Entries tagged with Carla Harryman

Document 106: Various Devices!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! 

VARIOUS DEVICES:
SELECTED WRITINGS

BY CARLA HARRYMAN

MOSCOW: POLYPHEM, 2024

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Polyphem, an independent press in Moscow, announces publication of a comprehensive, bilingual edition of the writings of Carla Harryman.

The works, chosen by editor Vladimir Feshchenko, represent the full range of her pioneering genre-disrupting, performative texts—from Percentage (1979) and Under the Bridge (1980) to Cloud Cantata (2020) and Scales for the Living (2023).

Also featured are the complete scripts of her germinal works for San Francisco Poets Theater: “Third Man” (1978); “There Is Nothing Better Than a Theory” (1984); and “Memory Play” (1994).

Excerpts from her dystopian novel Gardener of Stars (2001) and the ludic hybrid text Baby (2005) are included, along with selections from her erotic picaresque, co-authored with Lyn Hejinian, The Wide Road (2011).  … More

From Stephen Cope at Essay Press: Carla Harryman discusses Adorno’s Noise and more in an interview recently published in [Inter]sections—the American Studies journal from the University of Bucharest, Romania:
http://www.americanstudies.ro/?article=55

Links to other reviews of Adorno’s Noise:

Rain Taxi review by Kit Robinson (posted on EMU Creative Writing Blog):
http://cw.emuenglish.org/?p=204

Jill Darling’s review in HOW/2 special feature “Reading Carla  Harryman”:
http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_3/harryman/darling.html

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