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Maggie Nelson – Bluets
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSuppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and […]
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Horace McCoy – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDuring the Depression, Gloria and Robert enter a dance marathon in return for three square meals a day and a chance at winning the big-money prize. Under the intense scrutiny […]
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C.G Jung – The Undiscovered Self: With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams (Revised)
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThese two essays, written late in Jung’s life, reflect his responses to the shattering experience of World War II and the dawn of mass society. Among his most influential works, […]
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Violette Leduc – Thérèse and Isabelle
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir’s protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force” (Rafia Zakaria, The Guardian). With this startling new translation of Leduc’s [...]
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Hanif Abdurraqib – They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib’s is a voice that matters. Whether he’s attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown’s [...]
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Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks–And What It Can Teach Us
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFor the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. […]
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Joe Brainard – I Remember
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJoe Brainard’s I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard’s method [...]
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Rainald Goetz – Insane
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTranslated 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 […]
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The I Ching or Book of Changes
$27.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe I Ching, or Book of Changes, a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within […]
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Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartComposer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and [...]
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark […]
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The Freedom Within Us: East German Photography 1980-1989
$55.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNearly thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall (the Anniversary will be celebrated in 2019), what do we know about East German photography? This body of work — […]
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Rudolph Wurlitzer – The Drop Edge Of Yonder
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally published by Two Dollar Radio in 2008 and released as a second edition in 2017, Rudolph Wurlitzer’s first novel in nearly 25 years is an epic adventure that explores the […]
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha – Dictee
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDictée is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictée is the story […]
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Georges Bataille – The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and [...]
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Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
$33.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGreil 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 […]
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James Tiptree Jr – Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHer Smoke Rose Up Forever collects eighteen brilliant short stories from a luminary of the science-fiction genre, James Tiptree, Jr. This updated edition is the quintessential Tiptree collection [...]
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Leonora Carrington – The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington’s published and unpublished short stories—many newly translated from their original French and Spanish—is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, [...]
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Wisconsin Death Trip
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFirst published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 [...]
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B.S Johnson – The Unfortunates
$27.00 | Book, Print Add to cartB.S. Johnson’s lost classic has been showered with praise: New York Magazine named The Unfortunates one of their Ten Best Books of 2008, listed in The New York Times 100 […]
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E.M Cioran – A Short History Of Decay
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartE. M. Cioran confronts the place of today’s world in the context of human history—focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science—in this [...]
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Camile Paglia – Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Paglia is like Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader for when I want to open a book and read something based. I open the book, I […]
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Ariana Reines – A Sand Book
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“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 [...]
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On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing 50th Anniversary Edition
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPoetry. California Interest. Afterword by Lytle Shaw. The Song Cave presents an expanded edition of the long out of print City Lights Books classic ON THE MESA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF […]
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Yoko Tawada – The Naked Eye
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA precocious Vietnamese high school student ― known as the pupil with “the iron blouse”―in Ho Chi Minh City is invited to an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. But, […]
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Hideous Gnosis: Black Metal Theory Symposium I
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEssays and documents related to Hideous Gnosis, a symposium on black metal theory, which took place on December 12, 2009 in Brooklyn, NY. Expanded and Revised.
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Theodore Roszak – Flicker
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom 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 […]
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Maya Deren – The Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods Of Haiti
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIncludes 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 [...]
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Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDark… 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 […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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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Always in Trouble: An Oral History of Esp-Disk’, the Most Outrageous Record Label in America
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartYou never heard such sounds in your life In 1964, Bernard Stollman launched the independent record label ESP-Disk’ in New York City to document the free jazz movement there. A […]
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Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAltered 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 [...]
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Julio Cortazar – All Fires The Fire
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“One of the most adventurous and rewarding collections since the publication of Cortázar’s own Blow-up.” ―Los Angeles Times A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel […]
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Marlen Haushofer – The Wall
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA haunting feminist sci-fi masterpiece and international bestseller that is “as absorbing as Robinson Crusoe” (Doris Lessing) While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a [...]
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Werner Herzog – The Twilight World
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years […]
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Joan Didion – Play It As It Lays
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected […]
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Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHe wasn’t known to mainstream audiences, even though he worked with renowned acts like D’Angelo and Erykah Badu and influenced the music of superstars like Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. […]
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Fernando Pessoa – The Book Of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and [...]
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Nurse With Wound – Gyllensköld, Geijerstam And I At Rydberg’s (CD & Book)
$36.00 | Book, CD, CD, Print Add to cartDeluxe art book CD of 24-pages, sewn; all artworks by Babs Santini. “This 1983 period in which Gyllensköld was recorded was a fantastic time for the evolution of Steven Stapleton’s [...]
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Numero – Soul Music Of Ohio
$80.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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 [...]
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Hito Steyerl – Duty Free Art
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat 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 […]
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Doris Lessing – Briefing For A Descent Into Hell
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly “mad.” Professor Charles Watkins of Cambridge University is a patient at a mental hospital where the doctors try […]
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Bret Easton Ellis – The Informers
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis 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 […]
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Cecilia Pavón – Little Joy
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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 [...]
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Kristen Alvanson – XYZT
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGenre-defying fiction that accelerates “cross-cultural dialogue” into a kaleidoscopic rush of sensory estrangements, fairy tales, and alien encounters.“There’s really no [...]
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Simon Sellars – Applied Ballardianism
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn existential odyssey weaving together lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global [...]
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Éric Alliez – Body without Organs, Body without Image
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA close analysis of the work of Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto reveals the fundamental stakes of a contemporary art in the process of undoing the image-form.The first volume of Éric […]
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Construction Site for Possible Worlds
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPerspectives 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, [...]