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1 2 >>>     sort list by author | publication date Black Futures Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham Reading and experiencing Black Futures' impressive, animate infinity is fundamental throughout all generations and directions of time. ---Recommended by Ryan. ¡Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now Claudia E. Zapata , Terezita Romo , Tatiana Reinoza, E. Carmen Ramos A groundbreaking look at how Chicano graphic artists and their collaborators have used their work to imagine and sustain identities and political viewpoints during the past half century --recommended by Paul Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll, Mark Burstein This beautiful new edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland features rarely seen illustrations by Salvador Dalí that illuminate the surreal yet curiously logical and mathematical realm into which Alice famously falls. All Over Coffee Paul Madonna 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, The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961... 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. 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" 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. 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... Keith Haring Journals Keith Haring A stunning Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of the activist artist's extraordinary journals Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in... Kenneth Patchen A Centennial Selection Kenneth Patchen, Jonathan Clark 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 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... 1 2 >>>