Greil Marcus

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992

Ranters and Crowd Pleasers

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Barry Gifford

Lawrence Lee

The book is in very good condition. The paper is the kind that last a lifetime. The jacket is a little worn but not bad. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

Jack's Book

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Ilan Stavans

The Uncollected Works

Through these writings Acosta reveals a variety of personae: a leader troubled by issues of ethnic, linguistic and cultural identity, a man who saw himself as a Robin Hood of Mexican Americans, an unstable yet genial wanderer who joined Hunter S. Thompson in a search for the American Dream. Acosta realized that democracy is about speaking out, about feeling uncomfortable, about defining others and oneself through the prism of race and history.

Oscar Zeta Acosta

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Djuna Barnes

Jeanette Winterson

T. S. Eliot

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Barnes' famous experimental novel tells of a young woman, Robin Vote, in 1920s Paris, who first marries the "Baron" Felix Volkbien, and later has love affairs with two women.

Nightwood

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Sean Thor Conroe

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

"Got under my skin in the way the best writing can." --Sheila Heti It's late 2017, Trump has been president one year, and this aging, late-20s fuccboi is broke, bitter, and washed. Having already done did and failed at everything he set out in life to do--cross-country walker, SoundCloud rapper, weed grower--he now finds himself back in his college city, scrapping, tryna write, doing stimulant-fueled bike deliveries to eat. In thirsty pursuit of his ex, unable to accept that she has dropped him. And yet, still engaging in all the same fuckery--skrt-ing decisions, being coy and spineless, maintaining a rotation of baes--that led to her leaving in the first place. But how sustainable is this mode. How much fuckery is too much fuckery? Fuccboi finna find out. "Sean Conroe isn't one of the writers there's a hundred of. He writes what's his own, his own way." --Nico Walker, author of Cherry

Fuccboi

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China Miéville

The book is in good condition. The pages are yellowed around the edges but not falling apart. It has many years to go. 


Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none—not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory.

Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.

While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger—and more consuming—by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon—and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes . . .

A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader's imagination.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Perdido Street Station

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Thomas Lyttle

The book is almost like new but it has been on my shelf for a while. No creases or dog ears. There is some yellowing on the pages though but not bad. 

A Collection of the Most Exciting New Material on Psychedelic Drugs 

Psychedelics

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Emily Jenkins

There’s a little sticker residue on the cover but I think it can come off with alcohol. 

Adventures in Physical Culture

A smart, humorous exploration of bodily thrills and paranoia from aerobics to acupuncture, strip shows to sensory deprivation. Your perception of your body will change when you read this book. You will be pulling on your boxer shorts or your black lace bra, and suddenly consider why you decorate yourself the way you do. You will shake up your martini, kiss your beloved, read a dirty magazine, go for a jog, and think about what your bodily behavior says about your soul. And what it is doing to your soul. You will notice the defenses you erect for yourself. Perhaps a tube of lipstick. Perhaps an addiction. Testing the boundaries between fear and temptation, Emily Jenkins takes us on a journey from ordinary physical experiences (going to the dentist, putting on stockings) to extreme ones (snorting heroin, shaving her head). She interviews people whose bodies are radically different from hers and enters communities where people share unusual ideas about physicality. Sometimes you will recognize your own habits. Other times you'll be shocked or repulsed. Always you will find yourself questioning the ordinary things you do, rethinking your relationship to your body.

Tongue First

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Lysander Kemp

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Time of the Hero

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Lawrence Block

Advance Review Copy

THE SCORCHING PULP NOVEL BY LAWRENCE BLOCK, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS! On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide - with fatal results. You'll meet MARTY - the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with... MEG - the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds... LILY - the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by... CASSIE - the redhead with her own private agenda... and WEAVER - the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from the police and determined to go down swinging! This is MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block at his rawest and most visceral, a bloody, bawdy, brutal story of passion and punishment--and of lines that were never meant to be crossed.

Borderline

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E. L. Doctorow

This book is in good condition but the pages on the edge have started to yellow. It is not falling apart though. 

Now A Musical 

Doctorow's big bestseller, made into a major movie and now repackaged, was first published in mass market paper by Bantam.

Ragtime

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Monty Python

Graham Chapman

Eric Idle

Terry Gilliam

Terry Jones

All the Words, Volume 1

Presents the complete scripts of the Monty Python television series, first shown on BBC televison from 1969 to 1974

The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus

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Stephen Colbert

Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't

Covering subjects ranging from health care to the economy to food, Colbert "gives America the dose of truth it needs to get back on the right track it's already on"--Dust jacket flap.

America Again

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