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Dear MadsPLP,

I am truly delighted to see the dedication of Malingerer recognized. Hails KD!

And many thanks for picking up the book. Hope you enjoy!

Very best,

T/

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I have just received my purchased copy of

MALINGERER by Thomas Phillips
Zagava MMXIV

My previous review of a Thomas Phillips book from Zagava / Ex Occidente Press here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com...omas-phillips/

Re: Ex Occidente Press

Dear All,

Coming up in November, 2014:

Dreams of Ourselves: An Appreciation of Fernando Pessoa.

This massive volume heralds a new direction for our press, both in style, design, format but also in the selecting process of the stories.

Unlike its predecesors, the Meyrink, Bulgakov, Schulz and Huysmans homages, Dreams of Ourselves comes fully illustrated. The format itself is also considerably larger than those mentioned before, making Dreams of Ourselves look more like an odd coffee table artbook than a collection of stories.

Thus:

To the attention of those sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything, to the ironic dreamers and faithful charlatans and to those who have always felt like being on the verge of waking up -

DREAMS OF OURSELVES
An Appreciation of Pessoa

Edited by Adolph Moscow

With exclusive novellas and stories by Quentin S. Crisp, Jonathan Wood, Mark Valentine, Adam S. Cantwell, Colin Insole, John Howard, Avalon Brantley, Damian Murphy, Rhys Hughes, Andrew Condous and D.P. Watt.

That Nothing Human Scorn by Raphael Baldaya
Petseta by Sebastian Knight
We Are All Words by Burton Donald-Wickham Hallam
The Apostatical Ascetic by Alexander Search
A Body of Nostalgia with a Soul of Foam by Unknown
Le Panopticon de le Chevalier de Pas by Chevalier de Pas
Mr. S and Doctor S. by Horace James Faber
The Man We All Imagined I Might Have Been by Emmanuel Golding
A Sea Sorrow in Triptych by A.A. Crosse
The Sublime Voyage of Ariana Aragão by Efbeedee Pasha
Under Different Stars by Navas

Although the real identity of the writers is revealed on page IV. of the book, the stories are published under Pessoa heteronyms, chosen by the authors themselves. In other words, you will have to guess which story is written by Quentin and which by Colin Insole, for example. For those not in mood of playing games, at the end of the book there is a sealed black envelope. You open it and inside you will find the key to the puzzle, a page of fine paper with the real names of the writers and their stories.

The book is also featuring artwork by Richard Skelton of Corbel Stone Press. For those not yet acquainted with Richard and Corbel Stone Press, it is the time. In my mind, Corbel Stone Press is the most aesthetical and visionary of the small presses around, way above the gothickery, the overload cuteness and modish of the oh-so-stylish genre presses. I highly recommend taking a look at the latest from Corbel Stone Press, Nimrod is Lost in Orion and Osyris in the Doggestarre. A book I wish I would have published.

Dreams of Ourselves is scheduled for release in November and I already know it is the best book I have edited and designed so far.

More details and photos coming soon on the Zagava Books website. In the meantime, a Preview PDF is attached.

Thanks and Salut to All,
Dan

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Finally, a powerful tribute to Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.

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Originally Posted by Nigromontanus (Post 107250)

Dear All,

Coming up in November, 2014:

Dreams of Ourselves: An Appreciation of Fernando Pessoa.

This massive volume heralds a new direction for our press, both in style, design, format but also in the selecting process of the stories.

Unlike its predecesors, the Meyrink, Bulgakov, Schulz and Huysmans homages, Dreams of Ourselves comes fully illustrated. The format itself is also considerably larger than those mentioned before, making Dreams of Ourselves look more like an odd coffee table artbook than a collection of stories.

Thus:

To the attention of those sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything, to the ironic dreamers and faithful charlatans and to those who have always felt like being on the verge of waking up -

DREAMS OF OURSELVES
An Appreciation of Pessoa

Edited by Adolph Moscow

With exclusive novellas and stories by Quentin S. Crisp, Jonathan Wood, Mark Valentine, Adam S. Cantwell, Colin Insole, John Howard, Avalon Brantley, Damian Murphy, Rhys Hughes, Andrew Condous and D.P. Watt.

That Nothing Human Scorn by Raphael Baldaya
Petseta by Sebastian Knight
We Are All Words by Burton Donald-Wickham Hallam
The Apostatical Ascetic by Alexander Search
A Body of Nostalgia with a Soul of Foam by Unknown
Le Panopticon de le Chevalier de Pas by Chevalier de Pas
Mr. S and Doctor S. by Horace James Faber
The Man We All Imagined I Might Have Been by Emmanuel Golding
A Sea Sorrow in Triptych by A.A. Crosse
The Sublime Voyage of Ariana Aragão by Efbeedee Pasha
Under Different Stars by Navas

Although the real identity of the writers is revealed on page IV. of the book, the stories are published under Pessoa heteronyms, chosen by the authors themselves. In other words, you will have to guess which story is written by Quentin and which by Colin Insole, for example. For those not in mood of playing games, at the end of the book there is a sealed black envelope. You open it and inside you will find the key to the puzzle, a page of fine paper with the real names of the writers and their stories.

The book is also featuring artwork by Richard Skelton of Corbel Stone Press. For those not yet acquainted with Richard and Corbel Stone Press, it is the time. In my mind, Corbel Stone Press is the most aesthetical and visionary of the small presses around, way above the gothickery, the overload cuteness and modish of the oh-so-stylish genre presses. I highly recommend taking a look at the latest from Corbel Stone Press, Nimrod is Lost in Orion and Osyris in the Doggestarre. A book I wish I would have published.

Dreams of Ourselves is scheduled for release in November and I already know it is the best book I have edited and designed so far.

More details and photos coming soon on the Zagava Books website. In the meantime, a Preview PDF is attached.

Thanks and Salut to All,
Dan

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This is wonderful news. Pessoa, the Portuguese writer of Proustian Selves.

Quote:

Originally Posted by aldiniz (Post 107267)

Finally, a powerful tribute to Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nigromontanus (Post 107250)

Dear All,

Coming up in November, 2014:

Dreams of Ourselves: An Appreciation of Fernando Pessoa.

This massive volume heralds a new direction for our press, both in style, design, format but also in the selecting process of the stories.

Unlike its predecesors, the Meyrink, Bulgakov, Schulz and Huysmans homages, Dreams of Ourselves comes fully illustrated. The format itself is also considerably larger than those mentioned before, making Dreams of Ourselves look more like an odd coffee table artbook than a collection of stories.

Thus:

To the attention of those sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything, to the ironic dreamers and faithful charlatans and to those who have always felt like being on the verge of waking up -

DREAMS OF OURSELVES
An Appreciation of Pessoa

Edited by Adolph Moscow

With exclusive novellas and stories by Quentin S. Crisp, Jonathan Wood, Mark Valentine, Adam S. Cantwell, Colin Insole, John Howard, Avalon Brantley, Damian Murphy, Rhys Hughes, Andrew Condous and D.P. Watt.

That Nothing Human Scorn by Raphael Baldaya
Petseta by Sebastian Knight
We Are All Words by Burton Donald-Wickham Hallam
The Apostatical Ascetic by Alexander Search
A Body of Nostalgia with a Soul of Foam by Unknown
Le Panopticon de le Chevalier de Pas by Chevalier de Pas
Mr. S and Doctor S. by Horace James Faber
The Man We All Imagined I Might Have Been by Emmanuel Golding
A Sea Sorrow in Triptych by A.A. Crosse
The Sublime Voyage of Ariana Aragão by Efbeedee Pasha
Under Different Stars by Navas

Although the real identity of the writers is revealed on page IV. of the book, the stories are published under Pessoa heteronyms, chosen by the authors themselves. In other words, you will have to guess which story is written by Quentin and which by Colin Insole, for example. For those not in mood of playing games, at the end of the book there is a sealed black envelope. You open it and inside you will find the key to the puzzle, a page of fine paper with the real names of the writers and their stories.

The book is also featuring artwork by Richard Skelton of Corbel Stone Press. For those not yet acquainted with Richard and Corbel Stone Press, it is the time. In my mind, Corbel Stone Press is the most aesthetical and visionary of the small presses around, way above the gothickery, the overload cuteness and modish of the oh-so-stylish genre presses. I highly recommend taking a look at the latest from Corbel Stone Press, Nimrod is Lost in Orion and Osyris in the Doggestarre. A book I wish I would have published.

Dreams of Ourselves is scheduled for release in November and I already know it is the best book I have edited and designed so far.

More details and photos coming soon on the Zagava Books website. In the meantime, a Preview PDF is attached.

Thanks and Salut to All,
Dan

Re: Ex Occidente Press

Dear All,

Dreams of Ourselves: An Appreciation of Pessoa has now been released. The six boxes with the copies have been shipped from Bucharest to Germany yesterday. Jonas should have them early next week, meaning that your own copies should be with you very soon now. If you have not ordered yet a copy of the finest literary anthology of 2014 you still have a chance to get one from Zagava Books at - Zagava.

Two new volumes will be released on 7 December, making them the final ZEX titles to be published this year.

Wraiths by Mark Valentine, a tall, sumptuous, perfectly crafted book in homage to the Nineties (sure to become one of the most sought-after titles penned by Mark) and A Distillate of Heresy, a superlative collection of esoteric and pitch black stories by Damian Murphy. PDF Previews are attached to this message. For more information on Wraiths and A Distillate of Heresy please see the Zagava Books website.

Finally, a quick view of the upcoming Ex Occidente Press website. Not sure it displays correctly on tablets, though. Ex Occidente Press - FUTURE It is still very much into work, a proper domain and name will be bought soon. In the meantime, however, you can read for free the annotated The Seven Treasures of Bucharest by Mark Valentine and Geticus Polus, a short novella from The Nightfarers. Keep an eye on the Shards section where you will be able to read for free various Ex Occidente Press stories and exclusive pieces.

Thanks to all,
Dan

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Even those who do not think very much of my stories have been kind enough to enjoy my efforts as a book collector. My books have not come to me on account of any fortune. I am honoured to be the son of a postman and I spent all my own working life in an office. The books came from countless hours in obscure bookshops, patiently studying the shelves. They perhaps also came to me because of a certain oblique sensitivity, an alertness to books that had been overlooked. But even that is probably the product of long practice.

A lot of my writing other than fiction has been an attempt to revive the work of then-unread writers, who are now beginning to get some proper attention at last: for example, Ronald Fraser, Claude Houghton, Mary Butts, even Arthur Machen who, when I started to celebrate him, thirty years ago, with my late friend and co-editor Roger Dobson, was out of print and known only to certain savants.

But I have also been pursued by the question that is several turns further on in the dark corridor of neglected literature: what about those whose writing has vanished almost completely? That is what Wraiths is about. By delving in obscure memoirs, I have written a study of a handful of Eighteen Nineties decadent poets so rare and elusive, so enigmatic, that their verses never appeared at all, and are virtually completely lost. For one we have a single line; for another, two stanzas; for the others, only fervent memories of what their work was, in all its strange glory.

I have also added an essay on a little-known aspect of that fine and fervent Nineties poet, Ernest Dowson. With a friend, he wrote a Jekyll & Hyde-ish shocker (his term) which they tried in vain to get published. That too is now lost. But by studying the letters between the two authors, I have tried to revive an idea of what the book might have been – perhaps even a rival to The Picture of Dorian Gray or The Great God Pan.

Mark

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... whilst "Dreams of Ourselves - An Appreciation of Pessoa" will be ready to ship from Düsseldorf this coming Monday, December 1st, all of the envelopes containing the card, revealing the heteroniminous authors' names are sealed already! - Zagava

Re: Ex Occidente Press

Dreams of Ourselves
https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpre...pg?w=300&h=268
I have just received my purchased copy of this luxurious, richly artworked book…
288 pages – No. 31 of 110 numbered copies
DREAMS of OURSELVES
Stories and novellas from Quentin S. Crisp, Jonathan Wood, Colin Insole, Andrew Condous, Mark Valentine, Damian Murphy, John Howard, Rhys Hughes, Adam S. Cantwell, D.P. Watt, Avalon Brantley.
Les Editions de L’Oubli MMXIV
Zagava / Ex Occidente Press
I am particularly intrigued by the prospect of this book as it seems to be operating a form of Nemonymity (author late-labelling) that was operated in NEMONYMOUS 2001 – 2010.
My previous reviews of this publisher’s books linked from HERE
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Interview - Jonathan Wood

Dear Friends

The excellent Jonathan Wood gave an incredible interview to me. The prose, so exquisite and complex, punches the very essence of the Wood prosody. The link for this curious interview (a Portuguese translation will be made soon):

http://bibliophage.postach.io/interview-jonathan-wood