
Cleo’s Fall Reading List
A selection of the best and most interesting of what’s on the shelves to help ease into fall.
Fiction
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Katherine Dunn – Attic
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Dunn’s masterpiece about a disaffected woman trapped in jail for a crime she didn’t commit, Attic reads nothing like Geek Love and is true […]
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James Purdy – In A Shallow Grave
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “James Purdy is one of the most underrated american writers of the last 100 years. His writing is grotesque, funny and heartbreaking, often in […]
Non-Fiction
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Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: “none shall emerge unscathed.” Placing [...]
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Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Fun book on one of the centers of the Fluxus movement. At the very least the one who helped create a written documentation of […]
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Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAre women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle–and not so [...]
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William T Vollmann – Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTwenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney’s in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, [...]
Poetry
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Clark Coolidge – A Book Beginning What and Ending Away
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA missing masterpiece in 20th century experimental literature, Clark Coolidge’s legendary ‘Longprose’ was written at a frenetic pace between 1973-1980. One of poetry’s [...]
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A Bernadette Mayer Reader
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“She writes as if Everything were still possible in the work of a lifetime at the coincidence of all the turvy moments. Better that she’s read without a thought to […]
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