Recent Books

  • The Bookstore Book, by Ron Kolm

    Price: $15.00

    The Bookstore Book, by Ron Kolm

    Ron Kolm has worked in New York City bookstores for over 50 years. He met a number of celebrities while working in various stores over the years, among them Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and the former Governor of California, Jerry Brown, who figure in pieces in the book.

    ISBN: 978-1-66640-206-3
    Paperbound, 98 pages, $15.00

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  • 2024 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium!

    Price: $10.00

    2024 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium!
    Artwork by James Koehnline and Text by the Sacred Congregation for Universal Jubilation

    Now in Full Color! Autonomedia’s Jubilee Saints Calendar for 2024! Our 32nd annual wall calendar. Hundreds of radical cultural and political heroes are celebrated here, along with the animating ideas that continue to guide this project a reprieve from the 500-year-long sentence to life-at-hard-labor that the European colonization of the New World and the ensuing devastations of the rest of the world has represented. It is increasingly clear at the dawn of this new millennium that the Planetary Work Machine will not rule forever! Celebrate with this calendar on which every day is a holiday!

    ISBN: 9781570275237
    Saddlestitched, full color, 16″x11.75″, 32 pages, $10
    But two, get one free!

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  • In the Beginning: Essay-Poems and Others, by Kirkpatrick Sale

    Price: $14.95

    In the Beginning: Essay-Poems and Others, by Kirkpatrick Sale

    In this ground-breaking book, Kirkpatrick Sale, the author of sixteen previous books of prose, explores a new artform: the essay-poem. Selecting key sections from his various books, Sale has turned them into poems in iambic pentameter, verses that retain the original insights but which are here presented in a smooth and rhythmical form. Also included are some new and uncollected standard poems.

    “Kirkpatrick Sale is one of those writers whose pen will always set the imaginaton alight regardless of his topic.” — Fourth World Review

    “The author’s lucid, rigorous prose is a delight, whether he is narrating perilous passages… or steering us through the hazards of learned disputes.” — The New Yorker

    “His topics of concern are broad and expansive, just as they always bring the reader back to basic valuing of community, nature and sustainability. Honest, forthright, and so clear in his perception that you can’t help but be affected by them.” — Chellis Glendinning

    “Sale is an invaluable guide and teacher.” — The Economist

    “If it’s radical and leading edge,...

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  • On the Films of the Victor Jara Collective, Lewanne Jones, editor

    Price: $10.00

    This volume collects documents related to the two documentary films about Guyana and Walter Rodney produced by members of the Victor Jara Collective: “The Terror and the Time” and “In the Sky’s Wild Noise.” It includes the poems of Martin Carter from the films, interviews, reviews, images, personal statements from Collective members, and more.

    ISBN:978-1570274213
    8.5 x 11 inches, 42 pages, paperbound, $10

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  • The Reservoir: Communion, by Woodbine

    Price: $12.00

    “Either we submit to the dissociative logic of the web, or we turn to forms of defending embodied life.”

    Communion is the second issue of Woodbine’s printed journal The Reservoir, featuring new texts by Kazembe Balagun, Elizabeth Povinelli, Geert Lovink, Kristin Ross, Experimental Jetset, and Marcello Tarì, as well as a previously unpublished interview with Félix Guattari.

    From the introduction: “The theme for this issue, Belief and the Communal, was a question to ourselves – not just a documentation of who and what we are, but a critical consideration of who we would like to be. To speak of belief carries with it the sense not just of logic but of faith. History tells us that successful experiments in communal life often have an organizing belief. They have a shared faith. But when our structures of life are oriented around the instrumental and utilitarian, the non-religious and secular, how can we re-enchant the world,...

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  • Roll Over Picasso: E. F. Higgins III, His Life, Art, Legend, by Istvan Kantor

    Price: $17.95

    Roll Over Picasso is Istvan Kantor’s third major biographic account narrating the legends of artists emerging from the 80s New York Underground, in the pre-gentrified, wild, anti-authoritarian territory of the Lower East Side. Kantor’s main focus is on the insurgent street artist gang of the Rivington School of which E.F. Higgins III was a founding member: visionary graffiti artists; welders; noise makers; beer drinkers; ardent guerrilla fighters striving against conformist museum art. The 80s Lower East Side was the birthplace of legends. Among the ruined buildings, surrounded by misery and decay, a new spirit of desire burst forth. Fires burned in oil drums nourished by art history books; sparks from welding torches covered the ground; rough-looking lads and filthy gals were beating trashcans to death. Sirens of firetrucks added to the noise. That’s where E.F. Higgins III found himself a new living/working territory to manifest his eccentric and divine ‘wingnut’ ideas and start his Doo Da Post mail-art crusade....

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