Recent Books

  • Communicating Vessels #19

    Price: $3.00

    Communicating Vessels #19
    In This Issue:
    My Visit to the Portland Art Museum’s Rembrandt Exhibit
    A Critical Look at the Left and Islamic Fundamentalism
    Recommended Reading
    New York eriksonized
    My Experience as a Potential Juror
    Reflections on Literaurte as a Minor Art
    Muddle with the Catheter
    In Praise of Amateur Shakespeare

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  • Communicating Vessels #20

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    Communicating Vessels, #20

    In This Issue:
    Forty Years Since 1968
    Letters Column
    Recommended Reading
    The State of the Book and Bookselling
    Maxwell Street in the Sixties, Maxweell Street Forever!
    Food As Utopia
    An Alchemical Dream
    Fourierism
    How This Was Produced
    Mary Low:The Dream and Memory

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  • Farimani, #1

    Price: $25.00

    Farimani. Issue #1
    Amir Mogharabi, editor

    Showcasing a diverse selection of work from artists, musicians, and theorists, Farimani treats textual, musical, and image based projects as individual works of art. Focusing on modern and post-modern forms of expression, Farimani assumes the design of a book, while attempting to align its contents with the architecture of a curated space (so as to challenge the parameters of both), whereby each piece is contained under one cover, or as Mogharabi states an “undercover museum.”

    Farimani includes contributions by artists Silvia Kolbowski and Olafur Eliasson, musicians Fred Frith and Ikue Mori, and theorists Félix Guattari and Slavoj Zizek. Other contributors include Souheil Abboud, Olafur Eliasson, Madge Gill, Elizabeth Grosz, Grux, Sylvère Lotringer, Amir Mogharabi, Ikue Mori, Michael Paulson, Sean Raspet, and Maja Ratkje.

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  • Novels in Three Lines

    Price: $14.00

    Novels in Three Lines
    Félix Fénéon
    Translated and Introduced by Luc Sante
    Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English, is the work of the mysterious Félix Fénéon. Dandy, anarchist, and critic of genius, the discoverer of Georges Seurat and the first French publisher of James Joyce, Fénéon carefully maintained his own anonymity, toiling for years as an obscure clerk in the French War Department. Novels in Three Lines is his secret chef-d’oeuvre, a work of strange and singular art that brings back the long-ago year of 1906 with the haunting immediacy of a photograph while looking forward to such disparate works as Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project and the Death and Disaster series of Andy Warhol....

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  • Haymarket

    Price: $16.95

    Haymarket
    A Novel
    Martin Duberman
    Synopsis

    This stunning novel is more than a moving story of love and human struggle, more than a faithful account of a watershed event in United States history. It is a layered and dynamic revelation of late nineteenth-century Chicago, and of the lives of a handful of remarkable individuals who were willing to risk their lives for the promise of social change.

    On the night of May 4, 1886, during a peaceful demonstration of labor activists in Haymarket Square in Chicago, a dynamite bomb was thrown into the ranks of police -trying to disperse the crowd. The officers immediately opened fire, killing a number of protestors and wounding some two hundred others. At a time of bitter class war and a groundswell of working-class radicalism, the Haymarket Riot produced a wave of hysteria across the nation, leading to the trial and hanging of the leaders of the anarchist/socialist movement....

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  • Hotel of Irrevocable Acts

    Price: $15.95

    The Hotel of Irrevocable Acts
    A Novel
    Carl Watson
    In the warped underworld of Uptown Chicago, two petty thieves, Jack and Vince — Dostoevskyan in their criminal use of philosophy, exalting in the stealing of art as the highest human act — meet their target, their nemesis and their double: Madame Little-Ease, a Satanic Grandma Moses, who paints on refuse with polluted blood.

    “Carl Watson is a true visionary and an artist of letters, who also happens to be a pure pleasure to read.” — John Strausbaugh

    “Carl Watson gets the hiphop of the mind in the electro-apocalypse of multinational succubi…. He gets the rhythm of it, he gets its deep logic, he gets the insidiousness of its twining round the DNA of our zombie era of consumerist oubliette. Read this book if you want to tune in to the real game going on in the back of your head: the nightmare lives,...

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