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  • Brendan Connell – Cannibals of West Papua
    Brendan Connell – Cannibals of West Papua
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    Few indeed have penetrated the remote areas of West Papua, a land abounding in ritual and magic. A breviary of anthropophagy and the supernatural, Cannibals of West Papua recounts the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Giovanbattista Tusa – Terra Cosmica
    Giovanbattista Tusa – Terra Cosmica
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    Giovanbattista Tusa takes the commitment of lending his voice to the voiceless further, reaching the depth that the Anthropocene demands from us. He finds the words that won’t fill the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Habib Tengour – Crossings
    Habib Tengour – Crossings
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    Beginning with the astonishing prologue poem, “Conversation with Mohammed Dib,” followed by four long, spectacular poems, each a small book in itself, Habib Tengour’s Crossings takes us through [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gérard Macé – The Last of the Egyptians
    Gérard Macé – The Last of the Egyptians
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    “About Champollion I knew: that he did not go to Egypt with Napoleon, that he never saw the actual Rosetta stone, only more or less bad copies, that he suffered […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bénédicte Vilgrain – A Tibetan Grammar
    Bénédicte Vilgrain – A Tibetan Grammar
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    “For the past several years, Vilgrain has been working on an open-ended project titled A Tibetan Grammar, which explores language from an almost architectural perspective, using the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hannah baer – Trans girl suicide museum
    Hannah baer – Trans girl suicide museum
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    one part ketamine spiral, one part confessional travelogue from the edge of gender, tgsm is a hallucinatory transmission on sex, identity, the internet, and the flickering wish not to exist […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Felix Bernstein – Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry
    Felix Bernstein – Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry
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    An aggravated surveyer of contemporary poetry, art, and criticism, Felix Bernstein conducts an archaeological dig of the relics and ruins of Language poetry, Conceptual poetry, and his own [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ron Silliman – Against Conceptual Poetry
    Ron Silliman – Against Conceptual Poetry
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    If you search on references to Ron Silliman in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith (Northwestern University Press, 2011), you [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jeremy Reed – Bad Boys
    Jeremy Reed – Bad Boys
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    Jeremy Reed’s Bad Boys rehabilitates some of his personal obsessions with poets and rock musicians into a rich assemblage of challenging, provocative assessments, in which the field of writing, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kyle Booten – Salon des Fantômes
    Kyle Booten – Salon des Fantômes
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    Kyle Booten’s colossal Salon des Fantômes is a farcical evening with the digital summoning of long dead thinkers from history. They discuss aesthetics & ethics while getting falldown [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
    John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
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    It was an era of gambling, smuggling rings, grifters, police corruption, bootleggers, brothels, murders, and more. It was also a time of intensified concern with order, conformity, structure, and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Liberated Film Club
    The Liberated Film Club
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    The Liberated Film Club—running from its birth to its death, 2016 to 2020—would guarantee a wide wing-span for critical conversation. Screening “Liberated film” (a loose category designed to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • J.K. Huysmans – The Cathedral
    J.K. Huysmans – The Cathedral
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    THE CATHEDRAL, by J.K. Huysmans was originally published in French in 1898. The same year, this English translation by Clara Bell was published. THE CATHEDRAL is the second in a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Trefry – Plats
    John Trefry – Plats
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    Plats is the ornate debut novel by John Trefry. A hallucinatory meditation on life in Los Angeles by a schizophrenic consciousness, Plats turns a funhouse mirror on the banality of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cookie Mueller – Garden Of Ashes
    Cookie Mueller – Garden Of Ashes
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    Garden of Ashes, Cookie Mueller’s second entry into the Hanuman Books canon (following 1988’s Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls) brings together ten stories, autobiographical [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980-1984
    Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980-1984
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    The Day the Country Died features author, historian, and musician Ian Glasper (Burning Britain) exploring in minute detail the influential, esoteric, UK anarcho punk scene of the early Eighties. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • Situationist International Anthology
    Situationist International Anthology
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    The Situationist International Anthology is the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English. In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
    Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
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    The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback   Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
    Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
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    In 1976 Noel ‘Razor’ Smith became a Teddy Boy and formed a gang called the Balham Wildkatz. Soon they became rockabillies and blazed their way through South London’s pubs and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Unica Zurn – The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
    Unica Zurn – The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
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    What our staff has to say: “A unique and disturbing memoir from an underread surrealist master” – Cleo Anagram play meets psychic crisis in Unica Zürn’s acclaimed [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
    Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
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    Collected here is the best of Harry Crews: his astoundingly beautiful memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place; two if his most memorable novels, Car and The Gypsy’s Curse; […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
    Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
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    Between 1980 and 1989, Los Angeles was the world’s most popular location for thriller movies, providing the perfect setting for gritty neo-noirs, buddy cop actioners, cautionary tales, vigilante [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People
    Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People
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    The first in a two-volume series, as part of a co-publishing project between PM Press and Kersplebedeb, is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Copi – The Queens’ Ball
    Copi – The Queens’ Ball
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    The first English translation of Copi’s comic masterpiece, a careening pyrotechnic picaresque across France, America, and Ibiza. Set among the flamboyant demi-monde of the 1970s Paris [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Last Dangerous Visions
    The Last Dangerous Visions
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    An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series. In 1973 celebrated […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Horror/Science Fiction
  • Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground
    Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground
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    This 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Cult/Exploitation, Non-Fiction
  • Ad Vat – Spiral Of Objects
    Ad Vat – Spiral Of Objects
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    Welcome to a miasmic world of passion and play, in which humans and dolls interact to the ecstatic point of blurring the boundaries between waking reality and dark dreams; between […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ian Penman- Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
    Ian Penman- Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
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    A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death. Composer, pianist, and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Époque Paris. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
    Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
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    Other Influences frames a new literary history in which feminist, avant-garde, and poetry practices intersect, foregrounding critically neglected but artistically powerful lineages in twentieth- [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Benjamin Breen – Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
    Benjamin Breen – Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
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    Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Harald Jahner – Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
    Harald Jahner – Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
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    The dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michel Houellebecq – Annihilation
    Michel Houellebecq – Annihilation
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    It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay. As the country plunges into a contentious presidential race, the government falls victim to a series […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Eugene Thacker – An Ideal for Living (20th Anniversary Edition)
    Eugene Thacker – An Ideal for Living (20th Anniversary Edition)
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    Schism Press brings you the 20th Anniversary Edition of Eugene Thacker’s “anti-novel” An Ideal for Living. In an unnamed city in the not-so-distant future, individuals spend their time in [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Again, Dangerous Visions
    Again, Dangerous Visions
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    A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre. Grand Master of the Science Fiction [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sol Yurik – Fertig
    Sol Yurik – Fertig
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    Sol Yurick’s cult novel, originally published in 1966, blasts the American judicial system and society in general. It was called ‘one of the fiercest and most effective satires to [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Adrian Martin – Filmmakers Thinking
    Adrian Martin – Filmmakers Thinking
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    Filmmakers Thinking begins from a simple premise: that we do not take the ongoing reflections of filmmakers about their medium, their art and their craft, seriously enough. Every day, everywhere, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur’an, Mi’raj, Poetic and Theological Writings
    Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur’an, Mi’raj, Poetic and Theological Writings
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    “In these critical times nothing could be more valuable for the West than a rediscovery of its true spiritual heritage: books which were once the treasures of people, now rare […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
    The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
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    An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made.  The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Heinz Von Foerster – The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics
    Heinz Von Foerster – The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics
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    Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John C. Lilly – Center of the Cyclone: Looking Into Inner Space
    John C. Lilly – Center of the Cyclone: Looking Into Inner Space
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    In this long-out-of-print counterculture classic, Dr. John C. Lilly takes readers behind the scenes into the inner life of a scientist exploring inner space, or “far-out spaces,” as Lilly called [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Barbara T. Smith: I Am Abandoned
    Barbara T. Smith: I Am Abandoned
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    I Am Abandoned documents a little-known, but visionary performance by Barbara T. Smith. Taking place in 1976, it featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema
    Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema
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    The unique contribution of Austrian avant-garde film to world cinema is widely acknowledged. This is the first book in English dedicated to its historical and aesthetic evolution. The expansive [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Alice Notley – Early Works
    Alice Notley – Early Works
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    Early Works collects Alice Notley’s first four out of print poetry collections, along with 80 pages of previously uncollected material. A must have for any Notley fan. Includes original [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice
    Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice
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    Over the last few decades, the term “bootlegging”―a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers―has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marguerite Young –  Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
    Marguerite Young – Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
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    Angel in the Forest is Marguerite Young’s fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America. In it, she recounts the strange tale of New [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
    Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
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    Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Brion Gysin – Permutations
    Brion Gysin – Permutations
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    What 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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Emmett Williams – My Life in Flux & Vice Versa
    Emmett Williams – My Life in Flux & Vice Versa
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    This is an endlessly stimulating memoir, by a figure who was involved in some of the most astounding art of the post-war era, and a fresh, spontaneous account of the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • Evidence for Contact: Ken Grimes, 1993-2021
    Evidence for Contact: Ken Grimes, 1993-2021
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    A singularly interstellar journey into the work of a visionary figure in outsider art, featuring an introduction by Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Ecstasy of St. Kara: Kara Walker
    The Ecstasy of St. Kara: Kara Walker
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    Kara Walker’s work astutely examines race, gender, and identity. Walker’s newest series of large-scale drawings stem from her consideration of monuments and notions of permanence and impermanence [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography