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  • Varese: A Looking Glass Diary
    Varese: A Looking Glass Diary
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    Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar Varèse; 22 December 1883 – 2 November 6 1965) was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Claude Cahun – Disavowals
    Claude Cahun – Disavowals
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    Memories? Choice morsels. My soul is fragmentary.–from Disavowals Claude Cahun (1894-1954), born Lucy Schwob, was a poet, performer, resistance fighter, prisoner, Surrealist, [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Matilda Olkinaite – The Unlocked Diary (Scarce)
    Matilda Olkinaite – The Unlocked Diary (Scarce)
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    What does it mean to open a murdered young poet’s diary 80 years after her death? This book is what would have been Matilda Olkinaitė’s early work, if it hadn’t […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Hugo Ball – Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
    Hugo Ball – Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
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    Hugo Ball―poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic―was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • 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
  • Thurston Moore – Sonic Life: A Memoir
    Thurston Moore – Sonic Life: A Memoir
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    “Thurston Moore moved to Manhattan’s East Village in 1978 with a yearning for music. He wanted to be immersed in downtown New York’s sights and sounds—the feral energy of its […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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