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nd with that daffy surface it appears many critics missed the diamond sharp and hard intelligence of brossard s critique of the us empire as free a writer as i have ever read brossard as close to a combination of henry miller and hunter thompson as anything else i can think of was one of the great us writers of his century backing up to try to find out when chandler brossard became a wild man we found did christ make love published believe it or not by bobbs merrill new york was unkind to mr brossard our brossard expert zachary tanner wrote his third consecutive brossard introduction this one as electric as his first two he also found out from steven moore that the title brossard intended was the wolf leaps so it s the wolf leaps this is a short ecclesiastical interracial noir in which brossard begins to express his refusal to conform to publisher expectations his next from c s was also titled against his wishes he wanted it to be called the double dealers and so it shall be canadians exif_jpeg_420 when i use the word whining to describe protests of writers who face a cruel publishing world i mean to emphasize that not only do they live in the most comfortable country in history in terms of wealth they also have it a lot better than the canadians both jeff bursey and w d clarke are talented virtually unknown writers whose talents are on a par with say patrick white nadine gordimer and exceed that of john updike i don t like to say that corona samizdat is lucky to have such writers for they should be household names in the english language literary world in fact when jeff bursey told me that he would publish his third novel unidentified man at left of photo a classic satire of writing told in some vein of modernist tacticals i was near shock and frankly appalled i had read his amazing skintight satire verbatim and his extremely fine mirrors on which dust has fallen a book of strange allure and hidden meanings david vardeman exif_jpeg_420 as important as anything corona samizdat has had the pleasure to freely publish according to the dictates of literary quality we don t have to in fact refuse to consider money as part of the equation so a writer such as david vardeman who was over 60 when we began our endeavors a writer who had never been deemed worth the money to publish has now been introduced to a small but significant readership and the comparisons keep pouring in kafka beckett well vardeman each story is unique each novel is unique often hilarious vardeman who cannot seem to write long about ordinary us american folk without making you laugh has just as much trouble restraining his empathy and the emotions roil as you read the short novel an angel of sodom it s followed by 13 short stories was one of the funniest i had ever read i thought til i read it again when it literally had me in tears maybe he won t produce enough to win a nobel prize but then again with free ranging support beginning 30 years ago maybe he would have one by the chief editor and others i began the press to rescue the manifold destiny of eddie vegas from a flailing press often forgotten even by me it was being published alongside my walk like a duck a season of little league baseball in italy the responses to eddie vegas have been numerous and extremely positive and so after selling it in the us and 30 some other countries for over a year it came as no surprise that it was finally picked up by a prestigious us press zerogram but it is difficult to talk in such a venue about one s own books for the most part there was no difficulty deciding to rescue books that had been published by other presses like the driftless trilogy and skulls of istria and walk like a duck was going to be published elsewhere as time passed i published most of what i ve written and finished deciding against my first two novels both of which have remained in the typewritten stage reviews have been pleasing especially for walk like a duck though they have been few as expected but it s a 648 page book on baseball and all the anecdotes in fascist italy won t make it a bestseller unfortunately fascist italy anecdotes are legion and most unknown to most in the us despite the intense involvement of the us government on the post wwii fascist side in fact the us involvement on the fascist side began before the end of the war the assassination of olof palme book was written for italian victims of fascism after the war particularly giuseppe pinelli an anarchist arrested for a fascist bombing in 1969 who was shoved to his death by cops in milano that was the event darkly mocked by dario fo in his play the accidental death of an anarchist what is little known is that the us military stationed in italy supplied the c4 explosive that killed 17 people before the cops killed pinelli none of this seems terribly funny but the book is a satire i can t restrain myself from calling it a menippean satire nonetheless to illustrate the satirical quandary we have the circumstances such as the us working with klaus barbie while the french were trying to get their hands on this butcher of lyon the us had higher purposes he was unveiled by a linguistic talent lending his talents to the us military in augsburg in late 1945 or early 1946 who went to his boss to tell him the exciting news the boss told him to shut the fuck up and get out of his office what kind of satire then is it when back in his office barbie comes in to tell him to buck up that such is the way of things nice try and all that barbie remained protected by the us in germany until 1951 when they sent him by ratline to south america where he lived luxuriously until 1982 or was it 83 a lot of secret and utterly insane shit went on under the auspices of us spies after the war including an attack on a munitions dump in belgium a us ally of course nothing can match the self satire of the reagan bungling drug and gunrunners except perhaps for the steady straight stream of nancy reagan s consciousness writers are quite often said to be looking for new ways to tell stories and this one the assassination of olof palme an anthological novel shoved me to a cliff and kept shoving luckily it was a low cliff and i came out of it all right but the book didn t survive intact certain passages required certain writers some of whom were not me and half of what was me may as well not have been that s a question that the book might answer i wrote about 85 of the book and a couple dozen or more wrote the rest from a line to several chapters i don t know of anything like this having been done before and that s why this is the one book i don t mind drawing attention to here more the press has published 30 volumes in 19 months and the list for coming year is already 16 volumes long we ll see how it goes you ll find a catalogue at http www coronasamizdat com leave a comment posted in uncategorized a new literary movement the return to engagement may 24 klaus hauser stuttgart during an interview author rick harsch the driftless trilogy skulls of istria the manifold destiny of eddie vegas once expressed his disgust with great us writers fascination with the assassination of jfk in portugal you have antonio lobo antunes putting out one masterpiece after another about fascism and colonialism matters of global historical import while there they write trifles about an assassination that changed nothing i threw delillo s libra into a ravine when i finished it and along with my colleague friend and fellow anti fascist author sesshu foster pelted mailer s nonsense with a potato gun as of a moment ago having finished america and the cult of the cactus boots a diagnostic by phillip freedenberg i am pleased to announce that fiction in the united states appears to be catching up with that of the rest of the globe published by harsch s fledgling press corona samizdat begun in april of 2020 freedenberg s book comes on the heels of sesshu foster s history of the east los angeles dirigle air transport lines from city lights as well as two monsters of anti fascism by the late chandler brossard published by corona samizdat wake up we re almost there and as the wolf howls at my door as well as harsch s own unique the assassination of olof palme an anthological nove l volumes 1 2 and the manifold destiny of eddie vegas by harsch himself and while i am at it harsch s baseball diary walk like a duck a season of little league baseball in italy perhaps the only anti fascist baseball book ever written and definitely the only baseball book i have ever read most engaging in its fasci loci elements what all these books have in common is a thematic concentration on the disastrous political climate of the united states today and a strong anti fascist thrust cactus boots seems to me destined to become the most famous of all these books and while there is no sense in ranking them if that were my task i would include harsch s skulls of istria in the above paragraph the excitement of receiving a great fat novel ahead of us readers i got mine straight from slovenia on friday and read it intensively until a short while ago not resting to absorb the pure experiences of the book as the notion of this essay about a much needed convergence began coursing through my mind as i read perhaps part of that notion but also judging from the extraordinary inclusiveness of freedenberg s novel and its pointed focus on perhaps the most metaphorically frightening organs of the fascist mentality destruction of the word in the baseball book harsch s son is playing baseball in the near environs of trieste and monfalcone the very region the fueled the italain fascist and colonial irredentist movement and where up to this very second italians of modest and well behaved aspect unquestionably live amongst a terrain of lies marked by monuments to a valor that never amounted to anything but horrific death to italians and a victorious italy that glorified military involvement on the terrain they could not hold but were granted by their allies despite their military failures always at the expense of indigenous peoples mostly slovenes and croats the immediate result of post war mania was d anunzio s bizarre assault on rijeka staging near monfalcone where three little league teams play one of them in redipuglia in plain sight of one of the grotesque fascist monuments ever built marching to trieste and beyond the extension of d annunzio s mania was the realpolitik of mussolini s fascism which attacked the slovene word the slovene language being outlawed for virtually the entire span between the world wars in all territories in which italians ruled slovenes it s no news that fascists let us not require this puny author to list what are essentially synonyms like dictatorship require censorship and it is right that they do so if phillip freedenberg is onto something for the ultimate triumph in his novel is saving the word both within his book and if i am onto something in the reading world of an increasingly fascist united states in the united states readers now more than ever celebrate a period of literary blossoming that occurred from say the mid 1950s when gaddis the recognitions was published through the emergence of writers such as barth hawkes gass pynchon wallace and vollmann that they speak of in the past tense even though many even alexander theroux are still alive recently more than once i have read critics who were discussing excitedly the state of the us novel in paradoxically pessimistic terms as one question persists who is next anyone rikki ducornet too old vollmann if he mitotes pynchon even he will die one day through excess of love of a generation off writers it seems to me the us literary community already a survivalist phenomenon in and of itself is humming along to a long dirge expecting nothing and they are right that murakami haruki will save no one but the question occurs to me who did pynchon save after gravity s rainbow who did gaddis save in his recognitions granting that novels that are written to recurrently delve into the mystery of the human condition will not always have an historical or political sheen and that gaddis jr is insuperable political satire the general thrust of the books of this period or at the very least the critics who rightly laud them is stylistic mastery thus do these books cohere and rise above others and meet the books of previous literary movements yet to my mind a movement is only as good as its autonomous desire to persevere the greatest failure of the english literary conglomerate of the 20 th century has been the persistent refusal to bring james joyce s finnnegans wake into the practical canon or say the toolbox of the workshop luckily finnegans wake still exists as do dadaists surrealists symbolists and masters of all eras epochs movements all of which it seems are instinctively as is only perhaps obvious anti fascist rabelais more than any in my estimate but the engaged world literature of recent years has been far from an exalted us literary feature sebald and the too little known daša drndić are perhaps the most well known in europe but the gaddis vollmann continuum features only vollman as a dedicated engaged writer yet as a novelist he lacks the esprit of most of his compeers what america and the cult of the cactus boots a diagnostic particularly as it is published by the press that harsch has used to bring out his own manifold destiny of eddie vegas reprint skulls of istria as pointed a work of anti fascism as any i have read by a us writer if i may still call him that and the utterly original assassination of olof palme which harsch told me was in large part his apology at not going far enough into and at the derangement of the united states in eddie vegas what freedenberg s opus represents to me is the moment when great us modern fiction becomes definitively engaged this is where the apology fits in where i pat some oblivious genius on the back and say it s okay to write brilliantly about grandma and your traumas overcome yet there is an urgency that this time seems to be screaming an urgency to phillip freedenberg s refrain this is a possible world and this is where sesshu foster comes most brilliantly alive as little known as he is for each of his utterances in one way or another is rage enwrapped and alive for the sake of his own children and all the other children to come or not to come foster writes informed by all those who informed the gaddis vollmann continuance and remembering all of their predecessors and he writes every word for the sake of real living children throughout the world and if he does write funny books he is not laughing deep inside and he is not reading gaddis through vollman he s reading history and its vomitus lived in today his books are combined with the others of the post critically lauded authors mentioned herein compelled by the need for the children of his species to survive while freedenberg s is written in the faint hope ...