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  • Elliott Sharp – IrRational Music
    Elliott Sharp – IrRational Music
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    A memoir and manifesto by a pivotal figure at the junction of rock, the avant-garde, and an ever-widening spiral of art, theater, film, and dance. For over five decades, Elliott […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Tracy K. Smith – Ordinary Light
    Tracy K. Smith – Ordinary Light
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    In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Raul Ruiz – Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: Excerpts from an Intimate Diary
    Raul Ruiz – Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: E…
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    Meditations on cinema and method from the acclaimed Chilean director of City of Pirates and Life Is a Dream This volume gathers excerpts from the diary of celebrated Chilean experimental […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Edward Shaw – Black Monk Time
    Thomas Edward Shaw – Black Monk Time
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    A thorough and compelling memoir by The Monks’ bass player, Eddie Shaw. Sick document of the Beat scene in Hamburg and the crucial proto-punk band. Caron Street Publishing, 1994 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk, Memoir
  • Joyce Johnson – Minor Characters
    Joyce Johnson – Minor Characters
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    In 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about.  Attitudes like that were not […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Keith Haring – Journals
    Keith Haring – Journals
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    Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980’s. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world’s [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • Pierre Guyotat – In The Deep
    Pierre Guyotat – In The Deep
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    An autobiographical incantation of adolescent shame, religious masturbation, and the salvation embodied in the creative act. I believe that destiny is the hesitation between whorehouse writing [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Dario Dzamonja – Letters from the Madhouse
    Dario Dzamonja – Letters from the Madhouse
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    An uncompromising account of a Bosnian writer’s life as an exile in America. Considered a literary icon of Bosnia, Dario Džamonja wrote raw, unfiltered accounts of life in the streets […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You : A Memoir
    Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told Y…
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    Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father–a poet, a […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir
  • Michael W. Clune – White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin
    Michael W. Clune – White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin
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    How do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a “white out,” so that every time you use it is the […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Chris Marker: Immemory: Gutenberg Version
    Chris Marker: Immemory: Gutenberg Version
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    Filmmaker, photographer and writer Chris Marker never adhered to the conventions of a particular art form. Each of his films, from La Jetée to Sans Soleil, pushes the boundaries of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)
    Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)
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    First published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Éditions du Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is Claude Cahun’s wildly radical answer to [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
    Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
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    Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969
    In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957…
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    For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Hannah baer – Trans girl suicide museum
    Hannah baer – Trans girl suicide museum
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    one part ketamine spiral, one part confessional travelogue from the edge of gender, tgsm is a hallucinatory transmission on sex, identity, the internet, and the flickering wish not to exist […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Unica Zurn – The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
    Unica Zurn – The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
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    What our staff has to say: “A unique and disturbing memoir from an underread surrealist master” – Cleo Anagram play meets psychic crisis in Unica Zürn’s acclaimed [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Emmett Williams – My Life in Flux & Vice Versa
    Emmett Williams – My Life in Flux & Vice Versa
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    This is an endlessly stimulating memoir, by a figure who was involved in some of the most astounding art of the post-war era, and a fresh, spontaneous account of the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • John Rechy – About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
    John Rechy – About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
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    The untold personal life story of the novelist whom Gore Vidal has hailed as “one of the few original American writers of the last century.” John Rechy’s first novel, City […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Morrissey – Autobiography
    Morrissey – Autobiography
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    Autobiography covers Morrissey’s life from his birth until the present day. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder mark might be present.

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
    Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
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    A Kind of Testament is part autobiography and part justification of the life’s work of one of Poland’s most important novelists and playwrights. Written in France in 1968, this personal […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Richard Thompson – Beeswing
    Richard Thompson – Beeswing
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    In this moving and immersive memoir, Richard Thompson, international and longtime beloved music legend, recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir
  • Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
    Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
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    To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
    George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of th…
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    Don’t Tell Sybil is a libidinous memoir by a master raconteur. George Melly (1926-2007) was impossible to ignore in London cultural circles between the 1950s and 90s. He first came […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
    Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
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    Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays―meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems―and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir