Experimental

[close] In this group, you can roleplay a certain role in society. There are many roles you can roleplay and see if you can do a better job with than the actual people in those positions in real life.

[close] Excellent, feminist, experimental, hybrid-genre, and margin-centered storytelling rules the Wayward Writers Book Coven. We’re reading innovative works that inspire for their craft, imagination, and honesty.

[close] NOTE: This group is intermittently active, but you are welcome to revive past discussions if you're currently reading any of those books. We read challenging novels that depart from the standard forms of narrative fiction. We explore various types of fiction including stream-of-consciousness, surrealism, nouveau roman, antinovel, post-modern, metafiction, oulipo, and other formal experiments that bend the “rules” of story-telling. Reading schedules are not the priority here. Instead, the quality of the discussions takes precedence. We’re more interested in your thoughts than your reading speed.

[close] This group is for discussion of irrealist literature and other experimental fiction of an Oulipo-like nature. It's a space where travellers of the intellect can stay a while, escaping the morrases and mollasses of the middlebrow and mainstream. Think Borges, Kafka, Calvino and Perec. Think Sebald, Ishiguro, Cortazar and Karinthy. I started this group because I couldn't find anything akin and active on Goodreads. This page is dedicated to the memory of the Argentinian literary critic, Ana María Barrenechea, who first used the term "irreality" in connection with Borges's works.