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To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Conver…
$10.00 | Book, PrintThis 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 […]
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Thurston Moore – Sonic Life: A Memoir
$10.00 | Book, Print“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 […]
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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArgentine 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 [...]
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Alex Ross – The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centur…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 […]
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Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMiss 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 […]
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Michael Mann: A Contemporary Retrospective
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDuring 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 [...]
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MC5: An Oral Biography of Rock’s Most Revolutionary Band
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA 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 […]
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Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExplore 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, [...]
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDuring 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 […]
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Francis Bacon: Unsichtbare Räume/Invisible Rooms
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis 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 [...]
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Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsKathy 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 [...]
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Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of th…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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. […]
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Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOne 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 [...]
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Lauren Elkin – Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 [...]
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Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Wolves of Eternity
$12.00 | Book, PrintFrom 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 [...]
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Vu: The Story of a Magazine
$30.00 | Book, PrintThe 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 [...]
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The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
$17.00 | Book, PrintThe 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 [...]
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Rock Against Racism: 1976–1981
$17.00 | Book, PrintAn 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 […]
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Lesley Chamberlain – Rilke: The Last Inward Man
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn 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, […]
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Tracy K. Smith – Ordinary Light
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 […]
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Jacques Ranciere – Modern Times
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe 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 [...]
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Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA 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 [...]
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The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn 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 […]
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Lei Xue – Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Call…
$22.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEulogy 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 […]
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Georges Perec – Life: a User’s Manual
$25.00 | Book, PrintStructured 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: E…
$23.00 | Book, PrintMurder, 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 [...]
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Fernand Combet – Schrummschrumm, or the Sunday Quicksands Excurs…
$20.00 | Book, PrintIn 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 […]
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Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
$29.00 | Book, PrintThe 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 […]
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Philippe Soupault – The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
$13.00 | Book, PrintA 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 […]
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James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
$24.00 | Book, PrintAvailable 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 […]
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Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
$17.00 | Book, PrintMotel 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 […]
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Jacques Prevert – Paroles: Selected Poems
$17.00 | Book, PrintIn 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 […]
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Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
$32.00 | Book, PrintMichel 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
$25.00 | Book, PrintThe 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, [...]
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Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfathe…
$18.00 | Book, PrintA 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 […]
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Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: 20th Ann…
$28.00 | Book, PrintTwentieth 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 [...]
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Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
$35.00 | Book, PrintIn 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 R…
$27.00 | Book, PrintThree 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 […]
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Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
$35.00 | Book, PrintFirst 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: E…
$25.00 | Book, PrintMeditations 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 […]
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Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
$15.00 | Book, PrintWritten 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
$23.00 | Book, PrintMademoiselle 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 […]
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Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
$24.00 | Book, PrintThis 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 […]
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Alfred Jarry – Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphy…
$14.00 | Book, PrintThe 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 [...]
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George Berger – Story Of Crass
$22.00 | Book, PrintCrass 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 [...]
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BP Nichol – Martyrology Books 1 & 2
$18.00 | Book, Print‘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 […]
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Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
$30.00 | Book, PrintAn 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 [...]
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Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
$22.00 | Book, PrintFeminist 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 […]
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Brion Gysin – The Process: Beat-Era Mysticism and Madness in the…
$18.00 | Book, PrintThe 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 [...]
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Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
$16.00 | Book, PrintIn 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