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  • The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset & Book
    The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset & Book
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    What our staff has to say: “Almost 5 hours of recordings from the 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival on 4 cassettes and including a lovely 240 page book documenting […]

  • Ignacio Julia – Linger On: The Velvet Underground
    Ignacio Julia – Linger On: The Velvet Underground
    $53.00 | , Add to cart

    Ecstatic Peace Library announce Linger On by Velvets-obsessed music journalist Ignacio Julià. This sumptuous new volume features interviews with Lou Reed, John Cale, Moe Tucker, Doug Yule, Nico, [...]

  • Sophie Calle: Suite Vénitienne
    Sophie Calle: Suite Vénitienne
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    Calle’s first artist’s book documents her pursuit of one man through the streets of Venice After following strangers on the streets in Paris for months, photographing them and [...]

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Phrases: Six Films
    Jean-Luc Godard – Phrases: Six Films
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard: Germany Nine Zero, The Kids Play Russian, JLG / JLG, 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema, For Ever […]

  • Paul Scheerbart – Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel
    Paul Scheerbart – Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel
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    “The serene and gentle amazement with which [Scheerbart] tells of the strange natural laws of other worlds . . . makes him one of those humorists who, like Lichtenberg or […]

  • Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
    Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
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    Originally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel’s Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra […]

  • Clarice Lispector – Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
    Clarice Lispector – Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    The things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni […]

  • H.D – Hermione
    H.D – Hermione
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    This autobiographical novel by the Imagist poet H. D. (1886-1961) is a rare and hallucinatory treasure. In writing HERmione, H. D. returned to a year in her life that was […]

  • Jörg Heiser – Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
    Jörg Heiser – Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    Exploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years.Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did […]

  • Jan Morris – Hav
    Jan Morris – Hav
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    Hav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be the site of Troy, captured during the crusades and recaptured by Saladin, visited by Tolstoy, Hitler, Grace Kelly, and Princess […]

  • Simone Weil – War and the Iliad
    Simone Weil – War and the Iliad
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    War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer’s art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions […]

  • Tony Duvert – Atlantic Island
    Tony Duvert – Atlantic Island
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    A forgotten gem of French literature, Duvert’s version of The Lord of the Flies: an indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class community.Tony Duvert’s novel Atlantic [...]

  • Marko Ilic – A Slow Burning Fire
    Marko Ilic – A Slow Burning Fire
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    Yugoslavia’s diverse and interconnected art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s, linked to the country’s experience with socialist self-management. In Yugoslavia from the late 1960s to [...]

  • Cormac McCarthy – The Passenger
    Cormac McCarthy – The Passenger
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    1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His […]

  • Christopher Marlowe – The Complete Plays
    Christopher Marlowe – The Complete Plays
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    The complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane Marlowe’s seven plays dramatise the [...]

  • Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
    Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Cage’s passionate, distraught and affectionate letters to Cunningham provide a vivid portrait of the start of their life together These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will [...]

  • Gertrude Stein – Everybody’s Autobiography
    Gertrude Stein – Everybody’s Autobiography
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    Everybody’s Autobiography is Stein at her most accessible and her most serious In 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but this darker and […]

  • Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions
    Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate [...]

  • The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution, 1968-69
    The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution, 1968-69
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    A rare document of the 1960s Black Arts Movement featuring Albert Ayler, Amiri Baraka, Milford Graves, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor and many more, The Cricket fostered critical and political dialogue [...]

  • Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
    Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
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    Among the defining figures of the Age of Revolution, Toussaint Louverture is the most enigmatic. Though the Haitian revolutionary’s image has multiplied across the globe–appearing on [...]

  • Rainald Goetz – Insane
    Rainald Goetz – Insane
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    Translated for the first time into English, cult German author Rainald Goetz’s debut novel Insane draws upon his clinical psychiatric experience to paint a portrait of the asylum as a […]

  • Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
    Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
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    Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a […]

  • Alfred Doblin – Berlin Alexanderplatz
    Alfred Doblin – Berlin Alexanderplatz
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    What our staff has to say: “Berlin, 1920s, ex convict is released back into the city. This book documenting his rise and fall, and rise and fall of a man […]

  • Ariana Reines – A Sand Book
    Ariana Reines – A Sand Book
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    “Mind-blowing.” ―Kim Gordon DEADPAN, EPIC, AND SEARINGLY CHARISMATIC, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and [...]

  • Theodore Roszak – Flicker
    Theodore Roszak – Flicker
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    From the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and […]

  • Maya Deren – The Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods Of Haiti
    Maya Deren – The Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods Of Haiti
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    Includes photographs and drawings. Foreword by Joseph Campbell This is the classic, intimate study, movingly written with the special insight of direct encounter, which was first published in [...]

  • Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
    Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    Dark… A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in […]

  • Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
    Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
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    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 […]

  • Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
    Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
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    Altered State—now updated—is the definitive text on ecstasy culture, using a cast of characters to track the origins of the scene through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos, and the [...]

  • Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell To Earth
    Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell To Earth
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    A man wanders into town one day seemingly out of nowhere. He starts by peddling valuables just to get by. But he possesses uncanny scientific knowledge, which he uses to […]

  • Numero – Soul Music Of Ohio
    Numero – Soul Music Of Ohio
    $80.00 | , Add to cart

    The first comprehensive overview of soul music from the great state of Ohio, this 344-page volume chronicles over 1700 artists, 500 record companies, and 3000 individual releases between the [...]

  • Hito Steyerl – Duty Free Art
    Hito Steyerl – Duty Free Art
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    What is the function of art in the era of digital gloablisation? How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and […]

  • Bret Easton Ellis – The Informers
    Bret Easton Ellis – The Informers
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    This time is the early eighties. The characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard […]

  • Cecilia Pavón – Little Joy
    Cecilia Pavón – Little Joy
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    The best of contemporary Argentine author Cecilia Pavón’s short stories. Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pavón emerged in the late 1990s as one of the most prolific and central figures [...]

  • Ottessa Moshfegh – Lapvona
    Ottessa Moshfegh – Lapvona
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    In a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the community’s faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding […]

  • Simon Sellars – Applied Ballardianism
    Simon Sellars – Applied Ballardianism
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    An existential odyssey weaving together lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global [...]

  • Construction Site for Possible Worlds
    Construction Site for Possible Worlds
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    Perspectives from philosophy, aesthetics, and art on how to envisage the construction site of possible worlds. Given the highly coercive and heavily surveilled dynamics of the present moment, [...]

  • Zalman Shneour – A Death: Notes of a Suicide
    Zalman Shneour – A Death: Notes of a Suicide
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    Zalman Shneour’s inaugural novel: a story of suicide in the form of a diary In a Yiddish take on Notes from Underground, a dark love affair develops in an unnamed […]

  • I Put a Spell on You: The Bizarre Life of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
    I Put a Spell on You: The Bizarre Life of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
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    In the annals of rock ‘n’ roll there have been a lot of strange characters, but there probably hasn’t been anyone as bizarre as Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, and this is […]

  • Ron Loewinsohn – Magnetic Fields
    Ron Loewinsohn – Magnetic Fields
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    Organized around the idea that “you can’t know what a magnetic field is like unless you’re inside of it, ” Ron Loewinsohn’s first novel opens from the disturbing [...]

  • The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
    The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    The Wicked Queen is not a biography of one of the most infamous queens in history. Rather, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the verbal and visual representations of Marie-Antoinette, […]

  • Djuna Barnes – Nightwood
    Djuna Barnes – Nightwood
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    The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece―one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes’ strange and sinuous tour de force, “belongs to that small class of books [...]

  • Mick Farren – Zones Of Chaos
    Mick Farren – Zones Of Chaos
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    Mick Farren is a legendary poet, musician, author, critic, activist, countercultural icon, and one of the last true gonzo journalists. Enter his paranoid, radical, drug-addled and excruciatingly [...]

  • Charles Baudelaire – The Flowers Of Evil
    Charles Baudelaire – The Flowers Of Evil
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “As dark as ever and just as illuminating” – Jack In the annals of literature, few single volumes of poetry have achieved the influence […]

  • Audrey Szasz – Zealous Immaculate
    Audrey Szasz – Zealous Immaculate
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    LIFE DURING WARTIME The second novel from a major new literary talent “Basking like a reptile in your reflected glories. I just respond. Sometimes I don’t even do that. I […]

  • Gerald Kersh – Neither Man Nor Dog
    Gerald Kersh – Neither Man Nor Dog
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    This collection of 37 stories by a master of the form features tales that are sometimes funny, sometimes violent, and sometimes weird and nightmarish: in short, it is quintessential Gerald […]

  • Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
    Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
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    Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle–and not so [...]

  • Flannery O’Connor –  Wise Blood
    Flannery O’Connor – Wise Blood
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    Flannery O’Connor’s haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic [...]