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Art, Architecture & Print Culture
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Books in this online selection represent only a sliver of what we offer in the store. If you've got a particular book in mind and want to check on its availability, call us at 415-362-8193.
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Aliens
Chingon Chicano artist y Stanford professor Enrique Chagoya is the artistic bridge between Chicano raices and Latinx futuras. This book is a timely mescla of Chagoya's increible artwork and artistic musings. These images are profundo, peligroso, y necesario..
--RECOMMENDED BY JOSIAH
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INDEX CARDS ' SEL ESSAYS
Selected Essays
A congregation of sacred Tendaberries and cerebral doovalackies; float down Davey's fecund tributary of musing.
---Ryan
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Animal Farm 50th Anniversary Edition
A Fairy Story Illustrated by Ralph Steadman
George Orwell
A special large-format fiftieth-anniversary edition, illustrated in full color by Ralph Steadman. Includes Orwell's proposed but unpublished preface to the original edition and his preface to the 1947 Ukrainian edition.
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Bibliodeath
My Archives (With Life in Footnotes)
Andrei Codrescu
Award-winning author Andrei Codrescu's Bibliodeath: My Archives (With Life in Footnotes) surveys the evolutionary relationship between language and technology by examining his own career as a prolific American writer for more than four decades,
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Doc/Undoc
Documentado/Undocumented Ars Shamánica Performática
Felicia Rice
MacArthur Genius Guillermo Gómez-Peña and award-winning book artist Felicia Rice create a multi-media, border-crossing hybrid: the book as performance art.
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Everything Is Its Own Reward
An All Over Coffee Collection
Paul Madonna
"The book is fantastic.
Of time and tenderness.
Beautiful drawings. Beautiful text.
Ethereal and serious at once.
The book is its own reward."
-- Maira Kalman, author of "And the Pursuit of Happiness"
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How to Kill a City
Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification–and the lives that are altered in the process.
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Just Kids
Patti Smith
Just Kids illuminates the impressive lover of literature that Patti Smith is. Her memoir will be of particular interest to City Lights enthusiasts as she is our quintessential reader, a fan of the Surrealists...
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The Map of Knowledge
A Thousand Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
Violet Moller
This thrilling history tracks three crucial books as they were passed hand to hand through seven cities during a perilous thousand-year journey of survival.
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Prison/Culture
Sharon E. Bliss, Kevin B. Chen, Steve Dickison, Mark Dean Johnson, Rebeka Rodriguez
Nearly fifty artists, poets, and activists examine the contemporary prison system through heartrending art and community
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The Reality Shows
Karen Finley
"Ms. Finley hasn't lost the power to disturb."—Ben Brantley, The New York TimesNo other contemporary performing artist has captured the psychological complexity of this decade's political and social milestones as Karen Finley has in the past ten...
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