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        Bargain Witch

        Bargain Witch

        Bargain Witch

        Essays in Self-Initiation

        by Brooke Palmieri

        ISBN: 9781635902655

        Publisher: DOPAMINE / Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: October 7, 2025

        An occult history that grounds the sacred yearning for magic in real life.
        How to Fuck Like a Girl

        How to Fuck Like a Girl

        How to Fuck Like a Girl

        Essays

        by Vera Blossom

        ISBN: 9781635902273

        Publisher: DOPAMINE / Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: December 3, 2024

        A cheeky how-to guide, as raunchy as it is heartfelt, from a bright new literary voice.
        Other Influences

        Other Influences

        Other Influences

        An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry

        Edited by Marcella Durand and Jennifer Firestone

        ISBN: 9780262049283

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 29, 2024

        A compelling collection of original essays on influence that restore a feminist avant-garde that includes women of color, queer, and trans women.
        Strange Attractor Journal Five

        Strange Attractor Journal Five

        Strange Attractor Journal Five

        Edited by Mark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe

        ISBN: 9781907222528

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: March 7, 2023

        The return of the Strange Attractor Journal, offering a characteristically eclectic collection of high weirdness from the margins of culture.
        Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths

        Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths

        Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths

        A Realist's View of the Human Condition

        by Shimon Edelman

        ISBN: 9780262542784

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 28, 2022

        A guide for making sense of life—from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure).
        Bee Reaved

        Bee Reaved

        Bee Reaved

        by Dodie Bellamy

        ISBN: 9781635901573

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: October 19, 2021

        A new collection of essays from Dodie Bellamy on disenfranchisement, vulgarity, American working class life, aesthetic values, and profound embarrassment.
        World Brain

        World Brain

        World Brain

        by H. G. Wells

        Foreword by Bruce Sterling

        Introduction by Joseph Reagle

        ISBN: 9780262542562

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        In 1937, H. G. Wells proposed a predigital, freely available World Encyclopedia to represent a civilization-saving World Brain.
        Roee Rosen

        Roee Rosen

        Roee Rosen

        Desire and Dust

        Edited by Anne Mikél Jensen and Roee Rosen

        ISBN: 9783956795459

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 2, 2021

        The artistic universe of Israeli artist and filmmaker Roee Rosen.
        Doomed and Famous

        Doomed and Famous

        Doomed and Famous

        Selected Obituaries

        by Adrian Dannatt

        Illustrated by Hugo Guinness

        ISBN: 9780997567472

        Publisher: Sequence Press

        Pub Date: February 2, 2021

        An obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.
        Peter Friedl

        Peter Friedl

        Peter Friedl

        Rehousing

        Edited by Kunsthalle Wien

        Foreword by Vanessa Joan Müller

        ISBN: 9783956795510

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 2, 2021

        Writers respond to the architectural true-to-scale models of Peter Friedl's Rehousing series.
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