Books on the Park

9th Ave: Christian Bök

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. store.

 

 

Christian Bök will discuss The Xenotext, the first of three books chronicling his attempt to create an example of 'living poetry' by inserting a poem into the DNA of a living organism.

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The Xenotext: Book 1 (Paperback)

By Christian Bök
$18.95
ISBN: 9781552453216
Availability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships from warehouse in several days.
Published: Coach House Books - October 20th, 2015

"Many artists seek to attain immortality through their art, but few would expect their work to outlast the human race and live on for billions of years. As Canadian poet Christian B k has realized, it all comes down to the durability of your materials."--The Guardian

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Eunoia: The Upgraded Edition (Paperback)

By Christian Bök
$14.95
ISBN: 9781552452257
Availability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships from warehouse in several days.
Published: Coach House Books - August 1st, 2009

Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002)

Stunning and masterful in its execution, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram.

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Crystallography (Paperback)

By Christian Bok
Not available to order
ISBN: 9781552451199
Availability: Stock uncertain--should fulfill within 10 days or so
Published: Coach House Press - April 20th, 2003

9th Ave: Rebecca Wolff & Martin Corless-Smith

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. store.

 

 

 

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One Morning? (Paperback)

By Rebecca Wolff
$18.00
ISBN: 9781940696133
Availability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships from warehouse in several days.
Published: Wave Books - September 1st, 2015

" Wolff's poems] are stylistic and tonal shapeshifters. Hip, contemplative, and dark and resistant to the hunky-dory, the New Agey, and the prescriptive, they're unnerving, funny, and occasionally subversive."--Bookforum

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Bitter Green (Paperback)

By Martin Corless-Smith
Not available to order
ISBN: 9781934200988
Availability: Stock uncertain--should fulfill within 10 days or so
Published: Fence Books - December 1st, 2015

Martin Corless-Smith limns the lyric soul within limits of body, time, and interrelation. In this new work we find him losing and lost yet buoyant in visions of classicism and location.

9th Ave: David Thomson

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. store.

 

 

Film critic David Thomson will discuss his new book, How to Watch a Movie.

 

 

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How to Watch a Movie (Hardcover)

By David Thomson
Not available to order
ISBN: 9781101875391
Availability: Stock uncertain--should fulfill within 10 days or so
Published: Knopf - November 3rd, 2015

From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience.

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The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Sixth Edition (Paperback)

By David Thomson
$29.95
ISBN: 9780375711848
Availability: ON HAND in at least ONE of our stores. Click through or call for up-to-the-minute availability.
Published: Knopf - May 6th, 2014

With more than 100 new entries, from Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Cary Joji Fukunaga to Joaquin Phoenix, Mia Wasikowska, and Robin Wright, and completely updated,  here from David Thomson—“The greatest living writer on the movies” (John Banville, New Statesman); “Our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen” (Michael Ondaat

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The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies (Paperback)

By David Thomson
$19.80
ISBN: 9780374534134
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - October 15th, 2013

The definitive story of the medium that defines our times

The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen as important as the images it carries.

9th Ave: Amy McCullough

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. store.

 

 

Amy McCullough will regale us with stories from her adventures at sea, as told in The Box Wine Sailors.

 

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The Box Wine Sailors: Misadventures of a Broke Young Couple at Sea (Paperback)

By Amy McCullough
Not available to order
ISBN: 9781613733486
Availability: Stock uncertain--should fulfill within 10 days or so
Published: Academy Chicago Publishers - November 1st, 2015

Amy and Jimmie were not sailors. Their experience included reading a few books, watching a couple of instructional videos, and sailing once a week for a year. They were land-lubberly, middle-class twentysomethings, audacious and in love. All they wanted was to be together and do something extraordinary.

9th Ave: Feminist Utopia Project

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. store.

 

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The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future (Paperback)

By Alexandra Brodsky (Editor), Rachel Kauder Nalebuff (Editor)
Not available to order
ISBN: 9781558619005
Availability: Backordered--delivery time uncertain
Published: Feminist Press - October 13th, 2015

This "incredible addition to the feminist canon" brings together the most inspiring, creative, and courageous voices concerning modern women's issues (Jessica Valenti, editor of Yes Means Yes).

9th Ave: The Dogist

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. store.

 

 

Elias Weiss Friedman, the photographer behind the insanely popular Instagram account The Dogist, will be here to talk about his book of the same name.

 

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The Dogist: Photographic Encounters with 1,000 Dogs (Hardcover)

By Elias Weiss Friedman
$24.95
ISBN: 9781579656713
Availability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships from warehouse in several days.
Published: Artisan - October 20th, 2015

New York Times bestseller

The Dogist is a beautiful, funny, and inspiring tribute to the beloved dogs in our lives. Every page presents dog portraits that command our attention.

9th Ave: Ian Svenonius

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. store.

 

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Censorship Now!! (Paperback)

By Ian F. Svenonius
$15.95
ISBN: 9781617754098
Availability: ON HAND in at least ONE of our stores. Click through or call for up-to-the-minute availability.
Published: Akashic Books - November 3rd, 2015

"While putting a copy of this book on your nightstand would be a sign of good taste, who cares about good taste? Are you willing to be seen reading a book titled Censorship Now in public? If so, your skin might burn with funny glances from squares, scolds and looky-loos.

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The Psychic Soviet (Paperback)

By Ian Svenonius
Not available to order
ISBN: 9780965618397
Availability: Out of Print. Not available to order.
Published: Drag City - July 24th, 2006

An anthology of both new and previously published essays and articles from one of the mainstays of the Washington, DC underground rock-and-roll scene, The Psychic Soviet is the most complete collection of writings by Ian Svenonius.

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Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group (Paperback)

By Ian F. Svenonius
$14.95
ISBN: 9781617751301
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Published: Akashic Books - January 1st, 2013

"Proscriptive how-to advice ranges over a wide number of subjects (e.g., sex, band photos, etc.) and can be seen both as skewering the cultural idolatry associated with rock and as genuine counsel.

9th Ave: Litquake presents Fiston Mwanza Mujila

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. store.

 

 

Litquake presents Fiston Mwanza Mujila and translator Roland Glasser, who will discuss Tram 83.

 

Praise for Tram 83:

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Tram 83 (Paperback)

By Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Roland Glasser (Translator), Alain Mabanckou (Foreword by)
Not available to order
ISBN: 9781941920046
Availability: Stock uncertain--should fulfill within 10 days or so
Published: Deep Vellum Publishing - September 8th, 2015

"An exuberantly dark first novel." -- NPR's Fresh Air w/ Terry Gross

**Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize 2016**

**Winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Debut African Fiction**

9th Ave: Jason De Leon

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. store.

 

 

Jason de Leon will discuss his new book, The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail.

 

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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (California Series in Public Anthropology #36) (Paperback)

By Jason De Leon, Michael Wells (By (photographer))
$29.95
ISBN: 9780520282759
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Published: University of California Press - October 23rd, 2015

In this gripping and provocative “ethnography of death,” anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time—the human consequences of US immigration and border policy. 
 
The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in

9th Ave: Mary Gaitskill

This event will be held at our 9th Ave store.

 

 

In her only California appearance, Mary Gaitskill will read from her new novel, The Mare.

 

 

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The Mare (Hardcover)

By Mary Gaitskill
Not available to order
ISBN: 9780307379740
Availability: Stock uncertain--should fulfill within 10 days or so
Published: Pantheon Books - November 3rd, 2015

Following her National Book Award-nominated Veronica, here is Mary Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yet--the story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her.

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Bad Behavior: Stories (Paperback)

By Mary Gaitskill
$16.00
ISBN: 9781439148877
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Published: Simon & Schuster - July 21st, 2009

A trade paperback reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection, Bad Behavior—powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is searching for human connection.

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Veronica (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)

By Mary Gaitskill
$16.95
ISBN: 9780375727856
Availability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships from warehouse in several days.
Published: Vintage - July 18th, 2006

A finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, here is an evocative novel about female friendship in the glittering 1980s.

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