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Sinkholes are everywhere now - Whimsical, satirical, often biting and surreal, these verbal lightning flashes illuminate our contingent, federated selves, the intersectionalities of our strange interpenetrations. The Europeans have a word for this: feuilleton, which was originally a supplement attached to editorial pages of French newspapers, and later in German and Middle-European newspapers. They can be anything from political or non-political gossip and news, surreal short-short stories, art criticism, reports on the latest fashions, philosophic epigrams to charades and other literary pieces in the guise of trifles. Practitioners have included George Sand, Flaubert, Zola, Capek, and Kafka. They've been in and out of fashion, and back in again, and in Eastern Europe were often written to side-step censorship.

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Welcome to Christoph Keller's America the Beautiful & Other Indictments, whose title is as misleading as its apercus are biting original. Like pinpricks penetrating a dark veil, these glittering insights are arranged as cunningly as they are crafted, for a constellation greater than the sum of its shards. Some observations from the European press on Christoph Keller's latest novel in German, Der Boden unter den Fussen (The Ground Beneath the Feet): A poetic and optimistic book. - WDR5 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) Magical! - Style A narrative jewel. - Neue Zurcher Zeitung am Sonntag Sudkurier Who travels, they say, educates themselves. But maybe they only pollute the world. - Sudkurier ... featherlight, sparklingly elegant as Duke Ellington's piano. - kulturzeitschrift (Austria)

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Christoph Keller (1963), born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and writing in German and English, is the author of numerous prizewinning novels, plays and essays in German, including I'd Like My Country Flat (Ich hätte das Land gern flach, 1996), the best-selling memoir The Best Dancer (Der Beste Tänzer, 2003) about his life with the progressive neuromuscular disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy, A Worrisome State of Bliss (stories written in English, 2016) and The Ground Beneath the Feet (Der Boden unter den Füssen, 2019). In 2017, Alice James Books published We're On: A June Jordan Reader, coedited with Jan Heller Levi. Keller lived in New York for twenty years. In 2018 he heeded the president's advice and went back to where he came from. www.christophkeller.us

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