A 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 […]
Twentieth 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 Square [...]
In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by “experimental” in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time―New York City, 1964―Piekut [...]
Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]
First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion’s Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions [...]
Meditations on cinema and method from the acclaimed Chilean director of City of Pirates and Life Is a Dream This volume gathers excerpts from the diary of celebrated Chilean experimental […]
Written 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 […]
Mademoiselle 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 […]
This 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 […]
The 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 [...]
Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the [...]
‘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 […]
An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein’s masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein’s novel represents a peak of modernist [...]
Feminist 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 […]
The Process by Brion Gysin is a groundbreaking novel that takes readers on a hallucinatory journey across the Sahara Desert. The story follows Ulys O. Hanson, an African-American professor of [...]
In these uncanny and insidious tales, Jane Bowles presents an incendiary and groundbreaking vision of the mad possibilities of literary modernism. From “Everything Is Nice,” where an American [...]
Jane 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 […]
This 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 […]
A 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 […]
When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and “a work of heretical madness” by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set […]
Welcome to Mars is a captivating look at the culture of postwar America and its dream of limitless technological and human development. Utilizing declassified government archives, newspaper [...]
In America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the world—and life itself—became a legitimate artist’s tool, aligning with Zen Buddhism’s emphasis on “enlightenment at any moment” and living in […]
“With Salt og Vind Pjusk retums from an eight year album hiatus. This release is also the first seeing Pjusk as a solo project consisting of Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik. Salt […]
“An addendum to Makaya McCraven’s critically-acclaimed 2018 release Universal Beings, which The New York Times said “affirms the drummer and beatsmith’s position as a [...]
“SOFA MUSIC continues to release the work of the extraordinary Norwegian composer Jan Martin Smørdal. Recently he was awarded the prestigious Arne Nordheim Composers Prize for his creative [...]
“SOFA MUSIC and FULL RHIZOME-SONORO are pround to present the new album of Ingar Zach/Michele Rabbia – Musique pour deux corps (SOFA589). Born with the same passion for sound, [...]
“Sudden Dusk is the recorded debut of Archer, a working band comprised of four singular voices on the international improvised music scene. Guitarist Terrie Ex may be best known for […]
Recorded live at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, IL and Lodge Room in Los Angeles, CA Label: Dear Life Records – DLR 049 Format: Cassette, Limited Edition Country: Released: 2023 VG+/VG+
All the Gilden you could ever want. 6/1/1973 – 4/6/2008 18 CDs housed in six six-panel 3CD A5 Digipaks, housed in a slipcase with fold-out insert. 300 copies were produced. […]
Too 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. […]
Written 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 […]
In this fascinating autobiography from the foremost genius of twentieth-century physics, Max Planck tells the story of his life, his aims, and his thinking. Published posthumously, the papers in [...]
We live in an electronic world, saturated with electronic sounds. Yet, electronic sounds aren’t a new phenomenon; they have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly [...]
Case 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 [...]
In The Interlocutor, S. Alfonso Williams takes the reader on an immersive journey through his unique blend of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and politics. His poetic style has a rhythm that breathes [...]
Before MP3s, CDs, and cassette tapes, even before LPs or 45s, the world listened to music on fragile, 10-inch shellac discs that spun at 78 revolutions per minute. While vinyl […]
“Set housed in a manila rigid board box embossed with the Qingdao Market logo. All tapes include new LED printing on shell. Each tape is based on: 1. Macintosh Plus […]
“John Coltrane had yet to move into his modal post-bop phase in 1958 when he recorded a session for Prestige Records on July 11 with trumpeter/flügelhornist Wilbur Harden, pianist Red […]
“Equipped with a modular synthesizer, guitar, and electronics, Patrick Pulsinger and Christian Fennesz present an homage to the master of all things silent: John Cage. The pieces on this [...]
“That William Parker is a bassist, composer and bandleader of extraordinary spirit and imaginative drive is common knowledge among any with an interest in the progressive jazz scene of the [...]
At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-centric rhythm […]
Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, […]
Ska-punk, in the vein of Specials, Clash, etc. Label: Max’s Kansas City Records – MKC-1002 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some creasing and small tear
Robert Irwin, one of the most influential postwar American artists and a pioneering figure of California Light and Space Art, is the subject of this book that traces his development […]
Dual-language (Chinese/English) investigation into the design of every-day objects. Lavishly illustrated. Design Society/Victoria & Albert, 2017 Softcover Edition. Dent to upper left corner [...]
Photography played a critical role in conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, as artists turned to photography as both medium and subject matter. Light Years offers the first major […]
Developed in collaboration with the artist, this two-volume monograph is a comprehensive survey of Roni Horn’s art. A leading figure in contemporary art, Roni Horn addresses wide ranging issues [...]
“Taxi is Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare’s own label and production company, and this 1981 collection is something of a statement of purpose for the pair. The mathematical title is [...]
Groovy Latin funk from the Puerto Rican icon, Iris Chacón Label: Borinquen – AAD-1315 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Puerto Rico Released: 1977 VG/VG. Noticeable light marks. Sleeve [...]