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Category Archives: fiction

Book Thug Nation – DIY Series #1

This is part of a new series that Effluvia is doing on independent booksellers, info-shops, distros and other collective and individual exercises in the dissemination of “alternative” media. As the behemoth B&N adds more kitsch and subtracts more books from its brick and mortar stores and moves more of its business online, we at Effluvia [...]

NO HEROIC MEASURES – fiction by Melissa Ann Chadburn

Effluvia Magazine is excited to publish a piece by Los Angeles based writer Melissa Chadburn. Her NO HEROIC MEASURES is, at turns, provocative, informative, poignant, disturbing and uplifting. Melissa Chadburn is a lover and a fighter, a union rep, a social arsonist, a writer, a lesbian, of color, smart, edgy and fun. Her work has [...]

The Sextine Chapel

by Kevin Casey New Translated Literature in Mixed Reviews Mixed Reviews… Hervé Le Tellier

The Silence of Violence

The Silence of Violence What is said, unsaid and transmuted in the intersemiotic translations of Cormac McCarthy’s later work. by Kevin Casey Feature… McCarthy Transmutation

Cormac McCarty’s Guide to Style

McCarthy Styleguide

Bret Easton Ellis, Richard Hell and Stephin Merritt

Books and Movies in Mixed Reviews… Mixed Reviews

Riding Toward Everywhere – William Vollmann

Review… Vollmann Riding