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Geoffrey O'Brien
"A genre-bending novel of 1001 nights of no-holds-barred, pre-code American movies distilled into a single fevered dreamworld"--
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A prose poem about reading, this is a playful, epigrammatic nocturne upon the dream-state one falls into when lost in a book, and the uncanny, trance-like pleasure of making silent…
Reviews the most innovative poetry of recent years and the more traditional forms that preceded it
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A chronicle of the noir paperbacks of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. This text examines the works of such writers as Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Jim Thompson, David Goodis and…
In the tradition of The Devil in the White City comes a spellbinding tale of madness and murder in a 19th-century American dynasty.
Geoffrey O'brien
We watch what is moving fast from a platform that is also moving fast, writes Geoffrey O'Brien in the beginning of Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows. This collection–gathering the best of…
In his intense and mysterious evocation of (seemingly) every kind of movie ever made, Geoffrey O'Brien erases the distinction between spectator and commentator and virtually reinvents film writing in our…
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A labyrinth of tantalizing yet unstable mysteries and geographies.
Library of America presents a deluxe edition of unforgettable crime thrillers of the 1960s
Here in two volumes are 9 timeless novels, including 4 lost classics now restored to print
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BBC
Outlandish stories from the vintage pages of Doctor Who Annual, brought to life by a host of Doctor Who voices.
Outlandish stories from the vintage pages of Doctor Who Annual…
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Hiroaki Sato
Hiroaki Sato is best known as an expert and prolific translator of Japanese poetry into English. For 44 years, however, his day job was in the research department of a…
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Geoffrey O'Brien,John Bartlett
This 16th edition of the book, first published in 1855, has been expanded to include more than 20,000 quotations and more than 340 new authors both historical and contemporary -…
Geoffrey G. O'Brien
'In a Mist' brings together scenes recovered from dream or experience, transmuted fragments of myth, passages retrieved from lost libraries and recollected conversations, the story lines of imaginary films....
Exuberantly referential poems of personal and political struggle inhabit this highly acclaimed poet’s fourth collection.
Poems that reimagine poetry’s ancient dream of collective life from within the nightmare and necessities of our present.
Geoffrey G. O'Brien’s second collection documents the remorse of the senses that attends each moment of experience, the pain and pleasure of not exiting a world in which injustice and…
A set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. It measures the ‘vague cadence’ of daily life, testing both the value…
Margaret Millar, Ed McBain, Chester Himes, Patricia Highsmith
In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre's literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter-here are four of their finest works
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Fredric Brown, Dan J. Marlowe, Dorothy B. Hughes, Richard Stark
In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre's literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter-here are five of their finest works
Terrance Dicks, Malcolm Hulke
Journey back in time with this nostalgic audio presentation performed by Jon Culshaw, Dan Starkey, Maureen O'Brien, Louise Jameson, Katy Manning and Geoffrey Beevers.
It's the 1970s, and you're invited…
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era…
