April 26th Newsletter
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NEW ARRIVALS

  • Joan Didion – The Year Of Magical Thinking
    Joan Didion – The Year Of Magical Thinking
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Patti Smith – Just Kids
    Patti Smith – Just Kids
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Milan Kundera – The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
    Milan Kundera – The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Don Delillo – White Noise
    Don Delillo – White Noise
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    “White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra­modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Don Delillo – Libra
    Don Delillo – Libra
    $6.00 | , , Add to cart

    “In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sex, The Self And The Sacred: Women In The Cinema Of Pier Paolo Pasolini (scarce)
    Sex, The Self And The Sacred: Women In The Cinema Of Pier Paolo Pasolini (scarce)
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Born in Bologna in 1922, filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was one of the most controversial European intellectuals of his time. Pasolini believed the ‘authentic’ Italy – with its many [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics Of Heresy
    Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics Of Heresy
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This work examines the writings of this Italian poet, novelist, filmmaker, theorist, and dramaturge, directing attention to this neglected area of study by focusing on the question of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – Poems (1st Edition)
    Pier Paolo Pasolini – Poems (1st Edition)
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – Petrolio (1st American Edition)
    Pier Paolo Pasolini – Petrolio (1st American Edition)
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Although Pier Paolo Pasolini is internationally renowned as a filmmaker, his poetry and novels are canonical works of modern Italian writing. Petrolio, a novel unfinished at the time of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Oswald Stack – Pasolini (as-is, scarce)
    Oswald Stack – Pasolini (as-is, scarce)
    $28.00 | , , Add to cart

    A book-length interview with the controversial filmmaker covering his career up till Theorem. Thames & Hudson, Cinema One Series, 1969 Paperback edition. Discoloration/wear to wraps and edges [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – Where The Stress Falls
    Susan Sontag – Where The Stress Falls
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was “someone who is interested in everything.” Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 2
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 2
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a [...]

    GENRE: Memoir

VINYL

  • Ramones – Too Tough To Die
    Ramones – Too Tough To Die
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    “With the Ramones’ original drummer, Tommy Erdelyi, producing, the group returns to simple, scathing punk rock on Too Tough to Die. The group takes the big guitar riffs of [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Social Unrest – Rat In A Maze
    Social Unrest – Rat In A Maze
    $45.00 | , , Add to cart

    “SOCIAL UNREST has been one of my favorite Bay Area bands since they formed, and this EP reveals why. The mix is a bit too piercing on the high end, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Our Neighbors Suck – Isolation
    Our Neighbors Suck – Isolation
    $65.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Most of the songs by the Arizona-based band are in the medium-paced punk vein, with a few slower or more rapid-fire. The production sound is thick here and, combined with […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Damned – Phantasmagoria (PROMO Autographed By The Band)
    The Damned – Phantasmagoria (PROMO Autographed By The Band)
    $75.00 | , , Add to cart

    “By the time the Damned found themselves on a major label after nine years of ups, downs, and all-arounds, a big change had taken place: Captain Sensible, with both his […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Damned – The Black Album
    The Damned – The Black Album
    $45.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The fact that one of its songs is called “Hit or Miss” is quite appropriate for the double-vinyl Black Album; while not perfect, it’s definitely got some high points on [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • T. S. O. L.* – T. S. O. L. (1981 Repress)
    T. S. O. L.* – T. S. O. L. (1981 Repress)
    $60.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Before T.S.O.L. became a commercial, long-haired heavy metal/hard rock band, it was a hardcore punk band — and their punk wasn’t pop-punk either. When this vinyl EP came out in [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Mentors – You Axed For It!
    Mentors – You Axed For It!
    $65.00 | , , Add to cart

    Metal… Punk… Mess… Killer punk classic from El Duce & co. Label: Death Records – DEATH 001, Enigma Format:  Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1985 VG+/VG+ Still in [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Mentors – Up The Dose
    Mentors – Up The Dose
    $50.00 | , , Add to cart

    Another classic Mentors LP. “Heterosexuals have The Right To Rock” – lets go. Label: Death Records (3) – DEATH 007, Restless Records – 72172-1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Secret Hate – Vegetables Dancing
    Secret Hate – Vegetables Dancing
    $65.00 | , , Add to cart

    Snotty punk from Long Beach, California. Later repped/covered by Sublime. Label: New Alliance Records – NAR-016 Format: Vinyl, 12″, Mini-Album Country: US Released: 1983 VG+/VG. Some [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • True Sounds Of Liberty – Beneath The Shadows
    True Sounds Of Liberty – Beneath The Shadows
    $45.00 | , , Add to cart

    “From their inception, TSOL’s finest efforts used both hardcore energy and a fiery dramatic tension to fuel their compositions. Sadly, there’s surprisingly little excitement or drama on [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Super Heroines – Cry For Help
    Super Heroines – Cry For Help
    $50.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The Super Heroines was a deathrock trio formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1980s. However, unlike other early deathrock bands such as Christian Death and 45 Grave, Super [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Peter Murphy – Deep
    Peter Murphy – Deep
    $50.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Perhaps the stars were right, or perhaps his American company, flush from the unexpected success of Murphy’s former bandmates in Love and Rockets, just decided to give Murphy a [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk

CDs

BOOKS

  • Joan Didion – The Year Of Magical Thinking
    Joan Didion – The Year Of Magical Thinking
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Patti Smith – Just Kids
    Patti Smith – Just Kids
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Milan Kundera – The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
    Milan Kundera – The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Don Delillo – White Noise
    Don Delillo – White Noise
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    “White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra­modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Don Delillo – Libra
    Don Delillo – Libra
    $6.00 | , , Add to cart

    “In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sex, The Self And The Sacred: Women In The Cinema Of Pier Paolo Pasolini (scarce)
    Sex, The Self And The Sacred: Women In The Cinema Of Pier Paolo Pasolini (scarce)
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Born in Bologna in 1922, filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was one of the most controversial European intellectuals of his time. Pasolini believed the ‘authentic’ Italy – with its many [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics Of Heresy
    Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics Of Heresy
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This work examines the writings of this Italian poet, novelist, filmmaker, theorist, and dramaturge, directing attention to this neglected area of study by focusing on the question of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – Poems (1st Edition)
    Pier Paolo Pasolini – Poems (1st Edition)
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – Petrolio (1st American Edition)
    Pier Paolo Pasolini – Petrolio (1st American Edition)
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Although Pier Paolo Pasolini is internationally renowned as a filmmaker, his poetry and novels are canonical works of modern Italian writing. Petrolio, a novel unfinished at the time of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Oswald Stack – Pasolini (as-is, scarce)
    Oswald Stack – Pasolini (as-is, scarce)
    $28.00 | , , Add to cart

    A book-length interview with the controversial filmmaker covering his career up till Theorem. Thames & Hudson, Cinema One Series, 1969 Paperback edition. Discoloration/wear to wraps and edges [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – Where The Stress Falls
    Susan Sontag – Where The Stress Falls
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was “someone who is interested in everything.” Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 2
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 2
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a [...]

    GENRE: Memoir