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Subliming Vessel:
The Drawings of Matthew Barney


Isabelle Dervaux, Roni Horn, Klaus Kertess, Adam Phillips, and Bibliotheque Nationale de France
2013.
8.5 x 11.3 inches. Hardcover.


Price: $55.00

Monika Grzymala 11
Works 2000-2011


Edited by Elena Winkel, with texts by Petra Kipphoff, Elena Winkel, and Catherine de Zegh
2011. 136 pages. Color illustrations.
9 x 10.5 inches. Hardcover.


Price: $60.00

Degas, Miss La La, and the Cirque Fernando

Linda Wolk-Simon
Contributions by Nancy Ireson and Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli
2013. 98 pages. Color illustrations.
8 x 10.5 inches. Softcover.


Price: $25.00

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Secret Lives of Great Authors
Secret Lives of Great Authors
What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights

Robert Schnakenberg
2008. 304 pages.
4.25 x 8 inches. Softcover.

Product Code: 9781594742118

$16.95


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Outrageous and uncensored profiles of the world’s greatest writers, complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright bizarre facts.

Consider:
–Edgar Allan Poe was kicked out of West Point Military Academy.
–Louisa May Alcott was addicted to opium.
–W. B. Yeats paid surgeons to transplant monkey glands into his scrotum.
–J. R. R. Tolkien slept in his bathroom.
–Kurt Vonnegut managed a Saab dealership before hitting the big time.

With chapters on everyone from William Shakespeare to Thomas Pynchon, Secret Lives of Great Authors tackles all the tough questions your teachers were afraid to answer: What’s the deal with Lewis Carroll and little girls? Is it true that J. D. Salinger drank his own urine? Why was Ayn Rand such a big fan of Charlie’s Angels? The classics were never this much fun in school!

ROBERT SCHNAKENBERG is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York.


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