Joseph Riippi

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• ISBN 9780983195610
• 124 Pages •5.5 x 8.5"
• $30.00
Something About KA-BOOM: An Interview with JA Tyler and John Dermot Woods
10/22/2012
Stories, like the universe, are born of conflict. Electrons combine and collide, energy is born, KA-BOOM. Characters shout or sexualize, murder or meddle, KA-BOOM. As readers, we yearn for the KA-BOOMy climax. We lose ourselves in 800-page novels, needing to know what happens next. That’s narrative. Sometimes a conflict is born off the page, between…
• Book: No One Told Me I Was Going to Disappear
• Author: John Dermot Woods J. A. Tyler
• Publisher: Jaded Ibis Press
• Genre: Fiction
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• ISBN 9781564787071
• 120 Pages •5 x 7"
• $12.95
Something About the Self
07/30/2012
Consider broadly the painted portrait: A torso and face in oils on canvas. A grayish greeny black mixture of nothing-space for background. This is the classical portrait, the Rembrandt or Van Eyck, the Gilbert Stuart. The face floats without context in order to capture the portrayed person without bias. Now consider broadly the photographic portrait:…
• Book: Autoportrait
• Author: Édouard Levé
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Genre: Nonfiction
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• ISBN 9781564787101
• 104 Pages •5 x 7"
• $12.95
Strange Ballet On the Page
07/02/2012
All show, no tell. That’s the best way I can think to describe Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s work. Terrence Malick adapting Beckett. Extreme minimalism. Delicate maximalism. Strange ballet on the page. I’m recommending Reticence here, but all show, no tell could easily be said of the Parisian Belgian’s work as a whole. Reticence, published in France in…
• Book: Reticence
• Author: Jean-Philippe Toussaint
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Genre: Fiction
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• ISBN 9781892061423
• 168 Pages •5 x 8"
• $13.50
Something About Being True to Yourself: An Interview with Chloe Caldwell
05/22/2012
Here’s a moment that hit me early, from the end of an essay called “On Snooping”: “I can accept that all I’ve ever wanted is not very special — all I’ve ever wanted, like most people, is proof of love.” Chloe Caldwell’s debut, Legs Get Led Astray, is exactly that — a proof of love.…
• Book: Legs Get Led Astray
• Author: Chloe Caldwell
• Publisher: Future Tense Books
• Genre: Nonfiction
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• ISBN 9780982631836
• 145 Pages •5.5 x 8.5"
• $16.95
Something About A Keeper—Peter Markus’s We Make Mud
03/08/2012
When I was a kid, my dad and his brother and his brother’s sons and I would go fishing for trout a lot. We’d go out to a lake in Eastern Washington. We’d catch a lot, throw back a lot. Keep a few to barbecue. We used a lot of charcoal. My dad and his…
• Book: We Make Mud
• Author: Peter Markus
• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Genre: Fiction
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• ISBN 9780982631829
• 530 Pages •5.7 x 8.7"
• $22.00
Some Conversation With Roy Kesey About Pacazo
12/08/2011
Through college and some few years after, I regularly wrote music reviews. This took me to concerts 2-4 nights a week, and I could rely on receipt of a couple promo CDs each day. Having absorbed that volume of music means that, even now, any record or live show is diluted, watered-down. It takes something…
• Book: Pacazo
• Author: Roy Kesey
• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Genre: Fiction