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  • Cesare Pavese – The Moon And The Bonfires
    Cesare Pavese – The Moon And The Bonfires
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    The nameless narrator of The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese’s last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Second World War. He has done well in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Georges Rodenbach – The Bells Of Bruges
    Georges Rodenbach – The Bells Of Bruges
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    There are three loves in the life of Joris Borluut, the town carillonneur of Bruges. He marries the fiery Barbe, whose dark beauty is a reminder of Belgium’s Spanish heritage. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Julio Cortazar – All Fires The Fire
    Julio Cortazar – All Fires The Fire
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    A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Richard Bandler – Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming
    Richard Bandler – Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming
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    The meaning that any event has depends upon the “frame” in which we perceive it. When we change the frame, we change the meaning. Reframing is not new. Reframing appears […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Richard Bandler – Frogs Into Princes
    Richard Bandler – Frogs Into Princes
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    NLP is an explicit and powerful model of human experience and communication. Using the principles of NLP it is possible to describe any human activity in a detailed way that […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mathias Enard – Zone
    Mathias Enard – Zone
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    Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years, is traveling by train from Milan to Rome. He’s carrying a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • George Konrad – The City Builder
    George Konrad – The City Builder
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    An architect in an unnamed city considers his life, his work, and the many-layered history of the city he and his family―architects all―have contributed to building. In the days after […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Yukio Mishima – The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
    Yukio Mishima – The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
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     In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting and vivid portrait of a young man’s obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Celine – Rigadoon
    Celine – Rigadoon
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    Often comic and always angry, the first-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat in tow, takes the reader with him on his flight from Paris to Denmark after […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marlen Haushofer – The Wall
    Marlen Haushofer – The Wall
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    While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marlen Haushofer – The Loft
    Marlen Haushofer – The Loft
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    A 1960s Austrian housewife is forced to re-examine her past when pages from old diaries begin to arrive mysteriously in the letter box at her family home. Each day after […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Olga Tokarczuk – Primeval And Other Times
    Olga Tokarczuk – Primeval And Other Times
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    Set in the mythical Polish village of Primeval, a microcosm of the world populated with eccentric, archetypal characters and guarded by four archangels, this novel from Nobel Prize winner Olga [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night
    Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night
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    Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Stig Dagerman – Sleet
    Stig Dagerman – Sleet
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    A selection of stories from Sweden’s greatest post-war writer. “Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Thomas Bernhard – Extinction (1st US Edition)
    Thomas Bernhard – Extinction (1st US Edition)
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    The last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Extinction is widely considered Thomas Bernhard’s magnum opus. Franz-Josef Murau—the intellectual black sheep of a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Claude Simon – The World About Us
    Claude Simon – The World About Us
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    A loosely related series of scenes from the past and the present are combined in a fictional collage. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Appendix N, Revised and Expanded Edition: Weird Tales from the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons
    Appendix N, Revised and Expanded Edition: Weird Tales from the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons
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    Drawing upon the original list of “inspirational reading” provided by Gary Gygax in the first Dungeon Master’s Guide, published in 1979, as well as hobbyist magazines and related [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Claude Simon – The Trolley
    Claude Simon – The Trolley
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    Claude Simon, a Nobel Prize–winning author and cultural icon in France, has written a Proustian novel, intermingling the memories of youth and old age. His madeleine is the trolley of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski – Another Day of Life
    Ryszard Kapuscinski – Another Day of Life
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    In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Andrey Platonov – Happy Moscow
    Andrey Platonov – Happy Moscow
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    Moscow Chestnova is a bold and glamorous girl, a beautiful parachutist who grew up with the Revolution. As an orphan, she knew tough times—but things are changing now. Comrade Stalin […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Samuel Beckett – Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable
    Samuel Beckett – Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable
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    Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy. Molloy, the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • N.H Pritchard – The Mundus
    N.H Pritchard – The Mundus
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    N.H. Pritchard’s magnum opus, The Mundus is a work that is both visual and poetic, literary and mystical. It was composed between 1965 until at least July 1971: a six-year […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Alfred Kubin – The Other Side
    Alfred Kubin – The Other Side
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    called it, ‘a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us’. Written in 1908, and more or less half way between Meyrink and Kafka, it was […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Amy Ireland – Cute Accelerationism
    Amy Ireland – Cute Accelerationism
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    Involuntarily sucked into the forcefield of Cute, Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic decided to let go, give in, let the demon ride them, and make an accelerationism out of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Bloodiest Thing That Ever Happened in Front of a Camera: Conservative Politics, ‘Porno Chic’ and Snuff
    The Bloodiest Thing That Ever Happened in Front of a Camera: Conservative Politics, ‘Porno Chic’ and Snuff
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    In the early 1970s, outrageous claims were made of a new blood-spattered cinematic extreme. This was the legend of the ‘snuff movie’, which promoted the inhuman notion that a woman [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
    Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
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    In 1994, in the company of Italian anarchist & photographer “Dekaro,” the author travelled across Morocco & the disputed Western Sahara. The notebooks from that journey [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kenji Siratori – Blood Electric
    Kenji Siratori – Blood Electric
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    2024 redux edition of the long out-of-print 2002 cyberpunk cult classic «A Finnegans Wake for the postdigital millennium, Kenji Siratori’s Blood Electric is probably the foundational text of the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Symbionese Liberation Army – Death to the Fascist Insect
    Symbionese Liberation Army – Death to the Fascist Insect
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    Death to the Fascist Insect is a compilation of the writings and transcribed recordings of the Symbionese Liberation Army (1973–75), a radical left-wing group based in the Bay Area of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
    Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
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    Poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
    Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
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    In 1676, a century before the British colonized Australia, a defrocked French monk named Gabriel de Foigny published a novel imagining what the land was like. The work is told […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • “The Misery of Love” & other essays from ‘Social Disease’
    “The Misery of Love” & other essays from ‘Social Disease’
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    From 1972 to 1974, the anonymous writers of Social Disease offered groundbreaking, incisive, and sweeping critiques of social relationships through the lens of Situationism. Arguing that true [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michael Salu – Red Earth
    Michael Salu – Red Earth
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    Conversing with Dante, Yoruba metaphysics and probabilistic computation, Red Earth is an expansive text and the source material for Michael Salu’s broader interdisciplinary artistic study, where [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
    Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
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    Memoirs of celebrated criminals purvey vivid personal stories while spawning sharp questions about the cultures that produced them. In Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous, Rédoine Faïd, of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Derek Jarman – Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping
    Derek Jarman – Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping
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    Published here for the very first time through our House Sparrow Press imprint, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman’s only piece of narrative fiction. [...]

    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
  • Cookie Mueller – Fan Mail, Frank Letters and Crank Calls
    Cookie Mueller – Fan Mail, Frank Letters and Crank Calls
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    Following the publication of Cookie Mueller’s Garden of Ashes in our first series, we are thrilled to reissue her first contribution to the Hanuman canon: Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Pettibon – The Frontier Index
    Raymond Pettibon – The Frontier Index
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    Guiding readers across the desiccated landscape of twenty-first century America in The Frontier Index is the cult duo of Raymond Pettibon and Mike Topp, two of contemporary art and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
    Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
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    Booklist review: In a stealthily affecting reportorial voice, debut novelist Falkner tells the story of tepidly successful 1960s movie actress Kitty Dawson via interviews, critiques, press [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jake Reber – ZER000 Excess
    Jake Reber – ZER000 Excess
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    ZER000 EXCESS is a work of ambient body horror. Depicting the birth and growth of strange organisms–creatures spawned from the maw of the text. Watch as they fester in the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
    Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
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    “The Labour of Reading is at the heart of AUTOBIOLOGY. Readership as authorship, authorship as readership – and all of it consequently as thinkership. Questions on ‘work’ and ‘value’ abound. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – La rabbia / Anger
    Pier Paolo Pasolini – La rabbia / Anger
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    Written in response to producer Gastone Ferranti’s request for his comments on a set of newsreel items, the poet would respond with a montage of his own. Via the unfolding […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Grant Maierhofer – Works
    Grant Maierhofer – Works
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    Works is a collection, but also something new: it is a conversation between Maierhofer’s early and contemporary writings that shares its title with Édouard Levé’s masterful experimental Works. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Streetdrugs: Drug ID Guide 2013
    Streetdrugs: Drug ID Guide 2013
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    “This book is a guide for parents, police officers, universities, health departments and many others who are looking for accurate information on the negative health effects of drugs as well [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West
    Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West
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    “In 1952, the U.S. Navy began illegally testing high-explosive bombs on an enormous expanse of public land near Fallon, in northwestern Nevada. The land had long been sacred to the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Whole Spy Catalog: A Resource Encyclopedia for Researchers, Pi’S, Spies, and Generally Nosy People
    Whole Spy Catalog: A Resource Encyclopedia for Researchers, Pi’S, Spies, and Generally Nosy People
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    “A resource encyclopedia for Researchers, PI’s, Spies, and Generally Nosy People. The ultimate guide for finding information and intelligence on anything.” Lapin, 1995 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The CIA’s Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, And Covert Action (scarce)
    The CIA’s Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, And Covert Action (scarce)
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    A guidebook to the inner and outer workings of the CIA throughout history. Westview Press, 1988 Softcover edition. Light general wear, some scuffing along bottom edge of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Official K.G.B Handbook
    The Official K.G.B Handbook
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    “An English translation (complete with photographs) of the Official KGB Handbook. Includes ‘Duties Of Political Investigators’, ‘Instruction For External [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ryu Murakami – Almost Transparent Blue (1st Edition)
    Ryu Murakami – Almost Transparent Blue (1st Edition)
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    “Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami’s image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dianne Lake – Member Of The Family
    Dianne Lake – Member Of The Family
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    “At fourteen Dianne Lake—with little more than a note in her pocket from her hippie parents granting her permission to leave them—became one of “Charlie’s girls,” a devoted [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Bernard Roseman – The Peyote Story (scarce)
    Bernard Roseman – The Peyote Story (scarce)
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    “Delves into the rich cultural and spiritual tapestry surrounding the ancient ritualistic use of peyote. Through meticulous research and captivating storytelling, Roseman traces the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction