This Is Not a Camera in Zinophile

July 16, 2015Booksforest of fortune, this is not a camera, vol.1 brooklyn, zinophile

Tobias Carroll at Vol. 1 Brooklyn profiles This Is Not a Camera alongside Tiff Zilla and Anne Carson in his Zinophile column.

Some of the pieces are observational, with notes about the work environment itself or explorations of minutiae that one might encounter in that realm. Others use the setting to examine larger issues: questions of national identity and immigration policy among them. And there are a few others where Ruland recounts bits of relevant history; he’s an excellent storyteller, and there’s a lot to enjoy here.

You can still get a copy of This Is Not a Camera for under a buck (or pay what you want, IDC).

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TFL #59

July 14, 2015BooksTFL, the burglar, the floating library, the invaders

This was a book I could have gone on and on about. I didn’t talk about it in my review, but it’s really interesting how the book’s themes dovetail with Karolina’s previous novel, How to Get into the Twin Palms. And the ending really put me in mind of David Goodis’s pulp masterpiece The Burglar. An excerpt:

The Invaders is a masterful work of literary fiction with the pulse of a thriller and an ending that’s right out of a pulp novel: lyrical yet unstintingly unsentimental and as pitiless as a sunburn on a cloudy day.

Read the rest of the review.