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  • The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
    The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
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    “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
  • Steven Miller – War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits
    Steven Miller – War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits
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    War after Death considers forms of violence that regularly occur in actual wars but do not often factor into the stories we tell about war, which revolve invariably around killing […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Drugs of the Dreaming: Oneirogens: Salvia divinorum and Other Dream-Enhancing Plants
    Drugs of the Dreaming: Oneirogens: Salvia divinorum and Other Dream-Enhancing Plants
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    Oneirogens are plant and animal substances that have long been used to facilitate powerful and productive dreaming. From the beginning of civilization, dreams have guided the inner and outer life [...]

    GENRE: 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 Century Britain
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    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
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    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 Catastrophes of Literacy
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    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, 1957-1969
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    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 and Brazil, 1830–1930
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • Luigi Pirandello – Stories for the Years
    Luigi Pirandello – Stories for the Years
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    Regarded as one of Europe’s great modernists, Pirandello was also a master storyteller, a fine observer of the drama of daily life with a remarkable ear for dialogue and a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michael McClure – Rain Mirror: New Poems
    Michael McClure – Rain Mirror: New Poems
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    “Rain Mirror”, writes poet Michael McClure, “is my most bare and forthright book. It contains two long poems, ‘Crisis Blossom’ and ‘Haiku Edge’ which are [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sophocles – Oedipus at Kolonos: A New Translation
    Sophocles – Oedipus at Kolonos: A New Translation
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    Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Oedipus at Kolonos is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Natasha Trethewey – Monument: Poems New and Selected
    Natasha Trethewey – Monument: Poems New and Selected
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    Layering joy and urgent defiance―against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone―Trethewey’s work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mikheil Javakhishvili – Kvachi
    Mikheil Javakhishvili – Kvachi
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    This is, in brief, the story of a swindler, a Georgian Felix Krull, or perhaps a cynical Don Quixote, named Kvachi Kvachantiradze: womanizer, cheat, perpetrator of insurance fraud, bank-robber, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke
    Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke
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    The rhetorically gorgeous essay-stories of Kenneth Burke were unlike any other fiction of the 1920s. Here & Elsewhere gathers, for the first time, all of Burke’s fiction: 23 short stories [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Zaza Burchuladze – Adibas
    Zaza Burchuladze – Adibas
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    War is raging in Georgia, Russian fighter planes are thundering overhead, and yet, for some, the falling bombs cause no more impact than the slight ripple moving through the purified […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Vladislav Otroshenko – Addendum to a Photo Album
    Vladislav Otroshenko – Addendum to a Photo Album
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    “Addendum to a Photo Album” is the saga of the births, deaths, and disappearances within the eccentric Mandrykin family. Following patriarch Malach, a Cossack captain, his wife [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dan Fante – 86’d: A Novel
    Dan Fante – 86’d: A Novel
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    In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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 Russian Double Agent George Blake
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    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 Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
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    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
  • William T. Vollmann – Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness, Vol. 2
    William T. Vollmann – Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness, Vol. 2
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    In this landmark collection, William T. Vollmann offers a kaleidoscopic retrospective of the visual artwork he has produced over four decades, with new commentary from Vollmann on his process, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert
    Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert
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    Richard Artschwager: Into The Desert is the first Artschwager monograph that focuses exclusively on the artist’s drawings, and their intimate and influential relationship on [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Center of Cosmic Energy
    Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Center of Cosmic Energy
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    Ilya Kabakov was born in the USSR in 1933, and immigrated to New York in 1992. He began working with his wife, Emilia, in 1989. The two continue to produce […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
    Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
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    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
  • Joseph Ceravolo – Collected Poems
    Joseph Ceravolo – Collected Poems
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    Like an underground river, the astonishing poems of Joseph Ceravolo have nurtured American poetry for fifty years, a presence deeply felt but largely invisible. Collected Poems offers the first [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joan Halifax – Shaman
    Joan Halifax – Shaman
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    Summarizes forms of shamanism in various cultures, looks at its origin, and compares the methods shamans use to gain a vision of other realities Thames & Hudson, 1990 Softcover edition. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Frank Stanford – What About This
    Frank Stanford – What About This
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    Michael Ondaatje writes of this volume: “Frank Stanford died in 1978, but his writing has been almost a secret or an unknown force in American Poetry. So it is wondrous […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Frank Stanford – The Singing Knives
    Frank Stanford – The Singing Knives
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    THE SINGING KNIVES, originally published in 1971 by Broughton’s Mill Mountain Press, is Frank Sanford’s first collection of poetry. Reprinted by his own press, Lost Roads Publisher, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Fartherest Place: The Music Of John Luther Adams
    Fartherest Place: The Music Of John Luther Adams
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    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)
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    “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
  • David Herrerias – The Book Of Q’ab-itz
    David Herrerias – The Book Of Q’ab-itz
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    The Book of Q’ab iTz appears as the vessel for the sorcerer, for contained within is the evidence of a practitioner who has dedicated the past few years to the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • SS-20 – Daddy’s Drunk On Christmas
    SS-20 – Daddy’s Drunk On Christmas
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    Label: Not On Label – PL1019 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Unofficial Release Released: 2000   VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Witch In Her Tomb – Maleficus Maleficarum
    Witch In Her Tomb – Maleficus Maleficarum
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    Label: Crippled Sound Records – CSR 018, Tyr Records – TYR001 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Limited Edition, Mint Green, Glows In The Dark Country: US Released: 2013 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Metal
  • Hank Wood And The Hammerheads – Hank Wood And The Hammerheads
    Hank Wood And The Hammerheads – Hank Wood And The Hammerheads
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    Label: Toxic State Records – TS-4 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, White Label Country: US Released: 2011 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bunny Skulls – 10 Song 1-Sided EP
    Bunny Skulls – 10 Song 1-Sided EP
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    Label: Punks Before Profits Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Sided, EP, Record Release Country: US Released: 2008   VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Slickee Boys – This Party Sucks
    The Slickee Boys – This Party Sucks
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    Label: New Rose Records – NEW 112 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, 45 RPM Country: France Released: 1988 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Anti-Pasti ‎– Four Sore Points….
    Anti-Pasti ‎– Four Sore Points….
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    Label: Rondelet Music & Records – ROUND 2 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Agent Orange – Secret Agent Man / Shakin All Over (unofficial)
    Agent Orange – Secret Agent Man / Shakin All Over (unofficial)
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • Peter Greenaway: Interviews
    Peter Greenaway: Interviews
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    In these twenty-one interviews, filmmaker Peter Greenaway expresses his film aesthetic and discusses his combat with the dominant Hollywood style of filmmaking. His films have run unmistakably [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Politics, Writing, Mutilation: The Cases Of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris
    Politics, Writing, Mutilation: The Cases Of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris
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    Five twentieth-century French writers played, and continue to play, a pivotal role in the development of literary-philosophical thinking that has come to be known in the United States as [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Anne Baldassari – Bacon Picasso
    Anne Baldassari – Bacon Picasso
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    Francis Bacon was so inspired by the Picasso exhibit in 1927 at the Paul Rosenberg gallery in Paris that he decided to dedicate himself to painting. From that point onward, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Coomaraswamy: Traditional Art And Symbolism
    Coomaraswamy: Traditional Art And Symbolism
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    Compiles Ananda K. Coomaraswamy‘s papers on Indian art and symbols. Princeton University Press, 1986 Softcover edition. Some noticeable splaying to corners of wraps. Discoloration to wraps [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ian Brady – Gates Of Janus (1st Edition)
    Ian Brady – Gates Of Janus (1st Edition)
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    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