The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes

Air Raid is composed of fragments: diagrams, photographs, interviews, vignettes of survivors. Eighty percent of the place was destroyed and thousands died Kluge, who lived there, was thirteen at the time. I’ve been caught up in Alexander Kluge’s masterpiece Air Raid(1977), finally available in English-an unsettlingly oblique remembrance of the events of April 8, 1945, when Americans carpet bombed Halberstadt, a German town of no particular significance to the war effort. I know it’s the antipodes, but it’s hard to fathom why he isn’t a little better known here. Murnane is a careful stylist and a slyly comic writer with large ideas.

Eliot proud: “I’ve spent my life trying to see my own place as the end of a journey I never made,” one says into his beer. The plainsmen are melancholy philosophers whose koans would have made T. It’s the story of a filmmaker who travels from the coast of Australia into the plains of the interior, where instead of flyblown pit stops he encounters a society of vast estates- latifundia meets British manor house-whose culture is based on avant-garde poetics and the art of heraldry. Last night, I finished Gerald Murnane’s The Plains, and this morning I started reading it again.

Rhonda discovers a magical trap-door that forces him to confront his childhood.From the cover of the new translation of Alexander Kluge’s Air Raid. Some Things That Meant the World to Me (Out of Print) a novel by Sirens is a spectacularly moving tome of honesty and emotion from one of our most gifted contemporary writers. Employing the characterization and chimerical prose for which he has been lauded, Mohr leaves no rock from his sordid past un-turned, from his childhood swilling fuzzy navels as a latch-key kid, through the black-outs and fist-fights, his first failed marriage to his path to sobriety, through the birth of his daughter and the three strokes he suffers in his thirties that reveal he has a literal hole in his heart. Sirens provides a harrowing and complicated account of Mohr's years of substance abuse and culpability. With vulnerability, grit, and hard-won humor, acclaimed novelist Joshua Mohr returns with his first book-length work of non-fiction, a raw and big-hearted chronicle of substance abuse, relapse, and family compassion. Mohr’s prose is lean and scrappy-a featherweight boxer that packs a punch.” 'Raw-edged and whippet-thin, Sirens swings from tales of bawdy addiction to charged moments of a father struggling to stay clean.

The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes