Product Description: We have been bombarded by images of the U.S. Secretary of State as the Great Diplomat, walking onto the tarmac of a foreign country as if she were a rock star, an intellectual giant, and the embodiment of the American dream all rolled into one...read more

Product Description: Scholars, artists and writers consider the works of the most transgressive literary icon of the late 20th century.Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and plagiarist, her oeuvreover a dozen novels and novellashas inspired a generation of writers and artists...read more

Product Description: Computer and video games are only a few decades old, but in that short time they have exploded into our culture—as high-tech playtoys, as controversial popular media, and as a major economic force. Re:Play brings together game designers, new media artists, interdisciplinary curators and players in debate and conversation about technology and design, gaming addictions and geek subcultures, the aesthetics of violence, gender transgressions, the erotics of gaming, and the business of play—capturing the zeitgeist that is digital games...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: INTERACTION began as online forum, hosted by Eyebeam Atelier, featuring an international group of artists, scholars, critics, architects, students, technicians, and curators. Discussing the transformations wrought by the Internet--particularly the latter's implications for artistic practices--the participants in this forum illustrate how the impassioned debates taking place on the Net can help forge new kinds of communities, discourses, and intimate connections across this most transitory of landscapes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Amazon.com Review: At the time of his death in 1992, David Wojnarowicz was one of the most vital and important names in the New York arts scene. His openness about his HIV status and engagement in public debates about health care and AIDS policy placed his highly political and determinedly provocative art and writing in a new context...read more

Amazon.com Review: Like James MacNeill Whistler, David Wojnarowicz became briefly infamous in his own lifetime by taking a cultural conservative to court. Whistler's antagonist was none other than art critic John Ruskin, who likened Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold to flung paint...read more

Chronicles the life of an introspective writer, filmmaker, radical artist, and AIDS activist from age seventeen until his AIDS-related death at thirty-seven.

Product Description: The visionary paintings of Martin Wong, one of the unsung geniuses of New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s, are collected here and examined in depth for the first time. Entirely self-taught, Wong creates intricate compositions that combine gritty social documents, cosmic witticisms, and highly charged symbolic languages-customized manual alphabets for the deaf, street graffiti, Nuyorican poetry, hand-lettered signs, meticulously rendered brick facades, rearrangements of Zodiac signs-sometimes within a single painting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The late author, a gay activist, artist, and writer, presents a collection of his early works--never before published--of autobiographical fiction, written as short monologues delivered by a variety of characters from the highways and byways of America.

Product Description: Cookie Mueller was a fiction writer, cult movie star and art critic in New York until her death from AIDS in 1989. Included here are highlights from her art columns for "Detail" magazine, her agony aunt column, and her strongest pieces of fiction. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Amazon.com Review: Cookbooks serve a variety of functions, sometimes the least of which is to instruct us in the kitchen. Amy Scholder's Cooking with Honey: What Literary Lesbians Eat is filled with great recipes, but its real worth and pleasure are the smart, witty, and delicious essays that accompany each entree...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: catalog/anthology from landmark queer art exhibit

A literary collection of explicit writings--fiction, poetry, and essays--addresses 'high risk' subject matter, such as illicit sex, incest, bondage, drug use, and transsexuality, and features contributions by progressive writers including Dorothy Allison, William Burroughs, and Kathy Acker. Reissue.