There is a doomed, gloomy, yet ethereal feeling to GHOST VARIATIONS. As the photographer walks with a crude black-and-white instant film camera through the California desert at night, the camera’s harsh flash illuminates scrub brush, rising rocks, v...
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“How can an artist so original, so thrillingly indifferent to convention and the tyranny of good taste — let alone one so prescient — remain untranslated and unread?” — Parul Sehgal, NY Times ARTHUR’S WHIMS is the tale of “a modern saint,” a love s...
Fiction. Translated by Douglas Robertson. THE CHEAP-EATERS have been eating at the Vienna Public Kitchen for years, and true to their name, always the cheapest meals. They become the focus of Koller's scientific attention when he deviates one day fr...
Literary Nonfiction. Photography. RIVIERA documents the eerie fragments of existence left behind in one city. John Brian King photographed RIVIERA from 2016 to 2018 in Palm Springs, California, and its surroundings; a full-time resident at the time,...
Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Autobiography. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Witches' Sabbath is the remarkable autobiographical chronicle of French author Maurice Sachs (1906–1945). To Sachs, the work was "a statement of accou...
Poetry. California Interest. Music. Toy Fabels is Cass McCombs' debut poetry collection. Reading Toy Fabels feels like traveling through McCombs' singular itinerant experiences—high and low voices merge, as childhood and adulthood, the east and west...
Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Political Theory. Crime. Edited by John Brian King. DEATH TO THE FASCIST INSECT is a compilation of the writings and transcribed recordings of the Symbionese Liberation Ar...
Fiction. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Luigi Pirandello's extraordinary final novel begins when Vitangelo Moscarda's wife remarks that Vitangelo's nose tilts to the right. This commonplace interaction spurs the novel’s unemployed, w...
Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Women's Studies. Film. Memoir. THE BIG LOVE is a Hollywood nightmare. It tells the story of Errol Flynn—a fading, alcoholic movie star—and the underage dancer-actress Beverly Aadland. The narrator? Beverly A...
Literary Nonfiction. This is an intimate, stunning look at the torturous relationship of two writers: Marjorie Worthington and William Seabrook. A renowned writer on the exotic and the occult, Seabrook was an extraordinary figure from the 1920s to t...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Autobiography. Translated from the French by Richard Sieburth, with a foreword by Maurice Blanchot. Hailed as an "important literary document and contemporary pleasure" by Lydia Davis, NIGHTS AS DAY, DAYS AS NIGHT is a c...