by Alex Kovacs
GERTRUDE STEIN, The Making of Americans.
A Novel of Thank You.
LARS SVENDSEN, A Philosophy of Evil.
PIOTR SZEWC, Annihilation.
GONÇALO M. TAVARES, Jerusalem.
Joseph Walser’s Machine.
Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique.
LUCIAN DAN TEODOROVICI, Our Circus Presents . . .
NIKANOR TERATOLOGEN, Assisted Living.
STEFAN THEMERSON, Hobson’s Island.
The Mystery of the Sardine.
Tom Harris.
TAEKO TOMIOKA, Building Waves.
JOHN TOOMEY, Sleepwalker.
JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT, The Bathroom.
Camera.
Monsieur.
Reticence.
Running Away.
Self-Portrait Abroad.
Television.
The Truth about Marie.
DUMITRU TSEPENEAG, Hotel Europa.
The Necessary Marriage.
Pigeon Post.
Vain Art of the Fugue.
ESTHER TUSQUETS, Stranded.
DUBRAVKA UGRESIC, Lend Me Your Character.
Thank You for Not Reading.
TOR ULVEN, Replacement.
MATI UNT, Brecht at Night.
Diary of a Blood Donor.
Things in the Night.
ÁLVARO URIBE AND OLIVIA SEARS, EDS.,
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction.
ELOY URROZ, Friction.
The Obstacles.
LUISA VALENZUELA, Dark Desires and the Others.
He Who Searches.
PAUL VERHAEGHEN, Omega Minor.
AGLAJA VETERANYI, Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta.
BORIS VIAN, Heartsnatcher.
LLORENÇ VILLALONGA, The Dolls’ Room.
TOOMAS VINT, An Unending Landscape.
ORNELA VORPSI, The Country Where No One Ever Dies.
AUSTRYN WAINHOUSE, Hedyphagetica.
CURTIS WHITE, America’s Magic Mountain.
The Idea of Home.
Memories of My Father Watching TV.
Requiem.
DIANE WILLIAMS, Excitability: Selected Stories.
Romancer Erector.
DOUGLAS WOOLF, Wall to Wall.
Ya! & John-Juan.
JAY WRIGHT, Polynomials and Pollen.
The Presentable Art of Reading Absence.
PHILIP WYLIE, Generation of Vipers.
MARGUERITE YOUNG, Angel in the Forest.
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
REYOUNG, Unbabbling.
VLADO ABOT, The Succubus.
ZORAN IVKOVI, Hidden Camera.
LOUIS ZUKOFSKY, Collected Fiction.
VITOMIL ZUPAN, Minuet for Guitar.
SCOTT ZWIREN, God Head.
Copyright © 2013 by Alex Kovacs
First edition, 2013
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kovacs, Alex, 1982- The currency of paper / Alex Kovacs. -- First edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-56478-857-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-564-78981-5 (e-book)
1. Swindlers and swindling--Fiction. 2. Capitalism--Fiction. 3. Satire. 4. London (England)--Fiction. I. Title.
PR6111.O68C87 2013
823'.92--dc23
2013007218
Partially funded by grants from Arts Council England and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency
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Cover: design and composition by Mikhail Iliatov
The photograph on page 80 is reproduced with the permission of Edwin Smith/RIBA Library Photographs Collection.
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