Formalism - check Language - check Big Ideas - check The Literary Novel full house “Death Of The Author (In Triplicate)” Available direct from the publisher @coronasamizdat coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id...

MIDDEN HILL *out 1 May* via Schism2 @_gobbet_

reading from The Faces of Pluto [available for hire #ventriloquist]

Bertolt Brecht's "The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui" was targeted at Hitler. But with it's US setting and Cicero in particular with its ties to Capone's gangsterism, brings it home to resonate with the modern day Trump oligarchy/kleptocracy

#booksky #authorsky I write books you may care to read. If you care for ideas, language and like to be stretched

Phenomenological detective denying the evidence of his senses? I got ya! “Death Of The Author (In Triplicate)” Available direct from the publisher @coronasamizdat.bsky.social coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id...

Demystifying the mystery novel; demythologising the myth of the tortured artist. Crime scene reconstruction meets literary scene deconstruction “Death Of The Author (In Triplicate)” Available direct from the publisher Corona Zamizdat coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id... #booksky

A pocket sized phenomenological investigation brought to you by pocket-sized publishers @coronasamizdat.bsky.social The materialism of a detective pursuing material evidence & the idealism of a writer who puts pen to paper "Death Of The Author (In Triplicate)" coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id...

Rick Harsch's 2 types of reader [1] "they look at something like this - why the fuck did you write that book mother fucker" [2] "other people are just read it and are in awe like you know what the fuck where'd that guy come from" youtu.be/izS6dAQkqrc?... @rickharsch.bsky.social

Louis Armand @louisarmand.bsky.social on Rick Harsch @rickharsch.bsky.social www.erratumpress.com/harsch-noise

Student walkouts against ICE continue in #California. www.vvdailypress.com/story/news/2...

Setting up at House of Sound, Lviv...

My essay ALGORITHMIC STATE APPARATUS has just appeared in the Journal of Communication & Languages (open access) -- w/ thx to Philipp Teuchmann... revistas.fcsh.unl.pt/rcl/article/...

Lviv at random...

Commemorating the victims of last year's Philosophy Faculty shooting, ANTOLOGIE 21.12.23 ANTHOLOGY contains first-hand accounts from 28 contributors, edited by David Vichnar & Tomáš Hercík. The memory of our friends & colleagues is strong in our hearts. antologie2023.wordpress.com

Before I realized I was going to read LIVE at the 2K24 PMF Prague Microfestival I was working on a "microflick" called AUGENBLICK 2K24 to be screened at the festival. Here is the (in the Kafka spirit, "unfinished") prototype for that "unnecessary" project

Equus Press publisher David Vichnar's Open Letter to the Prague Literary Establishment from 26 September 2017 is a must read in 2K25... now is NOW! bibliofone.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/o...

page 17 of Louis Armand's Breakfast at Midnight, feature two brilliancies, as they say in chess

...these two have made it to Slovenia, thnx to Rick Harsch youtu.be/z8467rEKCJM?... @rickharsch.bsky.social

#booksky #bookchallenge #indiepress #fiction #fridayreads

Black Vellum reviewed by Rick Harsch @rickharsch.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXn5...

'this is somewhat like a Beckett novel, but it's not really at all' www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXn5... @rickharsch.bsky.social

Cooking with PLAGUE THEATRE ansgarallen.com/plague-theat... & launch of corona\samizdat's first microline books via @rickharsch.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_6Z...

I feel my fingers vibrate. Thumbnails. Amerika & Žižkov. The Spacebar of the Typewriter Machine. What is the State of Mind of the Samizdat People? $3.88 lo-fi samizdat US www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVGZ6X19 UK www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVGZ6X19 ES www.amazon.es/dp/B0DVGZ6X19 JP www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0DVGZ6X19

Atari Space Invaders championships in London, UK in 1981

Further encounters w/ Chandler Brossard courtesy of Corona/Samizdat @rickharsch.bsky.social @coronasamizdat.bsky.social

short film from corona\samizdat youtu.be/JPwk8U2OxIw?...

History doesn’t just repeat itself—it continues when we refuse to learn from it. youtube.com/shorts/BVt1_...

Also arriving in June, 2021 was our 20th book— the beautiful Wandering Stone, The Streets of Old Izola by @rickharsch.bsky.social

Here is Booktuber Deanbreathesbooks on @rickharsch.bsky.social 's Wandering Stone: The Streets of Old Izola www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PzC...

Louis noirmand Breakfast at Midnight youtu.be/rQXiU0d1SMg?...

Here's Chief Editor @rickharsch.bsky.social discussing Chandler Brossard's As The Wolf Howls at My Door: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqch...

A very bad reviewer is reviewed www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjGA...

Coming in 2025. corona\samizdat will be publishing a collection of its writers, Pellegrini by Segrov and other corona\samizdat writings

Voices After Evelyn, by Rick Harsch www.coronasamizdat.com

coming cover of a corona\samizdat book

And there I left him, standing along the granite edge of the stone path.

"We will create our own literature, not by talking about literature but writing in proud solitude books that encapsulate the violence of a cross to the chin," Roberto Arlt (tr. Adolfo Villafuerte)

The Enigmatic Visitor: "Cry, my boy, you will have a lot of crying to do yet. Until your own heart breaks upon itself and you feel another man's sorrow as if it was your own."