A RARE BOOK
“The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World” is a comprehensive biography of Gertrude Stein, authored by John Malcolm Brinnin and first published in 1959. The book delves into Stein’s life, education, and the themes and styles that characterize her writing. Brinnin offers an in-depth analysis of Stein’s literary contributions and her role in the modernist movement. ￼

The biography also explores Stein’s relationships with prominent artists and writers of her time, including her brother Leo Stein, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Alice B. Toklas. Brinnin examines how these associations influenced her work and positioned her within the artistic and literary circles of early 20th-century Paris. ￼

Critics have praised Brinnin’s scholarly approach and his ability to contextualize Stein’s life within the broader cultural and artistic movements of her era. The book is noted for its detailed portrayal of Stein’s personality, intellect, and the complexities of her relationships. ￼

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Gertrude Stein and Her World

The Third Rose (1st Ed./Rare)

Penelope Casas

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2004
This is the definitive guide to Spain. When Carol and I travel in Spain, we're three--the two of us and Penelope. We've been living in Spain since 1992 (the date of the first edition) and we've never traveled in this wonderful country without her. Her asides on history are worth the price of admission, her recommendations on where to eat and stay are invaribly reliable (although she could use some up-dating here and there in the countryside) and her take on places to see and what to do are a genuine menu of Spanish delights. If it matters, this is the preferred guide of the American Embassy in Spain. Discovering Spain: An Uncommon Guide by Penelope Casas is an engaging travelogue that delves deeply into the diverse regions of Spain, presenting a richly detailed view of its culture, food, history, and hidden gems. Casas, an acclaimed authority on Spanish cuisine and culture, goes beyond the typical tourist routes to uncover the heart and soul of Spain’s less-explored areas, providing insights that feel authentic and personal.

Unlike many conventional travel guides, Casas focuses on the unique characteristics of each region, highlighting local traditions, lesser-known historical sites, and, of course, the food that Spain is famous for. Casas’s deep affection and respect for Spain come through in her vivid descriptions and her emphasis on artisanal crafts, regional festivals, and culinary specialties. Her writing is evocative, painting a picture of Spanish life that’s as much about the people and their customs as it is about the places themselves.

This guide is perfect for travelers who seek to experience Spain beyond its popular tourist destinations, such as Madrid and Barcelona, and instead want to immerse themselves in the vibrant regional cultures. While Discovering Spain might lack the step-by-step itineraries of a traditional travel guide, its emphasis on storytelling and authentic experiences makes it an enriching companion for the curious traveler.

Casas’s enthusiasm and expertise make Discovering Spain a valuable and inspiring read for those looking to understand Spain on a deeper level, making it an excellent choice for anyone interested in exploring the country’s true cultural richness.

As to the soul and culture of Spain, the book is timeless. For travel in Spain, pair with a contemporary guidebook. 

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An Uncommon Guide

Discovering Spain

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Allen Ginsberg

The leading poet of the Beat generation and late-twentieth century American letters, a spokesman for the antiwar generation, an icon of the counterculture, Allen Ginsberg led a movement that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Indian Journals collects Ginsberg's writing from a 1962-63 stay in India. It is wonderfully eclectic, visionary, at times intensely private, and always in possession of a hallucinatory clarity that affirms Ginsberg's truly great ability, as well as his ebullient spirit. Indian Journals took half a decade to transcribe and edit; when it was originally published in 1970 it catalyzed a large movement of young Western pilgrims to explore India and Eastern thought. This new edition contains an updated and expanded section of newly discovered photographs taken by Ginsberg during his time spent in India. The perfect combination of text and images, Indian Journals is testimony to Ginsberg's passionate interest in Eastern religion and mysticism and contains the raw materials for some of his most important poems.

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Allan Ginsberg was the leading poet and conscience of the Beat generation. Indian Journals collects Ginsberg s writings from his trip to India in 196263."

Indian Journals

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Vincent. van Gogh

Colta Feller Ives

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) believed that drawing was "the root of everything." A self-taught artist, he succeeded, between 1881 and 1890, in developing an inimitable graphic style. This book traces the artist's successive triumphs as a draftsman, first in the Netherlands and later in France, highlighting the diversity of his technical invention and the striking continuity of his vision. Given the pivotal role drawings played in Van Gogh's artistic conception and the rich dialectic they enjoyed with his oil paintings, a small selection of related canvases by the artist is also featured. This book presents approximately 120 works in charcoal, ink, graphite, watercolor, and diluted oils. The authors explore enduring questions that surround Van Gogh's drawings, including their manufacture, artistic precedents, and contribution to Modernism. In addition, the text discusses the significance of the artist's drawing practice to his development as a painter. The essays and entries feature the most current research on Van Gogh's drawings and provide fresh interpretations of the motivating influences that shaped the artist's contributions to the history of drawing.k

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The Drawings

This book traces the artist's successive triumphs as a draftsman, first in the Netherlands and later in France, highlighting the diversity of his technical invention and the striking continuity of his vision.

Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

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Alexander Tzonis

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Complete Works

"Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has achieved considerable international acclaim in recent years with his breathtaking feats of engineering in the service of elegant and humanistic modern forms. Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works comprehensively examines this contemporary master's career, beginning with his education in Valencia and Zurich, and continuing with the origins and development of his celebrated body of work, including the architect's furniture designs, sculpture, and drawings."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Santiago Calatrava

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Alice Cooper


Alice Cooper
Aurum, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 272 pages
Alice Cooper is hotter than ever, still playing up to 100 gigs a year with his band, watching his audiences grow younger. But 300 days a year, he is out on the golf course. That's because Alice credits golf as helping him overcome a self-destructive spiral into alcoholism. It's also because Alice turned out to be almost as good a golfer as he is a rocker. This book blends a rocker's uproarious tales of excess with a no holds-barred account of how Cooper substituted alcohol addiction with the lesser evil of hitting a little white ball. Alice Cooper is rock'n'roll's original misanthrope, the ultimate shock-rock, heavy-metal bad boy. With golf, as in music, he was way ahead of the cultural curve, his passion for the game predating golf's popularity surge among younger folks, hip professional athletes, and indeed Alice's music contemporaries, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Iggy Pop and Roger Waters. The nearest Alice Cooper has come to writing his autobiography. He is still a major rock touring artist. This title includes the story of his musical career and of his rehabilitation. It is a fascinating self-help programme by an unlikely role model. It is the first and best of the rock'n'roll golfers.


A Rock 'n' Roller's Life and 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict

Wretched excess, rock stardom, and golf—from the man who invented shock rock In this tell-all memoir, Alice Cooper speaks candidly about his life and career, including all the years of rock ’n’ roll history he’s been a part of, the addictions he faced, and the surprising ways he found redemption. From a childhood spent as a minister’s son worshiping baseball and rock ’n’ roll; to days on the road with his band, working to make a name for themselves; to stardom and the insanity that came with it, including a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit; to drying out at a sanitarium back in the late ’70s, Alice Cooper paints a rich and rockin’ portrait of his life and his battle against addiction—fought by getting up daily at 7 a.m. to play 36 holes of golf. Alice tells hilarious, touching, and sometimes astounding stories about Led Zeppelin and the Doors, George Burns and Groucho Marx, John Daly and Tiger Woods . . . everyone is here from Dalí to Elvis to Arnold Palmer. Alice Cooper, Golf Monster is the incredible story of someone who rose through the rock ’n’ roll ranks releasing platinum albums and selling out arenas with his legendary act—all while becoming one of the best celebrity golfers around.

Alice Cooper, Golf Monster

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Evelyn Waugh

William Dalrymple

Nicholas Shakespeare

Thirty years’ worth of Evelyn Waugh’s inimitable travel writings have been gathered together for the first time in one volume.

Waugh’s accounts of his travels–spanning the years from 1929 to 1958–describe journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa. And just as his travels informed his fiction, his novelist’s sensibility is apparent in each of these pieces. Waugh pioneered the genre of modern travel writing in which the comic predicament of the traveler is as central as the world he encounters. He wrote with as sharp an eye for folly as for foliage, and a delight in the absurd, not least where his own comfort and dignity are concerned.

From his fresh take on the well-traveled and hence already “fully labeled” Mediterranean region in Labels, to a close-up view of Haile Selassie’s coronation in Remote People, from a comically miserable stint in British Guiana.

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Collected Travel Writing

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Thirty years’ worth of Evelyn Waugh’s inimitable travel writings have been gathered together for the first time in one volume. Waugh’s accounts of his travels–spanning the years from 1929 to 1958–describe journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa. And just as his travels informed his fiction, his novelist’s sensibility is apparent in each of these pieces. Waugh pioneered the genre of modern travel writing in which the comic predicament of the traveler is as central as the world he encounters. He wrote with as sharp an eye for folly as for foliage, and a delight in the absurd, not least where his own comfort and dignity are concerned. From his fresh take on the well-traveled and hence already “fully labeled” Mediterranean region in Labels, to a close-up view of Haile Selassie’s coronation in Remote People, from a comically miserable stint in British Guiana.

Waugh Abroad

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Edmund White

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A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris

Bloomsbury is proud to announce the first title in an occasional series in which some of the world's finest novelists reveal the secrets of the city they know best. These beautifully produced, pocket-sized books will provide exactly what is missing in ordinary travel guides: insights and imagination that lead the reader into those parts of a city no other guide can reach. A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through a city without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the place and in covert search of adventure, esthetic or erotic. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, taking us into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Parisians. Entering the Marais evokes the history of Jews in France, just as a visit to the Haynes Grill recalls the presence-festive, troubled-of black Americans in Paris for a century and a half. Gays, Decadents, even Royalists past and present are all subjected to the flaneur's scrutiny. Edmund White's The Flaneur is opinionated, personal, subjective. As he conducts us through the bookshops and boutiques, past the monuments and palaces, filling us in on the gossip and background of each site, he allows us to see through the blank walls and past the proud edifices and to glimpse the inner, human drama. Along the way he recounts everything from the latest debates among French law-makers to the juicy details of Colette's life in the Palais Royal, even summoning up the hothouse atmosphere of Gustave Moreau's atelier.

The Flaneur

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Many know her for her pot-laced brownie recipe, but in this book Toklas describes her childhood, education, and thirty-nine year relationship with Gertrude Stein and shares her impressions of famous writers and painters of the 1920s. People remember American writer Alice Babette Toklas as Gertrude Stein’s life partner; her works include cookbooks and a volume of memoirs.

She joined Stein as a member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century. Born to a Polish army officer in a middle-class Jewish family, she attended schools in San Francisco and Seattle. For a short time, she also studied music at the University of Washington.
She arrived in Paris and met on 8 September 1907. Together, they hosted a salon that attracted expatriates, such as Ernest Hemingway, Paul Bowles, Thornton Wilder, and Sherwood Anderson, and avant-garde painters, including Picasso, Matisse, and Braque.

Toklas, a background figure, acted as confidante, secretary, muse, editor, critic, and general organizer and chiefly living in the shadow until she published in 1933 under the teasing title The Autobiography of Alice Babette Toklas , bestselling book.

What is Remembered (First Edition)


This book provides a unique perspective on the presidency of Harry Truman by examining the events leading up to and during the crisis of the early 1950s. The book provides historical context and analysis of Truman's interactions with Congress, the press, and the American public, as he responded to the Soviet Union's invasion of South Korea and the outbreak of the Cold War.; B & W Illustrations and Photographs; 432 pages.

Harry Truman and the Crisis Presidency

Sophia Craze

Frederic Remington left a legacy of artwork that helped form the world's perception of the vanishing Wild West -- an era of cowboys herding cattle on the open range, of Native Americans hunting buffalo, of the battle for territorial supremacy. With nearly 70 color plates and 25 black-and-white illustrations, this stunning volume exhibits Remington's finest works and an enduring record of the American frontier.

Frederic Remington

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Jill Devonyar

Richard Kendall

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Seeks to illuminate the themes present in the artist's works, presenting new material about Degas's highly informed relationship with the ballet of the nineteenth century.

Degas and the Dance

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Published in 1956, Imperial Woman is the story of Tzu Hsi, the last Empress of China. This is the woman usually known to westerners as the Empress Dowager, or “Old Buddha.” She ranks in history with Victoria of England and Catherine of Russia. Indeed, Tzu Hsi liked to think of Victoria as her sister ruler and often remarked that they divided the world between them, Victoria, the Empress of the west, and she, the Empress of the East. 

Of the two, however, Tzu Hsi had the more romantic and extraordinary reign. She was born into violent and troubled times, in the last century of China’s empire. Already the West was compelling that ancient and impregnable country to face the modern age. Slow to change, entrenched in pride and tradition, the ruling dynasty of the Manchus was reluctant to realize the portent of the times. It was Tzu Hsi, this powerful and beautiful woman, who held the empire and the dynasty from the 1860s until her death in 1908 at the age of 74. The story of her life is pure romance.
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This is a book club edition in reasonably good shape with fading, chipping, and some water damage.

And historical novel about the last Empress of China, in youth, a beautiful concubine, in middle life, a brilliant strategist, in old age, a goddess.

Imperial Woman

Timothy Baum

Robert Rainwater

Riva Castleman

Two insightful essays provide fresh perspectives on the subject: Timothy Baum, a leading authority on surrealism, chronicles the history of surrealist printmaking, and Robert Rainwater, assistant director of art, prints, and photographs at the New York Public Library, examines the relationship between surrealist artists and poets of the era, since many outstanding surrealist prints were created as book illustrations.

Surrealist Prints

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Christopher Simon Sykes

Caroline Seebohm

Estelle Ellis

How Art Lovers Live with and Care for Their Treasures

At Home with Artis about art lovers, their passion for art, and their seemingly unquenchable desire to bring home the works that have captured their hearts. Whether the artworks are Picassos or posters, these people want to acquire and live with the art they love. "I wake up in the morning and exercise where I can look at it," says John Robson about one of the paintings in his San Francisco townhouse. How these art lovers integrate their finds into their living spaces, juxtaposing their paintings and sculpture with the artifacts of everyday life -- furniture, rugs, books, lamps, objets d'art -- is vividly illustrated here in more than fifty homes inhabited by people for whom living with art is as essential as breathing. These homes are not mini-museums with art to be admired from a respectful distance. Nor have they been designed by interior decorators whose goal is to harmonize the upholstery with the pictures. Each home has been chosen for its very personal and inspired expression of art and decor, revealing a deep, even spiritual, relationship between the pictures on the walls and the people who place them there. From airy lofts and old farmhouses to sleek city apartments and cozy traditional houses, all are made special by the paintings and sculptures within. A wide variety of people appear in these pages, from the president of MoMA to a young man in love with poster art, to the writer who has artist friends, to the young woman who inherited pieces from her mother, to the actress whose art travels with her wherever she goes. The kinds of art that speak to them and that they are impelled to acquire range from old masters to outsider art, from folk art to contemporary art, to prints, drawings, photographs, and sculpture. We learn about what sparked their interest in a particular genre, how they make their selections, how they meld them into their homes, and what living with their art means to them. Though looking at these interiors proves there are no fixed rules about displaying a work of art, special sections on framing, hanging, lighting, and caring for art, from oil paintings to delicate works on paper, provide technical assistance. A directory includes framers, dealers, auction houses, and restorers in major American cities and in London. Above all,At Home with Artshows that there are all kinds of art to be loved and cherished, however grand or simple, and that living surrounded by art's beauty can bring boundless personal satisfaction.

At Home with Art

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Susan A. Sternau

Flights of Artistic Fancy

Western art has evolved through a wide range of styles, each characterized by its own unique philosophy and masterpieces. This series is a visual tribute to these formative movements in Western art and the artists and forces that created them -- Art Deco developed as part of the modernism of the 1920s and 1930s. Here is an in-depth look at this century's most unique art movement, and the artists and artisans who applied the style to everything from buildings to everyday objects.

Art Deco

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Dave Gelly

A History in Photographs 1900-2000

In celebration of the first hundred years of jazz, Icons of Jazz presents a selection of musicians & vocalists from all aspects of the genre: the New Orleans & Dixieland of the first two decades of the century; the swing & jump music of the twenties & thirties; bebop & its legacy of the forties & fifties; the free-jazz of the sixties; jazz-rock from the seventies; the melting-pot that was jazz in the eighties & still is in the nineties & the new millennium. Each entry includes details of the life & work of the artist or band featured, recommends seminal recordings, & is illustrated with top-quality photographs.

Icons of Jazz

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Kerri McCaffety

Andrei Codrescu

Obituary Cocktail pours out the story of New Orleans and of such local phenomena as Mardi Gras, Quadroon Balls, and the world's first cocktail. Obituary Cocktail reveals recipes for long-time favorites like the Ramos Gin Fizz and the Sazerac, as well as historic drinks that have not been tasted for 100 years, like the strange poison the book is named for.From the French Quarter's elegant Arnaud's to the Ninth Ward's eccentric Saturn Bar, from the world-famous Pat O'Brien's to the obscure Bud Rip's Obituary Cocktail dispels erroneous bar folklore and tells the true stories that prove even more fascinating.

Lush photography. An absorbing book.😒

The Great Saloons of New Orleans

Two years after its original release, the new 'Obituary Cocktai' has more bars, photographs, drink recipes, and quotes. Six added spreads include the bar in the kitchen at Commander's Palace, The Circle Bar and its Herradura tequila shot with tonic -- the Harry Tonic Jr -- and Butler's fantastically seedy interior.

Obituary Cocktail

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Louisa Buck

Judith C. Greer

This sharp, practical look at the contemporary art market declares its irreverence early with a full-page, large print citation of Jenny Holzer's truism, "Money creates taste." Louisa Buck and Judith Greer's analyses of buyers' interests and responsibilities (including a section on how artists see the market and how collectors should treat them) make Owning Art a guidebook of interest to armchair travellers as well as its ostensible target market--it's not just collectors who seek to understand more about dealers, auction houses, art fairs, selection, pricing and conservation. The authors are equally comfortable going over the pitfalls of caring for contemporary media (they quote Agnes Gund on rescuing Christo's "Nine Packed Bottles" from a well-intentioned trip to the recycling bin), and tackling more serious questions like, who makes a good collector? What should you be looking for? Who gets offered the best work? What role do institutions play in the market? Hb in grey cloth with black and white titling, no dw, as issued. Virtually as new.

Contemporary Art Collectors Handbook

Owning Art offers an informative, authoritative and richly anecdotal route through the minefield of the contemporary art world. This entertaining and easy-to-use handbook is set to become every collector's indispensable companion.

Owning Art

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On the Humanity of Abstract Painting

Mondrian

Sidra Stich

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Art-Architecture-Design

Includes museums, galleries, exhibition spaces, public art, architecture, parks, book shops etc.

Art-SITES Paris

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Mary S. Lovell

Their marriage was both improbable and inevitable. Isabel Arundell was a schoolgirl, the scion of England's most distinguished Catholic family. When she first saw him while walking at a seaside resort, Richard Burton had already made his mark as a linguist (he was fluent in twenty-nine languages), scholar, soldier, and explorer--at once a symbol of Victorian England's vision of empire and an avowed rebel against its mores. When she turned and saw him staring after her, she decided that she would marry him. By their next meeting, Burton had become the first infidel to infiltrate Mecca as one of the faithful, and, in an expedition to discover the source of the Nile, would soon be the first white man to see Lake Tanganyika. After being married, the Burtons traveled and experienced the world, from diplomatic postings in Brazil and Africa to hair-raising adventures in the Syrian desert. In later life Richard courted further controversy as a self-proclaimed erotologist and the translator of The Kama Sutra. Based on previously unavailable archives, Mary Lovell has written a compelling joint biography that sets Isabel in her proper place as Burton's equal in daring and endurance, a fascinating figure in her own right. 

A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton

An illustrated biography of one of Victorian England's most extraordinary pairs, based on previously closed archives, reveals Isabel Burton as equal in daring and intelligence to the linguist, explorer, and rebel she married. 12,500 first printing.

A Rage to Live

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Roger Kimball

The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity

This book illuminates some of the chief spiritual itineraries of modern art.

Art's Prospect

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Harold Norse

James Baldwin

A fifty-year literary and erotic odyssey

Harold Norse has spent half a century simultaneously at the center and in the vanguard of literary and homosexual subcultures. His career began in 1939, when W. H. Auden seduced and "married" Norse's college lover, Chester Kallman. In Greenwich Village Norse became an intimate of James Baldwin (then working on his first novel) and in Provincetown lived with Tennessee Williams, who was completing The Glass Menagerie. In 1952, William Carlos Williams presented Norse at his reading debut calling Norse "the best poet of your generation." Other admirers included Anais Nin, Dylan Thomas, Christopher Isherwood, and e.e. Cummings. In the 1960s in Paris, Norse codeveloped the innovative Cut-up method while living in the Beat Hotel with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso. In North Africa, Greece, and Spain Norse befriended Robert Graves, Leonard Cohen, and Paul and Jane Bowles. Repatriating to Venice, California, in 1968, Norse formed a literary alliance with Charles Bukowski (who called him "one of the great ones") and lifted weights with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Under any circumstances this book would be a major social document, but because he is a superb, evocative stylist, Harold Norse's candid autobiography is an engrossing classic of its kind. "Harold Norse's beautiful Memoirs (are) going to be right by my bedside with Flaubert and Marquez. It's an exalted work!"--Andrei Codrescu, "All Things Considered," National Public Radio "Magically evocative and visual, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel literally reads itself. "--William Burroughs "Harold Norse has lived a life beyond my powers of imagination."--Armistead Maupin

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