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A short chapter from the book After the Oracle was published in stadtsprachen in English and German (translation Florian Werner).

I wrote an essay about the death of punk in the collection Libertines in the Ante-Room of Love.

And it is this prose that makes Quin’s novel so dazzling 55 years later. The language of her book lurches in unexpected directions, fishtailing wildly from the dark to the erotic to the violent to the insanely funny. It feels barely in control, but willfully so. In insisting on this dicey means of narrative movement for the majority of the novel, she can make even simple actions feel berserk: “Crossing the park: a subterranean world surreptitiously risen; here a million star-fish pinned on the forelocks of a hundred unicorns driven by furious witches.” In describing what should be quotidian, she instead confronts the reader with a moment of demonic weirdness. And just as the psychedelia of her prose sets in, the narrative skates along, leaving behind one chaotic situation for another. Reading Quin is a marvelously frustrating experience that works according to diffraction. The light of the novel comes into contact with some interference and then creates new patterns that bump against other interferences to create new patterns.

Interview with Elvia Wilk about her debut novel Oval for 032C.

Interview with the NBA player Andre Iguodala and writer Carvell Wallace about Iguodala’s memoir The Sixth Man at 032C.

Interview with the photographer Tobias Zielony about his work on Thomas Pletzinger’s The Great Nowitzki at 032C.

I interviewed Maria Tumarkin over at 032C. Later, I was happy to learn that her father enjoyed it very much.

I translated text for this monograph published by les presses du réel

I translated Kolja Reichert’s text for 032c.