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Yumiko Kurahashi – Scorpions
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA shocking and transgressive work from one of the key figures of postwar Japanese fiction Yumiko Kurahashi’s 1963 novella Scorpions takes the form of a transcript of a one-sided interview [...]
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Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMotel 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, Print Add to cartIn 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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Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfathe…
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA 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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Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWritten 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 […]
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Selected Poems of Philip Lamantia
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe original American surrealist returns in a new edition of the 1967 classic. “I am eager to do a book of yours,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote to Philip Lamantia in Nerja, […]
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Pierre Macorlan – Mademoiselle Bambu
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMademoiselle 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, Print Add to cartThis 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, Print Add to cartThe 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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BP Nichol – Martyrology Books 1 & 2
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cart‘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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Kathy Acker – My Mother: Demonology
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartKathy Acker holds a unique place among American novelists as a writer who consistently pushes at the frontiers of modern fiction, with each new work advancing further into unchartered territory. [...]
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Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFeminist 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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Larry Kramer – Faggots
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGraphically sexual and one of the best-selling gay novels of all time, Faggots is the story of Fred Lemish, who at thirty-nine has built up his body into a fatless […]
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Michael Lentz – Schattenfroh
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn intricate, metaphysical, ambitious “psychogeography of the self” that both disrupts and elevates the 21st century vision of the novel. Our narrator is held in complete darkness and isolation. [...]
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Jane Bowles – Two Serious Ladies
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJane Bowles’s avant-garde study of women breaking free from the bonds of convention is itself a master class in liberation from the constraints of everyday thinking, form, and feeling. Two […]
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Natsuo Kirino – Out
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive […]
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Cormac McCarthy – Suttree
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his […]
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Chester Himes – A Rage In Harlem
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA special edition of A Rage in Harlem, a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, who patrol New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking […]
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Ann Lauterbach – On A Stair
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAnn Lauterbach’s fifth collection takes its title from Emerson’s great essay, Experience: “Where do we find ourselves?” he asks. Lauterbach’s stair sits precariously [...]
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Richard Hell – Godlike
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNew York poet Paul Vaughn has a trick for enjoying poetry readings: He simply imagines the reader died a long time ago. Paul is twenty-seven, married, and an admired poet […]
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Manly Wade Wellman – After Dark
$14.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMany eons ago a humanoid race with supernatural powers roamed the North American continent. But when vast hordes of Indians migrated across the Bering Strait land bridge, the Shonokins soon […]
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Bohumil Hrabal – Too Loud A Solitude
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartToo Loud a Solitude is a tender and funny story of Hanta––a man who has lived in a Czech police state––for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. […]
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Lady Murasaki – The Tale Of Genji
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWritten in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of […]
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William Gibson – Neuromancer (scarce Easton Press edition)
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCase was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited [...]
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Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSweet Sweat, the only novel by Belgian artist Justine Frank, is unusual, to say the least—a blend of feminism, pornography, Judaism, and art, written in French in 1931. Its heroine […]
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Thomas Pynchon – Against The Day
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSpanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few […]
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Tony Duvert – Atlantic Island
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA forgotten gem of French literature, Duvert’s version of The Lord of the Flies: an indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class community. Tony Duvert’s novel Atlantic [...]
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Schizo-Culture: The Event/The Book
$40.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNever-before-published lectures, Q&As, and squabbles from the conference that introduced French theory into America, with a facsimile of the journal issue that emerged from it. I think [...]
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Jean-Christophe Godard & Alberto Rangel – Verdant Inferno/A …
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy, attacking the decolonial question with poetic ferocity. A classic [...]
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L. A. Warman – Dust
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA devastating apocalyptic love story of two immortals. Two anonymous lovers traverse the vast and lonely desert which has blighted most of the continent. In their possession is the gift […]
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Marguerite Duras – Six Films
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe English-language debut of a beautiful and beguiling cycle of experimental texts by the legendary Marguerite Duras. In the late 1970s, Marguerite Duras embarked on an experimental journey to [...]
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Robin Robertson – The Long Take : A Noir Narrative
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the award-winning British author–a poet’s noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and [...]
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Eileen Myles – A Working Life
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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 [...]
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Friedrich Durrenmatt – The Visit
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDürrenmatt once wrote of himself: ?I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness,” and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. The play […]
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Lidia Yuknavitch – Thrust: A Novel
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAs rising waters–and an encroaching police state–endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a “carrier” travels through water and time to rescue vulnerable [...]
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Pathetic Literature
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 [...]
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Olga Tokarczuk – The Books Of Jacob
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas–and a new unrest–begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has […]
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Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA 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 [...]
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David Markson – Wittgenstein’s Mistress
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWittgenstein’s Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince [...]
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Stephane Mallarme – The Book
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrequently quoted but never before translated in its entirety, The Book is a visual poem about its own construction The French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) was modernism’s great [...]
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John Bowen – The Girls: A Story of Village Life
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn 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 […]
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Elizabeth Mavor – A Green Equinox
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHero 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. […]
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Pierre Louys – Pybrac
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA 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 [...]
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Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“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 […]
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Leon-Paul Fargue – Vulturnus
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhen 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, [...]
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Alexander M Frey – Fantastic Orgy
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMaimed beggars, female automatons, cultural prosthetics: four tales of opulence, poverty and grotesque empathy from the Weimar Republic First published in 1924, Fantastic Orgy is most notable for [...]
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Hugo Ball – Flametti, or the Dandyism of the Poor
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA semi-autobiographical novel portraying a frenetic and literary Zurich as the backdrop to the Dada movement In 1916, Hugo Ball (1886–1927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the [...]
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Ursula Parrott – Ex-Wife
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn 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, […]
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Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEqual 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 [...]
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Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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 [...]
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