The Future of Giraffes: Five Mininovels (The Placebo Effect Trilogy #2)

The Future of Giraffes: Five Mininovels (The Placebo Effect Trilogy #2)The Future of Giraffes is the middle book of Tarnawsky's Placebo Effect Trilogy, five mininovels at the center of a fifteen mininovel cycle, and the only one of the three given over entirely to childhood. The form was Tarnawsky's own invention: short prose built on what he called "negative text," gaps of vital information the reader is obliged to supply, so that finishing the book means becoming its co author. That demand is most explicit here, and

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prose-poem meditations

In her essay "A Lot and A Little: The Psychic Fragmentation of Intergenerational Trauma in Denis Emorine's Broken Identities

with Freud and Kafka standing behind the prose

not as a settled genre to be sampled

John Kinsella among them

the goal is to do it

" gaps of vital information the reader is obliged to supply

Finding Mememo: A Book in Search of an Author opens with a fall

so the talk and the work were running in parallel

Within six months COVID forces a lockdown

Raymond Federman is the twenty-third issue of The Journal of Experimental Fiction and the volume that established the press's signature form