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Mauro Javier Cärdenas
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Catalogued as high modernist for expediency’s sake. AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS (Dalkey) APHASIA (FSG) REVOLUTIONARIES TRY AGAIN (Coffee House Press).
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theuntranslated.bsky.social
Join us for a discussion of Michael Lentz's 1001 page novel Schattenfroh with translator Max Lawton and author Mauro Javier Cardenas

Date and time

Thursday, October 30 · 7 - 9pm PDT

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Schattenfroh: Max Lawton and Mauro Javier Cardenas at Womb House Books
Eventbrite - Womb House Books presents Schattenfroh: Max Lawton and Mauro Javier Cardenas at Womb House Books - Thursday, October 30, 2025 at Womb House Books, Oakland, CA. Find event and ticket infor...
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October 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
Here
July 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Finally read _American Abductions_ by @ineluctablequak.bsky.social while I'm down with covid. No disappointment. Haven't seen any blurbs mention Dostoevsky yet, but I'm ready to call it _The Sisters Brzeszczykowski_. @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social
Cover of American Abductions, the third novel by Mauro Javier Cardenas, with a reproduction of Leonora Carrington's "Labyrinth" in the bottom half of the design. The painting shows a labyrinth of hedges with figures making their way through. Some are white, some black, some red. A red bird figure at the entrance looks like Max Ernst's totem. A prominent black horse with a large, wide-open, staring golden eye has a white acrobat in red socks doing a headstand on its back. Farther along are more horses, people following a pair of oxen, more Ernst-like bird figures, people bearing branches, and towards the center of the labyrinth, what looks like a white figure receiving a blessing from a black figure.
July 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
Two books I’ve been reading excitedly this week:

Atusparia by Gabriela Wiener & the new essay collection by Yoko Tawada
May 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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ilanaslightly.bsky.social
Wondering what big outlet will pay me to do a small press books roundup every month or two because it seems like this is more necessary now than ever
May 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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marcobook.bsky.social
Emocionado hasta la médula @ineluctablequak.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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shonatiger.bsky.social
Like I keep saying: It's all very American Abductions x Mauro Javier Cárdenas
March 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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agendaearth.bsky.social
Absolutely. More recent but also very excellent -and terrifying-American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas.
February 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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neonpajamas.bsky.social
Blurbs from Lemony Snicket, Joanna Ruocco, Brian Evenson, Brandon Shimoda, & Carol Guess

🤯🥺😭

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February 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
Hey look there’s a project on the influence of Thomas Bernhard on contemporary literature 💕
February 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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nichollsm86.bsky.social
amazing book mail from two great used book shops on Instagram, Apport Used Books and Barbed Wyre Books. Also two new releases from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social and an order from a recent sale at @versobooks.bsky.social, excited to get to these books✨📚
January 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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jshelat1.bsky.social
Next up is American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas—been looking forward to this one since it came out
January 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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seventydys.bsky.social
so as not to be driven mad

Thomas Bernhard, ‘Madness’, in ‘The Voice Imitator’, tr Kenneth J. Northcott
MADNESS A postman was suspended in Lend because for years he had not delivered any letter that he thought contained sad news or, in the nature of things, any of the cards announcing a death that came his way, but had burned them all in his own home. The post office finally had him committed to the lunatic asylum in Scherrnberg, where he goes around in a postman's uniform and continually delivers letters that are deposited by the asylum's administration in a letter box specially built into one of the walls of the asylum and that are addressed to his fellow patients. According to reports, the postman asked for his uniform as soon as he was committed to the lunatic asylum in Scherrnberg so as not to be driven mad.
January 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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katewagner.wehwalt.net
haha I’m so fucking scared for the future
January 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
Fantastic close reading by @evand.bsky.social of AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS, my 3rd novel.

“It is also a book filled with humor and hard-earned joy, suffused with a rare philosophical intelligence that saves it from any hint of mawkishness.”

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Actually Pretty Good: American Abductions
On Mauro Javier Cárdenas's dispatch from the future of the deportation machine
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January 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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fictioncollective2.bsky.social
Start your 2025 off right by tuning into the mind of the Collective! go.bsky.app/UrzZa6j
January 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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neonpajamas.bsky.social
I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better.

Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi.

neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
January 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
Fantastic book pile
pklawton.bsky.social PK @pklawton.bsky.social · Dec 23
I read 60 books in 2024; this is the top 20 (I’m cheating by counting all those Brian Evenson books as one!)

New fav books in my personal top 5 - The Recognitions / JR are currently sitting at 1a/1b, just everything I love about reading chonky *supposedly difficult* books.

Some other connections:
The Last Good Kiss – James Crumley Pop. 1280 – Jim Thompson The Weird and the Eerie – Mark Fisher Psychopolitics – Byung-Chul Han The Marigold – Andrew F. Sullivan High-Rise – J.G. Ballard When We Cease to Understand the World – Benjamín Labatut Roadside Picnic – Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Angels – Denis Johnson The Twilight Zone – Nona Fernández Satantango – László Krasznahorkai War & War – László Krasznahorkai Ice – Anna Kavan American Abductions – Mauro Javier Cárdenas We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson The Open Curtain – Brian Evenson A Collapse of Horses – Brian Evenson Father of Lies – Brian Evenson Lst Days - Brian Evenson Woodcutters – Thomas Bernhard J R – William Gaddis The Recognitions – William Gaddis War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
January 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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roughghosts.bsky.social
Dramatically, melodramatically, or obliquely: American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social
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Dramatically, melodramatically, or obliquely: American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas
. . . no, Antonio says to his daughters during dinner, Americans can’t imagine the conditions, and if they can’t imagine the conditions, they can’t imagine themselves as refugees, and if they can’t…
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December 29, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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pklawton.bsky.social
Fav SciFi - Roadside Picnic

Fav Crime - forgot to include Derek Raymond’s “He Died With His Eyes Open” but that

Best book that got an ugly cry out of me: Satantango

Best 2024 release: American Abductions by @ineluctablequak.bsky.social
December 23, 2024 at 5:35 PM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
Someone should write a Compendium of Writers Attempting to Self-Induce New Circuitries.
December 23, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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dsparis.bsky.social
Lo mejor de estas fechas es la manera en que la convivencia familiar borra de un plumazo el paso del tiempo y los años de terapia y te regresa al mismo estado de ansiedad y frustración de la infancia y adolescencia. Y la ensalada de manzana.
December 23, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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brandonshimoda.bsky.social
My new book The Afterlife Is Letting Go — on the memory/forgetting of Japanese American incarceration — is officially out @citylightsbooks.bsky.social: t.ly/hnVas. Thank you to everyone who contributed to its life, esp. the 200 survivors and descendants who appear, in their own words, throughout it.
December 10, 2024 at 2:40 PM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
I saw this once in Berkeley as a Merce Cunningham dance 💕
December 14, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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subsumed.bsky.social
My new bookmark. Sorry, Greg Ginn…
American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas (Dalkey Archive, 2024) with an SST Superstore catalog used as a bookmark.
December 7, 2024 at 7:58 AM