Ambiguity

AmbiguityAmbiguity is the second novel in Frederick Mark Kramer's New York cycle, following Apostrophe Parenthesis by a year. The book is built around its narrator, Darko, and the metaphor of the pneuma what Darko calls "the breath of life or the destruction of life," with the novel taking place in between. Eckhard Gerdes's editorial description puts it as the trajectory of a single breath: an opening inspiration (the breathing in of a whole life as material),

outlandish humor next to compassion

The register shifts constantly across its lines: lament

ironically

RED GIRL JUMPING is a fable-like memoir by Kim Merrill

The title is drawn from Georg Trakl's 1915 poem of the same name

running from work he wrote as a student at Columbia to a long excerpt from a novel-in-progress

Own Little Worlds is a political dark comedy set in post-Trump America

fiction made light

the most sustained demonstration of the omission method Tarnawsky built across his late career

dialogues with an imaginary rat

a memoir-fiction crossover

between a young orphan's waking life and a dream world that keeps pulling at him