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Maggie Nelson – Bluets
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSuppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and […]
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Horace McCoy – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDuring the Depression, Gloria and Robert enter a dance marathon in return for three square meals a day and a chance at winning the big-money prize. Under the intense scrutiny […]
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Violette Leduc – Thérèse and Isabelle
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir’s protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force” (Rafia Zakaria, The Guardian). With this startling new translation of Leduc’s [...]
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Hanif Abdurraqib – They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib’s is a voice that matters. Whether he’s attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown’s [...]
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Joe Brainard – I Remember
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJoe Brainard’s I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard’s method [...]
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Rainald Goetz – Insane
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTranslated for the first time into English, cult German author Rainald Goetz’s debut novel Insane draws upon his clinical psychiatric experience to paint a portrait of the asylum as a […]
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark […]
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The Freedom Within Us: East German Photography 1980-1989
$55.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNearly thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall (the Anniversary will be celebrated in 2019), what do we know about East German photography? This body of work — […]
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Rudolph Wurlitzer – The Drop Edge Of Yonder
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally published by Two Dollar Radio in 2008 and released as a second edition in 2017, Rudolph Wurlitzer’s first novel in nearly 25 years is an epic adventure that explores the […]
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Wisconsin Death Trip
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFirst published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 [...]
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B.S Johnson – The Unfortunates
$27.00 | Book, Print Add to cartB.S. Johnson’s lost classic has been showered with praise: New York Magazine named The Unfortunates one of their Ten Best Books of 2008, listed in The New York Times 100 […]
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Camile Paglia – Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched the exceptional career of one of our most important public intellectuals—”a remarkable book, at once [...]
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Ariana Reines – A Sand Book
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Mind-blowing.” ―Kim Gordon DEADPAN, EPIC, AND SEARINGLY CHARISMATIC, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and [...]
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On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing 50th Anniversary Edition
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPoetry. California Interest. Afterword by Lytle Shaw. The Song Cave presents an expanded edition of the long out of print City Lights Books classic ON THE MESA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF […]
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Yoko Tawada – The Naked Eye
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA precocious Vietnamese high school student ― known as the pupil with “the iron blouse”―in Ho Chi Minh City is invited to an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. But, […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 1960s, and the Duke d’Auge as he […]
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Julio Cortazar – All Fires The Fire
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“One of the most adventurous and rewarding collections since the publication of Cortázar’s own Blow-up.” ―Los Angeles Times A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel […]
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Werner Herzog – The Twilight World
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years […]
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Joan Didion – Play It As It Lays
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected […]
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Fernando Pessoa – The Book Of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and [...]
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The Wire – #460 June 2022
$10.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cart“On the cover: Phew. The Japanese punk survivor and intrepid vocalist/composer continues to build an impressive catalogue of collaborations, solo projects and band work in a career now [...]
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia, Volume III
$33.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis volume of drawings and photographs completes the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia trilogy. Danzig Baldaev’s unparallelled ethnographic achievement, documenting more than 3,000 tattoo [...]
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Hito Steyerl – Duty Free Art
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat is the function of art in the era of digital gloablisation? How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and […]
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Maggot Brain – Issue #9
$12.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cartWELCOME TO MAGGOT BRAIN #9 – RAYMOND PETTIBON ON THE COVER! RAYMOND PETTIBON: IN CONVERSATION WITH ADAM WOODHEAD JOHN BRANNON: NEGATIVE APPROACH HONCHO UNLOADS JOHN WATERS: THE RETURN OF THE […]
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Bret Easton Ellis – The Informers
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis time is the early eighties. The characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard […]
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Cecilia Pavón – Little Joy
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe best of contemporary Argentine author Cecilia Pavón’s short stories. Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pavón emerged in the late 1990s as one of the most prolific and central figures [...]
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Kristen Alvanson – XYZT
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGenre-defying fiction that accelerates “cross-cultural dialogue” into a kaleidoscopic rush of sensory estrangements, fairy tales, and alien encounters.“There’s really no [...]
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Simon Sellars – Applied Ballardianism
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn existential odyssey weaving together lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global [...]
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Marcel Brion – Waystations of the Deep Night
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFirst published in France in the dark year of 1942, the story collection Waystations of the Deep Night remains the best known of Marcel Brion’s numerous works in the vein […]
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Zalman Shneour – A Death: Notes of a Suicide
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartZalman Shneour’s inaugural novel: a story of suicide in the form of a diary In a Yiddish take on Notes from Underground, a dark love affair develops in an unnamed […]
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn fin-de-siècle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a [...]
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Black Phoenix: Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis publication is a compilation of all three issues of the journal Black Phoenix published as a single volume. Edited and published by Rasheed Araeen and Mahmood Jamal between 1978 and […]
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Ron Loewinsohn – Magnetic Fields
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOrganized around the idea that “you can’t know what a magnetic field is like unless you’re inside of it, ” Ron Loewinsohn’s first novel opens from the disturbing [...]
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Ann Quin – Three
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Beautiful example of a book as a mobius strip. ‘The boat is ready as planned. And all that’s left is a note. I know […]
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Rikki Ducornet – The Complete Butcher’s Tale
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the fantastic tradition of Borges, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, and H. P. Lovecraft, here are nearly sixty unforgettable stories that ignore the confines of space and time to offer, […]
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Kathy Acker – Empire Of The Senseless
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “My personal favorite Kathy Acker book, a deep & kaleidoscopic journey into hell featuring pirates, androids, God and what it means to push one’s […]
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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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Fernanda Melchor – Hurricane Season
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A work of true cosmic bleakness and power, Hurricane Season transcends both the murder mystery genre & novel in general. Needs to be read […]
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Jean Cocteau – The Holy Terrors
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCocteau’s novel Les Enfants Terribles, which was first published in 1929, holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction. Written in a French style that long defied [...]
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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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César Aira – The Divorce
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Divorce tells about a man who takes a vacation from Providence, R.I. in early December to avoid conflicts with his newly divorced wife and small daughter. He travels to […]
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Ishmael Reed – Mumbo Jumbo
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe classic freewheeling look at race relations through the ages. Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed’s brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our [...]
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Yoko Ono – Grapefruit
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A wonderful collection of Yoko Ono’s art, poetry, and musical instructions, the latter of which is my favorite part of the book. ‘Secret Piece […]
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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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Allen Ginsberg – Howl And Other Poems (OG 1959 Pressing)
$45.00 | LP, Specialty Items Add to cartFantasy – 7006 Media Condition – VG, has some hairline scratches and marks Sleeve Condition – G+, has some stains, ring wear, ripping on back.
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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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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 [...]