Seldom seen & worth considering

bluepiano: Sordid and disturbing and powerful.

bluepiano: The non-fiction accounts of the 9/11 kamikaze attacks are often interesting and occasionally striking but Kobek's novel about one of the hijackers is more powerful & memorable. (google BOMB magazine interview w. Kobek for some telling information.)

bluepiano: A weird hotel or a hotel weird to a distracted/disturbed protagonist, who knows. A hotel of seductive, perhaps elective, imprisonment, anyway.

bluepiano: Actually, almost all the books by Ramuz I've read belong on this list. This is the least hackneyed and most powerful of all tales about an imminent apocalypse.

bluepiano: Never thought I'd find a 17th-century novel a pleasure to read but I did.

bluepiano: Thoughtful, evocative, and gorgeous lyric essays.

bluepiano: novels, stories, parodies, journalism, and some of the marvellous plays by a cynic who had perfect pitch for the vernacular.

bluepiano: Hugely enjoyable pastiches.

bluepiano: I'd have done as well putting any of Parei's books here as they're all very good. Bonus selling-point: The author has a cool name.