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Joan Didion – The Year Of Magical Thinking
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items 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 [...]
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Patti Smith – Just Kids
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items 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, […]
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Milan Kundera – The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items 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. [...]
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Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from […]
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William S Burroughs – Naked Lunch
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict […]
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Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Federico Fellini (1920-93) was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. Director of a whole series of celebrated films – among them […]
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Federico Garcia Lorca – Three Tragedies
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward [...]
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Julio Cortazar – Hopscotch
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves “the Club.” A [...]
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Julio Cortazar – Cronopios & Famas
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Cronopios and Famas is one of the best-loved books by Julio Cortázar, one of the greatest of Latin American novelists. “The Instruction Manual,” the first chapter, is an absurd [...]
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Don Delillo – White Noise
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items 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 […]
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Don Delillo – Players
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind […]
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Don Delillo – Libra
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items 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. [...]
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Don Delillo – Americana
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The first novel by Don DeLillo, author of the National Book Award–winning White Noise. At twenty-eight, David Bell is living the American Dream. He has fought his way to the […]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics Of Heresy
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items 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 [...]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini – Poems (1st Edition)
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items 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 […]
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Oswald Stack – Pasolini (as-is, scarce)
$28.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA 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 [...]
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Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Susan Sontag has been a major figure in American intellectual life for over thirty years. She has consistently broken fresh ground in cultural analysis and provocatively engaged a wide [...]
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Susan Sontag – Where The Stress Falls
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items 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, [...]
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Susan Sontag – Illness As Metaphor And Aids And Its Metaphors
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time.” A cancer patient herself when she was […]
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Susan Sontag – Against Interpretation
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced [...]
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Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 2
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items 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 [...]
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Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 1
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative [...]
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Karl Ove Knausgaard – Autumn
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in [...]
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Jean-Paul Sartre – Les Mains Sales (FRENCH EDITION)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The story is told mainly in […]
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Jean-Paul Sartre – La Nausee (FRENCH EDITION)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation [...]
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Baudelaire – Les Fleurs Du Mal (FRENCH EDITION)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all Baudelaire’s poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August […]
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D. N. Rodowick – Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAlthough Gilles Deleuze is one of France’s most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick [...]
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More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPicking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock […]
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Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMasculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]
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Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy […]
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After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOver the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]
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Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]
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Rauschenberg: Art & Life (New Edition)
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA revised edition of a retrospective on the Venice Biennale grand prize-winning artist incorporates the last ten years of his career including his retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim in [...]
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Dieter Roth: Souvenirs. (Text in English & German)
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartArt polymath extraordinaire, Dieter Roth (1930-1998) maintained throughout his career an output so prodigious and various that art historians and fans are still struggling to keep up. Bringing [...]
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Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo.
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJulio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, [...]
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Arthur Machen – Ornaments In Jade
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLong out of print and presented here for the first time in paperback, is Arthur Machen’s classic collection of prose poems. The ten exquisite pieces included in this volume are: […]
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Althea Gyles – A Woman Without A Soul And Other Writings
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAlthea Gyles (1867-1949), Irish artist and mystic, though primarily remembered today for the book covers she did for the poet William Butler Yeats and her association with the author and […]
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Delphi Fabrice – The Red Sorcerer
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Red Sorcerer, originally published as a 64-part feuilleton serial in Le Journal between 31 July 1910 and 3 October 1910, and here appearing in English for the first time […]
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Jean Lorrain – Monsieur De Bougrelon
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Jean Lorrain’s Monsieur de Bougrelon, an eccentric, outmoded dandy leads ennui-filled French tourists around misty Amsterdam. Guiding them through sailors’ bars, whorehouses, and costume [...]
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Title TK
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Comprised of the artists and musicians Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen and Alan Licht, Title TK is a “band” that performs in music or art contexts. While they appear on stage […]
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Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment-covering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous [...]
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Junichiro Tanizaki – The Secret History & Arrowroot
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secret History of the [...]
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Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful […]
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Richard Brautigan – Dreaming of Babylon
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody’s left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Sunday of Life
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Sunday of Life, the late Raymond Queneau’s tenth novel, was first published in French by Gallimard in 1951 and is now appearing for the first time in this country. […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Flight of Icarus
$5.00 | Used Items, Print, Book Add to cart“Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau’s work in fiction continues to defy strict categorization. […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 1960s, and the Duke d’Auge as he […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Bark Tree
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Seated in a Paris café, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he? he wonders, How does he live? And instantly the shadow […]
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Raymond Queneau – Pierrot Mon Ami
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, [...]
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Rainer Maria Rilke – Duino Elegies
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“We have a marvelous, almost legendary image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rainer Maria Rilke was staying at Duino Castle, on a rocky […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive