World Food Books is a book service
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2012, English Softcover (stapled), 16 pages (b&w ill.), 240 x 170 mm Published by Kunstverein / NL
$8 - IN STOCK -
An accompanying booklet for Kunstverein’s, Closer – The Dennis Cooper Papers, which profiles the influential literary figure of Dennis Cooper (1953, Pasadena, USA), acknowledging his important impact across literature, poetry, performance and visual art.
In the collaboration with the Fales Library & Special Collections of New York University, Kunstverein presents the archive of the George Miles Cycle, comprised of manuscripts, journals, posters, correspondence, scrapbooks and videocassettes. In addition, works by Vincent Fecteau and Falke Pisano are shown alongside the archive material. Artist Trisha Donnelly has been commissioned to produce new work based on the five novels.
Contains an interview with Dennis Cooper, Marvin Taylor and Krist Gruijthuijsen
2011, English Softcover, 113 pages, 140 x 215 mm Edition of 100, hand-numbered. Published by Pep Talk / Los Angeles
$18 - OUT OF STOCK
Bruce Hainley PEP TALK is the first collection of the author’s writing, bringing together an amazing selection of republished and unpublished interviews, critical essays, and poems. Every single text in this collection is guaranteed to light your fire, if you have any wick at all. As writer, critic, poet, teacher, mentor and more, Hainley is incomparable and irreplaceable to us in Los Angeles and those engaged with contemporary art anywhere. This monographic issue also includes contributions from artists Richard Hawkins and Dianna Molzan. – PEP TALK
