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  • Alexander Von Humboldt : The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Journals
    Alexander Von Humboldt : The Complete Drawings from the American Trave…
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    At the dawn of the 19th-century, the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt was granted permission to charter an expedition to Spain’s colonies in the New World. Over the course of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Perestroikas
    Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Pere…
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    At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Television
    Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Televisio…
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    The aesthetics and concepts of modern art have influenced American television ever since its inception in the 1930s. In return, early television introduced the public to the latest trends in […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
    The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
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    The first fully illustrated survey of participatory art and its key practitioners, published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This new survey covers the rich and […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
    American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
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    Drawing on contemporary literature, popular culture, news, and census reports, Johns convincingly shows that antebellum American genre painting was not a simple recording of an Edenic American [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Eileen Myles – A Working Life
    Eileen Myles – A Working Life
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    The first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a “Working Life” unerringly captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alexandra Popoff – Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
    Alexandra Popoff – Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
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    If Vasily Grossman’s 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and before [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pathetic Literature
    Pathetic Literature
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    “Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature, a breathtaking mishmash of pieces ranging from poems to theater [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Live or Die : Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman
    Live or Die : Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman
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    This publication combines the works of Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009) and American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941). At first, it may seem startling to see Nauman’s small but [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Jack Burnham – Dissolve into Comprehension : Writings and Interviews, 1964-2004
    Jack Burnham – Dissolve into Comprehension : Writings and Interv…
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    Influential writings by the legendary art critic and theorist Jack Burnham-a pioneer in new media systems aesthetics and an early advocate of conceptualism. Jack Burnham is one of the few […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Disappearing-California C. 1970 : Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein
    Disappearing-California C. 1970 : Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Gol…
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    In 1971, Chris Burden disappeared for three days without a trace. This book, also entitled Disappearing, examines the theme of disappearance in the works of Burden and his contemporaries, Bas [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Dirty Pictures : How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix
    Dirty Pictures : How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfi…
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    In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Bio Art : Altered Realities
    Bio Art : Altered Realities
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    In an era of fast-paced technological progress and with the impact of humans on the environment increasing, the concept of “nature” itself seems called into question. Bio Art explores [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Bill Viola
    Bill Viola
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    The first monograph of one of contemporary art’s most powerful creative minds and perhaps the most successful multi-media artist working today. Bill Viola began producing video works in the early [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Thomas Crow – The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge
    Thomas Crow – The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to…
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    How California’s counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped–and was shaped by–West Coast artists The 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg : Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics
    Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg : Art, Happenings, and Cultural Polit…
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    This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
    Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
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    A rollicking adventure caper satirizing the soon-to-be ubiquitous aspects of spy sagas First published posthumously in 1966, Trouble in the Swaths was written by Boris Vian for a small audience [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Bowen – The Girls: A Story of Village Life
    John Bowen – The Girls: A Story of Village Life
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    In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls”—a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Elizabeth Mavor – A Green Equinox
    Elizabeth Mavor – A Green Equinox
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    Hero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose sedate life in the picturesque English town of Beaudesert is turned upside down between the spring and autumn equinoxes of a single year. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Louys – Pybrac
    Pierre Louys – Pybrac
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    A manuscript of obscenely erotic poetry from Pierre Louÿs, written in secret and published after his death By turns amusing and offensive, Pierre Louÿs’ Pybrac is possibly the filthiest [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples
    Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples
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    “Can’t sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . . The genius who deserted me was you.” In a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Leon-Paul Fargue – Vulturnus
    Leon-Paul Fargue – Vulturnus
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    When published in 1928, Vulturnus represented a new direction in Léon-Paul Fargue’s writing: a shift from the lyrical post-Symbolist melancholy of his early poetry to something more grandiose, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ursula Parrott – Ex-Wife
    Ursula Parrott – Ex-Wife
    $19.00 | ,

    An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, Ex-Wife is the story of a divorce and its aftermath that scandalized the Jazz Age—and still resonates today. It’s 1924, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont
    Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont
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    Equal parts dark, destructive and brilliant, Maldoror blazed the way for the 20th century’s boldest adventures in art, music and literature André Breton described Maldoror as “the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michael W. Clune – White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin
    Michael W. Clune – White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin
    $18.00 | ,

    How do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a “white out,” so that every time you use it is the […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
    Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
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    The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez A masterpiece of the surreal [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos
    Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos
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    The hallucinatory English-language debut of an overlooked German Expressionist poet Bess Brenck Kalischer’s only work of prose was first published in German in 1922. Narrated by a woman being [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alain-Paul Mallard – An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
    Alain-Paul Mallard – An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
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    A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain-Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of an Austrian writer who [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans
    Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans
    $23.00 | ,

    In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell “a history of a family’s progress,” radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Camille Roy – Honey Mine: Collected Stories
    Camille Roy – Honey Mine: Collected Stories
    $18.00 | ,

    Honey Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer’s coming of age through disorienting, unsparing, and exhilarating encounters with sex, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
    Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
    $20.00 | ,

    Carol Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Arno Schmidt – Nobodaddy’s Children
    Arno Schmidt – Nobodaddy’s Children
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    Nobodaddy’s Children is a trilogy of novels that traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Leon Feuchtwanger – The Oppermanns
    Leon Feuchtwanger – The Oppermanns
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    The Oppermann brothers consider themselves exemplary German citizens: cultured, liberal, proud contributors to society. One runs the trusted Oppermann furniture chain. One is an eminent surgeon. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Charles Neider – The Authentic Death Of Hendry Jones
    Charles Neider – The Authentic Death Of Hendry Jones
    $19.00 | ,

    The 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarthy. Hendry Jones isn’t quite Billy […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lutz Seiler – Star 111
    Lutz Seiler – Star 111
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    Star 111 (the name of a popular East German transistor radio) begins with the world turned upside down. It is the fall of 1989. The communist government of the GDR […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Thomas Pynchon – V.
    Thomas Pynchon – V.
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    Acclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon’s wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and “V.,” [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Harald Voetmann – Visions And Temptations
    Harald Voetmann – Visions And Temptations
    $16.00 | ,

    In the eleventh century, in the city of Regensburg, Othlo of St. Emmeram lies on his sickbed and takes a journey through Heaven and Hell. Spurning carnal desire and earthly […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marcel Benabou – Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books
    Marcel Benabou – Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books
    $14.00 | ,

    Marcel Bénabou is quick to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company. Words stick and syntax is stubborn, meaning slips and synonyms cluster. A blank page […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares – The Invention Of Morel
    Adolfo Bioy Casares – The Invention Of Morel
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    Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jan Kerouac – Baby Driver
    Jan Kerouac – Baby Driver
    $18.00 | ,

    “Was it January or February? The coconut fronds waving, shining like green hair in the sun, gave no clue.” Fifteen-year-old Jan is pregnant, gamely living off rice and whatever fish […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Guyotat – Idiocy
    Pierre Guyotat – Idiocy
    $18.00 | ,

    Pierre Guyotat was one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the twentieth century, a literary successor to Sade, Bataille, and Genet whose visceral fictions and bold experiments with [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978
    Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-197…
    $31.00 | ,

    At the dawn of the ’70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction
  • Mary Shelley – Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
    Mary Shelley – Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers…
    $23.00 | ,

    The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Barry N Malzberg – Revelations
    Barry N Malzberg – Revelations
    $19.00 | ,

    Marvin Martin is angry. Night after night, he strips the guests that appear on his talk show of their pitiful pretensions, their commonplace hypocrisies, but how long has it been […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Norbert Wiener – The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
    Norbert Wiener – The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and …
    $19.00 | ,

    For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of The Human Use of Human Beings–the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Eileen Myles – Cool for You
    Eileen Myles – Cool for You
    $17.00 | ,

    “Why can’t I live right now. Because I am not rich, I am not a saint. But I do know this: not all of us were sent here to work. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
    Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of C…
    $24.00 | ,

    “When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA’s Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
    Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
    $34.00 | ,

    “The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Simon Critchley – Mysticism
    Simon Critchley – Mysticism
    $19.00 | ,

    A probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
    Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy M…
    $25.00 | ,

    Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the “All-American Terrorist,” this [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction