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Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
Gabrielle Wittkop – Murder Most Serene
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
Joseph Cornell – Dreams
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA selection of dream epiphanies and reveries from Joseph Cornell’s voluminous diaries Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Benjamin Myers – The Gallows Pole
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSet in the moorland hills of 18th century Yorkshire, The Gallows Pole is the true story of an organized crime of forgers known as the Cragg Vale Coiners. Lead by […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDon’t Tell Sybil is a libidinous memoir by a master raconteur. George Melly (1926-2007) was impossible to ignore in London cultural circles between the 1950s and 90s. He first came […]
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Gerard De Nerval – Aurelia & Other Writings
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA harrowing document of a descent into madness, by France’s defining poet of bohemian romanticism Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gérard de Nerval’s account of his descent into [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roch?, Beatrice Wood
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThree 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 […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction -
Ibn Khald?n – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century [...]
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Guy Debord – The Society of the Spectacle
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFirst published in 1967, Guy Debord’s stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. The Das Kapital of the 20th [...]
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Martin Bax – The Hospital Ship
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally published in 1976, Martin Bax’s seminal cult novel is back in print after three decades. From harbours around the world, the hospital ship picks up casualties, emergency cases of [...]
GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset & Book
$85.00 | Book, CS Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Almost 5 hours of recordings from the 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival on 4 cassettes and including a lovely 240 page book documenting […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Unica Zurn – The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A unique and disturbing memoir from an underread surrealist master” – Cleo Anagram play meets psychic crisis in Unica Zürn’s acclaimed [...]
GENRE: Memoir, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel’s Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Missouri Williams – The Doloriad
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “An amazing and dark first novel about the different forms that humanity and perseverance can take. Probably the best and most troubling book I […]
GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHoly Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz. Ayler […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Ann Quin – Tripticks
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A joyful & experimental deathtrip of a science fiction novel” – Cleo First published in 1972, Ann Quin’s fourth and final novel was a […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA revelatory anthology of poems, experimental prose and previously unpublished work by Madeline Gins, the transdisciplinary writer-artist-thinker famed for her “Reversible Destiny” [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCage’s passionate, distraught and affectionate letters to Cunningham provide a vivid portrait of the start of their life together These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAvant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate [...]
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Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: “none shall emerge unscathed.” Placing [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Cult/Exploitation, Non-Fiction -
Herta Muller – Nadirs
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJuxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Müller’s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Non-Fiction -
Maggie Nelson – Bluets
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSuppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Horace McCoy – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDuring the Depression, Gloria and Robert enter a dance marathon in return for three square meals a day and a chance at winning the big-money prize. Under the intense scrutiny […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
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 -
Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGreil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth, Punk / Hardcore -
Violette Leduc – Th?r?se and Isabelle
$8.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir’s protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force” (Rafia Zakaria, The Guardian). With this startling new translation of Leduc’s [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Mors Mystica: Black Metal Theory Symposium
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEssays and artworks related to Mors Mystica, a black metal theory symposium on the theme of mystical death.
GENRE: Metal, Non-Fiction -
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 [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir -
Theodore Roszak – Flicker
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDark… A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, True Crime -
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRed Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that […]
GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell To Earth
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA man wanders into town one day seemingly out of nowhere. He starts by peddling valuables just to get by. But he possesses uncanny scientific knowledge, which he uses to […]
GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
Harry Sword – Monolithic Undertow
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMonolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating archaeoacoustics, [...]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Metal -
Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis is the first cultural history of the world’s most common sexual practice: masturbation. At a time when almost any victimless practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Wicked Queen is not a biography of one of the most infamous queens in history. Rather, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the verbal and visual representations of Marie-Antoinette, […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
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 [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
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, [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Harmony Korine – A Crackup At The Race Riots
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally published by Mainstreet/Doubleday in 1998, this debut novel from an underground filmmaker uses print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
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 […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Cookie Mueller – Walking Through Clear Water In A Pool Painted Black
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Essential reading.” – Cleo The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller’s stories, featuring the [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Barry Gifford – Sailor & Lula: Expanded Edition
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“The Romeo and Juliet of the South” are back in this new edition of the internationally best-selling Sailor and Lula novels, now including for the first time the culminating novel, [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Larry Clark – Tulsa
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “The only time glamorizing self annihilation as art has worked.” – Cleo When it first appeared in 1971, Larry Clark’s groundbreaking book Tulsa [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Claudio Lomnitz – Death And The Idea Of Mexico
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDeath and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
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 -
As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat 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 -
Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool: Photographs 1976-1982
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPunk and industrial culture in late ’70s and early ’80s San Francisco Spanning music, art and literature, the industrial and punk scenes of San Francisco in the late 1970s and […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Industrial / Power Electronics -
On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
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 […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Dream Dance: The Art Of Ed Emshwiller
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller is a catalog released in conjunction with the artist’s first major monographic exhibition at Lightbox Film Center and the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Phillip K Dick – Vintage PKD
$7.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA master of science fiction, a voice of the changing counterculture, and a genuine visionary, Philip K. Dick now joins the elite ranks of authors included in the Vintage Readers […]
GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
Paul Nouge – The Subversion Of Images
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis classic surrealist photobook pioneered the imagery of the domestic uncanny First edited and published by Marcel Marien in 1968 in a limited edition of 230 copies, half a year […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
John Cage – Diary: How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNow available in an expanded paperback edition, Diary registers Cage’s assessment of the times in which he lived as well as his often uncanny portents about the world we live […]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Camille Roy – Honey Mine: Collected Stories
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHoney Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer’s coming of age through disorienting, unsparing, and exhilarating encounters [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
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 -
Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “One of my favorite books I read last year, features an unreal interview with Milford Graves to close it out as well. Highest Rec […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the “structural” film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith’s Flaming [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
J.G Ballard – The Atrocity Exhibition
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhen the ATROCITY EXHIBITION was originally printed (1970), Nelson Doubleday saw a copy and was so horrified he ordered the entire press run shredded. Two years later Grove Press brought […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAcid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain’s exhaustively researched and astonishing [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction