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Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reverence. I am profoundly moved: what a work! And to think I’d never heard the name […]
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Joy Williams – Honored Guest
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn short stories “so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race” (Vanity Fair), a masseuse breaks her rich client’s wrist [...]
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Agustin Fernandez Mallo – The Nocilla Trilogy
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo’s Nocilla Trilogy—Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Lab, and Nocilla Experience—presents multiple narratives of people and places that [...]
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Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNow in paperback, a significant new collection of concrete poetry that redefines what this unique literary movement means today. Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology is the first overview of [...]
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Iceberg Slim – Night Train to Sugar Hill
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cart1980s Los Angeles. The crack epidemic has hit hard. Innocent and damned alike fall victim to the artificial allure of the drug — a teenager accidentally overdoses, junkies smoke crack […]
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Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin [...]
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Sergio De La Pava – A Naked Singularity
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe critically acclaimed novel that is now a major motion picture starring John Boyega and Olivia Cooke, coming to theaters August 6, streaming August 13! A Naked Singularity tells the […]
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Troy James Weaver – Visions
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Troy James Weaver’s novel unravels the typical coming-of-age story. It erases the distinction between finding and losing your voice, becoming enlightened by a vision and swallowed by [...]
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Pierre Senges – Ahabs (Sequels)
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe reader will find here the true aftermath of the adventures of Ahab, self-described captain, survivor of his last fight against a giant fish. We will see how this retiree […]
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Alain Mabanckou – African Psycho
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIts title recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous book, but while Ellis’s narrator was a blank slate, African Psycho’s protagonist is a quivering mass of lies, neuroses, and [...]
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Shane Jesse Christmass – Xerox Over Manhattan
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA young man on a radar screen. Sewerage from the storm drain. Makeshift refugee compounds. Dishwasher used as an ice box. The luncheon held on artificial grass. Television. Late 1980s. […]
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Gabriele Tinti – Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBleedings – Incipit Tragoedia is a series of poems Tinti composed in the spring of 2020. The epigraphic collections of the National Roman Museum, the Capitoline Museums, and the National [...]
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Jan Wolkers – Turkish Delight
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartUpon its original publication in 1969, Turkish Delight was a sensation and a scandal. Its graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was […]
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Alan Moore – Jerusalem
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the […]
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Mathias Enard – Zone
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“The novel of the decade, if not of the century.”–Christophe Claro Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for [...]
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Joseph McElroy – Hind’s Kidnap
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA long-ago kidnaping case all but abandoned resurfaces, yet its memory of lives put aside almost screens itself with a population of new life. Neighborhoods of New York, of Brooklyn […]
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Alice Notley – Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition.” –Tess Michaelson, Full Stop Alice [...]
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Claire Donato – Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first major book from a longtime legend in underground literature; known by citation and word of mouth, but only now emerging with a work that will earn a broad […]
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Richard John Parfitt – Stray Dogs
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTurner is a high school dropout newly arrived in Toronto. After taking a job selling dictionaries for a local grifter named Romeo Silva, the day goes wrong and Turner gets […]
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Vitezslav Nezval – Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWritten in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl’s maturation […]
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Giallo Fantastique
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn anthology of original strange stories at the intersection of crime, terror, and supernatural fiction. Inspired by and drawing from the highly stylized cinematic thrillers of Argento, Bava, and [...]
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Blake Butler – Aannex
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIncorporating hundreds of characters and cultural entities, spanning innumerable locations and billions of years, Aannex is a future-hacker’s maze-map meant to have already been [...]
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Rene Crevel – Putting My Foot In It
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Imagine, if you can, Freud and Proust sitting down for a chat with Zippy the Pinhead and the marquis de Sade. Then, just when things are starting to get a […]
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William S Burroughs Jr – Kentucky Ham
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWilliam S Burroughs Jr’s second autobiographical novel detailing his troubled upbringing by Burroughs Sr and struggles with addiction. Overlook Press, 1984 hardcover edition. Writing and [...]
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Pan Pantziarka – House Of Pain
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“When a young streetwalker is picked up by an enigmatic older woman, she finds herself launched on an odyssey of pleasure and pain beyond measure. House of Pain is scorched […]
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Dennis Cooper – Try
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Simultaneously deadpan and queasily raw, Try is the story of Ziggy, the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers whose failed experiment at nuclear-family domesticity has left [...]
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Clarence Cooper Jr – Black: Three Short Novels
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Black! brings together three short novels by Clarence Cooper, Jr., a rediscovered genius of African-American writing. “The Dark Messenger” is a short, sizzling novel in which a [...]
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Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well [...]
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Charles Willeford – Cockfighter
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCharles Willeford’s violently masculine southern noir, loosely modeled on The Odyssey. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1991 paperback edition. Creasing to front cover, along with some [...]
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Anna Kavan – Julia And The Bazooka
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAnna Kavan’s darkest and most desperate collection of stories, published posthumously. W.W Norton, 1970 paperback edition. Large crease to front cover. Corner & edgewear to wraps. Pages [...]
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William H. Gass – The Tunnel
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Thirty years in the making, William Gass’s second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story [...]
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Michel Leiris – Nights As Day, Days As Night
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMichel Leiris’s dream journal & fragments, including some of his best and most succinct work. Eridanos Press, 1987 paperback edition. Very light wear to edges/corners of wraps. Small [...]
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Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA rich and engaging facsimile of the artist’s first visual poetry book, self-published in 1968 The paintings of Chinese American artist Martin Wong (1946-99) are celebrated for their [...]
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Marguerite Young – Miss Macintosh, My Darling
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel—a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of […]
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Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Hard To Be A God
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartArkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely known as the greatest Russian writers of science fiction, and their 1964 novel Hard to Be a God is considered one of the greatest […]
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Jose Donoso – The Obscene Bird Of Night
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDeep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of a crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of […]
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Carmelo Bene – Our Lady of the Turks
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCarmelo Bene (1937–2002) was a notorious Italian actor, writer, and director who inaugurated his theater in 1959 with Camus’ Caligula then exploded onto the artistic scene with his outré Christ [...]
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Joy Williams – The Changeling
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWith a new introduction by Karen Russell, the 40th anniversary edition of The Changeling is a visionary fairy tale and a work of mythic genius by one of our best […]
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Russell Hoban – Ridley Walker (expanded edition)
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRiddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a […]
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Heather Lewis – Notice
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA classic queer text of trauma, written by one of the most talented novelists of her generation. The reason it’s never just once is the same reason money’s only a […]
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We Jazz Issue 05: Amaryllis
$15.00 | Book, Magazine, Print Add to cart2022 release. The fifth issue of We Jazz Magazine, Amaryllis for Mary Halvorson. All articles presented in English. Stories include Mary Halvorson by Peter Margasak, Pi Recordings by Will Layman, [...]
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We Jazz Issue 03: Tetragon
$15.00 | Book, Magazine, Print Add to cart2022 release. This is the third issue of the new We Jazz Magazine, Tetragon for Joe Henderson. All articles presented in English. Stories include Joe Henderson by Daniel Spicer, International [...]
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Ahmed Abdullah – A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“A thrilling account of life with Sun Ra’s Arkestra and New York’s avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90s. In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts [...]
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We Jazz Issue 02: Pursuance
$17.00 | Book, Magazine, Print Add to cartWe Jazz follows the success of the sold out debut issue of their new magazine with issue number 2 (Fall 2021), entitled “Pursuance”. The cover story by Ashley Kahn features […]
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We Jazz Issue 06 Winter 2022: Revelation
$20.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cart2022 release. The sixth issue of We Jazz Magazine, Revelation for Black Jazz Records. All articles presented in English. Stories include Black Jazz Records by Daniel Spicer, As-Shams by Andy […]
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Harald Voetmann – Sublunar
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world’s most illustrious noseless man of his time. Told by Brahe and his assistants–a filthy cast of characters– [...]
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Denis Johnson – Angels
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe most critically acclaimed, and first, of Denis Johnson’s novels, Angels puts Jamie Mays–a runaway wife toting along two kids–and Bill Houston–ex-Navy man, ex-husband, [...]
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Fernanda Melchor – Paradais
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartInside 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 neighbor—an [...]
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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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Louis Aragon – Anicet or the Panorama: A Dadaist Novel
$18.00 | 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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Robert Desnos – Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning
$16.00 | 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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Count Stenbock – The Shadow Of Death
$12.00 | 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
$14.00 | 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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Islamic Mystical Poetry
$10.00 | 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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Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
$13.00 | 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
$17.00 | 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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Unica Zürn – The Trumpets of Jericho
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Zürn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-induced abortion of another in Berlin […]
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Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
$8.00 | 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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