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John Cage – Silence: Lectures and Writings (Anniversary)
$26.00 | Book, Print Add To CartSilence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, “to […]
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Panzram: A Journal of Murder
$25.00 | Book, Print Add To CartA detailed memoir and self-analysis by a mass murderer. Panzram was born in 1891 on a Minnesota farm and died in 1930 on the gallows at the U.S.Penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, […]
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Fernanda Melchor – Hurricane Season
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To CartWhat our staff has to say: “A work of true cosmic bleakness and power, Hurricane Season transcends both the murder mystery genre & novel in general. Needs to be read […]
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Jean Cocteau – The Holy Terrors
$18.00 | Book, Print Add To CartCocteau’s novel Les Enfants Terribles, which was first published in 1929, holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction. Written in a French style that long defied [...]
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Charles Baudelaire – The Flowers Of Evil
$21.00 | Book, Print Add To CartWhat 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 […]
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César Aira – The Divorce
$12.00 | Book, Print Add To CartThe Divorce tells about a man who takes a vacation from Providence, R.I. in early December to avoid conflicts with his newly divorced wife and small daughter. He travels to […]
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Captain Beefheart: The Biography
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To CartHere is the real story of the cult figure known as one of modern music’s true innovators. Following Don Van Vliet’s death, Mike Barnes reassesses his legacy through new interview […]
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William Powell – The Anarchist Cookbook
$30.00 | Book, Print Add To CartThe Anarchist Cookbook will shock, it will disturb, it will provoke. It places in historical perspective an era when “Turn on, Burn down, Blow up” are revolutionary slogans of the [...]
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Ishmael Reed – Mumbo Jumbo
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To CartThe classic freewheeling look at race relations through the ages. Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed’s brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our [...]
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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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Yoko Ono – Grapefruit
$22.00 | Book, Print Add To CartWhat our staff has to say: “A wonderful collection of Yoko Ono’s art, poetry, and musical instructions, the latter of which is my favorite part of the book. ‘Secret Piece […]
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Philip K Dick – Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To CartWinner of the John W. Campbell Award and a Hugo and Nebula award nominee, Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is a rollicking chase story that combines […]
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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 […]
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Frank De Felitta – Golgotha Falls
$18.00 | Book, Print Add To CartGolgotha Falls lies in a desolate and blighted valley in northern Massachusetts where, in 1919, Father Bernard K. Lovell, priest of the Church of the Eternal Sorrows, fell prey to […]
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Gerald Kersh – Neither Man Nor Dog
$16.00 | Book, Print Add To CartThis 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 […]
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Arch Oboler – House On Fire
$16.00 | Book, Print Add To CartIt starts out innocently enough, when reporters Tony Dumont and Robin Shepherd are sent to interview teenager Mark Elias, a scientific genius, about a scholarship he has won. But it […]
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Michael McDowell – Gilded Needles
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To CartWelcome to the Black Triangle, New York’s decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunken sailors, gaudy hookers, and back room abortions. The queen of this unsavory neighborhood [...]
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Christopher Priest – The Glamour
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To CartRichard Grey wakes up in a hospital with amnesia after a terrorist bombing. His memories gradually start to return, but what he remembers doesn’t always seem to coincide with what […]
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Susan Sontag – Regarding The Pain Of Others
$16.00 | Book, Print Add To CartA brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture–its ubiquity, meanings, and effects. Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, [...]
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Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
$20.00 | Book, Print Add To CartAre 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 [...]
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Flannery O’Connor – Wise Blood
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To CartFlannery 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 [...]
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The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
$38.00 | Book, Print Add To CartFrom Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these [...]
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David McGowan – Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
$25.00 | Book, Print Add To CartAs a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the artists who populate this book provided the soundtrack to […]
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Katherine Dunn – Truck
$19.00 | Book, Print Add To CartWith daring realism and stunning imagination, the author of Geek Love, Katherine Dunn, takes us on a journey into the mind of a feisty, adventurous adolescent named Jean “Dutch” [...]
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Anne Sexton – Transformations
$16.00 | Book, Print Add To CartFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton, this collection of poem-stories is a strange, wondrous retelling of Grimms’ fairy tales. Including Snow White, Rumpelstilskin, Rapunzel, The [...]
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Alissa Nutting – Tampa
$16.00 | Book, Print Add To CartIn Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a [...]
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To CartA scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to [...]
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William T Vollmann – Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To CartTwenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney’s in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, [...]
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Alvin Lucier – Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music
$21.00 | Book, Print Add To CartComposer and performer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking musical works, including those of Robert [...]
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R.Crumb – The Life And Death Of Fritz The Cat
$20.00 | Book, Print Add To CartRobert Crumb’s first great character — in fact, his second-best-known character next to Mr. Natural — was Fritz the Cat, the horny, hip-talking feline whose success (especially [...]
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John Fahey – How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life
$20.00 | Book, Print Add To CartA collection of fictional but semi-autobiographical stories, this work comes from one of the most influential guitarists in music history. The tales are recalled in a conversational, feverish [...]
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Ekkehard Jost – Free Jazz
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To CartWhat our staff has to say: “Amazing book that I read when I was fairly new to free jazz, very helpful guide and really opened my eyes to the genius […]
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The Fenris Wolf 1-3
$25.00 | Book, Print Add To CartThe Fenris Wolf is a research journal focussed on the human mind, developments in comparative magico-anthropology, and on the occultural implications and applications of these fields of study. [...]
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J.W Dunne – An Experiment With Time
$18.00 | Book, Print Add To CartJ.W. Dunne (1866-1949) was an accomplished English aeronautical engineer and a designer of Britian’s early military aircraft. His An Experiment with Time, first published in 1927, sparked a [...]
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Aldous Huxley – The Devils Of Loudun
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To CartIn 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent’s charismatic priest Urban [...]
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J.G Ballard – Crash
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To CartThe Definitive Cult, Postmodern Novel–a Shocking Blend of Violence, Transgression, and Eroticism Reissued with a New Introduction from Zadie Smith When J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes [...]
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Harmony Korine – A Crackup At The Race Riots
$19.00 | Book, Print Add To CartOriginally published by Mainstreet/Doubleday in 1998, this debut novel from an underground filmmaker uses print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, [...]
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Nick Tosches – Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock ‘n’ Roll
$18.00 | Book, Print Add To CartCelebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly [...]
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Roberto Bolaño – By Night In Chile
$14.00 | Book, Print Add To CartAs through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile‘s single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This […]
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A Bernadette Mayer Reader
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To Cart“She writes as if Everything were still possible in the work of a lifetime at the coincidence of all the turvy moments. Better that she’s read without a thought to […]
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Laird Barron – The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
$16.00 | Book, Print Add To CartOver the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern […]
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Anne Carson – Bakkhai
$15.00 | Book, Print Add To CartAnne Carson writes, “Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke […]
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Amok Journal Sensurround Edition
$20.00 | Book, Print Add To CartSubtitled A Compendium of Phycho-Physiological Investigation, what you get in the Amok Journal’s SENSURROUND EDITION is a collection of reports, articles and general research on autoerotic [...]
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David Berman – Actual Air
$30.00 | Book, Print Add To CartReleased in paperback in 1999 by the now-defunct Open City and praised everywhere in the then-ascendant print press industry (including names that still make waves today like The New Yorker […]
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Junji Ito – Uzumaki
$28.00 | Book, Print Add To CartA masterpiece of horror manga, now available in a deluxe hardcover edition! Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn […]
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Joan Didion – Slouching Towards Bethlehem
$17.00 | Book, Print Add To CartCelebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, [...]
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Fernanda Melchor – Paradais
$20.00 | Book, Print Add To Cart“Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his [...]
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Nan Goldin – The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency
$50.00 | Book, Print Add To CartFirst published in 1986, Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin [...]