Infinity Land Press

01/08/2024

This week on WAKE ISLAND PODCAST:
Grave Desire with Steve Finbow

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wake-island/id1485799907?i=1000663907411





In this episode with Steve Finbow, we tease out the point at which a body ceases to be considered a person and chart the development of trauma over time, tracing the fine line between disgust and desire. We get into the motivations behind necrophilia and co**se desecration, examining the boundaries of how taboos can become normalized. We discuss the role of the soul or consciousness in elevating necrophilia to a mythic realm and the pursuit of the death drive in objects of beauty. We also consider art as both a method and a way of life, and whether societal breakdowns due to acceleration will increase instances of necrophilia in the future.

Necrophilia has shadowed humanity throughout its existence, from ancient Egypt, to the Moche culture of Peru, the exploits of the renowned Vampire of Montparnasse, the s*xual murders of the Weimar Republic, through to serial killers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. This new edition of Grave Desire – with artworks by Karolina Urbaniak – delves unflinchingly into the myths, art and practices surrounding this taboo subject. Finding Juliet’s catatonic body and believing she had poisoned herself, it could have crossed Romeo’s mind to act out the unthinkable. Maybe Juliet, seeing Romeo’s co**se, considered a little s*xual frottage before she stabbed herself with the ph***ic dagger. Repulsive yet real, disgusting and disturbing, this is an erotic book of the dead.

Buy Grave Desire from Infinity Land Press.

Steve Finbow’s non-fiction includes Allen Ginsberg: Critical Lives (Reaktion), Notes from the Sick Room (Repeater), Death Mort Tod (Infinity Land Press), The Mindshaft (Amphetamine Sulphate), Polaroid Haiku – with Jukka Siikala (Infinity Land Press), The Life of the Artist Niccolò di Mescolano (Alberegno Press). Sanbashi – a biography of the postwar Japanese photographer Toru Nakagami – will be published in 2024.

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01/08/2024

A few photos from 'Readings of Recent and Forthcoming English Language Book Translations of Artaud’s Work', the closing part of 'Antonin Artaud: New Critical Reflections' conference.

Massive thanks to Dr Matt Melia and Professor Stephen Barber for organising this special event and to all the speakers for their insightful and inspiring research on Antonin Artaud.

Reading in the order:
Stephen Barber
Stuart Kendall
Joel White
Martin Bladh (reading Peter Valente’s translations)
Paul Buck

01/08/2024

WOW!

19/07/2024

CRITICISM BY TRANSLATION: AN INTERVIEW WITH PETER VALENTE

https://raintaxi.com/criticism-by-translation-an-interview-with-peter-valente/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0tLKoaQoaFMd428Gh0jcquAfzHJ6JJZlk9nFMx2jmZSM3L4WdalBtar3A_aem_VYaZQ2jGkLk66Qb8HsLuPA

The polymathic Peter Valente discusses his wide-ranging work, from translations of French and Italian writing to his own poetry, criticism, filmmaking, and more. Interviewed by John Wisniewski and Eric Lorberer

14/07/2024

Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday's RUBBER ANNE book launch, we had a terrific time!!
Those who couldn't join us last night in person can now watch Audrey's performance on Vimeo.
Thank you for all your support and for buying our books!!
Love,
Karolina & Martin 🖤

Out 14th July 2024 Available from https://www.infinitylandpress.com/rubberanne

14/07/2024

OUT NOW!!!
Rubber Anne by Audrey Szasz
Hardbound, 190 pages, 148 x206mm
with a CD
https://www.infinitylandpress.com/rubberanne
Schizoid fantasist Mira Nagant lives in the Swiss resort town of Montreux. Her domineering grandmother is determined to find an occupation for her reclusive offspring, but there’s one small problem — the girl has no immediately discernible talent.
The only thing that *is* outwardly remarkable about Mira, is her freakish resemblance to a certain young diarist from Amsterdam, recognised for her time spent in hiding during WWII, and her posthumous international fame. She also possesses what some people might describe as a burgeoning fe**sh for latex.
That’s when Monsieur R. Dreher enters the picture. He’s famous for his Bellmer-esque sculptures of rubber dolls and mannequins, not to mention his preoccupation with secret annexes, bunkers, and other hideaways.
And when Grandma promises the eccentric artist that he can use Mira for his next big project, our reluctant heroine is drawn into a perverse realm of bizarre appetites and surrealistic passions.
Part 4 of Rubber Anne consists of an audio recording of a “radio play” written by the author and featuring the voices of Audrey Szasz, Martin Bladh, Karolina Urbaniak, and Neo Fung. CD included with each copy of Rubber Anne.
Rubber Anne is the first part of a trilogy with part two expected in January 2025 and part three in 2027.
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Illustrated by Audrey Szasz
Rubber Anne Play
Written by Audrey Szasz
Sound design and production by Karolina Urbaniak
Directed by Martin Bladh & Karolina Karolina Ursula Urbaniak

12/07/2024

It's tomorrow!!
RUBBER ANNE book launch
6pm-11pm, upstairs Simonns Bar
Performance 7.30pm
We look forward to seeing you there!

10/07/2024

Three days to go!!
RUBBER ANNE by Audrey Szasz ~ book launch.
Saturday 13 July 2024
6pm-11pm

If you have already purchased your ticket, upon arrival please come to the bar upstairs to collect your drink vouchers.

If you haven't booked it yet, please come along and spend your ££ in the bar upstairs. This will count as the entry fee and help us to cover the cost of venue hire.

Venue:
Upstairs Bar – Euston Square
31 University St
LONDON, WC1E 6JL

See you on Saturday!

03/07/2024

A short excerpt from 'Rubber Anne Play' part 4 of 'Rubber Anne' by Audrey Szasz

Book launch
Saturday 13 July 2024
6pm - 11pm

UK release
Monday 14 July 2024

EU release
Monday 24 July 2024

Written by Audrey Szasz
Sound design and production by Karolina Urbaniak
Directed by Martin Bladh & Karolina Urbaniak

CHARACTERS:
Audrey Szasz as Mira Nagant (a.k.a. Rubber Anne)
Martin Bladh as Dreher (a.k.a. Grandpa) and Peppery
Karolina Urbaniak as Grandma (a.k.a. Mme E. Nagant)
Neo Fung as Max

29/06/2024

'Rubber Anne' is here and we can't deny it, we are very proud of it!!!

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24/06/2024

Audrey Szasz @ Chronic Illness XXII.
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18/06/2024

Out soon.

RUBBER ANNE by Audrey Szasz

Hardcover 200 pages with a CD
Illustrated by Audrey Szasz

Release date 14 July 2024
Book launch 13 July 2024
>>> LINK IN BIO

13/06/2024

https://denniscooperblog.com/regarding-grave-desire-a-cultural-history-of-necrophilia-by-steve-finbow-2014-2024

🗡🗡🗡Million thanks to Dennis Cooper for hosting 'Grave Desire - A Cultural History of Necrophilia' on his blog today!!! 🗡🗡🗡

Thank you, Dennis 🖤🖤🖤

''Today the blog hopes to focus your attention on a fascinating book about necrophilia by the noted and brainy scribe Steve Finbow. Originally published in 2014, it has just been reissued in an expanded and much beautified edition by those masters of the seductive book/object Infinity Land Press. They’re also masters of the seductive blog post/object as you can see by the beauty they put together for us today. Be attentive and ravished, please.'' — Dennis Cooper

10/06/2024

Many thanks to Michael Curran for organising 'The Uncorrected Independent Publishers' Fair' last Saturday, all the readers and those who attended the event and bought our books!








 
 

 
 
 

09/06/2024

Come to Zutka's party on Saturday 13 July 2024 🖤

Audrey Szasz will be doing a live performance to celebrate the release of her new book *Rubber Anne* and she'll also be signing copies, limited edition prints, etc ~~

Drinks vouchers are *included* in the ticket price (£18, available online) and there’s a bar open till late. Doors open at 6 p.m. Nearest tube station Warren St, Euston Square.

Check the Infinity Land Press site re: Rubber Anne⚡️
https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/rubber-anne-book-launch
>>>

Saturday 13 July 2024
6pm-11pm

Venue:
Upstairs @ Simmons Bar – Euston Square
31 University St
LONDON WC1E 6JL

06/06/2024

BOOK LAUNCH
Saturday 13 July 2024
6pm-11pm

Infinity Land presents “RUBBER ANNE” by AUDREY SZASZ

Venue:
Upstairs @ Simmons Bar – Euston Square
31 University St
LONDON
WC1E 6JL

Nearest Tube Stations:
Euston Square, Warren Street

Join us on Saturday 13th July 2024 for an exclusive live performance by the one and only literary genius, enfant terrible Audrey Szasz as she formally unleashes her latest deviant creation, RUBBER ANNE, available from Infinity Land Press from the 14th of July 2024.

Signed copies of the book and limited edition prints will be available on the day. Drinks vouchers are included in the ticket price, plus there’s a well-stocked bar open till late — so come for the show, meet the author, and stay for the inevitable debauchery!

Unbelievably, it’s also Audrey’s first solo book launch, so this event — in intimate and convivial surroundings — promises to be something special — and if you’re reading this, you probably deserve it!


It’s Saturday 13th July, it’s Top of the Pops, it’s my party, and you are invited! — Audrey Szasz

….literary whiz kid, maestro, and phenom Audrey Szasz…. She’s a fantastic scribe to say the very least. — Dennis Cooper

Audrey Szasz performed, a refugee, from the Ukraine. Amnesty International’s spokeswoman for Anne Frank. A foster child telling us about her molestation voyage. Deprivation, hunger, abuse, delivered like a cheeky little brat begging for a spanking. I have to smell her hair, I want to sniff her youth. Think this through. No blood ritual tonight – Schumer, Pelosi, and the coven won’t allow it, nothing extra. I will settle for sniffing her hair, a deep inhale, breathing life into my soul. Thank you for this performance tonight.— Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

And I would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids.— Andrei Chikatilo

04/06/2024

Steve's altar of death.

25/05/2024

SHIPPING NOW

'DEATH MORT TOD - A European Book of the Dead' is back in stock in a new hard-cover edition.

https://www.infinitylandpress.com/death-mort-tod

Text by Steve Finbow

Images by Karolina Urbaniak
Foreword by Eugene Thacker
Afterword by Brad Feuerhelm

Collaborationists Steve Finbow and Karolina Urbaniak's 'Death Mort Tod' uses fiction, non-fiction, appropriation, cut-ups, and a series of over fifty unsettling illustrations to tour the dark sites of Europe with its millennia of genocides, mass murders, serial killings and suicides. A country-to-country death trip, a necro-travel guide, a Baedeker of bereavement, incorporating myth, folklore, maps, reportage, photographs, recordings, illustrations and poetry. Discover a continent’s thanatic history within a textual and visual reliquary – 'A European Book of the Dead'

25/05/2024

OUT NOW AND SHIPPING!

'Grave Desire - A Cultural History of Necrophilia' by Steve Finbow

Hardbound with a dust jacket, 316 pages
https://www.infinitylandpress.com/gravedesire

Illustrated by Karolina Urbaniak
Interview conducted by Martin Bladh
Afterword by Richard Marshall

Necrophilia has shadowed humanity throughout its existence, from ancient Egypt, to the Moche culture of Peru, the exploits of the renowned Vampire of Montparnasse, the s*xual murders of the Weimar Republic, through to serial killers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. This new edition of 'Grave Desire' – with artworks by Karolina Urbaniak – delves unflinchingly into the myths, art and practices surrounding this taboo subject. Finding Juliet’s catatonic body and believing she had poisoned herself, it could have crossed Romeo’s mind to act out the unthinkable. Maybe Juliet, seeing Romeo’s co**se, considered a little s*xual frottage before she stabbed herself with the ph***ic dagger. Repulsive yet real, disgusting and disturbing, this is an erotic book of the dead.

“If s*x and death are two pivotal obsessions of the human species, Steve Finbow nails both of them simultaneously in his brilliantly incisive cultural and corporeal history of necrophilia. Pathologically and outlandishly good.”
—Stephen Barber

“If you only read one book before you die make sure it’s 'Grave Desire.'”
—Stewart Home

24/05/2024

Out now and shipping!

'Grave Desire - A Cultural History of Necrophilia' by Steve Finbow

Hardbound with a dust jacket, 316 pages

LINK IN BIO

Illustrated by Karolina Urbaniak
Interview conducted by Martin Bladh
Afterword by Richard Marshall

22/05/2024

Steve Finbow with the gorgeous 'organ donor' Marina Teodora, signing copies of the new illustrated edition of 'Grave Desire...'

15/05/2024

'DEATH MORT TOD - A European Book of the Dead' is back in stock in a new hard-cover edition.

Available for pre-order.

Shipping 22nd May 2023

https://www.infinitylandpress.com/death-mort-tod

Text by Steve Finbow

Images by Karolina Urbaniak
Foreword by Eugene Thacker
Afterword by Brad Feuerhelm

Collaborationists Steve Finbow and Karolina Urbaniak's 'Death Mort Tod' uses fiction, non-fiction, appropriation, cut-ups, and a series of over fifty unsettling illustrations to tour the dark sites of Europe with its millennia of genocides, mass murders, serial killings and suicides. A country-to-country death trip, a necro-travel guide, a Baedeker of bereavement, incorporating myth, folklore, maps, reportage, photographs, recordings, illustrations and poetry. Discover a continent’s thanatic history within a textual and visual reliquary – 'A European Book of the Dead'

11/05/2024

The first edition of 'Grave Desire - A Cultural History of Necrophilia'
by Steve Finbow, includes 28 Collector's sets of prints with white modelling wax casts illustrating this volume.

Special thanks to Nadia Murray, NeoFung, Marina Teodora and Martin Bladh for participating in the silicone moulding process. Their open-mindedness and physical endurance have been essential to the realisation of this project.

Shipping 22nd May 2024.

Hardbound with a dust jacket
316 pages, 148 x210mm

Illustrated by Karolina Urbaniak
Interview conducted by Martin Bladh
Afterword by Richard Marshall

11/05/2024

'Grave Desire - A Cultural History of Necrophilia' by Steve Finbow

Hardbound with a dust jacket, 316 pages

Now available for pre-order.
Shipping 22nd May 2024

LINK IN BIO

Illustrated by Karolina Urbaniak
Interview conducted by Martin Bladh
Afterword by Richard Marshall

Necrophilia has shadowed humanity throughout its existence, from ancient Egypt, to the Moche culture of Peru, the exploits of the renowned Vampire of Montparnasse, the s*xual murders of the Weimar Republic, through to serial killers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. This new edition of 'Grave Desire' – with artworks by Karolina Urbaniak – delves unflinchingly into the myths, art and practices surrounding this taboo subject. Finding Juliet’s catatonic body and believing she had poisoned herself, it could have crossed Romeo’s mind to act out the unthinkable. Maybe Juliet, seeing Romeo’s co**se, considered a little s*xual frottage before she stabbed herself with the ph***ic dagger. Repulsive yet real, disgusting and disturbing, this is an erotic book of the dead.

“If s*x and death are two pivotal obsessions of the human species, Steve Finbow nails both of them simultaneously in his brilliantly incisive cultural and corporeal history of necrophilia. Pathologically and outlandishly good.”
—Stephen Barber

“If you only read one book before you die make sure it’s 'Grave Desire.'”
—Stewart Home

11/05/2024

NEW ARRIVALS
LINK IN BIO