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From The Electric Pencil<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

I spent this week madly reading Idra Novey\u2019s\u00a0Ways to Disappear<\/a><\/em>, not wanting to put it down until I\u2019d finished. The\u00a0novel\u00a0concerns the search for Beatriz Yagoda, a Brazilian novelist who was last seen climbing into an almond tree with a suitcase, but of course it\u2019s really about the characters who take up the pursuit:\u00a0Yagoda\u2019s two adult children, her bygone publisher, and her ardent American translator. The translator, Emma, runs to the aid of her missing author (\u201cas if there weren\u2019t anyone as reliable in a kidnapping as a devoted translator\u201d), while also running away from her stale life and dullard fianc\u00e9 in Pittsburgh. Yet even in Brazil, amid the excitement and chaos, she finds herself existing on the margins of a story in which she is also a central actor, returning again and again to the\u00a0solace and structure\u00a0of her author\u2019s invented worlds: \u201cAnd wasn\u2019t the splendor of translation this very thing \u2026 To arrive, at least once, at a moment this intimate and singular, which would not be possible without these words arranged in this order on this page?\u201d \u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYour book hurts me,\u201d writes Julio Cort\u00e1zar to Alejandra Pizarnick in the letter that opens her final collection of poems,\u00a0A Musical Hell<\/a><\/em>. The slender compilation, published before Pizarnik\u2019s suicide in 1972 and translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert as part of the\u00a0New Directions Poetry Pamphlet<\/a>\u00a0series, had escaped me until last weekend, when I found it nestled on the shelf of my local bookshop. Saddle stitched and no more than sixty-four pages long, it\u2019s an intimate coup d\u2019oeil of a mind tormented by depression, paranoia, and genius. In it, Pizarnik breathes a sort of hushed devastation into every verse, believing, as she once said, that \u201cto write is to give meaning to suffering.\u201d Her poems are at once gentle and macabre, with tremors of madness and nightmarish whimsy: Pizarnik writes of the nuns that nip like crows between her legs, she makes a list of all that dead lovers leave behind, she talks of suicide as beautiful. Hers is an indelible art, one I\u2019ll revel in for a while. From \u201cMortal Ties\u201d: \u201cThat savage room was made up in the deadened hues of repressed desire; its light was the color of a mausoleum for infants.\u201d\u00a0(NB:\u00a0a new collection of Pizarnik\u2019s poetry<\/a>\u00a0will appear this month.) \u2014Caitlin Youngquist\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the cover of Ways to Disappear<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

At age twenty-five, having gone at his brother with a hatchet and attempted suicide by guzzling antifreeze, James Edward Deeds, Jr. landed in State Hospital No. 3, a Missouri mental institution. During his thirty-seven years there, he made elaborate, fanciful drawings in pencil and crayon on the hospital\u2019s ledger: steamboats, hot-air balloons, early automobiles, tigers, peacocks, ladies in plumed hats, men in waistcoats. He numbered and collated the pictures in a scrapbook, which he gave to his mother; she passed it off to his brother; he let it sit in his attic; when he left the house, in 1970, the movers tossed the book in a pile of garbage on the side of the road; a fourteen-year-old kid happened to find it and then held onto it until 2006, when he sold it to a collector; and now, finally, it\u2019s been published as The Electric Pencil<\/a><\/em>. It\u2019s hard to describe the eerie, tranquilized quality of Deeds\u2019s drawings, and the shadowy story they tell about mental health in the age of electroshock therapy and Thorazine. The nostalgia that animates his work is alternately enchanting and depressing; his faces, whether they belong to people or animals, have eyes large and vacant enough to make Margaret Keane shudder. The cumulative effect is of a dream that\u2019s always at risk of curdling into a nightmare. \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having been an infantry medic, Luke Mogelson writes his debut collection,\u00a0These Heroic, Happy Dead<\/a><\/em>, out in April, with the palpable authenticity of the American soldier-storytellers that came before him: O\u2019Brien, Ackerman, Herr. His stories explore the strange, sad ways war-zone trauma manifests itself in their characters once their tours are over. In \u201cPeacetime,\u201d we inhabit an EMT with knickknack kleptomania; \u201cTo the Lake<\/a>,\u201d which first appeared in the Review<\/em>, shows us an abusive amputee obsessed with Christmas lights. There\u2019s an undeniable pathology to the peace these small things bring to the veterans; it\u2019s within such compulsions where readers understand their wars still rage. It\u2019d be reductive to frame any reading of\u00a0Dead\u00a0<\/em>and its protagonists strictly within the confines of Mogelson\u2019s history as a soldier, though. These stories are often as funny as they are grave, their characters believable but bizarre. The men and women in\u00a0These Heroic, Happy Dead<\/em>\u00a0are object lessons in what makes a book haunting and unforgettable. \u2014Daniel Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the cover of A Musical Hell<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Though it\u2019s by no means a recent discovery, I\u2019ve been going back to the elusive UK songwriter Jai Paul\u2019s unfinished, unmastered, and unrivaled debut album. It\u2019s technically contraband: when it was inconspicuously uploaded to Bandcamp three years ago, it was greeted with buzz and speculation only to be renounced by Paul almost immediately, and soon it was impossible to find. The party line is that someone stole Paul\u2019s laptop and leaked the album, but\u00a0many clues point to an unsanctioned self-release by Paul himself<\/a>. Regardless, the hype was justified. Its production is a thick whirlwind of split-second samples, with breaths, moans, and laser guns deployed as impedimenta, completely supplanting the sense of rhythm. In one track, a cover of Jennifer Paige\u2019s 1998 hit \u201cCrush\u201d, Paul\u2019s breathy singing is completely drowned out by his lo-fi instrumentals. \u201cJasmine\u201d and \u201cBTSTU\u201d fulfill the album\u2019s pop ambitions, but the strongest cuts are the irreverent \u201cGenevieve\u201d and \u201cStr8 Outta Mumbai,\u201d the former seeming to pledge an explicit allegiance to Prince. The album is a difficult find today, but it\u2019s unequivocally worth the search.\u00a0\u2014Rakin Azfar<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent this week madly reading Idra Novey\u2019s\u00a0Ways to Disappear, not wanting to put it down until I\u2019d finished. 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