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  • To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse
    To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Conver…
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    This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman first heard Connie Converse’s voice on a recording, he was convinced she could […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Thurston Moore – Sonic Life: A Memoir
    Thurston Moore – Sonic Life: A Memoir
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    “Thurston Moore moved to Manhattan’s East Village in 1978 with a yearning for music. He wanted to be immersed in downtown New York’s sights and sounds—the feral energy of its […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Memoir
  • The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
    The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature…
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    Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth—that love is [...]

  • Alex Ross – The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
    Alex Ross – The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centur…
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    In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
    Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s …
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    Miss May Does Not Exist, by Carrie Courogen is the riveting biography of comedian, director, actor and writer Elaine May, one of America’s greatest comic geniuses. May began her career […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michael Mann: A Contemporary Retrospective
    Michael Mann: A Contemporary Retrospective
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    During his career, Michael Mann has drawn a singular and innovative line within the Hollywood industry. The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Revelations, Ali, Collateral, Miami Vice, and even Public [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • MC5: An Oral Biography of Rock’s Most Revolutionary Band
    MC5: An Oral Biography of Rock’s Most Revolutionary Band
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    A riveting oral biography of the proto-punk Detroit rockers MC5, based on original interviews with the band and key members of their inner circle. Few bands have dared to ignite […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art
    Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art
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    Explore the dynamic world of 1960s pop art through Lucy Lippard’s insightful analysis of this groundbreaking international art movement. Pop Art epitomized the free spirit of the 1960s, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
    Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
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    During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the geodesic dome, he […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Francis Bacon: Unsichtbare Räume/Invisible Rooms
    Francis Bacon: Unsichtbare Räume/Invisible Rooms
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    This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book on the work of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century’s greatest painters, takes an in-depth look at his trademark motif of figures imprisoned [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
    Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
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    Kathy Acker (1947–1997) was a rare and almost inconceivable thing: a celebrity experimental writer. Twenty-five years after her death, she remains one of the most original, shocking, and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
    Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of th…
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    In this genre-defying work of cultural history, the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton’s unique creative genius in the context of his time. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
    Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
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    One of America’s most acclaimed novelists boldly re-imagines one of America’s most enduring icons in Blonde—the National Book Award-nominated bestseller by Joyce Carol Oates. The legend of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lauren Elkin – Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
    Lauren Elkin – Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
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    In this dazzlingly original reassessment of women’s stories, bodies, and art, Lauren Elkin―the celebrated author of Flâneuse―explores the ways in which feminist artists have taken up the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Wolves of Eternity
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Wolves of Eternity
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    From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel that questions the responsibilities we have toward one another and ourselves—and the limits of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Vu: The Story of a Magazine
    Vu: The Story of a Magazine
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    The best pages from the sensational photo magazine published in France in the 1920s and 1930s. Established in Paris in 1928, VU combined stunning photography with dynamic layouts and first-rate [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
    The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
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    The Tekkieh Moaven is a significant religious monument in Kermanshah and one of the most important national memorials in Iran. Following the building’s destruction in the early 20th [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Rock Against Racism: 1976–1981
    Rock Against Racism: 1976–1981
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    An outstanding photography book documenting a movement that rocked the world. Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism is a body of photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Lesley Chamberlain – Rilke: The Last Inward Man
    Lesley Chamberlain – Rilke: The Last Inward Man
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    An incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry When Rilke died in 1926, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Tracy K. Smith – Ordinary Light
    Tracy K. Smith – Ordinary Light
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    In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Jacques Ranciere – Modern Times
    Jacques Ranciere – Modern Times
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    The critique of modernist ideology from France’s leading radical theorist In this book Jacques Rancière radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
    Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
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    A major biography—the first in three decades—of one of the most important artistic forces of the twentieth century, the legendary American dancer and choreographer who upended dance, propelling [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi
    The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi
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    An icon in his native city, Tsang Tsou Choi (1921–2007) covered the streets of Hong Kong with his graffiti for over 35 years, using a brush and ink to proclaim […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Lei Xue – Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy
    Lei Xue – Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Call…
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    Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yi he ming) is perhaps the most eccentric piece in China’s calligraphic canon. Apparently marking the burial of a crane, the large inscription, datable to […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Georges Perec – Life: a User’s Manual
    Georges Perec – Life: a User’s Manual
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    Structured around a single moment in time ― 8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975 ― Perec’s spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Maria Tatar – The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
    Maria Tatar – The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: E…
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    Murder, 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 Nursery [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fernand Combet – Schrummschrumm, or the Sunday Quicksands Excursion
    Fernand Combet – Schrummschrumm, or the Sunday Quicksands Excurs…
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    In translation at last, a delightfully delirious novel in which absurdity gives way to nightmare This novel by French writer Fernand Combet is at long last available in English. A […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
    Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
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    The internationally acclaimed novel based on the heroic resistance during the Armenian genocide of 1915. This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Philippe Soupault – The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
    Philippe Soupault – The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
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    A Rimbaudesque novella of wayward wanderlust and liberty from the cofounder of Surrealism Conceived in a hospital bed in 1917 and written a few months later after his fateful encounter […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
    James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
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    Available for the first time since 1978, The Harlem Book of the Dead showcases James Van Der Zee’s unflinching creative vision Originally published in 1978, The Harlem Book of the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
    Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
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    Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jacques Prevert – Paroles: Selected Poems
    Jacques Prevert – Paroles: Selected Poems
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    In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prévert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
    Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
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    Michel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Joanne Kyger – There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera
    Joanne Kyger – There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera
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    The inaugural book of Wave’s new interview series, There You Are combines forty years of interviews, letters, poems, and journals to present a narrative of the remarkable poet Joanne Kyger, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfather’s House
    Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfathe…
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    A tender and fierce account of boyhood and nascent homosexual desire First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: 20th Anniversary Edition
    Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: 20th Ann…
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    Twentieth 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 Square [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
    Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
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    In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by “experimental” in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time―New York City, 1964―Piekut [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
    Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre R…
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    Three 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
  • Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
    Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
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    First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion’s Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Raul Ruiz – Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: Excerpts from an Intimate Diary
    Raul Ruiz – Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: E…
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    Meditations on cinema and method from the acclaimed Chilean director of City of Pirates and Life Is a Dream This volume gathers excerpts from the diary of celebrated Chilean experimental […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
    Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
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    Written in a voice of passion, warning, and awakening, Joseph McElroy’s ninth novel, Cannonball, takes us to a distant war we never understood and have half forgotten upheld by an […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Macorlan – Mademoiselle Bambu
    Pierre Macorlan – Mademoiselle Bambu
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    Mademoiselle Bambù is Pierre Mac Orlan’s take on the spy novel, written and expanded between 1932 and 1966. Set in Hamburg, London, Palermo, Brest and other ports of call in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
    Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
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    This combination of two key works by the Italian avant-garde writer Giorgio Manganelli (1922–90) is a major addition to the small number of his works available in English. In the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alfred Jarry – Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
    Alfred Jarry – Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphy…
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    The founding text of pataphysics (“the science of imaginary solutions”), and one of the most quietly influential novels of the 20th century Alfred Jarry is best known as the author [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • George Berger – Story Of Crass
    George Berger – Story Of Crass
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    Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • BP Nichol – Martyrology Books 1 & 2
    BP Nichol – Martyrology Books 1 & 2
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    ‘All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
    Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
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    An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein’s masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein’s novel represents a peak of modernist [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
    Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
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    Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Brion Gysin – The Process: Beat-Era Mysticism and Madness in the Sands of North Africa
    Brion Gysin – The Process: Beat-Era Mysticism and Madness in the…
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    The Process by Brion Gysin is a groundbreaking novel that takes readers on a hallucinatory journey across the Sahara Desert. The story follows Ulys O. Hanson, an African-American professor of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
    Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
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    In these uncanny and insidious tales, Jane Bowles presents an incendiary and groundbreaking vision of the mad possibilities of literary modernism. From “Everything Is Nice,” where an American [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive