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Welcome to St. Mark's Bookshop
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St. Mark's Bookshop was established in 1977 in New York's East Village, a community of students, academics, arts professionals and other eclectic readers. Our specialties include Cultural Theory, Graphic Design, Poetry & Small Press Publishers, Film Studies and Foreign & Domestic Periodicals & Journals.
Beginning in the Spring of 2008, we're hosting a reading series! Click here for more information!
Please Note: We update the inventory information on this website daily so that the inventory screen for each title will reflect our current stock quantity. Look for the Inventory Status field on each book's individual page: - If there is a quantity indicated as "on our shelves now," that is the number of copies currently onhand. - If, instead of a quantity, the book's status is listed as "usually ships in 1 to 5 days," then we do not have the book in stock but we can usually order it for you locally.
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This Week's Arrivals
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The very latest titles, shipped to our store within the last seven days. Fiction and non-fiction, cloth and paper, covering a wide range of tastes and subjects, all available for sale now at St. Mark's Bookshop.
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The Lemoine Affair
It is surprising but true: a polished, mature work by Marcel Proust that is unavailable in English translation-until now. In this overlooked comedic gem based on a true story, the author considered one of the most important writers of the twentieth century tells the tale of a con artist who claimed he could manufacture diamonds, with each chapter of the tale written in the style of a different French writer. This delicious spoof of Balzac, Flaubert, Chateaubriand, and others is presented in a sparkling, nuanced translation by the award-winning Charlotte Mandell, exclusively for The Art of the Novella series. |
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Numerous authors visit St. Mark's Bookshop and often sign copies of their books. Browse our current selection and order a copy via e-mail at no extra charge. These items are available from St. Mark's Bookshop ONLY by e-mail order. (Do not use the Book Sense electronic order system to purchase autograph copies.)
This page updated May 7, 2008.
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What It Is
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Barry, Lynda
"Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+" --"Salon
" How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry's compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. "What It Is" demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or to remember. Composed of completely new material, each page of Barry's first Drawn &Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process but an invigorating example of exactly what it is: "The ordinary is extraordinary." |
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