Recent Books

  • The Ring Wall Map

    Price: $4.95

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  • Film and Video

    Price: $15.95

    Having already published collections of critical essays on fiction, poetry, performance, politics and visual art, Richard Kostelanetz for the first time selects here from his writings on film and video.

    As in earlier volumes, these essays emphasize the primacy of possibilities intrinsic in each medium. Always representing radical alternatives, he writes with uncommon perception not only about familiar issues but about films customarily forgotten, and always with his customary clarity. Also included are prefaces and transcripts from his own films and videos.

    He writes: “Another implicit assumption behind my activity is acknowledging the importance of books in collecting together initially scattered opinions, for I have long contended that the critic who fails to risk publishing books is just a reviewing journalist, or, worse, an opportunist.” Celebrating four decades of book-publishing, he remains a prolific force and a unique independent voice.

    Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz appear in Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians,...

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  • Whore Carnival

    Price: $9.95

    A pungent genealogy of prostitution, linking the ancient Greek hetairai — holy courtesans — to sex-trade workers in our own post-modern Babylon. “Cuntceptual” interviews, essays, photos, graphics, and introductions to magical whores, hustlers, sex artists, porno-politicos, and the orgiastic issues of sexual and social insurrection.

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  • Touch, The

    Price: $9.95

    In this novel, Brownstein’s characters lurk in the shadows of enlightenment. The Touch looks into a new agecommunity that is searching for empowerment and sexuality in a time of AIDS. Enter his dark world, and climbtowards the light on the roof.

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  • Negativeland

    Price: $9.95

    In this rueful tale, written under a simple but pervasive formal constraint, Olympic gold medal winner Ken Honochick and his girlfriend take a cross-country road trip to revisit his brief moment of triumph and his subsequent long haul on the promotions circuit. The result is a smart, flirtatious tour-de-force that’s as funny as it is inventive. Under all the comic gusto and technical virtuosity, however, there’s also some penetrating thought on our country’s obsession with private foibles and public image, individual achievement and the pressure to cash in on it.”A scientist whose experiments are consistently successful acquires the status of genius, and this is the proper status of experimental writer Doug Nufer.” – Harry Mathews “Negativeland is an elegantly constructed novel that peers into the void – masked by plenty of razzle-dazzle – at the heart of contemporary American life. The prose crackles, and the dialogue is spare and sharp. This is a fine book on a society in virtually invisible decline.”...

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  • Millennium

    Price: $8.95

    “The blind panopticon of Capital remains, after all, most vulnerable in the realm of ‘magic’ – the manipulation of images to control events, hermetic ‘action at a distance’.”

    Hakim Bey, Millennium

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