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AIRLESS SPACES by FIRESTONE SHULAMITH
Category: Fiction | Series: Semiotext(E) / Native Agents Ser.
In 1970, at the age of twenty-five, Shulamith Firestone wrote and published The Dialectic of Sex, immediately becoming a classic of second wave feminism across the world to this very day. It was one of the few books that dared to look at how radical feminism could and should shape the future; and one wh ...Show more
Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun - An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood by Jackie Wang
Category: Biography | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit and prolific early 2000s blog. Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun traces Jackie Wang's trajectory from hard femme ...Show more
American Magus Harry Smith - A Modern Alchemist by Paola Igliori (Editor)
Category: Biography | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
A privileged look into the life and artistic practice of the experimental filmmaker, music anthologist, and enigmatic polymath Harry Smith. Best known during his lifetime as an experimental filmmaker and Folkways Records music anthologist, Harry Smith (1923-1991) was a spiritual outsider and one of the ...Show more
COMA by PIERRE GUYOTAT
Category: Culture | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
A poetic exploration of trauma and renewal from the last avant-garde visionary of the twentieth century. Long ago, in childhood, when Summer reverberates and feels and throbs all over, it begins to circumscribe my body along with my self, and my body gives it shape in turn: the "joy" of living, of expe ...Show more
Castle Faggot by Derek McCormack
Category: Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland.Castle Faggot is Derek McCormack's darkest and most delicious book yet, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than an ...Show more
David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side by LOTRINGER AND WOJNAOWICZ
Category: Culture | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
Artist David Wojnarowicz on his work, his aspirations, his personal history, his political views; Wojnarowicz in dialogue with Sylv re Lotringer, along with personal accounts from friends and fellow artists collected after Wojnarowicz's death.In February 1991, the artist David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) an ...Show more
Depraved Indifference by Gary Indiana; A. S. Hamrah (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
Gary Indiana, a "huge satirical talent" (New York Times), brings us a darkly comic novel fueled by the virtuoso con artist Evangeline Slote and her extravagant life of chicanery and petty crime. She thrives on seduction, manipulation, and the humiliation of everybody in her orbit. And she has a genius f ...Show more
Dusty Pink by Jean-Jacques Schuhl
Category: General Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
A cult classic in France, the first translation of a novel that captures a subjective stroll through an underground, glamorous Paris finally there are the rolling stones who call for all these at the same time among them and around them: the policeman, the cross-dresser, the dancer, Frankenstein, the da ...Show more
Earlier by Sasha Frere-Jones
Category: Biography | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
Sasha Frere-Jones's evolution as a writer and musician with the deceptively casual intelligence that marks all of his work. Shuttling between his first year of life (1967) and the year he wrote the book (2020), Earlier is a glorious sequence of moments, a record of the experiences that set the shape of ...Show more
Fascination - Memoirs by Kevin Killian
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement. Fascination brings together an early memoir, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work, Bachelors Get Lonely, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian, one of the founding m ...Show more
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982). Written quickly under a self-im ...Show more
Indivisible by Fanny Howe
Category: Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
The conclusion of a radically philosophical and personal series of Fanny Howe novels animated by questions of race, spirituality, childhood, transience, resistance, and poverty. First published by Semiotexte in 2001, Indivisible concludes a radically philosophical and personal series of Fanny Howe nove ...Show more