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        Hervelino

        Hervelino

        Hervelino

        by Mathieu Lindon

        Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman

        ISBN: 9781635901702

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: October 25, 2022

        On Hervé Guibert and the difficulty of writing and speaking about someone beloved and revered.
        Letters to Eugène

        Letters to Eugène

        Letters to Eugène

        Correspondence 1977–1987

        by Hervé Guibert and Eugène Savitzkaya

        Translated by Christine Pichini

        ISBN: 9781635901726

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: October 25, 2022

        Hervé Guibert's incandescent correspondence with Belgian poet Eugène Savitzkaya.
        The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat

        The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat

        The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat

        by Michel Leiris

        Foreword by Marc Augé

        Translated by Christine Pichini

        ISBN: 9781635900842

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: July 2, 2019

        Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane.
        Appendix Project

        Appendix Project

        Appendix Project

        Talks and Essays

        by Kate Zambreno

        ISBN: 9781635900767

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: April 23, 2019

        On the ongoing project of writing about grief; Zambreno's addendum to Book of Mutter.
        The Surrender of Silence

        The Surrender of Silence

        The Surrender of Silence

        A Memoir of Ironfoot Jack, King of the Bohemians

        by Ironfoot Jack

        Edited by Colin Stanley

        Introduction by Phil Baker

        ISBN: 9781907222658

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: September 25, 2018

        The life of escape artist, fortune-teller, author and raconteur “Ironfoot Jack,” aka Jack Rudolph Neave (1881–1959), the self-styled “King of the Bohemians” in London's Soho.
        After Kathy Acker

        After Kathy Acker

        After Kathy Acker

        A Literary Biography

        by Chris Kraus

        ISBN: 9781635900569

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: August 14, 2018

        The first authorized biography of postmodernism's literary hero, Kathy Acker.
        Break.up

        Break.up

        Break.up

        A Novel in Essays

        by Joanna Walsh

        ISBN: 9781635900149

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: April 27, 2018

        A novel in essays that locates a “romance” within the mesh of electronic communication.
        Lord of Strange Deaths

        Lord of Strange Deaths

        Lord of Strange Deaths

        The Fiendish World of Sax Rohmer

        Edited by Phil Baker and Antony C. Clayton

        ISBN: 9781907222252

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: May 6, 2015

        A testimony to complexity and historical significance of the absurd, sinister and atmospheric work of Sax Rohmer.
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