Imposing Fictions aims to ameliorate the growing problem of what Martin Heidegger refers to as psychological and cultural “homelessness” by diagnosing the nature of the latter’s current manifestations and offering readings of literature that seek to inspire the genuine, and genuinely subversive, alterity required by an authentic mode of being.Specifically, it advocates for the value of subversive literature and its capacity to impose itself on the multitude of cultural and psychological pr...

50 years ago in a weird little Indiana city...Hop in your DeLorean and visit a time with no internet, no phones, and no existential dread. Your Hoosier homegirl weaves a tale of growing up neuro-spicy and music-obsessed in a unique midsized city on the Ohio River in the 1970s and '80s. From the arrival of her ancestors in the 19th century to her own exodus from Evansville in 1990, come along for a joyride of indelible memories recounted in meticulous detail, drawin...

Any night La Llorona walks the river is a night to stay indoors.One moonlit midnight, two very different women meet on the banks of the muddy Rio Grande. Grady Wrenn is a cultural anthropologist, enthralled by a local ghost story about a vengeful spirit known as the River Walker. Elena Montalvo, a spiritual healer, is that tortured spirit’s only defender. Together, Grady and Elena must find a way to end the River Walker’s murderous vendetta— and overcome a maze of cultural barriers...

Hast du von der Finsternis gekostet? Sündig und vergiftet wie ein lang vergessenes Geheimnis …Es gab tausend gute Gründe, warum sie aus Dark River Falls flüchtete. Doch einer davon brachte sie zurück – in seinem Kofferraum.An einem verregneten Herbsttag wird im Wald von Dark River Falls die stark verweste Leiche des jungen Tom Savage entdeckt, der Jahre zuvor unter mysteriösen Umständen verschwunden ist.Um den ungeklärten Tod seines Bruders aufzuklären, überschreitet H...

WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS C.J. DENNIS PRIZE FOR POETRYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDSDisarming, warm, and always accessible, Cate Kennedy’s poems make ordinary experiences glow. Everything that suffuses her well-loved prose is here: compassion, insight, lyrical precision, and the clear, minimalist eye that reveals how life can turn on a single moment. Musing on the undercurrents and ...