Bøger af Jeff Alessandrelli

An innovative work of fiction, Jeff Alessandrelli's And Yet interrogates contemporary shyness, selfhood and sexual mores, drawing out the particulars of each through historical references, cultural commentary, and the author's own restless imagination. And Yet builds off the work of authors as disparate as Michel Leiris, Marguerite Duras, and Kobo Abe, while alluding to the work of Susan Sontag, Young Thug, Young Jean Lee, Cesare Pavese, Sylvia Plath, and Louise Glück, among others. With its nameless protagonist simultaneously proud and afraid of his daunting interiority, And Yet's form morphs, cracks, and continuously tries to repair itself while becoming a nuanced story of our times. "Love is a thing full of anxious fear. Especially when what you ultimately love and fear is your self," writes Alessandrelli, and And Yet draws such a notion down, out and around again, arriving at its own idiosyncratic answers by the end of the book.

Fonograf Editions' first ever magazine FE builds off the genre-defining work it has released since 2016. FE includes new material from Catherine Bresner - Suzanne Buffam - Arda Collins - Joel Craig - Michael Earl Craig - Corinne Dekkers - Mark Anthony Cayanan - Anaïs Duplan - Claire Donato - Peter Gizzi - Yam Gong (trans. Dorothy Tse and James Shea) - Brandi Katherine Herrera - Emily Hunerwadel - Federico Italiano (trans. Brenda Porster) - Krystal Languell - Nathaniel Mackey - Veronica Martin - Kristi Maxwell - Joyelle McSweeney - Ryan Mills - Alice Notley - Alexis Orgera - Gabriel Palacios - Andre Perry - Justin Phillip Reed - Joshua Pollock - Harper Quinn - Rachelle Rahmé - Megan Savage - Zach Savich - Mary Szybist - Nick Twemlow - Jan Verberkmoes - Jeffrey Yang and CL Young.

Alessandrelli's wry, intelligent poems are relentlessly grounded in the hyperreal of our fast-paced technological present and yet they are supremely successful in finding heartfelt lyricism where one might not expect to find it. Nothing of the Month Club packs a punch - and delivers.-- André Naffis-Sahely

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Film. Music. Twenty years after the murder of The Notorious B.I.G., THE MAN ON HIGH melds the creative and the critical, and questions what legacy means in the 21st century. Contemplating Biggie through the lens of both skateboarding and poetry, Jeff Alessandrelli's THE MAN ON HIGH illuminates how The Notorious B.I.G. will always be rapping in the present tense. "In an era where the imagination is bent on nostalgia, the '90s is the number one fetish object, and events like the OJ Simpson trial and the LA Riots are being rehashed in Adidas track suits and retro band merch (I'm writing this in a Sade t-shirt I bought in a suburb of St. Louis over the summer), to the extent that Kendall Jenner tried to sell t-shirts with photos of Biggie on them with no permission from his estate and played naive when she got shut down, we need the complex sincerity of THE MAN ON HIGH. This is a rare example of a black musician who helped set the tonal landscape for an entire subculture actually being given credit and proper attention and love. You'll come away craving a skateboard and some headphones, and feeling Notorious." --Harmony Holiday "A refreshingly heartfelt and multivalent treatise on influence, inspiration, and individuality, Alessandrelli's THE MAN ON HIGH waxes and melds in tribute to a true cultural icon and iconoclast, the B.I.G., along the way reconsidering the nature of the many frames that give us faith amid an era of 'mere numerical arbitrariness.'"--Blake Butler