June 24th, 2009 / 12:07 am
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New York dwellers, get ’em while they’re hot: Yesterday I was up at BookCulture (formerly Labyrinth Books) on 112th and Broadway, where they always have tons of blowout-priced remainder specials, but  yesterday’s findings were so exciting I just can’t keep them to myself: The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch, in hardback, for $10– marked down from the original jacket price of $40 (!!!). Now keep in mind that this doesn’t include KK’s longer poems, which comprise a volume of approximately equal size and price…oh wait. What? The Collected Longer Poems is sitting right there on that same table, also in hardback, and also just ten bucks. They’ve also got big discounts (I think half off) on handsome hardback first-editions of Notes from the Air (Ashbery’s selected later poems), and Hiding Man, Tracy Daugherty’s ass-kicking biography of Donald Barthelme. Plus like 100 other things, but any one of the above-mentioned is already reason enough to drag yourself uptown.

10 Comments

  1. June 24th, 2009 / 4:22 am Matt Cozart—

      aaaaahhhhh i live 3 stops from there. thank you. now please let’s not tell anyone else until i get there tomorrow.

  2. June 24th, 2009 / 12:22 am Matt Cozart—

      aaaaahhhhh i live 3 stops from there. thank you. now please let’s not tell anyone else until i get there tomorrow.

  3. June 24th, 2009 / 11:59 am Ross Brighton—

      Shit – wasn’t that Barthelme bio just reviewed in the New Yorker? like 2 months ago or so? Damn. If only I wasn’t several tens of thousands of miles away.

  4. June 24th, 2009 / 7:59 am Ross Brighton—

      Shit – wasn’t that Barthelme bio just reviewed in the New Yorker? like 2 months ago or so? Damn. If only I wasn’t several tens of thousands of miles away.

  5. June 24th, 2009 / 2:09 pm james yeh—

      thanks for the tip, j — going to try to drop by today if i get the chance.

  6. June 24th, 2009 / 10:09 am james yeh—

      thanks for the tip, j — going to try to drop by today if i get the chance.

  7. June 24th, 2009 / 2:53 pm Lincoln—

      I think they also have a bunch of Houellbecq books for like five bucks. Ha.

  8. June 24th, 2009 / 10:53 am Lincoln—

      I think they also have a bunch of Houellbecq books for like five bucks. Ha.

  9. June 24th, 2009 / 4:17 pm Mark Doten—

      also: cheap-ass copies o’ vollmann’s last 2 non-fiction titles, alice munro’s last one, houellbecq’s possibilty of an island, leonard michael’s collected stories, several annoying-looking books about proust, and many, many more! at prices like this, you can’t afford NOT to buy!

      Seriously, class up your bookshelf w/some $6 hardcovers.

  10. June 24th, 2009 / 12:17 pm Mark Doten—

      also: cheap-ass copies o’ vollmann’s last 2 non-fiction titles, alice munro’s last one, houellbecq’s possibilty of an island, leonard michael’s collected stories, several annoying-looking books about proust, and many, many more! at prices like this, you can’t afford NOT to buy!

      Seriously, class up your bookshelf w/some $6 hardcovers.