Cleo’s Fall Reading List
A selection of the best and most interesting of what’s on the shelves to help ease into fall.
Fiction
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Constance DeJong – Modern Love
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “An essential reissue of this autofiction classic.” – Cleo “People used to tell me, if you keep on writing maybe you’ll make a name […]
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James Purdy – In A Shallow Grave
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “James Purdy is one of the most underrated american writers of the last 100 years. His writing is grotesque, funny and heartbreaking, often in […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
Non-Fiction
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Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Fun book on one of the centers of the Fluxus movement. At the very least the one who helped create a written documentation of […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGhost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays―meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems―and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on [...]
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Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAre women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle–and not so [...]
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William T Vollmann – Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTwenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney’s in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, [...]
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Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDo the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction
Poetry
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A Bernadette Mayer Reader
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“She writes as if Everything were still possible in the work of a lifetime at the coincidence of all the turvy moments. Better that she’s read without a thought to […]
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N.H Pritchard – Echoes
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn exacting facsimile of Umbra protagonist Norman H. Pritchard’s long-rare 1971 collection of visually kinetic poetry American poet Norman H. Pritchard’s second and final book, [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
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