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Will Oldham & Lori Damiano – Shorty’s Ark
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartShorty’s Ark is a book for young readers, a collaborative effort between Will Oldham and graphic artist Lori Damiano, based on the song from the album Superwolves by Matt Sweeney […]
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Michel Leiris – Aurora and Cardinal Point
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis volume collects two classics of Surrealist fiction, both long out of print, by the writer and ethnographer Michel Leiris (1901–1990). Close to Georges Bataille, Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre and [...]
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Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMatsuo Bashō (1644–1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō offers in English a […]
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Trinh T. Minh-Ha: The Twofold Commitment
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAt once an artist’s book and an interview collection by Vietnamese filmmaker, writer and feminist and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952), The Twofold Commitment centers on [...]
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John O’Brien – Leaving Las Vegas
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Forget the wack and overly sentimental movie, John O’Brien’s first novel is both a disturbing descent into hell and the best thing to come […]
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Mariana Dimópulos -Imminence
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her with an absence of feeling. Disoriented, she wanders with her partner around their plant-filled […]
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Live Audio Essays
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn anthology of Abu Hamdan’s disquieting audio-essay monologues on the soundscape of political life This volume compiles transcripts from performances and films by Beirut-based Lawrence Abu [...]
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Louis Aragon – Anicet or the Panorama: A Dadaist Novel
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis novel, much of it written amidst the horror of the trenches when Louis Aragon (1897–1982) was a medical orderly during the First World War, demonstrates the chasm that separates […]
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Leonard Cohen – A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Leonard Cohen Before Leonard Cohen’s worldwide fame expanded to fourteen studio albums, Grammy [...]
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Robert Desnos – Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA literary masterpiece of early Surrealism from the virtuoso of automatic writing, Robert Desnos Mystery, the marvelous, the city of Paris transmuted by love, and Sanglot the Corsair’s pursuit of [...]
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Léon Genonceaux – The Tutu: Morals of the Fin de Siècle
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe nineteenth-century French writer and publisher Léon Genonceaux (1856―?) is as much of an enigma as those two legendary enfants terribles whom he was the first to publish: Arthur Rimbaud […]
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Count Stenbock – The Shadow Of Death
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHere, presented for the first time in paperback format, and limited edition hardcover, is an unabridged edition of Count Eric Stenbock’s third and last collection of poetry, which was originally [...]
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Élémir Bourges – The Twilight of the Gods
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLong out of print in English, and here offered for the first time in a restored format, The Twilight of the Gods, Élémir Bourges’ acknowledged masterpiece, was originally published in […]
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Max Blecher – The Illuminated Burrow: A Sanatorium Journal
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMax Blecher began writing The Illuminated Burrow in 1937 and continued working on it until his death the following spring, but its full version was only published posthumously in 1971. […]
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Bruno Schulz – Collected Stories
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCollected Stories is an authoritative new translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, [...]
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Paul Leppin – Blaugast: A Novel of Decline
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBlaugast is a tale of ruin. A bored clerk, Klaudius Blaugast, pursues his desires down a path spiraling into complete degradation. Homeless and destitute, having lost everything at the hands […]
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Johannes Urzidil – House of the Nine Devils: Selected Bohemian Tales
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCollected here and translated into English for the first time are some of most renowned Bohemian stories by Prague native Johannes Urzidil, an author who has long been unjustifiably neglected. [...]
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Gherasim Luca – The Passive Vampire
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally published in 1945 in Bucharest, The Passive Vampire caught the attention of the French Surrealists when an excerpt appeared in 1947 in the magazine La part du sable. Luca, […]
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Jean Lorrain – The Blood Of The Gods
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJean Lorrain, later famous as the author of such Decadent masterpieces as Nightmares of an Ether Drinker and Errant Vice, began his literary career in 1882 with the book of […]
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Jules Janin – The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJules Janin (1804-1874) was one of the major exponents of the frénétique school of literature, which reveled in excesses, dark themes, and ghoulish situations, and The Dead Donkey and the […]
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Davis Grubb – The Night Of The Hunter
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTwo young children, Pearl and John Harper, are being raised alone by their mother in Cresap’s Landing, Ohio. Their father Ben has just been executed for killing two men in […]
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The William H. Gass Reader
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThroughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most […]
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Islamic Mystical Poetry
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWritten from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and [...]
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Maggot Brain #12
$12.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cartCrazy Doberman ? Erick’s Bradshaw delivers an epic, well-illustrated tour diary of a brief jaunt with these noise greats. Composer TAYONDAI BRAXTON by Katy Henricksen! A meaty, beautiful [...]
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Kerry O’Brien And William Robin – On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“A revisionist history of minimalism’s transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating [...]
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William S. Burroughs – Break Through In Grey Room
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartInspired by the original Industrial Records release of William S. Burroughs’s Nothing Here Now but the Recordings, Belgian record label Sub Rosa worked with Burroughs to release another [...]
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William S. Burroughs – Nothing Here Now But The Recordings
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartIn 1980, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson of (then-)Throbbing Gristle travelled to New York City to meet up at the fortified apartment, known as The Bunker, of [...]
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Thomas Bernhard – The Voice Imitator
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our times. At once pessimistic and exhilarating, Bernhard’s work depicts [...]
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Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartChasm. Mist. Dark Song. Hour of Execution. Behind the Wall. These are just some of the poetic titles of Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) that together form the cipher to one of […]
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Paul Celan – Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that “would be a bit more sober & more spacious” than his poems. And yet, in his […]
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The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMina Loy’s technique and subjects – prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide – shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as [...]
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Steven Cline – Amok!
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn this collection of recent texts, American surrealist artist Steven Cline has opened the floodgates to his inner worlds, demanding that we take a look. When we do, we are […]
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Kenneth Patchen – Sleepers Awake
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSleepers Awake, first published in 1946, is one of Kenneth Patchen’s major prose books. A work of extraordinary imaginative invention, it might be described as novelistic fantasy–a [...]
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Ishmael Reed – Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIshmael Reed’s classic Neo-HooDoo Western, a classic from the Dalkey catalog, is presented here in a long-awaited republication with a new introduction.
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Pierre Reverdy – The Thief of Talant
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartChallenged by his friend, poet and art critic Max Jacob, to write a novel, Pierre Reverdy produced this fragmented, beautiful assemblage of loneliness, paranoia and depersonalization drawn from [...]
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Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAnselm Hollo (1934–2013) authored more than forty books and was an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, he was fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish, and English by age ten. Hollo [...]
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Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThree New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]
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Gabrielle Wittkop – Murder Most Serene
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but […]
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Henri Michaux – Life in the Folds
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLife in the Folds, originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri Michaux’s (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a [...]
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Roland Topor – Head-To-Toe Portrait of Suzanne
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWorking from the 1960s on, the French writer, artist and illustrator Roland Topor (1938-97) was an all-round maverick known for his paintings and drawings as much as for his novels […]
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Benjamin Myers – The Gallows Pole
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSet in the moorland hills of 18th century Yorkshire, The Gallows Pole is the true story of an organized crime of forgers known as the Cragg Vale Coiners. Lead by […]
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Gerard De Nerval – Aurelia & Other Writings
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA harrowing document of a descent into madness, by France’s defining poet of bohemian romanticism Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gérard de Nerval’s account of his descent into [...]
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Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis combination of two key works by the Italian avant-garde writer Giorgio Manganelli (1922-90) is a major addition to the small number of his works available in English. In the […]
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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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Leon Bloy – Sweating Blood
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFirst published in French in 1893, Sweating Blood describes the atrocities of war in 30 tales of horror and inhumanity from the pen of the Pilgrim of the Absolute, Léon […]
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Renata Adler – Pitch Dark
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe second novel by Renata Adler, Pitch Dark is a personal love story, in Adler’s distinctive, fragmentary prose.
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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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Ann Quin – Tripticks
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A joyful & experimental deathtrip of a science fiction novel” – Cleo First published in 1972, Ann Quin’s fourth and final novel was a […]
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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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Constance DeJong – Reader
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first anthology of the multivocal, narrational, performative writings of the intermedia pioneer, who has quietly influenced generations of New York artists and writers from Kathy Acker to [...]
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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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Herta Muller – Nadirs
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJuxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Müller’s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The [...]
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Anais Nin – Collages
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA transplant from Vienna to Malibu who is driven by her urge to observe and depict those around her, Renate is, as one of her friends describes her, “the freest […]
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Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSweet Sweat, the only novel by Belgian artist Justine Frank, is unusual, to say the least—a blend of feminism, pornography, Judaism, and art, written in French in 1931. Its heroine […]
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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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Maggie Nelson – Bluets
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSuppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and […]
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Violette Leduc – Thérèse and Isabelle
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir’s protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force” (Rafia Zakaria, The Guardian). With this startling new translation of Leduc’s [...]
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Joe Brainard – I Remember
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJoe Brainard’s I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard’s method [...]
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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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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 […]