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The Prone Gunman
City Lights Noir

Jean-Patrick Manchette

Translated by James Brook

James Brook

James Brook is a poet and the principal editor of Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information (City Lights) and the translator of many works, including My Tired Father by Gellu Naum and Panegyric by Guy Debord

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Panegyric

Guy Debord

An audacious autobiography by the founding and pivotal figure of the Situationist International. Guy Debord's silver-tongue-in-cheek autobiography mixes precision and pastiche in a whirlwind account of philosophy, exploit, and inebriation. From the...

Resistance

Victor Serge

Victor Serge, an authentic witness of the political and cultural struggles of this century, wrote these poems of Resistancein Orenburg in Central Asia, where he was sent into exile by Stalin in 1933. He eulogizes close friends and comrades and...

Edited by James Brook

Reclaiming San Francisco
History, Politics, Culture

James Brook, Chris Carlsson, Nancy J. Peters

Reclaiming San Francisco is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city-a spirit "resistant to authority or control." The official story of San Francisco is one of progress, development, and growth. But there are other...