Empire of the Senseless

Kathy Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own ruins.

Elephant Rocks

“The music of these poems is every bit as seductive as their reasoning. Her thinking flaunts the plush, irresistible textures of organic growth; we’d no sooner disagree with it than…

Eighty-Sixed

“Wickedly fun . . . [Eighty-Sixed] stands out for its frankness, ferocious wit and total lack of sentimentality or self-pity. . . . A harrowing first-person account of gay life…

Endpapers

A sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt Wolff

Dream Work

“Oliver’s poems are thoroughly convincing–as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring.” –The New York Times Book Review…

Doctor Sax

From the most famous of the Beat writers, the semi-autobiographical novel of growing up between dreams and nightmares in early twentieth century Massachusetts, now reissued following Kerouac’s centenary celebration…

Death in a Strange Country

“This series has become one of the adornments of current crime fiction. A gem.” —The Scotsman…

Auto da Fay

“All the characteristics of Weldon’s fiction–stinging wit, jaunty prose, memorable bon mots–are present in this kaleidoscope peregrination through six decades of picaresque adventures. . . . [Weldon’s] own life has…

Hiroshima Mon Amour

The End of Vandalism

“Brilliant, wonderfully funny . . . It’s hard to think of any novel—let alone a first novel—in which you can hear the people so well. This is indeed deadpan humor,…