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  • A Something Else Reader
    A Something Else Reader
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    A previously unpublished anthology of classic texts from Something Else Press, assembled in the 1970s by Dick Higgins, with works by John Cage, Al Hansen, Claes Oldenburg and many more […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives
    Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives
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    How can thoughtfully and intentionally listening to our world inspire our creative practices? What insights can we gain when we delve into the immersive world of sound, which permeates our […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980-1984
    Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980-1984
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    The Day the Country Died features author, historian, and musician Ian Glasper (Burning Britain) exploring in minute detail the influential, esoteric, UK anarcho punk scene of the early Eighties. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • Situationist International Anthology
    Situationist International Anthology
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    The Situationist International Anthology is the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English. In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
    As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
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    What our staff has to say: “A very good book about the scope of free jazz. The author being a music journalist has first hand accounts of viewing and interviewing […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
    Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
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    The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback   Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
    Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
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    In 1976 Noel ‘Razor’ Smith became a Teddy Boy and formed a gang called the Balham Wildkatz. Soon they became rockabillies and blazed their way through South London’s pubs and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990
    Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990
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    Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990 examines how political violence and resistance was represented in arthouse and cult [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Liz Pelly – Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
    Liz Pelly – Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
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    Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today’s highly consolidated record [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
    Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
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    Between 1980 and 1989, Los Angeles was the world’s most popular location for thriller movies, providing the perfect setting for gritty neo-noirs, buddy cop actioners, cautionary tales, vigilante [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • B Ruby Rich – New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut
    B Ruby Rich – New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut
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    B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People
    Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People
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    The first in a two-volume series, as part of a co-publishing project between PM Press and Kersplebedeb, is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground
    Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground
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    This 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
  • The Occult Harry Smith: The Magical and Alchemical Work of an Artist of the Extremes
    The Occult Harry Smith: The Magical and Alchemical Work of an Artist of the Extremes
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    An unusual collection of writing by and about mystic artist Harry Smith • Explores in depth the occult and mystical side of Smith—his “heaven and earth magic”—focusing on how his […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ian Penman- Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
    Ian Penman- Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
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    A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death. Composer, pianist, and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Époque Paris. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
    Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
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    Other Influences frames a new literary history in which feminist, avant-garde, and poetry practices intersect, foregrounding critically neglected but artistically powerful lineages in twentieth- [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
    Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
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    A compendium of other musics, channelled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges. This unique collection of esoteric earworms gathers, and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • David Toop – Two-Headed Doctor: Listening for Ghosts in Dr. Johns Gris-Gris
    David Toop – Two-Headed Doctor: Listening for Ghosts in Dr. Johns Gris-Gris
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    Two-Headed Doctor is a forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper’s Gris-gris. Though released in 1968 to poor sales and a minimum of critical attention, Gris-gris [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Benjamin Breen – Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
    Benjamin Breen – Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
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    Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Harald Jahner – Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
    Harald Jahner – Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
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    The dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews
    Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews
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    In 2010, Ted Geltner drove to Gainesville, Florida, to pay a visit to Harry Crews and ask the legendary author if he would be willing to be the subject of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia
    Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia
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    Is nostalgia revitalizing or killing 21st-century culture? The concept of nostalgia has seeped into almost all aspects of modern-day media, none more so than horror culture and its borderlands of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Adrian Martin – Filmmakers Thinking
    Adrian Martin – Filmmakers Thinking
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    Filmmakers Thinking begins from a simple premise: that we do not take the ongoing reflections of filmmakers about their medium, their art and their craft, seriously enough. Every day, everywhere, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur’an, Mi’raj, Poetic and Theological Writings
    Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur’an, Mi’raj, Poetic and Theological Writings
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    “In these critical times nothing could be more valuable for the West than a rediscovery of its true spiritual heritage: books which were once the treasures of people, now rare […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pascal Quignard – The Roving Shadows
    Pascal Quignard – The Roving Shadows
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    A bold and adventurous work of literature that explores the relationship between reading, writing, sex, and death.  The first book in Pascal Quignard’s Last Kingdom series, The Roving Shadows can [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Wilhelm Reich – Selected Writings
    Wilhelm Reich – Selected Writings
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    For readers unfamiliar with Wilhelm Reich’s literature who are looking for that first book to read, we highly recommend Selected Writings – An Introduction to Orgonomy. First published in 1960, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
    The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
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    An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made.  The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Austin Osman Spare, Revised Edition: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist
    Austin Osman Spare, Revised Edition: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist
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    London has harbored many curious characters, but few more curious than the artist and visionary Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956). A controversial enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world, the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jess Franco: The World’s Most Dangerous Filmmaker
    Jess Franco: The World’s Most Dangerous Filmmaker
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    Jess Franco was a director, cinematographer, writer, composer, editor, producer and actor in more than 150 fiercely independent films he made from 1959 to 2013. Born in Madrid, Spain, he […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sacred Intent (Expanded Edition): Conversations with Carl Abrahamsson 1986-2019
    Sacred Intent (Expanded Edition): Conversations with Carl Abrahamsson 1986-2019
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    Sacred Intent gathers conversations between artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) and longtime friend and collaborator, the Swedish author Carl Abrahamsson. From the first 1986 fanzine [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Steve Cannon – Groove, Bang and Jive Around
    Steve Cannon – Groove, Bang and Jive Around
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    Despite decades of notoriety as one of the “filthiest books in the world,” Steve Cannon’s first and only novel, Groove, Bang and Jive Around, has hardly been read since first […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Burroughs and Friends: Lost Interviews
    Burroughs and Friends: Lost Interviews
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    Lost interviews with iconic writer-philosophers William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, John Giorno, Diane di Prima and Gerald V. Casale, never before in print. Circa 1983 Burroughs prophetically [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Heinz Von Foerster – The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics
    Heinz Von Foerster – The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics
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    Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John C. Lilly – Center of the Cyclone: Looking Into Inner Space
    John C. Lilly – Center of the Cyclone: Looking Into Inner Space
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    In this long-out-of-print counterculture classic, Dr. John C. Lilly takes readers behind the scenes into the inner life of a scientist exploring inner space, or “far-out spaces,” as Lilly called [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Barbara T. Smith: I Am Abandoned
    Barbara T. Smith: I Am Abandoned
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    I Am Abandoned documents a little-known, but visionary performance by Barbara T. Smith. Taking place in 1976, it featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema
    Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema
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    The unique contribution of Austrian avant-garde film to world cinema is widely acknowledged. This is the first book in English dedicated to its historical and aesthetic evolution. The expansive [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rosemarie & Keith Waldrop – Keeping / The Window Open: Interviews, Statements, Alarms, Excursion
    Rosemarie & Keith Waldrop – Keeping / The Window Open: Interviews, Statements, Alarms, Excursion
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    A rich array of materials coalesce here into a vibrant portrait, in text and image, of two extraordinary artists and collaborators. For nearly sixty years, the Waldrops have influenced multiple [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice
    Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice
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    Over the last few decades, the term “bootlegging”―a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers―has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marguerite Young –  Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
    Marguerite Young – Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
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    Angel in the Forest is Marguerite Young’s fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America. In it, she recounts the strange tale of New [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hermann Nitsch: Life and Work: Recorded by Danielle Spera
    Hermann Nitsch: Life and Work: Recorded by Danielle Spera
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    The oral autobiography of the controversial Vienna Aktionist, with archival materials and additional writings by Nitsch A pioneer of Vienna’s postwar avant-garde and the most notorious member of [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
    Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
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    Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Book Of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures Of Japanese Folklore
    The Book Of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures Of Japanese Folklore
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    Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Healing Flower Color Cards
    The Healing Flower Color Cards
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    77 card deck that combines Dr. E. Bachs Flower medicine and color therapy meditation with outstanding plant and flower drawings to make anyone a flower botanist. AGM Aktiengesellschaft [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Official Preppy Handbook (Scarce, as-is)
    The Official Preppy Handbook (Scarce, as-is)
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    A facetious guide to emulating the look, speech patterns, thinking, and lifestyle of those who attend prep schools and are a part of high society. Workman Publishing, 1980 Softcover edition. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
    The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
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    Translated with the close support of leading contemporary masters and hailed as “a tremendous accomplishment,” this book faithfully presents the insights and intentions of the original work. It [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thom O’Neill – Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA and The Secret History Of The 60s
    Thom O’Neill – Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA and The Secret History Of The 60s
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    Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade
    Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade
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    800 works, chosen by Charles Saatchi from his collection, are juxtaposed with media coverage and texts by Richard Cork, Sarah Kent and Dick Price. Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1999 Hardcover Edition. [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Basilicas Of Ethiopia: An Architectural History
    The Basilicas Of Ethiopia: An Architectural History
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    The basilica is symbolic of the history of Christianity in Ethiopia. Aizan, the first Christian king of the Aksumite empire was responsible for the creation of the large, five-aisled church […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Terence McKenna – The Archaic Revival
    Terence McKenna – The Archaic Revival
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    Cited by the L.A. Weekly as “the culture’s foremost spokesman for the psychedelic experience,” Terrence McKenna is an underground legend as a brilliant raconteur, adventurer, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Shots In The Dark: True Crime Pictures
    Shots In The Dark: True Crime Pictures
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    Studies the role of crime photography in American history, culture, and law enforcement, presenting such photographs as an autopsy study of Lee Harvey Oswald, photographs of the parents of Lizzie [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography