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Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York’s downtown music […]
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Lucie Delarue-Mardrus – Amanit
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAmanit, is one of the most distinctive works that the highly distinctive Lucie Delarue-Mardrus ever produced, written in 1929, when the author was fifty-four years old, and her meteoric career [...]
GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
?l?mir Bourges – The Twilight of the Gods
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLong out of print in English, and here offered for the first time in a restored format, The Twilight of the Gods, Élémir Bourges’ acknowledged masterpiece, was originally published in […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
H?l?ne Picard – Sabbat
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSabbat, by Hélène Picard (1873-1945), first published in 1923, is one of the most forthright contributions to the rich French tradition of “literary Satanism.” It was issued as part [...]
GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
Islamic Mystical Poetry
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWritten from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartChasm. Mist. Dark Song. Hour of Execution. Behind the Wall. These are just some of the poetic titles of Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) that together form the cipher to one of […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Paul Celan – Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that “would be a bit more sober & more spacious” than his poems. And yet, in his […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations with Coil
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Essential reading about an otherwise secretive band.” – Cleo Core members of the legendary British experimental band Coil tell its story in the [...]
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Luigi Pirandello – One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFiction. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Luigi Pirandello’s extraordinary final novel begins when Vitangelo Moscarda’s wife remarks that Vitangelo’s nose tilts to [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartArtist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. Everything you read about […]
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William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
David Grubbs – Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
$27.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJohn Cage’s disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues […]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s [...]
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Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the [...]
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Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
$8.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAnselm Hollo (1934–2013) authored more than forty books and was an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, he was fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish, and English by age ten. Hollo [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Robert Desnos – The Die Is Cast
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA startlingly contemporary portrait of drug addiction in prewar Paris Published in 1943 (just a year before its author was arrested by the Gestapo for his Resistance activities), The Die […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Unica Z?rn – The Trumpets of Jericho
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Zürn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-induced abortion of another in Berlin […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
$14.00 | 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
$15.00 | 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 […]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
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 […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
Joseph Cornell – Dreams
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA selection of dream epiphanies and reveries from Joseph Cornell’s voluminous diaries Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Benjamin Myers – The Gallows Pole
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSet in the moorland hills of 18th century Yorkshire, The Gallows Pole is the true story of an organized crime of forgers known as the Cragg Vale Coiners. Lead by […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
$14.00 | 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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Gerard De Nerval – Aurelia & Other Writings
$10.00 | 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 [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roch?, Beatrice Wood
$15.00 | 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 […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction -
Ibn Khald?n – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century [...]
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Guy Debord – The Society of the Spectacle
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFirst published in 1967, Guy Debord’s stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. The Das Kapital of the 20th [...]
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Martin Bax – The Hospital Ship
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally published in 1976, Martin Bax’s seminal cult novel is back in print after three decades. From harbours around the world, the hospital ship picks up casualties, emergency cases of [...]
GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
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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Unica Zurn – The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat 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 -
Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
$10.00 | 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 […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Missouri Williams – The Doloriad
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “An amazing and dark first novel about the different forms that humanity and perseverance can take. Probably the best and most troubling book I […]
GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHoly Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz. Ayler […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Ann Quin – Tripticks
$12.00 | 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 […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA revelatory anthology of poems, experimental prose and previously unpublished work by Madeline Gins, the transdisciplinary writer-artist-thinker famed for her “Reversible Destiny” [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
$15.00 | 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 [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions
$16.00 | 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 [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Drama/Arthouse -
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 [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Cult/Exploitation, Non-Fiction -
Herta Muller – Nadirs
$12.00 | 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 [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound
$20.00 | 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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Maggie Nelson – Bluets
$10.00 | 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 […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Horace McCoy – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDuring the Depression, Gloria and Robert enter a dance marathon in return for three square meals a day and a chance at winning the big-money prize. Under the intense scrutiny […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
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 […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartComposer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
$20.00 | 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 […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth, Punk / Hardcore -
Violette Leduc – Th?r?se and Isabelle
$8.00 | 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 [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGhost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays―meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems―and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir -
Theodore Roszak – Flicker
$10.00 | 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
$12.00 | 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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Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRed Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that […]
GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell To Earth
$10.00 | 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 […]
GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
Harry Sword – Monolithic Undertow
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMonolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating archaeoacoustics, [...]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Metal -
Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis is the first cultural history of the world’s most common sexual practice: masturbation. At a time when almost any victimless practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual […]
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The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
$20.00 | 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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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 […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
$15.00 | 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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The Serpent and the Rainbow
$12.00 | 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, [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
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, [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive