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  • Indian Cinema In The Time Of Celluloid
    Indian Cinema In The Time Of Celluloid
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    In Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid, Ashish Rajadhyaksha argues that any exploration of the social uses to which cinema is put in a place like India can only […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
    Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
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    Annette Michelson’s erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time.This posthumous volume gathers Annette [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Matilde Marcolli – Lumen Nature: Visions Of The Abstract In Art And Mathematics
    Matilde Marcolli – Lumen Nature: Visions Of The Abstract In Art And Mathematics
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    Exploring common themes in modern art, mathematics, and science, including the concept of space, the notion of randomness, and the shape of the cosmos.This is a book about art—and a […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
    Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
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    Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
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    For the first ever American Music Masters event sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, musicians and folkies came together to salute the life and legacy […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
    Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
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    Episodes in the transformation of our understanding of sound and space, from binaural listening in the nineteenth century to contemporary sound art. The relationship between sound and space has [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • 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
  • Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
    Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
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    “I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reverence. I am profoundly moved: what a work! And to think I’d never heard the name […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
    Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
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    The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it’s a history […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
    October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
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    Critical essays on the artist Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on the important period of his development in the 1950s and 1960s.From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • A Social History Of Iranian Cinema Volume 1: The Artisanal Era 1897-1941
    A Social History Of Iranian Cinema Volume 1: The Artisanal Era 1897-1941
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    Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joy Williams – Honored Guest
    Joy Williams – Honored Guest
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    In short stories “so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race” (Vanity Fair), a masseuse breaks her rich client’s wrist [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Emmett Williams – A Flexible History Of Fluxus Facts & Fictions
    Emmett Williams – A Flexible History Of Fluxus Facts & Fictions
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    Here Emmett Williams turns cartoonist, in the footsteps of Lyonel Feininger, Rube Goldberg, and Ad Reinhardt. His pseudo-historical collage-drawings, digitally remastered by Ann Noel for this [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • New York Is Now: The New Wave Of Free Jazz
    New York Is Now: The New Wave Of Free Jazz
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    For nearly 20 years, a group of musicians has been making music in the tradition of pioneers such as Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and John Coltrane, but which is uniquely […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Derek Jarman – Jubilee: Six Film Scripts
    Derek Jarman – Jubilee: Six Film Scripts
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    From the early seventies until his death in 1994, Derek Jarman made scores of films. Assembled here are six of his unforgettable film scripts: Akenaten, Jubilee, Bob-Up-A-Down, B Movie: Little [...]

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  • Derek Jarman – At Your Own Risk
    Derek Jarman – At Your Own Risk
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    In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
    Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
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    Marjorie Perloff’s stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kazuki Tomokawa – Try Saying You’re Alive
    Kazuki Tomokawa – Try Saying You’re Alive
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    A vivid account of life on the margins and Tokyo’s 1970s underground culture from a Japanese folk legend Tokyo in the 1970s was a magnet for young musicians, poets and […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Frantz Fanon – The Wretched Of The Earth
    Frantz Fanon – The Wretched Of The Earth
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    First published in 1961, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterful and timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle. In 2020, it [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Penny Rimbaud – The Last Of The Hippies
    Penny Rimbaud – The Last Of The Hippies
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    First published in 1982 as part of the Crass record album Christ: The Album, Penny Rimbaud’s The Last of the Hippies is a fiery anarchist polemic centered on the story […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity (Silver Edition)
    Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity (Silver Edition)
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    Writer and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for incorporating film theory, psychoanalysis and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peter Greenaway – Eight And A Half Women
    Peter Greenaway – Eight And A Half Women
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    Eight and a Half Women accompanies Peter Greenaway’s latest movie of that name (referring to Fellini’s film), to be released in 1999. A laconic black comedy, the film examines the [...]

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  • Lucky Kunst: The Rise And Fall Of Young British Art
    Lucky Kunst: The Rise And Fall Of Young British Art
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    The first inside account of the rise of Britain’s most notorious modern art movement is a hilarious, picaresque chronicle of dissoluteness, drunkenness, and epically bad behavior Today artists [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The World Of Lucha Libre
    The World Of Lucha Libre
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    The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Speed Limits
    Speed Limits
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    A stunning exhibition catalogue to mark the centenary of the foundation of the Italian futurist movement, whose 1909 manifesto proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural
    Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural
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    This book will accompany the first major solo exhibition of Douglas Gordon’s work in Scotland since he presented his now celebrated work, 24 Hour Psycho at Tramway in Glasgow in […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • England On Fire: A Visual Journey Through Albion’s Psychic Landscape
    England On Fire: A Visual Journey Through Albion’s Psychic Landscape
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    This is a book about English art like no other. Forget the tired rogues’ gallery of lords and ladies, forget the tall ships and haywains. These images cut to the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema
    Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema
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    Philippe Grandrieux is one of cinema’s only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation. His consistently controversial work [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta & The Black Atlantic
    Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta & The Black Atlantic
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    Reclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.The artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) is remembered [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Surrealism At Play
    Surrealism At Play
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    In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Semiotext(e): The German Issue
    Semiotext(e): The German Issue
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    A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.The German Issue (1982) was originally [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
    From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
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    From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history’s understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Improvisation, Rights And The Ethics Of Cocreation
    The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Improvisation, Rights And The Ethics Of Cocreation
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    The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Gerhard Richter – This Great Allegory: On World-Decay And World-Opening In The Work Of Art
    Gerhard Richter – This Great Allegory: On World-Decay And World-Opening In The Work Of Art
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    An engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created—a world that perishes or decays over time—and the new world that the artwork opens up. Gerhard […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Networking The Bloc: Experimental Art In Eastern Europe 1965-1981
    Networking The Bloc: Experimental Art In Eastern Europe 1965-1981
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    The story of the experimental zeitgeist in Eastern European art, seen through personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects, and cultural exchanges.Throughout the 1970s, a [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
    Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
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    One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
    Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
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    How East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
    A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
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    The first comprehensive study of the former Yugoslavia’s diverse and groundbreaking alternative art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s. This first comprehensive study of the former [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Band Of Bikers
    Band Of Bikers
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    In the basement of an apartment building in Manhattan,Scott Zieher discovered a pile of photographs among the effects of a recently deceased tenant. These photographs,presented for the first time [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Agustin Fernandez Mallo – The Nocilla Trilogy
    Agustin Fernandez Mallo – The Nocilla Trilogy
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    A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo’s Nocilla Trilogy—Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Lab, and Nocilla Experience—presents multiple narratives of people and places that [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Brion Gysin: Tuning In To The Multimedia Age
    Brion Gysin: Tuning In To The Multimedia Age
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    This comprehensive biography presents the achievements of Brion Gysin, a multi-faceted artist whose work has influenced performers such as David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Recalling the heady [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Out Of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene Of The Sixities
    Out Of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene Of The Sixities
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    A social and cultural history of Los Angeles and its emerging art scene in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s The history of modern art typically begins in Paris and ends […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • On & By: Andy Warhol
    On & By: Andy Warhol
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    Writings about Andy Warhol by critics, artists, cultural theorists, and Factory associates together with archival material, interviews, and texts by Warhol himself. The impact of Andy Warhol on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Francis Booth – Amongst Those Left: The British Experimental Novel 1940-1980
    Francis Booth – Amongst Those Left: The British Experimental Novel 1940-1980
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    Amongst Those Left is a long-overdue study of experimental literature in Britain from the beginning of the twentieth century through the 1980s. Undertaken with the aim of refuting the idea […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Emile Durkheim – Suicide
    Emile Durkheim – Suicide
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    A classic book about the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists. Emile Durkheim’s Suicide addresses the phenomenon of suicide and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • October Files: John Cage
    October Files: John Cage
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    An extended trajectory of Cage literature, from early critical reaction to writing by contemporaries to current scholarship.John Cage (1912–1992) defined a radical practice of composition that [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Jack Stevenson – Lars Von Trier
    Jack Stevenson – Lars Von Trier
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    With the international success of “Breaking the Waves” and “Dancer in the Dark”, Lars von Trier has established himself as one of the most provocative and daring film [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sacred Arts Of Haitian Vodou
    Sacred Arts Of Haitian Vodou
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    “This abundantly illustrated anthology brings together 16 essays by scholars, artists, and ritual experts who examine the sacred arts of Haitian Vodou from multiple perspectives. Among the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Bill Ayers – Fugitive Days: A Memoir
    Bill Ayers – Fugitive Days: A Memoir
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    Bill Ayers memoir of his radicalization, time spent leading the Weather Undergound and time spent running from the FBI. Beacon Press, 2001 hardcover edition. Tearing and sticker on dust jacket, [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Werewolves In Western Culture: A Lycanthropy Reader
    Werewolves In Western Culture: A Lycanthropy Reader
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    “Our understanding of lycanthropy is limited by our association of it with contemporary portrayals of werewolves in horror films and gothic fiction. No rational person today believes that a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and The Origins of Religion
    Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and The Origins of Religion
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    “This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • R. Buckminster Fuller – Intuition
    R. Buckminster Fuller – Intuition
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    Accomplished polymath R.Buckminster Fuller impacted and influenced everyone from John Cage to early hippie movements. Intuition is his 12th book. “In this series of poem-essays, Fuller [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
    The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
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    The essential Buddhist text on living & dying. The Evans-Wentz translation of The Tibetan Book Of The Dead, while controversial for its accuracy, was still monumentally impactful for helping [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
    Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
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    Now in paperback, a significant new collection of concrete poetry that redefines what this unique literary movement means today. Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology is the first overview of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Iceberg Slim – Night Train to Sugar Hill
    Iceberg Slim – Night Train to Sugar Hill
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    1980s Los Angeles. The crack epidemic has hit hard. Innocent and damned alike fall victim to the artificial allure of the drug — a teenager accidentally overdoses, junkies smoke crack […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
    Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
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    A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cannibal Error (Revised)
    Cannibal Error (Revised)
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    A social history of the ‘video nasty’. In the early 1980s, video technology forever changed the face of home entertainment. The videocassette – a handy-sized cartridge of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sergio De La Pava – A Naked Singularity
    Sergio De La Pava – A Naked Singularity
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    The critically acclaimed novel that is now a major motion picture starring John Boyega and Olivia Cooke, coming to theaters August 6, streaming August 13! A Naked Singularity tells the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
    Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
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    On 10 January 1936, the poet, actor, and dramatic theorist, Antonin Artaud departed Europe on a journey to Mexico that would take him from the streets, cafés, and lecture halls […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Troy James Weaver – Visions
    Troy James Weaver – Visions
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    “Troy James Weaver’s novel unravels the typical coming-of-age story. It erases the distinction between finding and losing your voice, becoming enlightened by a vision and swallowed by [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive