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ALFRED JARRY MAN WITH THE AXE

Bill Griffith

$9.95

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Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) lived fast, died young, and refused to accept objective reality. He was a major influence on later artistic movements such as Dada and Surrealism, and... (more)

ALPHABET IN COLOR (HARDCOVER)

Vladamir Nabokov, Jean Holabird

$25.00

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Vladamir Nabokov had the condition known as "synethsesia," the "mixing of the senses" which manifested for the author as colored hearing, or the involuntary attribution of colors to... (more)

ARIEL'S GIFT: TED HUGHES, SYLVIA PLATH, AND THE...

Erica Wagner

$16.95

When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim, immediately landing on the bestseller list. Few suspected that Hughes had been... (more)

ART SPIEGELMAN: CONVERSATIONS

Joseph Witek

$20.00

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When the graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale won a Special Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for its vivid depiction of the Holocaust and its effects, critics and mainstream... (more)

ASCENDING PECULIARITY: EDWARD GOREY ON EDWARD GOREY

Edward Gorey, Karen Wilkin

$16.00

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Edward Gorey's extraordinary books are avidly sought and treasured throughout the world, but until now little has been known about the man himself. While he was notoriously protective... (more)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Robert Creeley

$5.95

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"I've spent all my life with a nagging sense I had somehow the responsibility of that curious fact, that is, a substantial life, like a dog, but hardly... (more)

BASKETBALL DIARIES

Jim Carroll

$13.00

Today, Jim Carroll is a highly-renowned poet and rock musician. But in the mid-1960s, during his coming-of-age from twelve to fifteen, he was a rebellious teenager making a... (more)

BEAT HOTEL: GINSBERG, BURROUGHS, AND CORSO IN PARIS,...

Barry Miles

$14.00

The "Beat Hotel" was a cheap rooming house on the bohemian Left Bank where the old Beats stayed while in Paris; this book of the same name takes... (more)

BEERSPIT NIGHT HC UNSIGNED (BLACK)

Charles Bukowski

$30.00

Hardcover edition of the correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli.

BELIEVER BOOK OF WRITERS TALKING TO WRITERS

Vendela Vida, editor

$18.00

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Believer Books has collected, in alphabetical order, 23 conversations and correspondences between much-admired writers and the writers they admire. The interviews include favorites gleaned from the pages of... (more)

BIG SUR AND THE ORANGES OF HIERONYMOUS BOSCH

Henry Miller

$14.95

First published in 1957, this book tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for fifteen years.

BUKOWSKI AND THE BEATS

Jean-Francois Duval

$15.95

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There are several reasons for this book.The principle one is pleasure - the pure joy of returning to Charles Bukowski and to the Beats, by dipping into their... (more)

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