Henri Michaux, Light Through Darkness, Major Ordeals

Someone asked in a comment about the good drug books by Henri Michaux. Here are two. I'll write about them soon. I always loved the tit...

Luc Sante on Lovecraft

(I don't know if it's a joke, but the website Worldroots features this image of Lovecraft as a child with his parents.) Here is Luc...

Harold Pinter, A Wake For Sam, BBC TV 1990

Another find from my library browsing. Harold Pinter, A Wake For Sam, BBC TV, 1990 Printed in Pinter's Various Voices . "I first me...

Melmoth the Wanderer by Maturin

I spent an hour this week browsing in the local public library. I found this amazing passage from Charles Robert Maturin's 1820 novel Me...

Henri Michaux, By Surprise, Hanuman Books

I never noticed the nice paper and foil stamping of this Hanuman Book under its tiny dust jacket. Hanuman publications are truly pocket-frie...

Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue part 2

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Hanuman Books

I'll post about my two Hanuman Books publications this week.

Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue

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Antonin Artaud - Letter to the Medical Directors of Lunatic Asylums

"We protest against any interference with the free development of delirium." Apparently in my dark ages I had the habit of tearin...

Corvina Logo

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Bruno Schulz update

My friend John pointed out that Picador is selling Bruno Schulz's two story collections in one volume in the UK (that link is to Amazon...

Stephen King's Night Shift mass market paperback, circa 1979?

I found this Night Shift cover in the folder with the Roussel postcard. I remember as a kid staring at it in horror. (Too bad the current c...

Karinthy, Voyage to Faremido and Capillaria

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Raymond Roussel postcard

I'm glad I wound up with this postcard for Mark Ford's book Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams (foreword by John Ashbery / ...

Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine

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Frigyes Karinthy, Grave and Gay: Selections from his Work

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Roger Caillois, The Mask of Medusa

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Julien Gracq, A Dark Stranger

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Jean Cocteau, from Testament of Orpheus and The Imposter

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Robert Walser, 1898

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Karinthy's "Please Sir!"

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Karinthy, Voyage to Faremido and Capillaria

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Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

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A Journey Round My Skull

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