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Can a breakup break you apart? In "Self-Titled", Geoffrey Brown stares into a mirror and writes what he sees, what he thinks, what he feels. The result? A self-portrait that's at once comic and psychotic, a complex consciousness captured in crystalline prose. Memories, manias, miasmas - Brown morphs the machinery of his mind into an utterly original entity, equal parts diary, criminal confession, sex manual and... (more)

The Europe of Trusts

by Susan Howe

Unavailable for years, The Europe of Trusts contains some of the most acclaimed poetry of Susan Howe, "one of America's foremost experimental writers" ( Publishers Weekly ). The Europe of Trusts contains three brilliant, landmark books which Susan Howe first published in the early 1980s: The Liberties, Pythagorean Silence , and Defenestration of Prague . These are the books—following her volumes from the... (more)

Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation (Black Ice Books)

Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation (Black Ice Books)

A collection of innovative fiction, comic book art, illustrations and other text by the most radical of the postmodern new wave.

Reader's Block (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))

Reader's Block (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))

by David Markson

In this spellbinding, utterly unconventional fiction, an aging author who is identified only as Reader contemplates the writing of a novel. As he does, other matters insistently crowd his mind—literary and cultural anecdotes, endless quotations attributed and not, scholarly curiosities—the residue of a lifetime's reading which is apparently all he has to show for his decades on earth. Out of these unlikely yet... (more)

The Last Novel

by David Markson

In recent novels, which have been called “hypnotic,” “stunning,” and “exhilarating,” David Markson has created his own personal genre. In this new work, The Last Novel, an elderly author (referred to only as “Novelist”) announces that since this will be his final effort, he has “carte blanche to do anything he damned well pleases.” Pressed by solitude and age, Novelist's preoccupations inevitably turn to the... (more)

Dark Labyrinth

by Lawrence Durrell

Here it is - your last chance to exchange new stock for old with our third and final Faber stock amnesty. The titles listed in this promotion have all been selected for a new look because of their enduring popularity on the Faber backlist, and include the work of bestselling authors such as Barbara Kingsolver, Lawrence Durrell, Lorrie Moore and the perenially popular Jo Connolly. As with previous Faber Stock... (more)

Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: Biology, Physics, and Change in Science

Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: Biology, Physics, and Change in Science

by Park Doing

After World War II, particle physics became a dominant research discipline in American academia. At many universities, alumni of the Manhattan Project and of Los Alamos were granted resources to start (or strengthen) programs of high-energy physics built around the promise of a new and more powerful particle accelerator, the synchrotron. The synchrotron was also a source of very intense x-rays, useful for research... (more)

On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton (Writing Art)

On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton (Writing Art)

by Hollis Frampton

As Hollis Frampton's photographs and celebrated experimental films were testing the boundaries of the camera arts in the 1960s and 1970s, his provocative and highly literate writings were attempting to establish an intellectually resonant form of discourse for these critically underexplored fields. It was a time when artists working in diverse disciplines were beginning to pick up cameras and produce films and... (more)

Barefoot in the HeadBrian Aldiss

Barefoot in the Head

by Brian Aldiss

TloothHarry Mathews

Tlooth

by Harry Mathews

Waiting for GodotSamuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

by Samuel Beckett

The Nonexistant Knight and The Cloven Viscount

The Nonexistant Knight and The Cloven Viscount

by Italo Calvino

Two novellas: the first, a parody of medieval knighthood told by a nun; the second, a fantasy about a nobleman bisected into his good and evil halves. “Bravura pieces... executed with brilliance and brio”(Chicago Tribune). Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989

by Samuel Beckett

Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett is one of the most profoundly original writers of our century. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction as the "important writing, " the medium in which his ideas were most powerfully distilled. Here, for the first time, his short prose is gathered in a definitive, complete volume by leading Beckett scholar S.E.

The Wild Boys : A Book of the Dead

by William S. Burroughs

The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

Novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. The sprawling narrative comprises numerous threads having to do either directly or tangentially with the secret development and deployment of a rocket by the Nazis near the end of World War II. Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop is an American working for Allied Intelligence in London. Agents of the Firm, a clandestine military organization, are investigating an apparent... (more)

Se Una Notte D'inverno Un Viaggiatore

by Italo Calvino

Orlando : a biography

by Mark Hussey, Virginia Woolf

Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, Orlando is one of Woolf's most popular and entertaining works. This new annotated edition will deepen readers'... (more)