parenthesis opens Frederick Mark Kramer's New York cycle. The book introduces Federigo, an imagined grandson of Robert Musil's Man Without Qualities, who spends some twenty years trying to synthesize plays, inner speech, dream notebooks, dialogues with an imaginary rat, and a philosophy of musical interludes into a usable account of his own life. The recursive, monologue driven method here is the one the whole cycle runs on: dense interior

in the line of Joyce

The 2018 Kenneth Patchen Award judge

" The new imprint name carries a wider mandate

Photography

His first collection

requires not just a dip but a dive

a concert pianist of long standing

out of which the book grew

Of the two

The title's phrase is Jaffe's own register

Tarnawsky described his method to The Collidescope in 2022: "Writing for me is akin to proving a theorem

but left behind this novel