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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

Conquest is a verbo-visual prankster and the founder and editor of Black Scat Books

Leventhal calls the form a fictmoir

work in both Ukrainian and English by a writer who was also an engineer and a linguist by training

JEF has been running anthologies of this kind for forty years

is assembled from open submissions of innovative prose: no shared theme

The form had to be plural to register a country that no longer agreed on what was happening to it

theory-in-action

the city's noise and history pulled in through the consciousness rather than narrated around it

prose-poetry

surrealist riffs on the Nancy comic strip

Across two dozen prose pieces the collection cuts into the absurd nature of human life

Middlebrook is where that practice begins