Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019
By: Natasha Stagg
3.82
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Eve Babitz meets Roland Barthes in Sleeveless, Natasha Stagg's follow up to Surveys, her 2016 novel…
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1. Play It As It Lays
By: Joan Didion , David Thomson
3.92
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more
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- feminism
- contemporary
"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
2. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- essays
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
3. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- essays
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
4. The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more
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- contemporary
"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
5. Design as Art
By: Patrick Creagh , Bruno Munari
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an il… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
6. Eve's Hollywood
By: Eve Babitz
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- essays
7. Sex and Rage
By: Eve Babitz
3.87
Format: 260 pages,
The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, origin… read more
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- feminism
- contemporary
8. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By: Anne Carson
4.23
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more
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- essays
- contemporary
"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
9. The Fran Lebowitz Reader
By: Fran Lebowitz
3.77
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Fran Lebowitz in Public Speaking A Martin Scorsese Picture Now an HBO(r) Documentary Film The Fran … read more
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- new york
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
10. Black Swans
By: Eve Babitz
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In nine stories that look back on a decade of dreams, drink, and stoned youth turning Republican, B… read more
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- feminism
- essays
- contemporary
11. The Dud Avocado
By: Elaine Dundy , Terry Teachout
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas … read more
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12. How to Murder Your Life
By: Cat Marnell
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
At the age of 15, Cat Marnell unknowingly set out to murder her life. After a privileged yet emotio… read more
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- new york
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- fashion
13. Too Much and Not the Mood
By: None
3.89
Format: 266 pages,
An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice… read more
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14. Speedboat
By: Renata Adler
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more
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15. Glamorama
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.54
Format: 546 pages, Paperback
“Impeccable . . . cold and pitiless and modern.” —The Village Voice “Compelling and scary. A pol… read more
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- contemporary
"How is your father?"-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama
"The better you look, the more you see"-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama
"The better you look, the more you see."-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama
"The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me"-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama
16. Less Than Zero
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more
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17. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
18. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Hardcover
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And w… read more
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19. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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- new york
- art
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
20. Chelsea Girls
By: Eileen Myles
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age n… read more
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21. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
By: Clarice Lispector
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more
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- contemporary
"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
22. Earth Angel
By: Madeline Cash
4.05
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more
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- contemporary
23. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
By: Christopher Lasch
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “bibl… read more
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- nonfiction
"Since “the society"-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"Imprisoned in his self-awareness modern man longs for the lost innocence of spontaneous feeling."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"When the images of power overshadow the reality, those without power find themselves fighting phantoms."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
24. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more
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- essays
- contemporary
"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
25. Motherhood
By: Sheila Heti
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more
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- feminism
- contemporary
"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
26. My First Book
By: Honor Levy
3.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more
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- essays
- contemporary
"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."-Honor Levy, My First Book
27. Last Summer in the City
By: Gianfranco Calligarich
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last S… read more
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- contemporary
"Tą kartą ir sužinojau, kad du žmonės tyli tyliau už vieną."-Gianfranco Calligarich, Last Summer in the City
"There was great sadness in the speed at which the days were getting shorter. As if they were trying to redeem something that was irredeemable. With a sense of heartache, I thought about September, wh…"-Gianfranco Calligarich, Last Summer in the City
28. Valentino and Sagittarius: Two Novellas
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.99
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
One of Italy's modern writers explores the theme of the break-up of families, with the subsequent d… read more
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29. LIVEBLOG
By: Megan Boyle
4.33
Format: 707 pages, Paperback
In 2013, Megan Boyle was unhappy with the life she was living and wanted to document it on the inte… read more
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- art
30. Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019
By: Natasha Stagg
3.82
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Eve Babitz meets Roland Barthes in Sleeveless, Natasha Stagg's follow up to Surveys, her 2016 novel… read more
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- new york
- art
- biography
- memoir
- pop culture
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- fashion
31. The Superrationals
By: Stephanie LaCava
3.14
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
An erotic and darkly comic novel about female friendship, set at the intersection between countercu… read more
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- contemporary
