Les Figues Press
Les Figues Press is an independent, nonprofit literary press located in Los Angeles, California.
Our mission is to create aesthetic conversation between readers, writers, and artists. More about…
Featured Figs
An ongoing column featuring Fig Authors and their inclinations. Featured Fig #5: Martin Glaz Serup.
1. Tell us a little bit about your aesthetic inclinations?
I believe art can do … oh, so many different things, at different times and at the same time; as for writing, it’s also a way of focusing, remembering, dialoguing, trying very hard to be somebody else or something else or more or less than yourself… I’m inclined towards art that offers different angles and is several things at the same time, not just one; art and writing that welcomes different ways of being at the same time and dares to investigate that. If that doesn’t sound all too cryptic.
News
Congratulations to the winner and finalists of the 2011 Les Figues NOS* Book Contest!
Winner: Among the Dead: Ah! and Afterward Yes! by Becca Jensen
Les Figues is currently accepting applications for Winter/Spring Interns.
NEW REVIEWS
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.”
OffCite
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…” – New Pages
Upcoming Events
I’LL DROWN MY BOOK LAUNCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA POETRY CENTER
A new launch, a new city
The University of Arizona Poetry Center
1508 E. Helen Street
Tucson, AZ 85721
Friday | 10 February 2012 | 7:00 p.m.
Featuring:
Renee Angle
Judith Goldman
Bhanu Kapil
Laura Mullen
Hosted by Laynie Browne