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Alain-Paul Mallard – An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
$12.00 | Book, Print
A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain-Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of an Austrian writer who [...]
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Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans
$23.00 | Book, Print
In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell “a history of a family’s progress,” radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of [...]
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Camille Roy – Honey Mine: Collected Stories
$18.00 | Book, Print
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 with sex, [...]
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Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
$20.00 | Book, Print
Carol Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, [...]
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Arno Schmidt – Nobodaddy’s Children
$18.00 | Book, Print
Nobodaddy’s Children is a trilogy of novels that traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of […]
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Leon Feuchtwanger – The Oppermanns
$18.00 | Book, Print
The Oppermann brothers consider themselves exemplary German citizens: cultured, liberal, proud contributors to society. One runs the trusted Oppermann furniture chain. One is an eminent surgeon. [...]
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Charles Neider – The Authentic Death Of Hendry Jones
$19.00 | Book, Print
The 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarthy. Hendry Jones isn’t quite Billy […]
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Lutz Seiler – Star 111
$20.00 | Book, Print
Star 111 (the name of a popular East German transistor radio) begins with the world turned upside down. It is the fall of 1989. The communist government of the GDR […]
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Thomas Pynchon – V.
$20.00 | Book, Print
Acclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon’s wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and “V.,” [...]
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Harald Voetmann – Visions And Temptations
$16.00 | Book, Print
In the eleventh century, in the city of Regensburg, Othlo of St. Emmeram lies on his sickbed and takes a journey through Heaven and Hell. Spurning carnal desire and earthly […]
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Adolfo Bioy Casares – The Invention Of Morel
$15.00 | Book, Print
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a […]
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Jan Kerouac – Baby Driver
$18.00 | Book, Print
“Was it January or February? The coconut fronds waving, shining like green hair in the sun, gave no clue.” Fifteen-year-old Jan is pregnant, gamely living off rice and whatever fish […]
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Mary Shelley – Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers…
$23.00 | Book, Print
The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has [...]
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Barry N Malzberg – Revelations
$19.00 | Book, Print
Marvin Martin is angry. Night after night, he strips the guests that appear on his talk show of their pitiful pretensions, their commonplace hypocrisies, but how long has it been […]
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Eileen Myles – Cool for You
$17.00 | Book, Print
“Why can’t I live right now. Because I am not rich, I am not a saint. But I do know this: not all of us were sent here to work. […]
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Marlen Haushofer – Killing Stella
$15.00 | Book, Print
Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her in-laws, the narrator of KILLING STELLA recounts the addition of her friend’s daughter, Stella, into their [...]
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Severo Sarduy – Cobra
$17.00 | Book, Print
The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and Cobra was his finest creation. Originally […]
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Sièc…
$38.00 | Book, Print
In fin-de-siècle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a [...]
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Kathryn Harrison – Poison
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Francisca de Luarca, the daughter of a silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams – dreams in which the work of her father’s silkworms is woven into robes for […]
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C.A Conrad – The Book Of Frank
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Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a “voyeuresque surreal portrait,” The Book of Frank is also, in the words of poet-critic Alan Gilbert, a “candid portrayal of human cruelty and […]
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Kabuki Plays on Stage. Volume 4: Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905
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Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905, is the fourth and final volume in a monumental new series that traces kabuki’s changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. The twelve [...]
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Leo Tolstoy – Three Simple Men: And Other Holy Folktales
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items
You’ve met the characters in these stories before. We meet them in folktales from all around the world. There is the simple, wise old man who understands far more than […]
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Lafcadio Hearn – Short Stories: Tales of the Supernatural
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This gorgeous hardback edition brings the writing of Lafcadio Hearn to life. Ranging from the legends of the West Indies to the mysteries of the Orient, Lafcadio Hearn blurs the […]
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James Purdy – Malcolm: A Comic Novel
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The twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption. Introduced simply as “the boy on the bench,” the titular character of Malcolm is a [...]
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James Purdy – Eustace Chisholm & the Works: A Novel
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No James Purdy novel has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy depression-era boarding house in Chicago plays host to […]
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Luigi Pirandello – Stories for the Years
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Regarded as one of Europe’s great modernists, Pirandello was also a master storyteller, a fine observer of the drama of daily life with a remarkable ear for dialogue and a […]
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Michael McClure – Rain Mirror: New Poems
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“Rain Mirror”, writes poet Michael McClure, “is my most bare and forthright book. It contains two long poems, ‘Crisis Blossom’ and ‘Haiku Edge’ which are [...]
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Natasha Trethewey – Monument: Poems New and Selected
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Layering joy and urgent defiance―against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone―Trethewey’s work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. [...]
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Mikheil Javakhishvili – Kvachi
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This is, in brief, the story of a swindler, a Georgian Felix Krull, or perhaps a cynical Don Quixote, named Kvachi Kvachantiradze: womanizer, cheat, perpetrator of insurance fraud, bank-robber, [...]
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Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items
The rhetorically gorgeous essay-stories of Kenneth Burke were unlike any other fiction of the 1920s. Here & Elsewhere gathers, for the first time, all of Burke’s fiction: 23 short stories [...]
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Zaza Burchuladze – Adibas
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War is raging in Georgia, Russian fighter planes are thundering overhead, and yet, for some, the falling bombs cause no more impact than the slight ripple moving through the purified […]
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Vladislav Otroshenko – Addendum to a Photo Album
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“Addendum to a Photo Album” is the saga of the births, deaths, and disappearances within the eccentric Mandrykin family. Following patriarch Malach, a Cossack captain, his wife [...]
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Joseph Ceravolo – Collected Poems
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items
Like an underground river, the astonishing poems of Joseph Ceravolo have nurtured American poetry for fifty years, a presence deeply felt but largely invisible. Collected Poems offers the first [...]
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Frank Stanford – The Singing Knives
$65.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items
THE SINGING KNIVES, originally published in 1971 by Broughton’s Mill Mountain Press, is Frank Sanford’s first collection of poetry. Reprinted by his own press, Lost Roads Publisher, [...]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini – The Divine Mimesis
$18.00 | Book, Print
Written between 1963 and 1967, The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini’s imitation of the early cantos of the Inferno, offers a searing critique of Italian society and the intelligentsia of the 1960s. [...]
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Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
$19.00 | Book, Print
Self-Shadowing Prey, one of the final texts by the Romanian poet Ghérasim Luca (1913–1994), is clearly constructed around the sought complications of language. Embodying the surrealist operation [...]
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Marquis De Sade – Stories, Tales, & Fables
$34.00 | Book, Print
Written in his Bastille cell in the years between 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, this is the first English translation of Marquis de Sade’s collection of short works, Stories, […]
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Children of the New Flesh: The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of D…
$18.00 | Book, Print
Children of the New Flesh is a wide-ranging compendium of reflections on the enduring impact of David Cronenberg, one of the most significant filmmakers of all time. Focusing on a […]
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Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France
$18.00 | Book, Print
Norma Cole has combed through books, little magazines, and correspondence to gather an exciting body of writing by our French contemporaries. There are letters, poems, interviews, critical [...]
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Lisa Jarnot – Some Other Kind Of Mission
$15.00 | Book, Print
Composed of poems, prose segments, and visual pieces, this remarkable first book is both formal and colloquial, fluid and hard-edge, with the diction riffing between Biblical and Dylanesque. A [...]
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Habib Tengour – Crossings
$17.00 | Book, Print
Beginning with the astonishing prologue poem, “Conversation with Mohammed Dib,” followed by four long, spectacular poems, each a small book in itself, Habib Tengour’s Crossings takes us through [...]
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Gérard Macé – The Last of the Egyptians
$15.00 | Book, Print
“About Champollion I knew: that he did not go to Egypt with Napoleon, that he never saw the actual Rosetta stone, only more or less bad copies, that he suffered […]
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Ron Silliman – Against Conceptual Poetry
$20.00 | Book, Print
If you search on references to Ron Silliman in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith (Northwestern University Press, 2011), you [...]
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J.K. Huysmans – The Cathedral
$30.00 | Book, Print
THE CATHEDRAL, by J.K. Huysmans was originally published in French in 1898. The same year, this English translation by Clara Bell was published. THE CATHEDRAL is the second in a […]
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John Trefry – Plats
$18.00 | Book, Print
Plats is the ornate debut novel by John Trefry. A hallucinatory meditation on life in Los Angeles by a schizophrenic consciousness, Plats turns a funhouse mirror on the banality of […]
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Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
$27.00 | Book, Print
Collected here is the best of Harry Crews: his astoundingly beautiful memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place; two if his most memorable novels, Car and The Gypsy’s Curse; […]
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Ingeborg Bachmann – The Honditsch Cross
$16.00 | Book, Print
Written when Ingeborg Bachmann was only eighteen, The Honditsch Cross, her second-longest completed work of prose, is a historical novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation [...]
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Ad Vat – Spiral Of Objects
$23.00 | Book, Print
Welcome to a miasmic world of passion and play, in which humans and dolls interact to the ecstatic point of blurring the boundaries between waking reality and dark dreams; between […]
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Again, Dangerous Visions
$18.00 | Book, Print
A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre. Grand Master of the Science Fiction [...]
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Fanny Howe – Radical Love: Five Novels
$23.00 | Book, Print
Radical Love gathers five of Fanny Howe’s novels: Nod, The Deep North, Famous Questions, Saving History, and Indivisible, previously out-of-print and hard to find classics whose characters [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive