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The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews by Jean Genet
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.30This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the... -
The Gus Van Sant Touch: A Thematic Study--Drugstore Cowboy, Milk and Beyond Justin Vicari 9780786471836
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.27Beloved, controversial, influential, the creator of such fascinating and award-winning films as My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Elephant, and Milk, Gus Van Sant stands among the great... -
Junky by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60'Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life'William Burroughs, legendary drug addict, founder member of the Beats and author of... -
The Consul: Vol II: Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time by Ralph Rumney 9781859843956
Booksplease Price: $20.91Throughout his adventurous life, Raloh Rumney was in constant flight from the wreckage of postwar Europe. Crossing paths every avante-garde of the past fifty years, he was one of the founding members... -
New Flesh, The: Life and Death in the Data Economy Adam C. Jones 9781803416120
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55From social media to so-called AI , from cyberpunk society to automated apartheid, The New Flesh asks and answers the same questions: What does it mean to live in an increasingly online world and... -
Point of View: Me, New York City and the Punk Scene by Chris Stein
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $46.83A new collection of unseen photographs of New York City's 1970s punk heyday, by one of the icons of the city's golden age of new wave, Blondie's Chris Stein.A new collection of unseen photographs of... -
Interzone by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Interzone portrays the development of Burroughs's mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s. His outrageous tone of voice represents the exorcism of four decades of... -
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1950-2013 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9781631495946
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.49Lawrence Ferlinghetti-legendary poet and best-selling author-collects here his travel journals. Traversing the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, Writing Across the Landscape... -
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2013 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9781631490019
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.94Lawrence Ferlinghetti-legendary poet and best-selling author-collects here his travel journals. Traversing the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, Writing Across the Landscape... -
The French Genealogy of the Beat Generation: Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's Appropriations of Modern Literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux by Veronique Lane 9781501352003
Booksplease Price: $47.01The Francophilia of the Beat circle in the New York of the mid-1940s is well known, as is the importance of the Beat Hotel in the Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but how exactly did French... -
Does the Weather Really Matter?: The Social Implications of Climate Change by William James Burroughs 9780521017442
Booksplease Price: $45.76* What has been the real impact of past weather extremes (e.g. cold winters, droughts, floods, heatwaves and hurricanes) on historic events? * Is the frequency and impact of weather extremes... -
Does the Weather Really Matter?: The Social Implications of Climate Change by William James Burroughs 9780521561266
Booksplease Price: $109.22* What has been the real impact of past weather extremes (e.g. cold winters, droughts, floods, heatwaves and hurricanes) on historic events? * Is the frequency and impact of weather extremes... -
Crooked Little Vein: A Novel by Warren Ellis 9780061252051
Booksplease Price: $15.93A burned-out private detective is enlisted by an army of presidential goons to retrieve the U.S. Constitution...the real one.About the AuthorWarren Ellis is one of the most prolific, read, and... -
Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu by Edgar Garcia 9780226658971
Booksplease Price: $115.84Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia... -
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.91'One of the most true, comic and grizzly journeys in American literature' Time Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the... -
Jeff Nuttall: Anything But Dull by E. Karthikeya 9781680536744
Booksplease Price: $59.71Jeff Nuttall: Anything But Dull is the first full-length biography of the poet, performance artist, provocateur, and polymath Jeff Nuttall, who famously wrote "I paint poems, sing sculptures, draw... -
Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present by Len Gutkin 9780813943893
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $63.56The "dandy," a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Proust's Recherche, reverberates in surprising corners of twentieth- and... -
Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present by Len Gutkin 9780813943909
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.30The "dandy," a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Proust's Recherche, reverberates in surprising corners of twentieth- and... -
The Sweet Smell of Pyschosis by Will Self 9780802136473
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $13.70I received William Burroughs's seminal (in more sense than one!) novel Naked Lunch as a form prize when I was fifteen. I read it with a distinct sense of horripilation, as if the vile secretions it... -
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political... -
Rub Out the Words: Letters 1959-1974 by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the Beat Generation. Written mostly to Ginsberg or Kerouac, the letters provide a... -
Swan Songs by Lee Scott
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35"Unfortunately making the greatest rap album of all time was to be put on hold as the insidious Job Centre advisors had finally had enough of my shit. I would be forced to sign up to one of the... -
Visionary Fictions: Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age by Edward J. Ahearn 9780300184068
Booksplease Price: $34.02"Visionary" writers, says Edward Ahearn in this original book, seek a personal way to explode the normal experience of the "real," using prophetic visions, fantastic tales, insane rantings,... -
Perversion and the Social Relation: sic IV by Molly Anne Rothenberg 9780822330974
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95The masochist, the voyeur, the sadist, the sodomite, the fetishist, the pedophile, and the necrophiliac all expose hidden but essential elements of the social relation. Arguing that the concept of... -
Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man's face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of himself; a Colonel lays... -
Red Line by Charles Bowden 9781477316610
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23"At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book." -David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Charles Bowden's... -
Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu by Edgar Garcia
Booksplease Price: $34.42Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia... -
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91William Burroughs' work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, The Job lays out his... -
On the Road by Jack Kerouac 9780241552643
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Jack Kerouac's Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics editionOn the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs,... -
Theatre of the Gods by M. Suddain
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $17.04This is the story of M. Francisco Fabrigas, explorer, philosopher, heretical physicist, who took a shipful of children on a frightening voyage to the next dimension, assisted by a teenaged Captain, a... -
Ideal Minds: Raising Consciousness in the Antisocial Seventies by Michael Trask 9781501752438
RRP: $149.64Booksplease Price: $120.00Following the 1960s, that decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics. The mind's powers came to preoccupy a range of... -
Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form by David J. Alworth 9780691164496
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $52.15Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites--supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums--that have been... -
Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film by Peter Wollen 9781859843918
Booksplease Price: $32.51In this new collection of essays on film, all written over the last ten years, Peter Wollen explores an extraordinarily wide range of topics, stretching from an analysis of 'Time in Film and Video... -
Palma Africana by Michael Taussig 9780226515946
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.72"It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist's dream." So begins Palma Africana, the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig... -
New Media and the Artaud Effect by Jay Murphy 9783030834906
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $78.74This 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... -
Ideal Minds: Raising Consciousness in the Antisocial Seventies by Michael Trask 9781501764639
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95Following the 1960s, that decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics. The mind's powers came to preoccupy a range of... -
Just Kids: Dyslexia-friendly Edition by Patti Smith 9781526694492
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.59Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: $26.70For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative by Michael Taussig
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the... -
Tony Duvert - Odd Jobs by Tony Duvert 9781939663290
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55This series of 23 satirically scabrous short texts introduces the reader to an imaginary French suburb via the strange, grotesque small-town occupations that defined a once reliable, now presumably...