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Lucy Sante
A tender and funny memoir about the marvels and obstacles of transitioning in later life
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"Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a standard for those in need of guidance. " - The Washington Post
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Now in paperback: acclaimed author Lucy Sante's "eye-opening tale of the greed and corruption but also diplomacy and ingenuity" (The Washington Post) involved in the creation of the upstate reservoir…
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In his second collection (after Kill All Your Darlings , 2007), Luc Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the…
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Lynne Tillman
From award-winning novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, Thrilled to Death is a collection of selected stories across the career of America's most audacious writer
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Larry Fink
Larry Fink: Hands On / A Passionate Life of Looking is a 432-page encapsulation of Larry Fink's master photos accompanied by insightful essays from Lucy Sante, Stephen Shore, Graydon and…
"An autobiography-viewing the author's life from the transformative lens of her recent transition-and a critical examination of the trans strain in Western culture"--
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'A joy' THE WASHINGTON POST
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Anastasia Samoylova
A career-to-date monograph of Anastasia Samoylova--a rising star in contemporary photography--published to coincide with a joint exhibition of her work alongside Walker Evans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (on…
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A revised and expanded new edition of Lucy Sante’s classic history of the real-photo postcard, with 130 images and a new afterword.
In rural America at the beginning of the…
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In 1945, at just 17 years old, Stanley Kubrick became a staff photographer for Look magazine. His humanist slice-of-life features celebrate his native New York City and already reveal a…
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Carnivalesque scenes of American nightlife from a painter who called Times Square her home
Chicago-born, New York-based artist Jane Dickson (born 1952), makes paintings and drawings that explore the psychogeography…
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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…
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.
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…
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…
Jean-Patrick Manchette
This tour de force political thriller, told in Manchette’s signature noir style, follows a group of far left extremists in the throes of post-1968 disillusionment.
The thrill of 1968 is…
Joris Karl Huysmans
Originally published in France in 1884 as aA rebours; This translation first published in 2018 by 21 Publishing, London; Revised translation published in 2019 by Riverrun, an imprint of Quercus…
Jeff L. Rosenheim
The first comprehensive, posthumous monograph and retrospective on Bernd and Hilla Becher, best known for their photographs of industrial structures in Europe and North America
Co-published by Tenement Press and Prototype, Seven Rooms brings together highlights from the archive of Hotel, a magazine for new approaches to fiction, non-fiction & poetry which, since its inception…
