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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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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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J.G Ballard – Crash
$18.00 | 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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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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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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Tove Ditlevsen – The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. [...]
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Pierre Guyotat – Coma
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “While primarily known for his grotesque exploration of the Algerian War, Eden Eden Eden, Guyotat’s Coma is just as piercing. An introspective exploration into [...]
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Gary Indiana – Horse Crazy
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy tells the story of a thirty-five-year-old writer for a New York arts and culture magazine whose life melts into […]
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Euripides – Grief Lessons
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEuripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its […]
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Kate Zambreno – Book Of Mutter
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartComposed over thirteen years, Kate Zambreno’s Book of Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the [...]
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Michel Leiris – The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThat the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth through such a minor detail, that […]
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Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWinner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was [...]
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Selected Poems of William Blake
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWriter and religious rebel, William Blake sowed the seeds of Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the vision that inspired him throughout his remarkable life. Whether [...]
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James Ellroy – Crime Wave
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLos Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James […]
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Katherine Dunn – Attic
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Dunn’s masterpiece about a disaffected woman trapped in jail for a crime she didn’t commit, Attic reads nothing like Geek Love and is true […]
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Robert Glück – Communal Nude
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille.I read and wrote to invoke what seemed […]
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Barry Gifford – Sailor & Lula: Expanded Edition
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“The Romeo and Juliet of the South” are back in this new edition of the internationally best-selling Sailor and Lula novels, now including for the first time the culminating novel, [...]
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Andy Warhol – America
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAndy Warhol carried a camera with him everywhere he went and America, a mélange of text and image whose photographs were selected by Warhol from ten years of extraordinary shots, […]
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Witold Gombrowicz – Cosmos and Pornografia: Two Novels
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHere are two major works by the famed Polish novelist and dramatist Witold Gombrowicz. The first, Cosmos, a metaphysical thriller, revolves around an absurd investigation. It is set in provincial [...]
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Ms. 45 ( Cultographies )
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDespite its association with the broadly disparaged rape-revenge category, Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 is today considered one of the most significant feminist cult films of the 1980s. Straddling [...]
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Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl: The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTony Wilson, who passed away in 2007, was a journalist, broadcaster, and music-industry veteran. Known as Mr. Manchester, Wilson ran the infamous Factory Records and was a key figure in […]
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Brion Gysin – Permutations
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “One of the ultimates in psychedelic writing & concrete poetry. No one matches Gysin.” – Cleo The first collection of the Beat mentor’s [...]
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Tales From The Ghost Town: The Conventry Punk Fanzine Revolution 1979-1985
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFollowing Alan Rider’s Adventures in Reality book collecting each edition of his own fanzine and its spinoffs, published by Fourth Dimension in 2021, comes this new compendium of his [...]
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Fen Addison & S. Glass – Sputtering And Distorted – A Reluctant History Of The Butte County Free Music Society
$29.85 | Book, Print Add to cartHidden but not forgotten, hinted at through piecemeal reference after the fact, the creative efforts of the members of this West-Coast-centric cadre of art mutants first took shape in the […]
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To Die For The People: The Writings Of Huey P. Newton
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America. Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those […]
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Joanna Russ – The Female Man
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLiving in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: […]
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Vladimir Nabokov – Ada, Or Ardor
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPublished two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov’s greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story [...]
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Eve Babitz – Eve’s Hollywood
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn autobiographical novel by Eve Babitz, iconic L.A. “It Girl” of the 60s and 70s, muse and lover of artists and rock-and-roll stars and, above all else, an unsparing and […]
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Lia Purpura – It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA new collection from poet and essayist Lia Purpura Lia Purpura has won acclaim as both a poet and an essayist; her poems are now regularly published in The New […]
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Anne Waldman – Kill Or Cure
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Kill Or Cure,” a bold prescriptive for these apocalyptic days, brings together substantial new work as well as the best of Anne Waldman’s previously uncollected poetry. It includes credos, [...]
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Charles Burns – Last Look
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA true graphic milestone: the epic trilogy that began with X’ed Out, continued in The Hive, and concluded in Sugar Skull–now in one volume. The long strange trip of Doug […]
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Eileen Myles – Cool For You
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGrainy and stripped down, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of a tough, queer girl growing up in working-class Boston by “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk […]
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Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTwentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times [...]
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Top Stories
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn essential anthology of fiction, art and more from the experimental, punk-feminist 1980s downtown journal, with work by Kathy Acker, Constance DeJong, Cookie Mueller and more Published between [...]
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Spirit of 76: London Punk Eyewitness
$40.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhen punk first broke in the UK in 1976, music journalist John Ingham was on hand to document the very heart of the scene. Spirit of 76 provides a previously […]
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Adventures In Reality: The Complete Collection
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPut together by Alan Rider, Adventures in Reality was a fanzine from Coventry in the early 1980s that both fitted snugly inside the post-punk landscape of the time and did […]
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The Beat Book
$27.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA revised and updated edition of one of the most extensive anthologies of Beat literature ever assembled
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Jason Hellar – Strange Stars
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA Hugo Award-winning author and music journalist explores the weird and wild story of when rock ‘n’ roll met the sci-fi world of the 1970s Beginning with David Bowie’s obsession [...]
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Lore Segal – Lucinella
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe classic novella from award-winning New Yorker writer is reissued.
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Trash Cinema: The Lure of the Low
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis volume explores the lower reaches of cinema and its paradoxical appeal. It looks at films from the B-movies of the 1930s to the mockbusters of today, and from the […]
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Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool: Photographs 1976-1982
$40.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPunk and industrial culture in late ’70s and early ’80s San Francisco Spanning music, art and literature, the industrial and punk scenes of San Francisco in the late 1970s and […]
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Brix Smith Start – The Rise, The Fall & The Rise
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith Start. Although, best known for her work in The Fall, Brix’s story […]
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On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and [...]
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Wobbly Sounds: A Collection Of British Flexi Discs
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA compendium of Britain’s most remarkable flexi discs, from famed ephemera aficionado Jonny Trunk For this book, the acclaimed music and ephemera aficionado Jonny Trunk (editor of The Music [...]
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Excavate! The Wonderful & Frightening World Of The Fall
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA definitive insight into the ever-influential world of Mark E. Smith and The Fall, featuring never-before published essays and ephemera from fans, collectors and the artist and band themselves. [...]