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Lungfish, by Louis Armand, published earlier this year, is a multi-layered work of docufiction, weaving myth, memory & true crime into a sprawling narrative of Australia & its shadows. A late-80s phantasmagoria set in a rural Australian town, trailing a pack of whacked-out kids & a battered VH Valiant Ranger as it tears through heat, dust, riverbeds, & bad history. Lungfish holds Australia open, exposing storytelling itself as a contested terrain shaped by erasure & violence, all the while refusing to forget.

“Dense, playful writing that boldly & unapologetically experiments with form & tone. Louis Armand’s Lungfish is a stream of conscience machine gun fever dream that feels strangely familiar, but also like no place I’ve ever been.”
—Glendyn Ivin

“Necromodernist travel writing from another dimension. Armand returns to his Antipodean roots in an unsettling and raucous effort which takes pot shots at settler-colonial sacred cows.”
—Wayne Bradshaw

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‘Imagine somewhere a great and splendid hall where everything is done to produce joy and merriment – but the entrance to this hall is a nasty, muddy, horrible stairway, and it is impossible to pass without getting disgustingly soiled and admission is paid by prostituting oneself, and when day dawns the merriment is over and all ends with one’s being kicked out again. But the whole night through everything is done to keep up and inflame the merriment and pleasure.’

As Phillip wrote himself, writing “doesn’t make the darkness go away, but it makes it easier to live with” — a sentence that continues to describe not only his practice, but the enduring gift of his work to those who read it.

On January 29th, Prague writers and friends of Philip gathered to celebrate him as a writer and figure in the Prague literary community. This video is the documentation of the event.
With many thanks to Tyko Say of OBJECT:PARADISE for documenting the gathering.

In Memory of Phillip O'Neil | A Prague Reading ‘Imagine somewhere a great and splendid hall where everything is done to produce joy and merriment – but the entrance to this hall is a nasty, muddy, horribl...

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Come join us this Friday for a launch of Michael Rowland's THE UNNAMEABLE OBJECT (Equus, 2025).
Introduced by David Vichnar.
Readings from/ around/ against the book by Louis Armand, Tyko Say, Anna Špirochová, Michael himself, and others.
Copies of the book available.

WHEN: 17 Apr, 7 pm.
WHERE: L'Objet Trouvé Cafe (Šternberkova 11 in Holešovice)

Ansgar ALLEN, JONATHAN MARTIN (Equus, 2025)

Ansgar Allen resurrects the incendiary life of the 19th-century outsider who, in 1829, set fire to York Minster. Martin’s life — at once prophetic, deranged, and tragically emblematic of his age — becomes the ground for Allen’s boldest experiment in historical fiction to date. Blending archival fragments, self-published pamphlets, trial records, and fictionalised reconstructions, Ansgar Allen asks: was Martin a prophet or a lunatic, an arsonist or a visionary?

“A powerful meditation on authorial voice, writing as prophecy, and the boundaries between sanity and inspiration, Jonathan Martin continues Allen’s exploration of institutional education and deviance from social order. It is a work of fiction that refuses to perpetuate the illusion of coherence, confronting the reader instead with the broken totality of a life lived on the edge of destruction.”—David Vichnar, Erratum Press Review

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