Cafe Irreal
http://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/index.htm
A Kafkan mindtrip more disorienting than Borges’ Library of Babel. And that’s exactly what they’re going for at this surreal, unreal, “irreal” journal, where, as Sartre writes, “absurd manifestations appear as normal behaviour” and we are “plunged all at once into the heart of the fantastic.” Unfortunately, the theory section is mostly amateurish and some of the fiction writers merely rewrite carelessly and unconvincingly the great masters of the form. When the forms fails here, it fails shamefully. When it succeeds, we find in it an antidote to the underwhelming pedestrianism of most contemporary fiction.
