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Jack Kerouac Featuring Al Cohn & Zoot Sims / Blues and Haikus (100th Birthday) (Tobacco Tan Vinyl)
$30.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartJust like its predecessor, Poetry for the Beat Generation, legendary beatnik writer Jack Kerouac’s second album, Blues and Haikus, teamed him with producer Bob Thiele and came out on Thiele’s [...]
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Ignacio Julia – Linger On: The Velvet Underground
$53.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEcstatic Peace Library announce Linger On by Velvets-obsessed music journalist Ignacio Julià. This sumptuous new volume features interviews with Lou Reed, John Cale, Moe Tucker, Doug Yule, Nico, [...]
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Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel’s Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra […]
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H.D – Hermione
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis autobiographical novel by the Imagist poet H. D. (1886-1961) is a rare and hallucinatory treasure. In writing HERmione, H. D. returned to a year in her life that was […]
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Simone Weil – War and the Iliad
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWar and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer’s art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions […]
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Tony Duvert – Atlantic Island
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA forgotten gem of French literature, Duvert’s version of The Lord of the Flies: an indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class community.Tony Duvert’s novel Atlantic [...]
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Cormac McCarthy – The Passenger
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cart1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His […]
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The Wire – #464 October 2022
$10.00 | Magazine Add to cartOn the cover… Lucrecia Dalt: The Colombian experimental musician and now sought after soundtrack composer explores heritage and diaspora through rhythmic rearrangements of South American [...]
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Christopher Marlowe – The Complete Plays
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane Marlowe’s seven plays dramatise the [...]
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Gertrude Stein – Everybody’s Autobiography
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEverybody’s Autobiography is Stein at her most accessible and her most serious In 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but this darker and […]
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The Wire – #463 September 2022
$10.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cartOn the cover… Neu! + 50 Years Of Motorik A special cover feature on the motorik rock originators Neu! to mark half a century since their game-changing debut album. This […]
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Rainald Goetz – Insane
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTranslated for the first time into English, cult German author Rainald Goetz’s debut novel Insane draws upon his clinical psychiatric experience to paint a portrait of the asylum as a […]
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Alfred Doblin – Berlin Alexanderplatz
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Berlin, 1920s, ex convict is released back into the city. This book documenting his rise and fall, and rise and fall of a man […]
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Ariana Reines – A Sand Book
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Mind-blowing.” ―Kim Gordon DEADPAN, EPIC, AND SEARINGLY CHARISMATIC, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and [...]
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Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 1960s, and the Duke d’Auge as he […]
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The Wire – #460 June 2022
$10.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cart“On the cover: Phew. The Japanese punk survivor and intrepid vocalist/composer continues to build an impressive catalogue of collaborations, solo projects and band work in a career now [...]
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Maggot Brain – Issue #9
$12.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cartWELCOME TO MAGGOT BRAIN #9 – RAYMOND PETTIBON ON THE COVER! RAYMOND PETTIBON: IN CONVERSATION WITH ADAM WOODHEAD JOHN BRANNON: NEGATIVE APPROACH HONCHO UNLOADS JOHN WATERS: THE RETURN OF THE […]
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Bret Easton Ellis – The Informers
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis time is the early eighties. The characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard […]
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Cecilia Pavón – Little Joy
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe best of contemporary Argentine author Cecilia Pavón’s short stories. Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pavón emerged in the late 1990s as one of the most prolific and central figures [...]
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Ottessa Moshfegh – Lapvona
$27.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the community’s faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding […]
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Simon Sellars – Applied Ballardianism
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn existential odyssey weaving together lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global [...]
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Zalman Shneour – A Death: Notes of a Suicide
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartZalman Shneour’s inaugural novel: a story of suicide in the form of a diary In a Yiddish take on Notes from Underground, a dark love affair develops in an unnamed […]
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Ron Loewinsohn – Magnetic Fields
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOrganized around the idea that “you can’t know what a magnetic field is like unless you’re inside of it, ” Ron Loewinsohn’s first novel opens from the disturbing [...]
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Djuna Barnes – Nightwood
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe fiery and enigmatic masterpiece―one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes’ strange and sinuous tour de force, “belongs to that small class of books [...]
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Charles Baudelaire – The Flowers Of Evil
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “As dark as ever and just as illuminating” – Jack In the annals of literature, few single volumes of poetry have achieved the influence […]
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Audrey Szasz – Zealous Immaculate
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLIFE DURING WARTIME The second novel from a major new literary talent “Basking like a reptile in your reflected glories. I just respond. Sometimes I don’t even do that. I […]
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Flannery O’Connor – Wise Blood
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFlannery O’Connor’s haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic [...]
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Katherine Dunn – Truck
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWith daring realism and stunning imagination, the author of Geek Love, Katherine Dunn, takes us on a journey into the mind of a feisty, adventurous adolescent named Jean “Dutch” [...]
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Anne Sexton – Transformations
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton, this collection of poem-stories is a strange, wondrous retelling of Grimms’ fairy tales. Including Snow White, Rumpelstilskin, Rapunzel, The [...]
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J.G Ballard – Crash
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Definitive Cult, Postmodern Novel–a Shocking Blend of Violence, Transgression, and Eroticism Reissued with a New Introduction from Zadie Smith When J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes [...]
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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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Fernanda Melchor – Paradais
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his [...]
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Tove Ditlevsen – The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. [...]
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Gary Indiana – Horse Crazy
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy tells the story of a thirty-five-year-old writer for a New York arts and culture magazine whose life melts into […]
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Euripides – Grief Lessons
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEuripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its […]
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Michel Leiris – The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThat the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth through such a minor detail, that […]
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Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWinner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was [...]
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Selected Poems of William Blake
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWriter and religious rebel, William Blake sowed the seeds of Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the vision that inspired him throughout his remarkable life. Whether [...]
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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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Robert Glück – Communal Nude
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille.I read and wrote to invoke what seemed […]
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Barry Gifford – Sailor & Lula: Expanded Edition
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“The Romeo and Juliet of the South” are back in this new edition of the internationally best-selling Sailor and Lula novels, now including for the first time the culminating novel, [...]
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Witold Gombrowicz – Cosmos and Pornografia: Two Novels
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHere are two major works by the famed Polish novelist and dramatist Witold Gombrowicz. The first, Cosmos, a metaphysical thriller, revolves around an absurd investigation. It is set in provincial [...]
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Brion Gysin – Permutations
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “One of the ultimates in psychedelic writing & concrete poetry. No one matches Gysin.” – Cleo The first collection of the Beat mentor’s [...]
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Vladimir Nabokov – Ada, Or Ardor
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPublished two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov’s greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story [...]
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Eve Babitz – Eve’s Hollywood
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn autobiographical novel by Eve Babitz, iconic L.A. “It Girl” of the 60s and 70s, muse and lover of artists and rock-and-roll stars and, above all else, an unsparing and […]
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Lia Purpura – It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA new collection from poet and essayist Lia Purpura Lia Purpura has won acclaim as both a poet and an essayist; her poems are now regularly published in The New […]
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Anne Waldman – Kill Or Cure
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Kill Or Cure,” a bold prescriptive for these apocalyptic days, brings together substantial new work as well as the best of Anne Waldman’s previously uncollected poetry. It includes credos, [...]
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Eileen Myles – Cool For You
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGrainy and stripped down, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of a tough, queer girl growing up in working-class Boston by “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk […]