Derek Jarman: Protest!
By: Sean Kissane
4.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Derek Jarman was a very English rebel, a maverick and radical artist whose unique and distinctive v…
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1. 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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"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
2. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
3. The Atrocity Exhibition
By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his… read more
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4. The Greek Myths
By: Robert Graves
4.57
Format: 270 pages,
Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the … read more
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5. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more
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"When I'm bad I am bad !"-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"He fairly glittered in the gloom."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"There was something between them." "There was everything."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
6. The Beach
By: Alex Garland
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
After discovering a seemingly Edenic paradise on an island in a Thai national park, Richard soon fi… read more
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7. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more
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8. The Drowned World
By: Martin Amis , J.G. Ballard
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terr… read more
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9. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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10. M Train
By: Patti Smith
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, … read more
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"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."-Patti Smith, M Train
"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."-Patti Smith, M Train
"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."-Patti Smith, M Train
"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."-Patti Smith, M Train
11. Chroma
By: Derek Jarman
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Chroma is a meditation on the color spectrum by the celebrated late artist and filmmaker Derek Jarm… read more
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12. Everybody: A Book About Freedom
By: Olivia Laing
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power… read more
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13. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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14. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more
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"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
15. The Buddha of Suburbia
By: Hanif Kureishi
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban Londo… read more
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"Die Belohnung für Langeweile sind Sicherheit und Geborgenheit."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
16. At Your Own Risk
By: Derek Jarman
4.32
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
British filmmaker, author, AIDS activist, and all-around cultural upstart, Jarman has written a mov… read more
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"How to survive as a reasonably intact human being undamaged by popular preconceptions and misconceptions? It has been a long uphill battle."-Derek Jarman, At Your Own Risk
17. Derek Jarman's Garden
By: Derek Jarman
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
"Paradise haunts gardens," writes Derek Jarman, "and it haunts mine." Jarman's public image is that… read more
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"Lawns, it seems to me, are against nature, barren and often threadbare - the enemy of a good garden. For the same trouble as mowing, you could have a year's vegetables: runner beans, cauliflowers and…"-Derek Jarman, Derek Jarman's Garden
18. Smiling In Slow Motion
By: Derek Jarman
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Part diary, part observation, part memoir, Smiling in Slow Motion concludes the journey begun in Mo… read more
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19. Blue
By: Derek Jarman
4.54
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
"I step into a blue funk,'' British author and filmmaker Jarman writes early on in this screenplay … read more
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20. Derek Jarman: Protest!
By: Sean Kissane
4.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Derek Jarman was a very English rebel, a maverick and radical artist whose unique and distinctive v… read more
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21. Dancing Ledge
By: Derek Jarman
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The filmmaker noted for Sebastiane and Edward II , among other works, discusses his life and art, d… read more
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"Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!"-Derek Jarman, Dancing Ledge
22. Kicking the Pricks
By: Derek Jarman
4.17
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
The shockingly honest journals of the acclaimed filmmaker and gay rights activist. read more
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