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The Wonders of the Invisible World - $265

3 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

The author of the highly acclaimed novels Jernigan (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and Preston Falls (National Book Critics Cirlce Award Finalist) offers up a mordantly funny collection of short stories about the faulty bargains we make with ourselves to continure the high-wire act of living meaningful lives in late twentieth-century America. Populated by highly educated men and women in combat with one another, with substance abuse, and above all with their own relentless self-awareness, the stories in The Wonders of the Invisible World take place in […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: 2000, América, American, Cuentos, David Gates, New York, NYC, Short Stories, Vintage, Wonders

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Odds Against Tomorrow: A Novel - $395

22 April, 2013 by rgonzalezr

NEW YORK CITY, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of a cavernous office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is employee number two. He is asked to calculate worst-case scenarios in the most intricate detail, and his schemes are sold to corporations to indemnify them against any future disasters. This is the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming. As Mitchell […]

Categories: Misterio, Novela Ficción • Tags: 2013, Crisis, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ficcion, Fiction, Finance, Future, Futuro, Matemáticas, Misterio, mystery, New York, Novel, Novela, NY, NYC, risk, speculative, Suspense, Thriller

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LCD - $385

11 April, 2013 by rgonzalezr

For the past decade, downtown-New York indie dance music innovation could be summed up in three letters: LCD. The brainchild of frontman James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem grew from a solo project into one of the most highly regarded live bands in contemporary music. In 2011, at the height of their career, LCD Soundsystem decided to end the band. From 2004 to the day they quit, photographer Ruvan Wijesooriya navigated through both private and public moments with the influential, Grammy-nominated, NYC […]

Categories: Fotografía, Música • Tags: 2012, electronic, Foto, James Murphy, LCD, music, New York, NY, Photo, photography, Powerhouse, Soundsystem

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Rage Is Back: A Novel - $350

20 February, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Welcome to the Great American Graffiti Novel Number one New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach returns with a blockbuster tale of revenge, redemption, and the world’s most beautiful crime. Dondi Vance is the son of two famous graffiti artists from New York City’s “golden era” of subway bombing. Recently kicked out of his prestigious prep school for selling weed—and his mother’s Brooklyn apartment for losing his scholarship— he’s couch-surfing his way through life, compulsively immune to rumors that his long-lost […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: 2013, American, Fiction, Grafitti, New York, Novel, NY, Urban, viking

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You Are Here – $275

30 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

In a New York City where time is chopped up like salad and people finish each others’ sentences, a dozen characters have love affairs and take parts in a one-act play in the summer of 2001, and the spring, summer, and fall of 2004. YOU ARE HERE is part Fassbinder anti-theatre, part cheap heartbreak à la Brenda Starr, part intertextual hall of mirrors. Donald Breckenridge‘s stunning prose spins into life a world of ideas and art — that nevertheless can […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: 2009, contemporary Breckenridge, Experimental, Fiction, New York, Starcherone books

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Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 – $325

17 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Hold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York’s downtown music scene during the 1970s and 1980s. With the exception of a few dance recordings, including “Is It All Over My Face?” and “Go Bang! #5,” Russell’s pioneering music was largely forgotten until 2004, when the posthumous release of two albums brought new attention to the artist. This revival of interest […]

Categories: Biografía, Música • Tags: 2009, 70s, 80s, Arthur Russell, Biography, duke university press, music, New York, Pop, underground

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Rules of Civility: A Novel – $275

2 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

RULES OF CIVILITY: ‘Everything about this novel, set in 1930s New York, is achingly stylish – from the author’s name to the slinky jacket design. Katey Kontent, daughter of Russian immigrants, and Evie Ross, from the sleepy midwest, are an ambitious, wisecracking pair who, despite lack of money and connections, aim to set the city alight. A fortuitous meeting with the apparently wealthy Tinker Grey on New Year’s Eve, 1937, will change the course of both their lives.’ – […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: 1930s, New York, Novel, Rules of civility, Towles, viking

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Inferno: (a Poet’s Novel) -$365

19 September, 2012 by rgonzalezr

From its beginning—“My English professor’s ass was so beautiful.”—to its end—“You can actually learn to have grace. And that’s heaven.”—poet, essayist and performer Eileen Myles’ chronicle transmits an energy and vividness that will not soon leave its readers. Her story of a young female writer, discovering both her sexuality and her own creative drive in the meditative and raucous environment that was New York City in its punk and indie heyday, is engrossing, poignant, and funny. This is a […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: Eileen Myles, New York, NY, OR Books, Poet's Novel

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Project for a Revolution in New York – $245

9 September, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself—or a foreigner’s nightmare of New York—as its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillet’s novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion, revolution into sadism, activist into criminal, vice into art—and back again. Following the logic of a movie half-glimpsed through a haze of drugs and alcohol, Project for a Revolution […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: Dalkey Archive, New York, NY, Robe-Grillet

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Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York, 1989-92 – $585

2 September, 2012 by rgonzalezr

In 1989, Malcolm McLaren had his only number one hit with a single called “Deep in Vogue.” Early the next year, Madonna had one of the biggest hits of her career, with the single “Vogue,” and when Jennie Livingston’s film Paris Is Burning arrived in cinemas the same year, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the mainstream got hip to New York City’s extraordinary ball culture, from which the film and McLaren and Madonna’s songs had arisen. Paris Is […]

Categories: Cultura, Danza, Fotografía, Música • Tags: 80s, Ballroom, Chantal Regnault, Foto, Madonna, New York, NY, Photo, Soul Jazz Records, Vogue

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No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 – $225

24 May, 2012 by rgonzalezr

No Wave is the first book to visually chronicle the collision of art and punk in the New York underground of 1976 to 1980. This in depth look at punk rock, new wave, experimental music, and the avant-garde art movement of the 70s and 80s focuses on the true architects of No Wave from James Chance to Lydia Lunch to Glenn Branca, as well as the luminaries that intersected the scene, such as David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, […]

Categories: Arte, Fotografía, Historia, Ilustrado, Música • Tags: 70s, 80s, avant garde, David Byrne, New York, No Wave, Nueva York, NY, Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore

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This Is a Bust – $215

17 May, 2012 by rgonzalezr

This Is a Bust, the second novel by award-winning author Ed Lin, turns the conventions of hard-boiled pulp stories on their head by exploring the unexotic and very real complexities of New York City’s Chinatown, circa 1976, through the eyes of a Chinese-American cop. A Vietnam vet and an alcoholic, Robert Chow’s troubles are compounded by the fact that he’s basically community-relations window-dressing for the NYPD: he’s the only Chinese American on the Chinatown beat, and the only police officer […]

Categories: Misterio, Novela Ficción • Tags: Americana, China, Chinatown, Kaya Press, Misterio, New York, Noir, Novela, NY

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GYPSET STYLE – $680

5 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Gypsetters are artists, designers, and bon vivants who live and work around the globe. Wanderlust meets the height of sophistication as New York Times journalist Julia Chaplin explores the unconventional lives of these high-low cultural nomads and the bohemian enclaves they inhabit. In addition to Jade Jagger, Damien Hirst, and Alice Temperly, the Gypsetters’ counterculture forebears, including the Victorian explorers, the Lost Generation, the Beatniks, and the hippies, are all profiled.

Categories: Estilo, Fotografía, Ilustrado • Tags: Artists, assouline, Beatniks, Gypsetters, New York, NY, Style

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New York – $885

3 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Diverse, vivacious, artistic, audacious, and always inspirational—there are many definitions of New York. A photographic tour of New York City with pictures that are at once modern, elegant, and bold. From its intimate details to its iconic architecture, here are over 800 images that prove the truth behind the saying “Only in New York.” With an introduction by author Tama Janowitz and an appendix of Assouline‘s favorite hotels, restaurants, museums, and special services, New York is the quintessential illustrated volume […]

Categories: Fotografía, Ilustrado, Viajes • Tags: Assoulne, fotografía, Ilustrado, New York, Nueva York, Viajes

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The Interpretation of Murder – $150

27 February, 2012 by rgonzalezr

In the summer of 1909, Sigmund Freud arrived by steamship in New York Harbor for a short visit to America. Though he would live another thirty years, he would never return to this country. Little is known about the week he spent in Manhattan, and Freud’s biographers have long speculated as to why, in his later years, he referred to Americans as “savages” and “criminals.” In The Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld weaves the facts of Freud’s visit into a riveting, atmospheric […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: Freud, Freud en Nueva York, Jed Rubenfeld, New York, Picador

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The Wonders of the Invisible World - $265

Odds Against Tomorrow: A Novel - $395

LCD - $385

Rage Is Back: A Novel - $350

You Are Here – $275

Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 – $325

Rules of Civility: A Novel – $275

Inferno: (a Poet’s Novel) -$365

Project for a Revolution in New York – $245

Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York, 1989-92 – $585

No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 – $225

This Is a Bust – $215

GYPSET STYLE – $680

New York – $885

The Interpretation of Murder – $150

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