March 7th Newsletter

    No products in the cart.

Torn Light Records
1855 N Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60647
312.955.0614
Open Everyday
10AM-7PM

FILTERS

Filter by

Filter by

Filter by

  • The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
    The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
    $10.00 | , , , Add to cart

    “It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.” Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Geoffrey Pimm – The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Century Britain
    Geoffrey Pimm – The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Cent…
    $10.00 | , , , Add to cart

    The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from an age governed principally by religion and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
    Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
    $8.00 | , , , Add to cart

    Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
    The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Ca…
    $10.00 | , , , Add to cart

    Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969
    In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957…
    $12.00 | , , , Add to cart

    For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930
    Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States …
    $9.00 | , , , Add to cart

    In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Bokutotsusô: Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki
    Bokutotsusô: Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki
    $10.00 | , , , Add to cart

    Musô Soseki (1275-1351), one of the most important Zen patriarchs of the early fourteenth century in Japan, devoted his life to spreading Buddhist wisdom in his writings. As a member […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene
    Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene
    $9.00 | , , , Add to cart

    While the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene’s oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Simon Kuper – Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of Russian Double Agent George Blake
    Simon Kuper – Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of…
    $10.00 | , , , Add to cart

    Few Cold War spy stories approach the sheer daring and treachery of George Blake’s. After fighting in the Dutch resistance during World War II, Blake joined the British spy agency […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Edmund Levin –  A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
    Edmund Levin – A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspirac…
    $12.00 | , , , Add to cart

    On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian police arrested Mendel Beilis, a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
    Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
    $9.00 | , , , Add to cart

    Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fartherest Place: The Music Of John Luther Adams
    Fartherest Place: The Music Of John Luther Adams
    $7.00 | , , , Add to cart

    The artistic heir of sonic artists such as John Cage and James Tenney, John Luther Adams is one of the most significant and highly regarded contemporary American composers. The Farthest […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • E.Graham Howe – She And Me (as-is)
    E.Graham Howe – She And Me (as-is)
    $12.00 | , , , Add to cart

    “For those interested in the sociological, psychological and religious problems of today, this new book by Dr. Graham Howe is of the greatest importance. Dealing with many subjects and, in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • SS-20 – Daddy’s Drunk On Christmas
    SS-20 – Daddy’s Drunk On Christmas
    $80.00 | , , , Add to cart

    Label: No Pretense Records Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1987 VG+/VG+ W/ Insert

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Misfits ‎– Spook City U.S.A (1989 boot)
    Misfits ‎– Spook City U.S.A (1989 boot)
    $28.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Plan 69 – CCC 001 (Bootleg) Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Limited Edition, Unofficial Release Released: 1989 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Misfits ‎– Revenge Will Be Ours! (1995 Boot)
    Misfits ‎– Revenge Will Be Ours! (1995 Boot)
    $28.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Not On Label (Misfits) – MUNK 06 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Unofficial Release, White Label Country: US Released: 1995 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Misfits – Evilive (2000 boot)
    Misfits – Evilive (2000 boot)
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Not On Label – PL1019 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Unofficial Release Released: 2000   VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Slickee Boys – This Party Sucks
    The Slickee Boys – This Party Sucks
    $22.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: New Rose Records – NEW 112 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, 45 RPM Country: France Released: 1988 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Agent Orange – Secret Agent Man / Shakin All Over (unofficial)
    Agent Orange – Secret Agent Man / Shakin All Over (unofficial)
    $13.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Invisible Records (9) – 245t Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Reissue, Unofficial Release, White Clear Transparent Country: Europe Released: 2000 NM/VG+ SEALED / Bootleg

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Lynn Higgins – New Novel, New Wave, New Politics
    Lynn Higgins – New Novel, New Wave, New Politics
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    Until now, writings on the celebrated movements in literature and film that emerged in France in the mid-1950s—the New Novel and New Wave—have concentrated on their formal innovations, not on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema As Heresy
    Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema As Heresy
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    The major Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was also a poet, novelist, essayist, and iconoclastic political commentator. Naomi Greene reveals to English-speaking readers the diverse talents [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joseph Beuys: The Reader
    Joseph Beuys: The Reader
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    Twentieth-century artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)—legendary and self-mythologizing, enigmatic and controversial—remains an important influence on artists today. Beuys embraced radically [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ian Brady – Gates Of Janus (1st Edition)
    Ian Brady – Gates Of Janus (1st Edition)
    $32.00 | , , Add to cart

    The infamous “Moors Murderer,” writing from his U.K. jail cell, Brady provides a rambling account of the socio-philosophical and psychological genesis of the modern day serial killer, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing Melodies
    Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing …
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    As the 19th century comes to a close, Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh unknowingly traverse proximate geographical terrain, nearly circling one another like close but distant stars as the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rainer J. Hanshe – Dionysos Speed
    Rainer J. Hanshe – Dionysos Speed
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    As the digitization of every aspect of existence grows more pervasive and absolute, from the monitoring of thought to the tracking even of genitals, the central nervous system of the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Giovanbattista Tusa – Terra Cosmica
    Giovanbattista Tusa – Terra Cosmica
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Giovanbattista Tusa takes the commitment of lending his voice to the voiceless further, reaching the depth that the Anthropocene demands from us. He finds the words that won’t fill the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Felix Bernstein – Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry
    Felix Bernstein – Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    An aggravated surveyer of contemporary poetry, art, and criticism, Felix Bernstein conducts an archaeological dig of the relics and ruins of Language poetry, Conceptual poetry, and his own [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jeremy Reed – Bad Boys
    Jeremy Reed – Bad Boys
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Jeremy Reed’s Bad Boys rehabilitates some of his personal obsessions with poets and rock musicians into a rich assemblage of challenging, provocative assessments, in which the field of writing, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kyle Booten – Salon des Fantômes
    Kyle Booten – Salon des Fantômes
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Kyle Booten’s colossal Salon des Fantômes is a farcical evening with the digital summoning of long dead thinkers from history. They discuss aesthetics & ethics while getting falldown [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
    John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    It was an era of gambling, smuggling rings, grifters, police corruption, bootleggers, brothels, murders, and more. It was also a time of intensified concern with order, conformity, structure, and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Liberated Film Club
    The Liberated Film Club
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    The Liberated Film Club—running from its birth to its death, 2016 to 2020—would guarantee a wide wing-span for critical conversation. Screening “Liberated film” (a loose category designed to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Situationist International Anthology
    Situationist International Anthology
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    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 1…
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    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
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    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 W…
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    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 t…
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
    Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People
    Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the…
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • Ian Penman- Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
    Ian Penman- Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    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
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • 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…
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    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
    $31.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • Adrian Martin – Filmmakers Thinking
    Adrian Martin – Filmmakers Thinking
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    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 …
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    “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
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
    The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • John C. Lilly – Center of the Cyclone: Looking Into Inner Space
    John C. Lilly – Center of the Cyclone: Looking Into Inner Space
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema
    Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    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: Inte…
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • Marguerite Young –  Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
    Marguerite Young – Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Uto…
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    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