***Back in print from HARMONY KORINE, A Crack-Up At the Race Riots was originally published by Mainstreet/Doubleday in 1998. Korine’s first novel presents fragments of a portrait in multimedia: print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, clip art—but mostly text, including hard-luck stories, off-and-on-color jokes, script-scraps, found letters, free rhymes, drug flashbacks and other missing scenes, exploring the world of show-biz with fingers prying in the cracks and feet set lightly in the black humours of the real ol’ world. This excretion of the danglers of public life would make William Burroughs sigh and turn the page, at least. A Crack-Up At the Race Riots also includes some other semi/attempted/quasi lists/scripts, a few letters from Tupac and a set of eleven suicide notes with room included for your signature. So that’s the book in a nutshell. I don’t know, maybe you had to be there. But it’s back in print, so be there now, what the fuck? Harmony Korine is the self-educated thirty-nine-year-old who wrote and directed the controversial films Trash Humpers, Mister Lonely, Julien Donkey-Boy and Gummo. His new film Spring Breakers was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Korine was raised in the carnival and lives in Tennessee with his wife and kid. 172 page softcover book. (STREET DATE - 4/16/2013)
BK $17.50
04/16/2013
***BACK IN STOCK!!! “Going back through the years…it’s so hard to remember, I was always tripping and falling over myself. These ‘zines were written over the last fifteen years, mostly in dark rooms and the basements of old people. With names like “Adulthood,” “Foster Homes and Gardens,” “Pocohontas Monthly,” “Hümer,” and others, they were sold in limited editions out of the Alleged Gallery and Andrea Rosen Gallery. Some were sold on street corners and given away to the tramp sects that were so prominent during that time period. Scraps of paper and half thoughts in the guise of art objects, you see. Not many people actually got a chance to have these but the ones who are still amongst the living have greatly benefited. I know one lady in Panama who has the complete set, her family has stopped referring to her as a gimp, now they call her Sue. They were never meant to be collectible — just low-concept laugh-inducing juxtapositions of words and images, images and images, lists, monologues, cartoons, free verse, jokes, half-thoughts, fake/real interviews, innuendo and Matt Dillon’s phone number. If you sold them on eBay for a bunch of money, I want my cut. Or if you bought them then please spare a percentage to the dyke army and the flame militia, it’s a good charity and its ribbon buttons are invisible . Some of them read like letters from prison. I know these were popular in some prisons but I’m not sure why.”—Harmony Korine...
BK $90.75
11/18/2008
***Features eight of his xerox works that are straight-up bizarre fun, KORINE style. For example Adulthood and Adulthood 2, are wacky ramblings on what, assumedly, Korine "learned" or thought of or derived from being an adult in the mid-1990s. They're filled with lists, aimless narratives, discussions of Martians, and tons of found images. Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting is a bit more serious. It's a sort of choose-your-own-adventure narrative; Korine instructs the reader to rearrange the pages in any order and fax the new story on to a friend. Half chain letter, half warped story on a a really dysfunctional family. Foster Homes and Gardens is a goofy, super simple collection of Korine's outlooks on certain celebrities.
BK $22.95
11/18/2008