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List created by mayorsonni on Feb 24, 2016
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Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
A reissue of the extraordinarily revealing interviews with Francis Bacon conducted by Sylvester over a period of 25 years. They amount to a unique statement by Bacon on his art, and on art in general.


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Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
'Buy, borrow or beg Keith Waterhouse's outstanding new novel. I can't recommend it too highly. Waterhouse has an uncanny gift for recapturing every attitude, agony and phrase of childhood and youth.' - Daily Mirror 'I wished I'd written Keith Waterhouse's first novel; and now, even more, I...  more


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Room at the Top by John Braine
"Remember the name John Braine. You'll be hearing quite a lot about him. Room at the Top is his first novel and it is a remarkable one . . . it's a long time since we heard the hunger of youth really snarling and it's a good sound to hear again." - Sunday Times "The most discussed, debated...  more


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On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious by Douglas Harding
On Having No Head was first published in 1961. Since then, it has become a modern spiritual classic. "Headlessness" is the feeling of no-self, which mystics of all times have aspired to. It is an instantaneous way of "waking up" and becoming more aware of one's true self. Simple exercises help...  more


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Kafka Was the Rage : A Greenwich Village Memoir by Anatole Broyard
What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dapper, earnest, fledgling avant-gardist, intoxicated by books, sex, and the neighborhood that offered both in such...  more


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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Told by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism.Anthony Burgess' 1963 classic stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a classic of...  more


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City of night by John Rechy
John Rechy, recipient of the Publishing Triangle?s William Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award, wrote City of Night in 1963. This radical and daring work, which launched Rechy?s reputation as one of America?s most courageous novelists, remains the classic document of the garish neon-lit world...  more


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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But...  more


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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert & Lowell Bair (Translator) & Leo Bersani (E...
This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and...  more


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The Iliad by Homer & Robert Fagles (Translator)
This timeless poem -- more than 2,700 years old -- still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Readers of this epic poem will be gripped by...  more


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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, in the town of her choice. The story is told by each family member -- including Addie herself. Faulkner's use of multiple viewpoints to reveal the inner...  more


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Complete Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo
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Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Doblin & Eugene Jol...
Alfred Doblin (1878-1957) studied medicine in Berlin and specialized in the treatment of nervous diseases. Along with his experiences as a psychiatrist in the workers' quarter of Berlin, his writing was inspired by the work of Holderlin, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and was first published in...  more


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Inside the Whale and Other Essays (Twentieth Century Classics) by George Orwell
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Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
First published in 1933, the novel portrays a series of encounters in Berlin between the narrator and the camp and mildly sinister Mr. Norris. Evoking the atmosphere in Berlin during the rise of the Nazis, the novel has achieved the status of a modern classic.


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Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art by James Hall
The understanding and enjoyment of a work of art depends as much on the story it depicts as on the artist?s execution of it. But what were once biblical or classical commonplaces are not so readily recognizable today. This book relates in a succinct and readable way the themes, sacred and...  more


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David Bomberg by Richard Cork
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Blast 1 by Wyndham Lewis & Paul Edwards (Introduction)
In December 1913, Ezra Pound wrote to William Carlos Williams calling the London art/literary scene ''The Vortex.'' Wyndham Lewis in turn appropriated the term to christen his budding movement in the arts, ''Vorticism.'' Vorticism was baptized on June 20, 1914 in the first issue of BLAST, A...  more


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Passing by Nella Larsen
Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American...  more


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Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective by Arthur C. Da...
In this collection of interconnected essays, Arthur C. Danto argues that Andy Warhol's Brillo Box of 1964 brought the established trajectory of Westen art to an end and gave rise to a pluralism which has changed the way art is made, perceived, and exhibited. Wonderfully illuminating and...  more


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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes &...
At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this...  more


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In Bluebeard's Castle : Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture by George Stei...
The author presents a penetrating analysis of the collapse of Western culture during the last half of the twentieth century.


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Hawksmoor (Penguin Decades) by Peter Ackroyd
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark...  more


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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R.D. Laing
First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with, psychiatrist R. D. Laing argued that psychosis is not a medical condition but an outcome of the...  more


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The Stranger by Albert Camus & Matthew Ward (Translator)
Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's first novel, THE STRANGER (L'etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun drenched Algerian beach,...  more


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Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman
"[T]his delightful roman à clef about the Harlem Renaissance reflects . . . many of the competing notions of its time ? between the masses and individuality, between art and uplift, between civilization and primitivism, between separatism and assimilation." ? Kirkus Reviews This minor classic of...  more


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The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
When The Quest for Christa T. was first published in East Germany ten years ago, there was an immediate storm: bookshops in East Berlin were given instructions to sell it only to well-known customers professionally involved in literary matters; at the annual meeting of East German Writers...  more


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The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin - author of In Patagonia - ventures into the desolate land of Outback Australia to learn the meaning of the Aboriginals' ancient "Dreaming-tracks."  Along these timeless paths, amongst the fortune hunters and redneck Australians, racist policemen and mysterious...  more


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Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan ... or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist,...  more


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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov & Richard Pevear (Translator) & ...
Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts--one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow--the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms,...  more


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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel (P.S.) by Muriel Spark
At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her...  more


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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth...  more


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Herzog (Penguin Classics Deluxe) by Saul Bellow
In time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Noble Prize winner?s finest achievements This is the story of Moses Herzog—a great sufferer, joker, mourner, charmer, serial writer of unsent letters, and a survivor, both of his private disasters and those of the age. Winner of the National...  more


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Puckoon by Spike Milligan
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Black Boy: American Hunger: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright
Originally published in 1945, this autobiography -- the story of Wright's Southern childhood, up to the time when he left Memphis for Chicago -- is considered by many critics to be his most important work. Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and...  more


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The Great Gatsby (Collins Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
'I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there.' After the war, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to...  more


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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Vintage Classics) by Yukio Mishima
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first;...  more


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Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, Darkness At Noon, is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s. During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging...  more


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The Waste Land and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by T. S. Eliot
A superb collection of 25 works features the poet’s masterpiece, "The Waste Land"; the complete Prufrock ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," "Mr. Apollinax," "Morning at the Window," and others); and the complete Poems ("Gerontion,"...  more


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McTeague : A Story of San Francisco (Twentieth Century Classics) by Frank Norris
McTeague created a literary sensation when it first appeared in 1899. Critics hailed Frank Norris as the "American Zola" for his gritty tale of greed and violence set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Yet the novel's ultrarealistic portrayal of the rise and fall of a simpleminded dentist and...  more


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Money: A Suicide Note(Penguin Ink) by Martin Amis
Hailed as "a sprawling, fierce, vulgar display" (The New Republic) and "exhilarating, skillful, savvy" (The Times Literary Supplement) when it made its first appearance in the mid- 1980s, Money is Martin Amis's hilarious portrait of one man's relentless pursuit of pleasure.


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The Outsider (Tarcher Cornerstone Editions) by Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson's classic exploration of the rebel as genius, with a new introduction by Gary Lachman. When the upstart English writer Colin Wilson debuted on the literary scene with The Outsider in 1956, it marked one of the opening notes of the cultural revolution of the sixties. Wilson...  more


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Strange People by Frank Edwards
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English Journey by J.B. Priestley
75 years on from the publication of this classic Priestley travelogue, its text has particular resonance in these modern times. In 1934, JB Priestley published an account of his journey through England from Southampton to the Black Country, to the North East and Newcastle, to Norwich and home....  more


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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Ignatius J. Reilly, a grossly overweight medieval scholar who lives with his mother, is forced to seek employment when she can no longer tolerate his laziness. His disdainful encounters with the modern culture of New Orleans, his habitual misunderstanding of its inhabitants (some of them no less...  more


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The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
"The Day of the Locust" is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathaniel West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful,...  more


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1984 by George Orwell
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "Negative Utopia"--a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is...  more


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The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Quasar of Rock by Charles White
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Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn
Written in 1968 and revised in 1972, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom was the first book to celebrate the language and the primal essence of rock 'n' roll. But it was much more than that. It was a cogent history of an unruly era, from the rise of Bill Haley to the death of Jimi Hendrix. And while...  more


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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition by Greil Marcu...
In 1975, Greil Marcus?s Mystery Train changed the way readers thought about rock ?n? roll and continues to be sought out today by music fans and anyone interested in pop culture. Looking at recordings by six key artists—Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and...  more


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White Noise by Don DeLillo
This is the story of a college professor and his family whose small Midwestern town is evacuated after an industrial accident. . . . Jack Gladney is a professor of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill.This is an America where no one is responsible or in control; all are receptors, receivers...  more


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Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guralnick
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Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition by John Cage
Silence, John Cage?s first book and epic masterpiece, was published in October 1961. In these lectures, scores, and writings, Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing that comes from ideas, is not about them, but that produces them. Often these writings include mesostics and essays...  more


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Writers at Work: The Paris Interviews by Malcolm Cowley (ed.)
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The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll by Charlie Gillett
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Octobriana and the Russian underground by Peter Sadecky
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Street by Ann Petry
THE STREET tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork, The...  more


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Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
At once a deft parody of the American fame factory and a piercing portrait of young and old desire, this novel introduces two unforgettable characters: Grady Tripp, a former publishing prodigy now lost in a fog of pot and passion and stalled in the midst of his endless second book, and...  more


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Last Exit to Brooklyn (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) by Hubert Selby Jr.
Last Exit To Brooklyn is a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens and prostitutes. An unforgettable cast of characters inhabits the housing projects, bars and streets of Brooklyn: Georgette, a hopelessly romantic and tormented transvestite; Vinnie, a disaffected...  more


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A People's History of the United States : 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working...  more


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The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape...  more


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Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
A witty, sometimes curmudgeonly, often helpful look at various fads, crazes, morals, fashions, and mores in America today ranges from comments on good weather to a pontifical guide for the truly ambitious.


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The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard?s magnificent trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, was the most keenly awaited and successful drama of 2007. Now ?Stoppard?s crowning achievement? (David Cote, Time Out New York) has been collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author, and includes the definitive text used...  more


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The Bridge: A Poem by Hart Crane
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All the Emperor's Horses by David Kidd
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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty...  more


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Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess' epic masterpiece follows the lives of two men who each represent different kinds of earthly power. Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist, world-famous homosexual, and a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honoured, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of...  more


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The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A., Bk 1) by John Dos Passos
With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own little corners," John Dos Passos was...  more


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Tales of Beatnik Glory by Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders's mock-heroic (and heroic) odyssey follows poet, filmmaker, and activist Sam Thomas, editor of Dope, Fucking, and Social Change, and a variegated cast of castoffs, dropouts, peaceniks, freakniks, and mendicant filthniks, from Kansas through the beatnik and hippie countercultures of...  more


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The Bird Artist (Canadian Trilogy, Bk 1) by Howard Norman
Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has...  more


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Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey
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Before the Deluge : A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s by Otto Friedrich
A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.


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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene ...
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The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford
"Mitford's funny and unforgiving book is the best memento mori we are likely to get.  It should be updated and reissued each decade for our spiritual health."--The New York Review of BooksOnly the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of...  more


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In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Ca...
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the...  more


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Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by D.H. Lawrence
One of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned in England and the United States after its initial publication in 1928. The unexpurgated edition did not appear in America until 1959, after one of the most spectacular legal battles in...  more


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Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945 by Jon Savage
In his previous landmark book on youth culture and teen angst, the award-winning England?s Dreaming, Jon Savage presented the ?definitive history of the English punk movement? (The New York Times). Now, in Teenage, he explores the secret prehistory of a phenomenon we thought we knew, in a...  more


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Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh's second novel, VILE BODIES, is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us to society as it used to be but that now is gone forever, and probably for good. Improbably, this is a love story in which Adam Fenwick-Symes, a destitute young writer, hungers for Nina Blount,...  more


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The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Oakley Packard
"One of the best books around for demystifying the deliberately mysterious arts of advertising."--Salon "Fascinating, entertaining and thought-stimulating."--The New York Times Book Review"A brisk, authoritative and frightening report on how manufacturers, fundraisers and politicians are...  more


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The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) by James Baldwin
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial...  more


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Selected Poems by Frank O'Hara
The first new selection of O?Hara?s work to come along in several decades. In this ?marvellous compilation? (The New Yorker), editor Mark Ford reacquaints us with one of the most joyous and innovative poets of the postwar period.


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The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
"If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame." Forget Pinochet, Milosevic, Hussein, Kim...  more


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Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters.


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Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautreamont by Comte de Lautreamont &am...
André Breton described Maldoror as "the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential." Little is known about its pseudonymous author, aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay (1846) and early death in Paris (1870)....  more


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On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "beat" and has...  more


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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder : Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Othe...
Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder...  more


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Zanoni (Forgotten Books) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Zanoni is an 1842 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton This piece of literature describes a fascinating story of love and occult aspiration. The plot is as follows: Zanoni, timeless Rosicrucian brother, falls in love with Viola Pisani, promising young and beautiful singer, daughter of Pisani,...  more


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Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Levi
2011 Reprint of 1958 London Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is Levi's first treatise on magic and was translated into English by Arthur Edward Waite as "Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual". Its famous opening...  more


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The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
A provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.


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The Leopard (revised) (Vintage Classics) by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
Lampedusa's masterpiece, one of the finest works of twentieth century fiction, is set amongst an aristocratic family, facing social and political changes in the wake of Garibaldi's invasion of Sicily in 1860. At the head of the family is the prince, Don Fabrizio. Proud and stubborn, he is...  more


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The Inferno by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Translator) & Dante Alighieri & Gu...
Dante's masterpiece of medieval literature contains many levels of meaning, including the literal (Dante's trip through hell, purgatory, and paradise); the allegorical (the progression of the soul toward goodness); and the moral (what it takes to lead a good life). Dante's great...  more


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The Insult (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) by Rupert Thomson
"We are in the dark side of the brain--full of grief and deliciously strange comedy. I've never read anything like it." --Michael OndaatjeWith this eerie, provocative, and utterly original novel, Rupert Thomson takes the psychological thriller into unexplored territory. Martin Blom is walking...  more


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In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorCall them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable.


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A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
It is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider the Russian Revolution to be the most...  more


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Journey into the Whirlwind (Helen and Kurt Wolff Books) by Eugenia Ginzburg
Both witness to and victim of Stalin’s reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia’s prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book


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Comment added 2/24/16 by mayorsonni:
Not included in this PBS list: Beano (comic, '50s), Raw (comic, '80s), Vic (comic, early '80s), Private Eye (satirical magazine, '60s - 80s), A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno