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  • Jack Kerouac Featuring Al Cohn & Zoot Sims / Blues and Haikus (100th Birthday) (Tobacco Tan Vinyl)
    Jack Kerouac Featuring Al Cohn & Zoot Sims / Blues and Haikus (100th Birthday) (Tobacco Tan Vinyl)
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    Just 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 [...]

  • Ignacio Julia – Linger On: The Velvet Underground
    Ignacio Julia – Linger On: The Velvet Underground
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    Ecstatic 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, [...]

  • Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
    Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
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    Originally 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 […]

  • H.D – Hermione
    H.D – Hermione
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    This 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 […]

  • Simone Weil – War and the Iliad
    Simone Weil – War and the Iliad
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    War 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 […]

  • Tony Duvert – Atlantic Island
    Tony Duvert – Atlantic Island
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    A 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 [...]

  • Cormac McCarthy – The Passenger
    Cormac McCarthy – The Passenger
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    1980, 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 […]

  • The Wire – #464 October 2022
    The Wire – #464 October 2022
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    On the cover… Lucrecia Dalt: The Colombian experimental musician and now sought after soundtrack composer explores heritage and diaspora through rhythmic rearrangements of South American [...]

  • Christopher Marlowe – The Complete Plays
    Christopher Marlowe – The Complete Plays
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    The 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 [...]

  • Gertrude Stein – Everybody’s Autobiography
    Gertrude Stein – Everybody’s Autobiography
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    Everybody’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 […]

  • The Wire – #463 September 2022
    The Wire – #463 September 2022
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    On 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 […]

  • Rainald Goetz – Insane
    Rainald Goetz – Insane
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    Translated 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 […]

  • Alfred Doblin – Berlin Alexanderplatz
    Alfred Doblin – Berlin Alexanderplatz
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    What 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 […]

  • Ariana Reines – A Sand Book
    Ariana Reines – A Sand Book
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    “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 [...]

  • Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
    Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
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    The 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 […]

  • The Wire  – #460 June 2022
    The Wire – #460 June 2022
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    “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 [...]

  • Maggot Brain – Issue #9
    Maggot Brain – Issue #9
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    WELCOME 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 […]

  • Bret Easton Ellis – The Informers
    Bret Easton Ellis – The Informers
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    This 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 […]

  • Cecilia Pavón – Little Joy
    Cecilia Pavón – Little Joy
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    The 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 [...]

  • Ottessa Moshfegh – Lapvona
    Ottessa Moshfegh – Lapvona
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    In 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 […]

  • Simon Sellars – Applied Ballardianism
    Simon Sellars – Applied Ballardianism
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    An existential odyssey weaving together lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global [...]

  • Zalman Shneour – A Death: Notes of a Suicide
    Zalman Shneour – A Death: Notes of a Suicide
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    Zalman 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 […]

  • Ron Loewinsohn – Magnetic Fields
    Ron Loewinsohn – Magnetic Fields
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    Organized 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 [...]

  • Djuna Barnes – Nightwood
    Djuna Barnes – Nightwood
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    The 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 [...]

  • Charles Baudelaire – The Flowers Of Evil
    Charles Baudelaire – The Flowers Of Evil
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    What 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 […]

  • Audrey Szasz – Zealous Immaculate
    Audrey Szasz – Zealous Immaculate
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    LIFE 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 […]

  • Flannery O’Connor –  Wise Blood
    Flannery O’Connor – Wise Blood
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    Flannery 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 [...]

  • Katherine Dunn – Truck
    Katherine Dunn – Truck
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    With 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” [...]

  • Anne Sexton – Transformations
    Anne Sexton – Transformations
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    From 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 [...]

  • J.G Ballard – Crash
    J.G Ballard – Crash
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    The 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 [...]

  • A Bernadette Mayer Reader
    A Bernadette Mayer Reader
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    “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 […]

  • Fernanda Melchor – Paradais
    Fernanda Melchor – Paradais
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    “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 [...]

  • Tove Ditlevsen – The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
    Tove Ditlevsen – The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
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    Tove 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. [...]

  • Gary Indiana – Horse Crazy
    Gary Indiana – Horse Crazy
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    The 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 […]

  • Euripides – Grief Lessons
    Euripides – Grief Lessons
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    Euripides, 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 […]

  • Michel Leiris – The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat
    Michel Leiris – The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat
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    That 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 […]

  • Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)
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    Winner 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 [...]

  • Selected Poems of William Blake
    Selected Poems of William Blake
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    Writer 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 [...]

  • Katherine Dunn – Attic
    Katherine Dunn – Attic
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    What 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 […]

  • Robert Glück – Communal Nude
    Robert Glück – Communal Nude
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    The 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 […]

  • Barry Gifford – Sailor & Lula: Expanded Edition
    Barry Gifford – Sailor & Lula: Expanded Edition
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    “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, [...]

  • Witold Gombrowicz – Cosmos and Pornografia: Two Novels
    Witold Gombrowicz – Cosmos and Pornografia: Two Novels
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    Here 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 [...]

  • Brion Gysin – Permutations
    Brion Gysin – Permutations
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    What 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 [...]

  • Vladimir Nabokov – Ada, Or Ardor
    Vladimir Nabokov – Ada, Or Ardor
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    Published 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 [...]

  • Eve Babitz – Eve’s Hollywood
    Eve Babitz – Eve’s Hollywood
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    An 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 […]

  • Lia Purpura – It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful
    Lia Purpura – It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful
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    A 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 […]

  • Anne Waldman – Kill Or Cure
    Anne Waldman – Kill Or Cure
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    “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, [...]

  • Eileen Myles – Cool For You
    Eileen Myles – Cool For You
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    Grainy 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 […]