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“Armand has written an important and corrosive novel, which is a commitment to creativity in the face of absurdity, a politics of avant garde literary concentration and experience that knows, as Camus had it, that: ‘The innocent is the person who explains nothing.'”
IS THIS THE ULTIMATE ‘PRAGUE NOVEL’?
Louis Armand’s THE COMBINATIONS (London: Equus, 2016).
“In the vein of Hašek’s Good Soldier Švejk and deeply rooted in the city’s literary and politico-satirical culture, Armand’s novel fulfils Alan Levy’s predictions and makes a powerful claim upon what Bruce Sterling sceptically referred to as “a Prague literary philosophy,” representing a major document of the post-Communist Prague literary renaissance, which includes writers like Jáchym Topol, Iva Pekarková and Michal Ajvaz, the late Lukáš Tomin and Hana Androniková...”
https://equuspress.wordpress.com/2016/07/26/is-this-the-ultimate-prague-novel/#more-1683
Louis Armand at Vermin on the Mount, Los Angeles, 11.11.2013 by Eric Minh Swenson
“Armand has written a perfect modern noir, presenting Kafka’s Prague as a bleak, monochrome singularity of darkness, despair and edgy, dry existentialist hardboil.” Richard Marshall, 3:AM
https://equuspress.wordpress.com/breakfast-at-midnight/
Georges Bataille by Sonia Roy Colagene
“Bataille’s pseudonymous evasion/refusal of authorship was a strategy that served to save him from exposure entailed in every appropriation and publication. Now that his own personal choices and subjective reasons are a matter of long-gone past, whilst questions of authorship, copyright, publicity and intellectual property all remain matters all-too-present, it is highly relevant that these texts and questions they keep posing be brought back to life and reconsidered, ‘restored’ in the perfect Bataillesque fashion. All this and more has been achieved by Stuart Kendall’s excellent translation, commentary and critical apparatus.” David Vichnar, Equus Press
https://equuspress.wordpress.com/louis-xxx/
Thor Garcia at Jazz Republic, for the launch of THE NEWS CLOWN (2012)
https://equuspress.wordpress.com/the-news-clown/
Louis Armand with Mark Tierney, for the launch of BREAKFAST AT MIDNIGHT at Jazz Republic, Prague, 2012 (c) Eliska Kovariková
https://equuspress.wordpress.com/breakfast-at-midnight/
Phil Shoenfelt (former Khmer Rouge frontman), author of Junky Love and Stripped
https://equuspress.wordpress.com/phil-shoenfelt/
Vincent Farnsworth (”Reverent Feedback”) fronting “Blaq Mummy,” 2011
“Vincent Farnsworth makes the cacophony of the band-rehearsal next door into a manual for gracefully aging…” –Andrei Codrescu
“Brute sage of destiny…” –Tom Clark
https://litterariapragensia.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/theremin/
Holly Tavel performing with “Choc,” 1993
Thor Garcia & Louis Armand in Manchester, 2012 (c) David Vichnar
THE PRAGUE MOMENT
… the beautiful engineers are all dead, the secret technicians conspire for their own glamour in the Future… – Allen Ginsberg, “Král Majáles,” 7 May, 1965
There are cities in the world that exercise a particular influence over the minds of writers, artists and historians because they seem to manifest a type of spirit, a genius loci, through which an intellectual vitalism is channelled or communicated. Cities galvanized, in their very substance, by a cultural electricity – a vortex – their names imbued with powers of conjuration – Paris, Berlin, New York, Prague. Such is the mystique of the mind’s geography, that thought and poetry find their location in a given place and time which nevertheless appear transcendent. Equally, there is a question of pragmatics: culture, wherever it is conspicuous, happens by implication and association, like a political crime....
https://equuspress.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/the-prague-moment/#more-1677
The hellraising, nightmarish genius of Thor Garcia has returned in this explosive collection of sordid, hilarious, gut-twisting tales. Meet the infamous Lenka, the mournful cripple who never met a penis she didn’t want to chop. Or Cleo Blump, beaten and raped from an early age, who rises to lead the Blond Revolution. There’s father Ernie, the athletic standout who never did care much for being a man. And George P., the poet and ex-boxer who finds it all floating out of his grasp. Meet Halingwhorst, the drunk, once-scorned writer, as he edges toward unimaginable triumph. And the anonymous man ruined by divorce, who runs into a dangerously un-smooth criminal on the day Michael Jackson died. Jump on and let Thor Garcia take you on a hard-drinking, hard-living drive. It’s a no-holes-barred assassination of our world today. The horror, madness and humor – along with the impeccable dialogue and fast-moving prose – will leave you breathless.
https://equuspress.wordpress.com/only-fools/
Thor Garcia (c) Louis Armand
“If Thor Garcia’s Only Fools Die of Heartbreak, his latest short fiction collection, had somehow been published in the 19th Century, it would have given Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn a run for their money as the most controversial and banned book in the nation.” Gabino Iglesias, Necessary Fiction
“The stories in Ken Nash’s brilliant collection The Brain Harvest lay bare the sparks and idiosyncrasies of an exceptional mind. Each new story is distinct and memorable in its jewel-like compactness, and the characters we meet are unique and endearing. In subject matter, the stories weave and delve into continuously unexpected territory; from the alien adventures of Emily Dickinson, to the intricacies of bespoke basket-making, time travel, orchestral garden plots, and the great green sea lizards that haunt our parents’ dreams. Nash’s playful and quick-witted style bears echoes of maverick American greats like George Saunders and Donald Barthelme, and recalls the quirkiness of Miranda July. Taut, intelligent, eccentric, and wholly engaging, The Brain Harvest is a wonderful debut for a very talented new writer” (Clare Wigfall, author of The Loudest Sound and Nothing and winner of the 2008 BBC National Short Story Award)
https://equuspress.wordpress.com/the-brain-harvest/
Ken Nash (c) Emile Rafael
“Nash is a storyteller in the most prime of forms, and years from now, with this collection far, far away, I won’t need the characters and their situations as much as I’ll need what I’ll actually have, which is the residuals. They are this: open wide and seek the impossible, for we are all incredible.” Ryan Werner, Necessary Fiction
Richard Makin, MOURNING (2015)
“The writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Iain Sinclair
https://equuspress.wordpress.com/mourning/