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The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMurder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s [...]
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Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]
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Tony Conrad: Writings
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEssential writings from the downtown New York legend and polymath, pioneer of both structural film and drone music Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was a legendary multidisciplinary artist known for his [...]
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Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThree New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]
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Gabrielle Wittkop – Murder Most Serene
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but […]
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Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMoondog is one of America’s great originals.–Alan Rich, New York Magazine Here is a revised edition of a book that celebrates one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth […]
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Henri Michaux – Life in the Folds
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLife in the Folds, originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri Michaux’s (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a [...]
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Victor Segalen – Journey to the Land of the Real: A Translation of Equipée
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA masterpiece that effortlessly takes its place among the classics of travel writing Victor Segalen (1878-1919) was a French doctor, archaeologist, explorer and author who traveled extensively in [...]
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Roland Topor – Head-To-Toe Portrait of Suzanne
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWorking from the 1960s on, the French writer, artist and illustrator Roland Topor (1938-97) was an all-round maverick known for his paintings and drawings as much as for his novels […]
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George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDon’t Tell Sybil is a libidinous memoir by a master raconteur. George Melly (1926-2007) was impossible to ignore in London cultural circles between the 1950s and 90s. He first came […]
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Dating Ai, a Guide to Falling in Love with Artificial Intelligence
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDating AI is “a meditation on how to prepare for the unknown,” a thought experiment designed to stimulate new ideas about issues that are important now as well as in […]
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Danzig Baldaev: Drawings from the Gulag
$33.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDrawings from the Gulag consists of 130 drawings by Danzig Baldaev (author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series), describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the [...]
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Franz Kafka – Blue Octavo Notebooks
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally omitted from Kafka’s famous diaries, these notebooks contain some of Kafka’s most famous aphorisms From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for [...]
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Black Opium: Ecstasy of the Forbidden
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartInterest in heroin is surging back after years of dormancy. Why? Supply and demand! Drug cartels have increased the supply of heroin, so that it is cheaper and purer than […]
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Gerard De Nerval – Aurelia & Other Writings
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA harrowing document of a descent into madness, by France’s defining poet of bohemian romanticism Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gérard de Nerval’s account of his descent into [...]
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Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits. Its rotating [...]
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The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset & Book
$85.00 | Book, CS Add to cartWhat 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 […]
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Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis combination of two key works by the Italian avant-garde writer Giorgio Manganelli (1922-90) is a major addition to the small number of his works available in English. In the […]
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Jean-Luc Godard – Phrases: Six Films
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPhrases 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 […]
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Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally 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 […]
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Clarice Lispector – Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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 […]
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Leon Bloy – Sweating Blood
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFirst published in French in 1893, Sweating Blood describes the atrocities of war in 30 tales of horror and inhumanity from the pen of the Pilgrim of the Absolute, Léon […]
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Renata Adler – Pitch Dark
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe second novel by Renata Adler, Pitch Dark is a personal love story, in Adler’s distinctive, fragmentary prose.
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Jan Morris – Hav
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHav 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 […]
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Harry Smith: American Magus
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA privileged look into the life and artistic practice of the experimental filmmaker, music anthologist, and enigmatic polymath Harry Smith. Best known during his lifetime as an experimental [...]
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Cormac McCarthy – The Passenger
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cart1980, 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 […]
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Ann Quin – Tripticks
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A joyful & experimental deathtrip of a science fiction novel” – Cleo First published in 1972, Ann Quin’s fourth and final novel was a […]
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Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCage’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 [...]
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Gertrude Stein – Everybody’s Autobiography
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEverybody’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 […]
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Constance DeJong – Reader
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first anthology of the multivocal, narrational, performative writings of the intermedia pioneer, who has quietly influenced generations of New York artists and writers from Kathy Acker to [...]
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Clark Coolidge – A Book Beginning What and Ending Away
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA missing masterpiece in 20th century experimental literature, Clark Coolidge’s legendary ‘Longprose’ was written at a frenetic pace between 1973-1980. One of poetry’s [...]
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Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAvant-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 [...]
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Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: “none shall emerge unscathed.” Placing [...]
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John Waters – Shock Value
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it’s like getting a standing ovation.” Thus begins John Waters’s [...]
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Walter Benjamin – Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA selection of works from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century–as selected by Hannah Arendt and including a classic essay of her own about Walter […]
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Herta Muller – Nadirs
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJuxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Müller’s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The [...]
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Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and [...]
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Anais Nin – Collages
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA transplant from Vienna to Malibu who is driven by her urge to observe and depict those around her, Renate is, as one of her friends describes her, “the freest […]
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Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSweet Sweat, the only novel by Belgian artist Justine Frank, is unusual, to say the least—a blend of feminism, pornography, Judaism, and art, written in French in 1931. Its heroine […]
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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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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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Strange Tales from Japan: 99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartStrange Tales from Japan presents 99 spine-tingling tales of ghosts, yokai, demons, shapeshifters and trickster animals who inhabit remote reaches of the Japanese countryside. 33 color woodblock [...]
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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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Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Fun book on one of the centers of the Fluxus movement. At the very least the one who helped create a written documentation of […]
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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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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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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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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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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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Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell To Earth
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA 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 […]
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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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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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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, [...]
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American Hardcore: A Tribal History
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSteven Blush’s “definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk” (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classics–distributed documentary American [...]
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The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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, […]
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Céline – Journey to the End of the Night
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCéline’s masterpiece―colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humor Céline’s masterpiece―colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic―boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at [...]
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Audrey Szasz – Zealous Immaculate
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLIFE 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 […]