Claim to Oblivion: Selected Essays and Interviews

Claim to Oblivion: Selected Essays and InterviewsThis is where Tarnawsky explains himself in his own prose, the closest thing he wrote to a statement of method. The pieces open onto specific puzzles. Who is the boy at the start of Bergman's Persona? What are the near silent seven minutes at the end of Antonioni's L'Eclisse for? What happens if you break the rules Shklovsky thought prose was built on, or rewrite The Great Gatsby in ultra short sentences? He turns the same scrutiny on his own work,

subtitled A Sequel/Prequel to Arboretum

in a world where

The two halves sit in one book unreconciled

JEF also publishes his What Is Art

A man dresses up in a mountain climber's outfit as he goes in for a surgery he has been trying to avoid at all cost

not Finnegans Wake

This is volume one of Picky Hunting's Trilogy of Journals of the Plague Year: 2020-2022

Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse

Recto & Verso: A Work of Asemism and Pareidolia is the one title in Dominic Ward's JEF shelf that is not a novel

Each numbered issue is a snapshot of what the press considered foremost work in English at the time of printing

A general number in the press's print annual

She passed away from metastatic breast cancer in 2002