Conveyor Belt Books

Damn beautiful first edition of Harry Crosby's diaries, Shadows of the Sun, from Black Sparrow up online now. For those unaware, ole Harry was an eccentric, to say the least. A bon vivant, socialite, a spoiled lil rich boy operating his own press who hobnobbed with Joyce & Lawrence then went perfectly insane with a self-created mythology involving the sun, murdering one of his mistresses then blowing his own head off in the bed next to her, it's hard not to read much of this outside the context of his life's eventual end, mostly owing to the fact the diaries themselves are a unique, well-articulated descent into madness.

A fun beach read that will thrill your various friends at the summer cottage.

2 different & insanely cool Pettibon books hittin the shelves.

Period-era erotica & soft-serve s**t with words by Francoise Sagan AND FEDERICO FELLINI TF?!






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This is so gorgeous I want to eat it.

Tell me about the lambs, Clarice.

I get asked "what do you keep" fairly often, & though for the most part the bull's worth of books make their way to the shelves or online, here is one of the recent finds I'll be hanging onto - the most comprehensive monograph on the work of Nancy Spero by Christopher Lyon.

Spero's art is a relatively recent discovery for which I'm grateful & yet another one of those moments where the elemental thirsts are revived at the basic point of interaction, one of those instances where you encounter something you've yet to be hip to & say, "ahhh, where have you been all my life." Her art exists on a simultaneously historical & ahistorical axis, bearing qualities not dissimilar to that of cave paintings, codices or hieroglyphs, yet feeling remarkably fresh, new & vibrating with life, somehow being both elegant & crude, evincing a scenario of Artaud as time-traveler but from a dynamic, female-centered perspective, responding to history, attacking it, displaying a coarse, vital jeremiad of revolt.

In the shop today with many other books that ARE for sale from 12-5.

Mr Ernst, if ya nasty.

Juliooooooooooooo!

(Here till 6)

One t**e over the line, sweet jesus & back in tomorrow from 12-6.

1st Grove edition of Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers up online.