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Against Nature (riverrun editions): a new translation of the compulsively readable cult classic

Joris-Karl Huysmans

The cult novel of fin de siecle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde

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The Other Paris: An Illustrated Journey through a City’s Poor and Bohemian Past

Luc Sante

Paris, the City of Light, the city of fine dining, seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the poor, the…

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The Other Paris

Luc Sante

A vivid investigation into the seamy underside of nineteenth and twentieth century Paris –

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Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces, 1990-2005

Lucy Sante

The first collection of essays by groundbreaking cultural critic Luc Sante, described by William Gibson as having Burning passion, and a prose style to die for.

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The Factory of Facts

Luc Sante

Luc Sante was born in Belgium and as a child was taken by his parents to the USA. At the age of 35 he returned to Belgium and began to…

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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York

Luc Sante

Luc Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity.

This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber…

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O.K. You Mugs

Luc Sante

In this superb collection of essays edited by Luc Sante, author of Lowlife , and Melissa Holbrook Pierson, writers as diverse as John Updike, Patti Smith, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet…

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Walker Evans

Luc Sante

This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Walker Evans - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically…

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Nineteen Reservoirs

Luc Sante

Acclaimed author Luc Sante’s meticulously researched account of the creation of the upstate reservoir system that, in supplying water to New York City, makes its very existence possible–but irreparably altered…

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The Big Whatever

Peter Doyle

The fourth novel in Peter Doyle’s award-winning crime series takes his irresistible hero, Billy Glasheen, into new territory.

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Maggie

Stephen Crane

A tale of a young girl in the slums, along with selected other writings and an introduction by Luc Sante.

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Sequential Drawings: The New Yorker Series

Richard McGuire

The images in this book have appeared, individually and in slightly different form, in The New Yorker, from 2005 through 2015. –Title page verso.

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How the Other Half Lives

Jacob A. Riis

First published in 1890, this is the author’s study of the slums of New York, where Italians, Jews, Bohemians , Blacks and Chinese struggled against the effects of poverty, alcohol…

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The Seventh: A Parker Novel

Richard Stark

The heist of a college football game goes sour, and the take is stolen by a crazed, violent amateur. Parker must outrun the cops - and the killer - to…

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The Handle: A Parker Novel

Richard Stark

Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speed-boats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast.

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The Rare Coin Score: A Parker Novel

Richard Stark

Features the first appearance of Claire, who will steal Parker’s heister’s heart - while together they steal two million dollars of rare coins.

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The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man

David Maurer

Shares insights from confidence men and swindlers on the schemes they used to cheat their victims.

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American Vaudeville

Geoffrey Hilsabeck

Tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in America using lists, creation myths, thumbnail biographies, dreams, and obituaries. A lyric history - part social…

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Revisionist Art: Thirty Works by Bob Dylan

Luc Sante,B. Clavery

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Revisionist Art: Thirty Works by Bob Dylan, November 28, 2012-January 12, 2013, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY –Colophon.

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The New York Trilogy: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Paul Auster

Auster’s signature work, The New York Trilogy ( City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room ) consists of three interlocking tales–haunting and mysterious–that move at the breathless pace of…

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Addams’ Apple the New York Cartoons of Charles Addams

This book features 150 of Charles Addams’ cartoons set in the Big Apple. Collected here for the first time, these humorous drawings feature New York life in strange and delightful…

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Annie Leibovitz. The Early Years. 1970-1983

Luc Sante,Jann S. Wenner

Annie Leibovitz began working as a photographer in the early 1970s, which was a volatile and frenetic time in America. The lines had yet to be drawn between journalists and…

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Five Great American Photographers: Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Walker Evans, Eadweard Muybridge, Lewis Baltz

Phaidon,Phaidon,Barbara Bullock-Wilson,Luc Sante,Paul Hill

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