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Les Figues Press is delighted to announce the winner of our first annual NOS* Book Contest, as selected by judge Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. The winner will receive $1000 and her manuscript will be published by Les Figues in Fall 2012.
*NOS (not otherwise specified)
2011 Les Figues NOS Book Contest Winner:
Among the Dead: Ah! and Afterward Yes! by Becca Jensen
2011 NOS Contest Finalists:
Black Hole by Alice Bolin
Exercises in Criticism: The Theory and Practice of Literary Constraint by Louis Bury
Beyond This Point are Monsters by Roxanne Carter
O by Tom Comitta
Questionnaire by Dot Devota and Brandon Shimoda
Neither/Nor by Travis Hessman
Some Simple Things Said By and About Humans by Brenda Iijima
Foucault, in Winter, at the Linnaeus Garden by Michael Joyce
A Conjoined Book by Karla Kelsey
BRCA by Katie Price
the shiny jars aligned by Theresa Sotto
Congratulations!
Intern at Les Figues Press
Les Figues is currently accepting applications for Winter/Spring Interns. Winter/Spring projects will include several TrenchArt: Surplus titles, the annual Les Figues garden party, and an avant-queer literary series at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in West Hollywood.
WRITING on Both Sides and The Center:
“The event pushed disciplinary boundaries constantly as it invited writers to do site-specific performances that reflected on architecture and space. Each writer responded in unique ways.”
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NEW REVIEWS of By Kelman Out of Pessoa:
“The latest book by Seattle’s Oulipo-derived storyteller Doug Nufer, By Kelman Out of Pessoa, is a short and crisp novel about the soft, unspoken sides of gambling, the necessity of personality fragmentation, and the remarkable passivity of obscure diligence.”
Rain Taxi
“Nufer’s novel swings a wide arc of gambled characters and the throw of the die, using a backdrop of gaming as the setting of the novel as well as a means to writing it…”
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