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The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
$22.00 | 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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Djuna Barnes – Nightwood
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe fiery and enigmatic masterpiece―one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes’ strange and sinuous tour de force, “belongs to that small class of books [...]
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Mick Farren – Zones Of Chaos
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMick Farren is a legendary poet, musician, author, critic, activist, countercultural icon, and one of the last true gonzo journalists. Enter his paranoid, radical, drug-addled and excruciatingly [...]
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Charles Baudelaire – The Flowers Of Evil
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “As dark as ever and just as illuminating” – Jack In the annals of literature, few single volumes of poetry have achieved the influence […]
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Audrey Szasz – Zealous Immaculate
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLIFE DURING WARTIME The second novel from a major new literary talent “Basking like a reptile in your reflected glories. I just respond. Sometimes I don’t even do that. I […]
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The Wire – #459 May 2022
$10.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cart“On the cover: Reynols. As one of the most singular groups in all of rock release their first western album in two decades, following drummer Miguel Tomasin’s Henry Viscardi Award [...]
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Gerald Kersh – Neither Man Nor Dog
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis collection of 37 stories by a master of the form features tales that are sometimes funny, sometimes violent, and sometimes weird and nightmarish: in short, it is quintessential Gerald […]
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Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
$20.00 | 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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Flannery O’Connor – Wise Blood
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFlannery O’Connor’s haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic [...]
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The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
$38.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these [...]
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David McGowan – Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAs a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the artists who populate this book provided the soundtrack to […]
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Katherine Dunn – Truck
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWith daring realism and stunning imagination, the author of Geek Love, Katherine Dunn, takes us on a journey into the mind of a feisty, adventurous adolescent named Jean “Dutch” [...]
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Anne Sexton – Transformations
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton, this collection of poem-stories is a strange, wondrous retelling of Grimms’ fairy tales. Including Snow White, Rumpelstilskin, Rapunzel, The [...]
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
$17.00 | 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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J.G Ballard – Crash
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Definitive Cult, Postmodern Novel–a Shocking Blend of Violence, Transgression, and Eroticism Reissued with a New Introduction from Zadie Smith When J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes [...]
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A Bernadette Mayer Reader
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“She writes as if Everything were still possible in the work of a lifetime at the coincidence of all the turvy moments. Better that she’s read without a thought to […]
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Fernanda Melchor – Paradais
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his [...]
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Tove Ditlevsen – The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. [...]
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Pierre Guyotat – Coma
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “While primarily known for his grotesque exploration of the Algerian War, Eden Eden Eden, Guyotat’s Coma is just as piercing. An introspective exploration into [...]
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Gary Indiana – Horse Crazy
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy tells the story of a thirty-five-year-old writer for a New York arts and culture magazine whose life melts into […]
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Euripides – Grief Lessons
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEuripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its […]
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Kate Zambreno – Book Of Mutter
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartComposed over thirteen years, Kate Zambreno’s Book of Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the [...]
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Michel Leiris – The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThat the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth through such a minor detail, that […]
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The Wire – #458 April 2022
$10.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cart“The Wire Tapper 58 CD: Every copy of the April issue will come with a free CD of the latest volume in our series of underground music anthologies attached to […]
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Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWinner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was [...]
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Selected Poems of William Blake
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWriter and religious rebel, William Blake sowed the seeds of Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the vision that inspired him throughout his remarkable life. Whether [...]
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James Ellroy – Crime Wave
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLos Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James […]
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Katherine Dunn – Attic
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Dunn’s masterpiece about a disaffected woman trapped in jail for a crime she didn’t commit, Attic reads nothing like Geek Love and is true […]
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Robert Glück – Communal Nude
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille.I read and wrote to invoke what seemed […]
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Barry Gifford – Sailor & Lula: Expanded Edition
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“The Romeo and Juliet of the South” are back in this new edition of the internationally best-selling Sailor and Lula novels, now including for the first time the culminating novel, [...]
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Andy Warhol – America
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAndy Warhol carried a camera with him everywhere he went and America, a mélange of text and image whose photographs were selected by Warhol from ten years of extraordinary shots, […]
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Witold Gombrowicz – Cosmos and Pornografia: Two Novels
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHere are two major works by the famed Polish novelist and dramatist Witold Gombrowicz. The first, Cosmos, a metaphysical thriller, revolves around an absurd investigation. It is set in provincial [...]
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Ms. 45 ( Cultographies )
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDespite its association with the broadly disparaged rape-revenge category, Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 is today considered one of the most significant feminist cult films of the 1980s. Straddling [...]
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Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl: The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTony Wilson, who passed away in 2007, was a journalist, broadcaster, and music-industry veteran. Known as Mr. Manchester, Wilson ran the infamous Factory Records and was a key figure in […]
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Brion Gysin – Permutations
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “One of the ultimates in psychedelic writing & concrete poetry. No one matches Gysin.” – Cleo The first collection of the Beat mentor’s [...]
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Tales From The Ghost Town: The Conventry Punk Fanzine Revolution 1979-1985
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFollowing Alan Rider’s Adventures in Reality book collecting each edition of his own fanzine and its spinoffs, published by Fourth Dimension in 2021, comes this new compendium of his [...]
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The Wire – #457 March 2022
$10.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cart“On the cover: Scratcha DVA. Scratcha DVA As the best connected mover and shaker in London’s dance underground nears 20 years in music, the producer and DJ talks to Chal […]
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Fen Addison & S. Glass – Sputtering And Distorted – A Reluctant History Of The Butte County Free Music Society
$29.85 | Book, Print Add to cartHidden but not forgotten, hinted at through piecemeal reference after the fact, the creative efforts of the members of this West-Coast-centric cadre of art mutants first took shape in the […]
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To Die For The People: The Writings Of Huey P. Newton
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America. Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those […]
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Joanna Russ – The Female Man
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLiving in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: […]
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Vladimir Nabokov – Ada, Or Ardor
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPublished two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov’s greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story [...]
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Eve Babitz – Eve’s Hollywood
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn autobiographical novel by Eve Babitz, iconic L.A. “It Girl” of the 60s and 70s, muse and lover of artists and rock-and-roll stars and, above all else, an unsparing and […]
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Lia Purpura – It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA new collection from poet and essayist Lia Purpura Lia Purpura has won acclaim as both a poet and an essayist; her poems are now regularly published in The New […]
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Anne Waldman – Kill Or Cure
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Kill Or Cure,” a bold prescriptive for these apocalyptic days, brings together substantial new work as well as the best of Anne Waldman’s previously uncollected poetry. It includes credos, [...]
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Charles Burns – Last Look
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA true graphic milestone: the epic trilogy that began with X’ed Out, continued in The Hive, and concluded in Sugar Skull–now in one volume. The long strange trip of Doug […]
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Eileen Myles – Cool For You
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGrainy and stripped down, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of a tough, queer girl growing up in working-class Boston by “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk […]
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Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTwentieth 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 [...]
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Top Stories
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn essential anthology of fiction, art and more from the experimental, punk-feminist 1980s downtown journal, with work by Kathy Acker, Constance DeJong, Cookie Mueller and more Published between [...]