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  • 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 […]

  • Céline – Journey to the End of the Night
    Céline – Journey to the End of the Night
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    Céline’s masterpiece―colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humor Céline’s masterpiece―colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic―boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at [...]

  • Audrey Szasz – Zealous Immaculate
    Audrey Szasz – Zealous Immaculate
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    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 [...]

  • Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
    Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
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    In Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, […]

  • Harmony Korine – A Crackup At The Race Riots
    Harmony Korine – A Crackup At The Race Riots
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    Originally published by Mainstreet/Doubleday in 1998, this debut novel from an underground filmmaker uses print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, [...]

  • Roberto Bolaño – By Night In Chile
    Roberto Bolaño – By Night In Chile
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    As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile‘s single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Cookie Mueller – Walking Through Clear Water In A Pool Painted Black
    Cookie Mueller – Walking Through Clear Water In A Pool Painted Black
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    What our staff has to say: “Essential reading.” – Cleo The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller’s stories, featuring the [...]

  • 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, [...]

  • The Beat Book
    The Beat Book
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    A revised and updated edition of one of the most extensive anthologies of Beat literature ever assembled

  • Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997
    Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    This long overdue anthology of New Narrative includes both classic New Narrative texts and rare supplementary materials, allowing the movement fueled by punk, pop, porn, French theory, and social [...]

  • Japanese Death Poems: Poems Written By Monks On The Verge Of Death
    Japanese Death Poems: Poems Written By Monks On The Verge Of Death
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    Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has […]

  • Guillaume Apollinaire – The Heresiarch & Co.
    Guillaume Apollinaire – The Heresiarch & Co.
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    Apollinaire’s first book: a collection of outrageous short stories about heretics, renegade mystics and criminal religious fanatics, The Heresiarch & Co. was Apollinaire’s first [...]

  • Jon Fosse – Aliss At The Fire
    Jon Fosse – Aliss At The Fire
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    In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window […]

  • Antonin Artaud – Watchfiends & Rack Screams: Works From The Final Period
    Antonin Artaud – Watchfiends & Rack Screams: Works From The Final Period
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    Including the fabled text “To Have Done with the Judgment of God,” this collection compiles the scatalogical writings of Artaud’s final years Clayton Eshleman’s [...]

  • Flann O’Brien – The Third Policeman
    Flann O’Brien – The Third Policeman
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    The Third Policeman is Flann O’Brien’s brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal [...]

  • Camille Roy – Honey Mine: Collected Stories
    Camille Roy – Honey Mine: Collected Stories
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    Honey Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer’s coming of age through disorienting, unsparing, and exhilarating encounters [...]

  • Flora-Yin Wong – Liturgy
    Flora-Yin Wong – Liturgy
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    What our staff has to say: “A stunning book that delves deep into how we process and understand traditions, holiness & superstition. Unlike anything i’ve ever read.” – Cleo [...]

  • John Rechy – City Of Night
    John Rechy – City Of Night
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    “[Rechy’s] tone rings absolutely true, is absolutely his own. . . . He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the […]

  • Simon Morris – Consumer Guide
    Simon Morris – Consumer Guide
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    Originally published in an edition of just 100 copies, Amphetamine Sulphate is proud to bring back to print Consumer Guide, the long-lost first book by Simon Morris. Merging memoir, scabrous […]

  • Isabelle Nicou – Genesis 0
    Isabelle Nicou – Genesis 0
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    108pp Perfect bound As soon as my eyes close, I’m besieged by waves of blood. A piece of flesh floats in with the tide. No panic, only silence and then […]

  • Thomas Moore – Forever
    Thomas Moore – Forever
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    SADNESS ALWAYS FINDS PEOPLE “I’m writing this instead of killing myself” states the narrator of Forever, Thomas Moore’s most compelling novel yet. A young man travels [...]

  • James Purdy – In A Shallow Grave
    James Purdy – In A Shallow Grave
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    What 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 […]

  • The Wire: #454 December 2021
    The Wire: #454 December 2021
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    “Laraaji: New York’s mystic sage of healing vibrations talks the power of sound and new album Circle Of Celebration with collaborators Arji OceAnanda, Greg Fox and Shahzad Ismaily. [...]

  • Alberto Moravia – Contempt
    Alberto Moravia – Contempt
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    Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of [...]

  • Dennis Cooper – I Wished
    Dennis Cooper – I Wished
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    Dennis Cooper, master of transgressive fiction, returns with his most personal and haunting book yet. For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most […]

  • Ryann Donnelly – Justify My Love
    Ryann Donnelly – Justify My Love
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    An analysis of sex and gender in music videos, covering everyone from Beyonce to Madonna, Nine Inch Nails to Mykki Blanco. In Justify My Love, Ryann Donnelly explores sex and […]

  • The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal
    The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal
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    Reflections of a “revolutionary whore” and champion of sexual freedom and prostitutes’ rights.They have to come back to us, because we know every detail of their orgasms, their little [...]

  • Gary Indiana – Vile Days
    Gary Indiana – Vile Days
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    Gary Indiana’s collected columns of art criticism from the Village Voice, documenting, from the front lines, the 1980s New York art scene.In 1985, the Village Voice offered me a job […]

  • An Argentine Passion: María Luisa Bemberg and Her Films
    An Argentine Passion: María Luisa Bemberg and Her Films
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    The first major study of Maria Luisa Bemberg’s work. Maria Luisa Bemberg, who died in 1995, was one of Latin America’s best known and most popular film-makers. The only woman […]