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How “Sweet 16” it is!

Here’s an issue you’ll party with like there’s no tomorrow. It’s filled to the brim with a stellar cast of artists, writers, poets & translators. 150 pages of avant-garde goodness – plus 42 contributors from around the world.

Featuring: Alphonse Allais; Terry Bradford; George Chappell; Georges-Oliver Châteaureynaud; Alex Cigale; Charles Cros; Milo De Angelis; Vojislav Despotov; Shawn Garrett; Edward Gauvin; Eckhard Gerdes; André Gill; Dana Golan; Émile Goudeau; Franz Hellens; Hogarth, Jr.; Vasyl Khmeliuk; Amy Kurman; George MacLennan; Paul Madsack; Dmitri Manin; Scott Marshall; Jim McMenamin; Ainsley Morse; Ethan Persoff; James Reidel; Michel Robic; Albert Robida; Paul Rosheim; Igor Satanovsky; Erik Satie; Serge Segay; Doug Skinner; Lono Taggers; Corinne Taunay; Lawrence Venuti; Antoine Volodine; Louis Wain; Gregory Wallace; Alyson Waters; Maria Luise Weissmann; and Nikolay Zabolotsky.

Don’t miss this one, folks – Sweet 16 comes only once in a lifetime.

NEW ISSUE!

TYPO: The International Journal of Prototypes is packed with avant-garde goodness, featuring Alphonse Allais; mIEKAL aND; Erik Belgum; Steve Biersdorf; Terry Bradford; Geoff Cebula; Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud; Alex Cigale; Norman Conquest; Farewell Debut; S. C. Delaney; Shawn Garrett; Edward Gauvin; Vasilisk Gnedov; Daniel Y. Harris; Paul Kavanagh; Irene Koronas; Amy Kurman; Emilia Loseva; Louis Pons; Agnès Potier; Bernard Quiriny; Jason Brandt Schaefer; Doug Skinner; Corinne Taunay; Igor Terent’ev; Froylán Turcios; Michel Vachey; Paul Valéry; Paul Verlaine; Tom Whalen; and Danny Winkler.

TYPO 14 — SPRING BREAK!

Never before has there been anything like TYPO #14. An assemblage of avant-garde truth-telling: Zabolotsky, Blanzat, Rilke, Guro & Devaulx. You owe it to yourself to be informed — get TYPO.”

A big new issue has just arrived — featuring Tim Newton Anderson; Károly Bari; Pierre Bettencourt; Steve Biersdorf ; Jean Blanzat; Alex Cigale; Norman Conquest; Noël Devaulx; Shawn Garrett; Edward Gauvin; Elena Guro; Gabor G. Gyukics; Mark Kanak; Amy Kurman; George MacLennan; Dmitri Manin; Joshua Martin; Marty Newman; Sarah Louise Pieplow; Mirtha Pozzi; Rainer Maria Rilke; Jason E. Rolfe; Paul Rosheim; Genrikh Sapgir; Emilio Settumelli; Doug Skinner; Kristen Szumyn; John Vieira; Gregory Wallace; D. Harlan Wilson; Bill Wolak; and Nikolay Zabolotsky.

A new look for a classic book…


A new cover design by Norman Conquest for this Black Scat classic. A dead body is discovered in a boarding-house in Southampton, England. It looks like murder, but whodunnit? — howdunnit? — the room was locked! Devised by one of the world’s greatest humorists, this witty, impossible crime offers all the pleasures a mystery-lover could wish for.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

What a great way to start 2026 — “The Eros Issue” of TYPO: The International Journal of Prototypes #13 — 160 pages of prurient prose, poetry, & titillating graphics. Featuring Nile Southern‘s Oulipian dive into Daddy Terry Southern‘s classic novel CANDY; Amy Kurman on silent stag films; an interview with a bisexual Surrealist vampire; suggestive covers from a 1930s French glamour zine; a report on a shocking Parisienne incident by Alfred Jarry; excerpts from Walter Serner‘s novel THE TIGRESS; and much more.

This special issue includes stellar works by Madeleine de L’Aubépine; Marcel Béalu; Erik Belgum; Tristan Bernard; Terry Bradford; R J Dent; Mike Ferguson; Rachel Galvin; Massimo Gatta; Edward Gauvin; Alfred Jarry; Gabriel de Lautrec; George MacLennan; Alfred de Musset; Opal Louis Nations; Ernesto López Parra; Alejandro Albarrán Polanco; Bernard Quiriny; James Richie; George Sand; Doug Skinner; Lono Taggers; Corinne Taunay; Robin Tomens; Paul Willems, and Mark Wyatt.

Don’t miss TYPO 13.

NEW ISSUE!

IN THIS ISSUE:
Julien Gracq’s “The House”
Albert Cossery’s “Perpetually Barking Man”
The Belgian School of the Bizarre
Paul Nougé’s Optic Unveiled
A “Surreal Wheels” pictorial
Doug Skinner’s intrusive Reader Survey
A rare Boggle toss
Bouncing Draculas
An Oulipian crossword puzzle
And more avant-garde goodness.

FEATURING 38 LUMINARIES: Robert Archambeau; Corina Bardoff; Terry Bradford; Igor Bulatovsky; Paul Busson; Apollo Camembert; Norman Conquest; Albert Cossery; Noël Devaulx; Rachel Galvin; Jean-Luc Gameau; Shawn Garrett; Edward Gauvin; Julien Gracq; Pierre Autin-Grenier; Daniel Y. Harris; Rick Henry; Esteban Isnardi; Julia Lillard; Joshua Martin; George MacLennan; Dmitri Manin; Paul Nougé; Thomas Owen; Angelo Pastormerlo; Alejandro Albarrán Polanco; Bernard Quiriny; Adam Ranđelović; Simon Read; Doug Skinner; Lono Taggers; Mark Valentine; Tim Walker; Gregory Wallace; Alyson Waters; Andrew Wenaus; Tom Whalen; Bill Wolak.

TYPO #12: The International Journal of Prototypes
edited by Norman Conquest & Paul Rosheim
Trade paperback; 157 pp., illustrated.
ISBN 979-8-9923826-9-3

11 is HEAVEN

IN THIS ISSUE: Alphonse Allais; Terry Bradford; Norman Conquest; Lynn Crawford; John Dee; S. C. Delaney; Luc Fierens; Shawn Garrett; Edward Gauvin; Paulette Hampton; Isidore Isou; Ben D. Jaeger; Paul Kavanagh; Amy Kurman; Joel Lipman; George MacLennan; André Pieyre de Mandiargues; Marcel Mariën; Sean G. Meggeson; Thomas Owen; Angelo Pastormerlo; Agnès Potier; Bernard Quiriny; Paul Rosheim; Alberto Savinio; Doug Skinner; Corinne Taunay; Michel Vachey; and D. Harlan Wilson.

Featuring

  • SUBTERRANEAN ART SHARDS
  • “PAPA BACH”
  • MARCEL MARIEN’S “AUTOPORTRAIT”
  • LUC FIERENS COLLAGES
  • D. HARLAN WILSON SPECULATIVE FICTION
  • “ISOU: THE JAMES DEAN OF LETTRISM”
  • JAEGER ON “THE RITES OF ECSTASY

PLUS new translations of André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Michel Vachey, Alberto Savinio, Alphonse Allais, Bernard Quiriny, & Thomas Owen.

TYPO: The International Journal of Prototypes #11
154 pp., trade paperback; $20
ISBN 979-8-9923826-8-6

Summer Reading…

Avant-garde composer & poet, Mirtha Pozzi in Paris.

Don’t miss the current issue of TYPO: The International Journal of Prototypes, featuring the first English translation of a novelette by surrealist André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and previously unavailable translations from a diverse selection of neglected literary masters: Marcel Schneider, Bernard Quiriny, Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Walter Serner, and others. Plus art and startling surprises.

PUMPING IRONY

In this issue we’re pleased to present the first English translation of a novelette by the surrealist writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues. You’ll also find previously unavailable translations from a diverse selection of neglected avant-garde literary masters like Marcel Schneider, Bernard Quiriny, Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Walter Serner, and others. While these writings range from baroque to fantastic, from dada to surrealism and back, together they helped populate modern literary art.

TYPO #10: The International Journal of Prototypes
Trade paperback, 158 pp., $20
ISBN 979-8-9923826-6-2 

Poèmes phonétiques; DADA; Surrealism, visual poetry; fantasy; Lettrism; experimental fiction.

IN THIS ISSUE: Chiara Ambrosio; Tim Newton Anderson; Terry Bradford; Shawn Garrett; Edward Gauvin; Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando; Thibault Jacquot-Paratte; Mark Kanak; Amy Kurman; André Pieyre de Mandiargues; George MacLennan; Frank Nims; Giambattista Palatino; Angelo Pastormerlo; Maurice Pons; Mirtha Pozzi; Bernard Quiriny; Jason E. Rolfe; Marcel Schneider; Walter Serner; Doug Skinner; Phil Demise Smith; Lono Taggers; Corinne Taunay; Gregory Wallace.

TYPO 10 — an instant collector’s item. Available worldwide.

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TYPO #9: A Fusion of Avant-Garde Literature

Like a robot assembled in a subterranean laboratory, this issue contains prototypical pieces from around the world. Many contributors were previously seen in so-called Obscure Publications. Others have been freshly translated from rare French, Belgian, and Russian books and magazines. Some authors are well-known in avant-garde or fantasy circles. Some artists & writers are just breaking through. But all have been brought together to create this sublime issue for your pleasure.

FEATURING: Alphonse Allais; Chiara Ambrosio; Robert Archambeau; Pierre Bettencourt;  Greg Boyd; Terry Bradford; H.V. Chao; Norman Conquest; Lynn Crawford; Caroline Crépiat; R J Dent; Mark Ducharme;  Jean-Luc Garneau; Edward Gauvin; Vasilisk Gnedov; Kirpal Gordon; Michael Gould; André Hardellet; Jordan Jones; Amy Kurman;  Joel Lipman; Emilia Loseva; Stephen-Paul Martin; George MacLennan; Henri Michaux; Claudio Parentela;  Angelo Pastormerlo; Gabriel & Marcel Piqueray; Bernard Quiriny; Doug Skinner; Renée Vivien; Danny Winkler; Bill Wolak.

TYPO #9: The International Journal of Prototypes
152 pp., trade paperback; $20
ISBN 979-8-9923826-0-0