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Babyfucker Blog Project: M. Kitchell
Notes Towards Urs Allemann's Babyfucker M. KitchellBelow is an excerpt from Notes Towards Urs Allemann's Babyfucker. You can view the full version here.M. KITCHELL is the editor & publisher of...
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Babyfucker Blog Project: Lily Hoang
Disgusting Desire: Urs Allemann’s BabyfuckerLily HoangBabyfucker is gross. It’s disgusting. As in, just looking at the cover – the word “babyfucker” swamped in bright yellow– reminds me...
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Babyfucker Blog Project: J.A. Tyler
A Textual Harold of Urs Allemann’s BabyfuckerJ. A. Tyler[Below is an excerpt from A Textual Harold of Urs Allemann’s Babyfucker. Read the entire piece as a pdf.]A Harold is the Improv Olympic’s name...
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Babyfucker Blog Project: Jessalyn Wakefield
Urs Allemann's Babyfucker: A ReadingJessalyn WakefieldI read Babyfucker in one hot sitting while locked out of an apartment in LA. I sat on the back stairwell and waited for my friend to return. As I...
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The Empty Globe March 31: Mellis and Snapper
Saturday, March 31st at 8 PM: Miranda Mellis and Julianna Snapper at Pieter (Lincoln Heights)420 West Avenue 33, Unit 10 Los Angeles, CA 90031*please park on the street, and not in the lot $5 donation...
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Two New York City Events, Negro marfil / Ivory Black
Join LFP in NYC to celebrate Negro marfil / Ivory Black, with Mexican poet Myriam Moscona and translator Jen Hofer. Saturday | 24 March 2012 | 7 pmA multimedia celebration presenting new work created...
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Q.E.D. | Part 1. Things Unsaid
Join us for the first installment of Q.E.D. - a short series of long conversations on queer art and literature.How do we articulate without articulating?What are the negative spaces that form and...
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Featured Fig: Frances Richard
1. Tell us a little bit about your aesthetic inclinations?I am deeply satisfied by work that extends a long way into the playful joy of manipulating its media, that gets beguiled by spatial, sonic,...
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The Empty Globe May 5: Abelkop and Durbin
Saturday, May 5th at 8 PM: Gina Abelkop and Kate Durbinat Pieter (Lincoln Heights)420 West Avenue 33, Unit 10 Los Angeles, CA 90031*please park on the street, and not in the lot$5 donation, or pay what...
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Three New Reviews of LF Titles
Check out these recent reviews of Les Figues titles I'll Drown My Book, By Kelman Out of Pessoa, and Tall, Slim & Erect: Portraits of the Presidents. I'll Drown My Book reviewed in the new issue...
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Two Events, One Day
JOIN LES FIGUES PRESS AT LITFEST PASADENAVisit Les Figues at the 1st annual Litfest Pasadena this Saturday. Saturday | May 12, 2012 | 9:30-5:00 Central Park (south of Old Pasadena, next to Castle...
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"The Garden Party is my favorite Figues event"
Iannis Xenakis, X. 17 – Study for Terretektorh (distribution of musicians), 1965 Come celebrate another year of Les Figues Press and LFP Members with a Sunday afternoon garden party. Sunday | 3 June...
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Les Figues Press NOS Book Contest 2012
We are now accepting submissions for the 2012 Les Figues NOS Book Contest(NOS: not otherwise specified)Sina Queyras will judge.Send us your poetry, novellas, prose poems, innovative novels,...
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ANNOTATIONS PROJECT
At the Les Figues booth at the Pasadena Litfest, we asked visitors to annotate select Figues books by adding their own questions, concerns, footnotes, flights of fancy, and new narratives to the...
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4th Annual Les Figues Garden Party
"Oh no, I missed Les Figues' 4th Annual Garden Party.... I feel incomplete, like the me that went would have been a better, fuller me.""Well I did go, and it was amazing, and I only wish that I could...
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Allemann wins the 2012 Heimrad Bäcker prize
Congratulations to Urs Allemann!Allemann received the 2012 Heimrad Bäcker Prize, awarded annually for experimental literature written in German. The jury said of Allemann's work:In Urs Allemann’s...
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Jacket2 launches "Global Conceptualisms"
New international commentary on conceptualismsRead the first installment here. It began with a conversation. The publication of Notes on Conceptualisms in Danish drew Vanessa Place, who co-authored...
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Small Changes Donation Campaign & Story Movement
You might think a small change wouldn’t have a big effect. How can a few bucks actually make a difference? But in a story, the smallest change can alter the course of things, can jostle the plot from...
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Fig a Friend Today!
July is HOT!The sun is blazing and the next TrenchArt series is on its way. This year's conversation is 'Surplus,' and in that vein, we are publishing not five but six titles in the series. And now,...
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Small Changes Movement on Facebook
Les Figues is hosting The Small Changes Movement on Facebook. It is an interactive, collective writing experience where YOU, the reader, can add to the story. All are invited to add to the text,...
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25 Things from 2500 Random Things About Me Too
Tomorrow is the online release of Matias Viegener's 2500 Random Things About Me Too! It's Matias' first book, and also the first book written on Facebook. Remember that meme "25 random things about...
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Small Changes: the Whole Story
An exquisite corpse via Facebook, curated in honor of our Small Changes donation campaign. Thanks to all the contributors! Every little bit helps.Me was born on the 4th of July, We too, like twin...
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the postcards that never were
according to american theater director Anne Bogart "making a decision is an act of violence."in other words, the act of making an artistic choice, from incorporating a different medium in your latest...
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Some Assembly Required: A Distributed Book Launch
Some Assembly Required: A Distributed Book LaunchOn Saturday October 27th, you’ll have the opportunity to hear readings by six different conceptual women writers at three different alternative art...
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The Next Big Thing: Divya Victor
What is the working title of the book?Things To Do With Your Mouth is the title. Les Figues is the publisher. Who or what inspired you to write this book?Wailing and weeping make for a great...
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