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Ben Marcus, Matthew Ritchie

Artspace Books, 2002

By the excellent Mr. Marcus
Those who read The Age of Wire and String and Notable American Women won't be disappointed. One again, Marcus demonstrates his unusual skill: describing strange situations & relationships with a slightly biased language. As it is said p.19: "There is a portion of time that my own language cannot remark." Exploring this peculiar portion with Ben Marcus is a challenging experience.

Jerk

2 reviews
Dennis Cooper, Nayland Blake

Artspace Books, 1993

Dennis Cooper at his best
Shocking and graphic... yet quite moving. Interesting style, from prose to drama to letter excerpt. And to make it even more gruesome and frightening, it's based on a real-life story.

Real Gone
Jim Lewis, Christopher Phillips

Artspace Books, 1994

This tale of a crazy road trip pairs Pierson's seductive photographs with Lewis's free-floating reflections on the city as a magnet for high rollers and drifters of all stripes.

Inside Out

Artspace Books, 2006

A meditation on the dilemmas and desires for home that combines the writings of art critic and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit with painter Stefan Kurten's lush images of domestic interiors, buildings and landscapes. Solnit reflects on emotional privatization, real-estate fetishism, and aesthetic pleasure, while Kurten's paintings of stale bourgeois interiors and suburban homes project a dogged attempt to make life perfect, at least on the ...

Old Joy

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Jonathan Raymond

Artspace Books, 2004

Terrific source for a terrific film!
Stands alone as a highly atmospheric novella. This contains some of the most vivid writing about landscape I've read in a long time. Raymond's prose has enormous grace and stillness. Read this, and then go rent Kelly Reichardt's wondrous movie of the same name. Or vice versa. It doesn't matter which -- they're both unique meditations on the same theme (time and place, and how these factors affect ...

Stardumb

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Dave Hickey

Artspace Books, 2000

A Kid's Book for Grown-ups
A perfect balance of story, illustration, and book design. It takes as much time to read these hilarious, melancholy, knowing portraits as it does to contemplate the intricate and cynical drawings that accompany them, each based on the twelve signs of the zodiac. The pleasures of this 88 page book come too soon to their end. Characters are vivid and may or may not be based on real art ...

Fae Richard Photo Archive, The
Zoe Leonard

Artspace Books, 1997

This book is part of Zoe Leonard and Cheryl Dunye's film project "The Watermelon Woman" (1996) for the Whitney Biennial. The staged photos used as documentation for the film are presented here as an imtimate photo album.

Hover : Photographs

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Rick Moody, Darcey Steinke, ...

Artspace Books, 1998

Excellent!!!!
Hover has beautiful, intriguing photographs. The stories are haunting and wonderfully written to match the photographs. I highly recommend this delightful book.

Friendly Cannibals
Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Artspace Books, 1997

Interdisciplinary artist and writer Guillermo Gomez-Pena collaborates with Chicano visual artist Enrique Chagoya in the multilingual, performative "Latino cyberpunk" exploration.

A.M. Homes: Appendix A

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A. M. Homes

Artspace Books, 1996

Disturbing.
A. M. Homes, Appendix A: An Elaboration on the Novel The End of Alice (Artspace, 1996) What an odd little book this is. The End of Alice is Homes' magnum opus, a tale of Hannibal Lecter as written by Franz Kafka, Jack the Ripper addressed by John Dryden. Appendix A consists of a confession, a number of photographic pieces of evidence, and copies of a few of the letters referenced in the book but ...

Desire By Numbers

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Klaus Kertess

Artspace Books, 1994

a gift to our eyes and brain
ever look at pictures and wonder how the photographer was ever given permission to photograph such intimate things? This book is another example of Goldin's ability to let people's guards down and really understand (in an aesthetic and emotional level) her subjects. It is a sucessful collaboration with text and image!

The Strange Case of T.L. (Artspace's Series)
Tony Labat, Carlo McCormick

Artspace Books, 1995

Hotel Andromeda
Heidi Julavits

Artspace Books, 2003

A whimsical yet dark exploration of rigged biology, femininity and guns, Hotel Andromeda revolves around the lives of five girls, each born on the same day to the same mother but different fathers. Regina, Lydia, Pamela, Dora and Danielle have been under constant surveillance since they were infants. They live alone in a hotel--but is it a hotel? The rooms are empty, the girls have daily appointments with a talk therapist and their mother, a ...

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