Description: Website for Tom La Farge, fabulist author of animal fictions ("The Crimson Bears," "Zuntig") and teaching Oulipian writing with constraints at Proteus Gowanus gallery in early 2007.
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pinterest linkedin facebook twitter goodreads Tom La Farge Home What I've written How I've lived What I'm thinking Writhing Society Contact Selected Works Manual of Constraints 13 Writhing Machines 13 Writhing Machines will serve, when complete, as a comprehensive manual of constrained writing practices, some of them invented by the Oulipo, but with many others besides. Fabulist Fiction The Enchantments: The Broken House, Maznoona, Humans by Lamplight These three novels are set in a world more visibly encha
Coming out in 2018! Humans by Lamplight winds up The Enchantments with a revolution that takes a strange turn. Its principal agent is the fifteen-year-old Boughrabwa, though she cannot use language nor even stand steady without support. She begins in the house of a Mistress of Imbeciles. Boughrabwa and several other characters, all connected by ties of kinship, get caught up as heirs named in a will. In that document Madame Lula (Lhool from The Broken House ) bequeaths to each of them one of her subject zno
Libraries and Danger, a volume of essays edited by me, not yet published. These seven essays discuss some of the obvious dangers that libraries face (war, fire) and some not so obvious (prejudicial cataloguing categories, venal boards of trustees, and language death).