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Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities Julius Greve 9783030281151
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $190.18This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and... -
The Custard Heart Dorothy Parker 9780241339589
RRP: $6.30Booksplease Price: $5.99'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.'Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the edge by the legendary wit Dorothy Parker show the darkness beneath... -
Joytime Killbox by Brian Wood 9781942683919
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.47Brian Wood is an active writer in Rochester's literary community. He is a writing instructor at Writers & Books, where he helped organize the inaugural Ladder Literary Conference in 2018. He also... -
The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $7.98'Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.'Fantastical tales of mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths and bookish mysteries, from the unique imagination of a literary... -
The Vigilante Mr John Steinbeck 9780241338957
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $7.29'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures'One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voyeurism and betrayal in these unforgettable tales of... -
The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $7.29'I have lived in important places, timesWhen great events were decided . . .'By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by... -
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino 9780241339107
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $8.11'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering... -
Uncurating Sound: Knowledge with Voice and Hands by Dr Salomé Voegelin 9781501345418
Booksplease Price: $138.54Uncurating Sound performs, across five chapters, a deliberation between art, politics, knowledge and normativity. It foregrounds the perfidy of norms and engages in the curatorial as a colonial... -
![Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg 9780241337622 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9664649/10681369/9780241337622__57553.1781287665.jpg?c=1 "Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg 9780241337622 [USED COPY]")
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg 9780241337622 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.30Booksplease Price: $4.22'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon... -
![Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King 9780241339466 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9664657/10681377/9780241339466__41913.1781287672.jpg?c=1 "Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King 9780241339466 [USED COPY]")
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King 9780241339466 [USED COPY]
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $5.15'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and... -
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $7.29'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and... -
The Veiled Woman by Anais Nin
Booksplease Price: $7.29'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?'Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writers of... -
Reproductive Acts: Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film by Heather Latimer 9780773541580
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $48.74Forty years after Roe v. Wade, it is evident that the ideologies of "choices" and "rights," which have publicly framed reproductive politics in North America since the landmark legal decision, have... -
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $7.29'To create today is to create dangerously'Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied... -
Notes from the Sick Room by Steve Finbow
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Notes from the Sick Room takes place in an imaginary hospital that bends the rules of time and space. Within its wards and departments we meet artists, musicians and writers who have suffered from... -
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Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? by Hans Fallada 9780241339244 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.30Booksplease Price: $4.03'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the... -
The American Weird: Concept and Medium by Dr Julius Greve 9781350141193
Booksplease Price: $235.47Hitherto classified as a form of genre fiction, or as a particular aesthetic quality of literature by H. P. Lovecraft, the weird has now come to refer to a broad spectrum of artistic practices and... -
The Red Tenda of Bologna by John Berger
Booksplease Price: $7.29'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.'A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the... -
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg
Booksplease Price: $7.29'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon... -
Piers of the Homeless Night by Jack Kerouac
Booksplease Price: $7.29'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.Penguin Modern: fifty... -
Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
Booksplease Price: $7.29'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house'Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature.Penguin Modern:... -
Acting Out In Groups by Laurence A. Rickels 9780816633210
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20Examines outrageous public behavior and what it can tell us about cultural and political change.The International Psychoanalytic Congress gathered in 1967 to define the clinical concept of "acting... -
The Duke in His Domain by Truman Capote
Booksplease Price: $6.80Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres of enlightenment where they, to his regret, did not.This mesmerizing... -
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $6.30'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan... -
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry
Booksplease Price: $7.29'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can'The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly.Penguin... -
I Have More Souls Than One by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $7.29'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae,... -
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Fame by Andy Warhol 9780241339800 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.30Booksplease Price: $4.14'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away'The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's hilarious and insightful vignettes and aphorisms on the topics of love,... -
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $7.29'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a... -
Madame du Deffand and the Idiots Javier Marias 9780241339480
Booksplease Price: $5.38'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues)... -
The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction by Peter Freese
Booksplease Price: $33.64Collecting twenty essays written by distinguished scholars from the United States and Germany, "The Holodeck in the Garden" offers an informative tour of the complex interrelations between science,... -
Lance Vladimir Nabokov 9780241339527
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $7.29'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real... -
Fame by Andy Warhol
Booksplease Price: $7.29'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away'The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's hilarious and insightful vignettes and aphorisms on the topics of love,... -
Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age: A Century of "Books That Sing" by Justin St. Clair 9781032101705
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Offering both a short history and a theoretical framework, this book is the first extended study of the soundtracked book as a media form. A soundtracked book is a print or digital publication for... -
Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line by Calvin Thomas 9780252065002
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $53.63Calvin Thomas's Male Matters reveals the act and production of writing as a bodily, material process that transgresses the boundaries of gender. Wise and quirky, sophisticated ... -
Of Dogs and Walls by Yuko Tsushima
Booksplease Price: $7.29'Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.'In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images... -
Animal Visions: Posthumanist Dream Writing by Susan Mary Pyke 9783030038762
Booksplease Price: $159.81Animal Visions considers how literature responds to the harms of anthropocentricism, working with Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) and various adaptations of this canonistic novel to show how... -
Three Japanese Short Stories by 9780241339749
Booksplease Price: $6.30'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre... -
Beat Feminisms: Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism by Polina Mackay 9781032160474
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35This is the first book-length study to read women of the Beat Generation as feminist writers. The book focuses on one author from each of the three generations that comprise the groups of female... -
New Media and the Artaud Effect by Jay Murphy 9783030834906
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $128.18This book proposes, following Antonin Artaud, an investigation exploring the virtual body, neurology and the brain as fields of contestation, seeking a clearer understanding of Artaud's... -
The Translating Subject by Melissa Tanti 9780228023975
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.27A recent shift in women's writing toward multilingual poetics opens the potential for such experimental texts to set up innovative terms of engagement that are queer, feminist, transnational, and...