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Conventional fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1170 Collections and/or Records:

Biobibliographique, 1986

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Identifier: CC-17959-18329
Scope and Contents

The type becomes progressively smaller on each page so that more words appear. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Bizarre. No.8/Jul / Henry M., 1957

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Identifier: CC-46721-49451
Scope and Contents

This issue includes a large illustrated section by Maurice Henry on Palindromes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

Bizarre. No.9., 1958

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Identifier: CC-46722-49452
Scope and Contents

This issue deals with a perpetual motion machine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Bizarre. No.10 / Topor R., 1958

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Identifier: CC-46723-49453
Scope and Contents

This issue includes a large section on causes of diseases. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Blue: A Novel / Zucker, Benjamin., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34667-36368
Scope and Contents In the New York Times Book Review, William Ferguson writes, "Benjamin Zucker's first novel, Blue, is at once a spiritual challenge and a gorgeous typographic object. Echoing the style of the Talmud, the book presents a continuing narrative in the center of each right-hand page, where a passage from the Mishna - ancient commentary on the Torah - would ordinarily be placed...The central story is wreathed with commentaries, including those of Abe's mother and father, the impatient Rachel and a host of others both living and dead: Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, Chief Crazy Horse, Modigliani, Isaac Luria, Bob Dylan, and dozens more. Their remarks all begin with a word or phrase taken from the main text; the words attributed to them are a mixture of direct quotation, in italics, and the author's expertly constructed inventions of what they might have said. The left-hand pages all bear illustrations - dazzling reproductions of Vermeers and Van Goghs, photographs of Kafka, Talmudic texts - that...
Dates: 2000

Bon Voyage Freddie!, 2009

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Identifier: CC-60094-10003113
Scope and Contents

The first French edition of Bon Voyage Freddie! was printed by hand by the artist and author in 1980 in 95 examples by Editions Kickshaw. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Book Eleven / Depew, Wally., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53149-74301
Scope and Contents

This story is written as a stream of consciousness and includes several thoughts about the word, 'Fuck.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Books to Read in Utopia / Granary Books ; Acconci V ; Acker K ; Bernstein C ; Guston P ; Schneeman G ; Mayer B ; Coolidge C ; Berrigan T ; Berman W ; Berkson B ; Cage J ; Giorno J ; Phillips T ; Saroyan A ; Rothenberg J ; Higgins D., 1996

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Identifier: CC-10654-10863
Scope and Contents

The cover is a visual piece by Bernadette Mayer entitled, "The Golden Book of Words." The works in this catalogue were in the collection of Mayer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Books to Read in Utopia / Granary Books ; Acker K ; Berkson B ; Bernstein C ; Brainard J ; Clark T ; Creeley R ; Duncan R ; Ginsberg A ; McClure M ; Padgett R ; Rothenberg J., 1995

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Identifier: CC-34250-35940
Scope and Contents

The cover is a visual piece by Lewis Warsh and this catalogue consists of books from the library of this poet, novelist, editor and publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Bra)m(ind / Depew, Wally., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53162-74314
Scope and Contents

This story relates the gunshot murder of a transvestite in the inner city. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003