God's Wife and the Synonymous X - Released!

8th House Publishing is proud to announce the release of Jesse Chase's first novel, "God's Wife and the Synonymous X'.
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"God’s Wife and the Synonymous X", Jesse Chase's first novel follows the protoganist on his search for a new cultural and literary theory. Finding all of history and culture appropriated by imperialist and racist perspectives inimical to his own self, he must construct his own program of decolonization and dismantle the philosophic mindspace of the inhuman ideologies and oppressive technologies he has inherited.

"A brave, fresh work that champions an ethics of self-recovery and rehabilitation of personal narrative in a world of masks, capitalism and oppression."

God’s Wife and the Synonymous X is the first in a series of three books in different genres: (1) a novel, (2) a book of critical, cultural and literary theory as an assassination attempt on philosophy and the hegemonies; of cultural appropriation by inhuman ideology and oppressive technology, and (3) a treatment of the process of the making of the first two books; as these literary processes are an experiment in the ethics of self-recovery, and recovery of personal narrative in a world of masks, capitalism and oppression.

GOD'S WIFE & THE SYNONYMOUS X by Jesse Chase

170 pages | 5.5 x 8 | ISBN 978-1-926716-43-5 | $16.99 | Info Sheet:; pdf, jpg

 

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EMPIRE BURLESQUE by Charles Talkoff is now available ...

8th House Publishing is proud to announce the release of Charles Talkoff's latest novel, "Empire Burlesque".

276 pages | 5" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-42-8 (pbk.) | $19.99 | Info Sheet: pdf, jpg

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EMPIRE BURLESQUE by Charles Talkoff

Call it America. Vast the tumble-rocket-particle-wave shows the world in a rush to arrive deparpt and become and forget and remember everything all at once. Call it history. Call it time and memory the way water is the measure of the clock your bones the measure of love. I mean everything passes. I said the earth is a sentry, everything passes and nothing escapes. Call it home; call it exile in a kingdom of rain. - Empire Burlesque, Charles Talkoff 

The first novel in an upcoming trilogy, "Empire Burlesque" is an attempt at reaching a realism with modernity, finding a continuity in fractured timelines and significance in chaos in a world in which these very things--realism, continuity and significance--have been deconstructed and possibly destroyed. In this "Empire Burlesque" of modernity, many things occur in the novel (life) with no apparent significance until imbued with meaning by the subject (us) and narrative authority (authority) itself is assailed by arbitrary, chaotic and decentralizing forces. This means the plot (political framing) to the extent one exists, may be ignored or contradicted and information might arrive to intrude into the narrative for no apparent reason and with no obvious connection to the events in the story. Welcome to the modern, schizoid, fragmented,unhinged burlesque empire that the West has become where Trumpian characters define reality and distort reason. An existential detective story with Theseus and the Minotaur as characters, taking on the many forms of man versus beast, citizen versus state, liberty versus control, "Empire Burlesque" renders our modernity with all its farcical, Faustian fog. 

8th House is going to China!

8th House will be in Beijing, August 23-27 for the 2017 International Book Fair. Drop by and say hello.... 

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"Trump as Fire Without Light" by Darren C. Demaree

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"Darren Demaree’s expansive, exquisite new book of poetry Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly is a puzzle with many pieces consisting of dozens of short poems, each of which are necessary in his pointillist painting of the human experience. This collection begs us to examine ourselves, but also to step outside of our bubbles and look at ourselves from the perspective of the other, and from the great heights of the universe. Here, all is interconnected, all hopes are shared, and all deficiencies are intentional and necessary within the boundaries of the world we inhabit."

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ELSiEiSY reviews "Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly"

 

The Chassidic Trauma Unit makes Concordia's list of great reads for the holidays. See the full list.

Five Questions with Claudia Serea

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