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  | | Unstuck #2 by Matt Williamson, Matthew Domiteaux, Steve Almond, Rikki Ducornet, Edward Carey, Dean Young, Donald Revell, Mary Ruefle, Tomaz Salamun, Caitlin Horrocks, Jonathan Lethem, John Hilgart, Matthew Zapruder, Daniel Wallace, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Paul Lisicky Paperback, 575 Pages, Published 2012 by Unstuck Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9839751-2-0, ISBN: 0-9839751-2-4 "Literary fiction with elements of the fantastic, the futuristic, the surreal, and the strange." |
 | | High Risk 2 Writings on Sex, Death and Subversion (High Risk) by Ira Silverberg, Amy Scholder, Rupert Adley, Neil Bartlett, Stephen Beachy, Michael Blumlein, Rebecca Brown, Gil Cuadros, Leslie Dick, Rikki Ducornet, Diamanda Galas, John Giorno, Craig G. Harris, Stewart Home, Darius James, Patrick Mcgrath, Akilah Nayo Oliver, Suzette Partido, Darryl Pinckney, Kate Pullinger, Ann Rower, Benjamin Weissman, John Wynne Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1994 by Serpents Tail ISBN-13: 978-1-85242-366-7, ISBN: 1-85242-366-8 "The original High Risk achieved cult status. Like its predecessor, High Risk 2 is a daring and provocative collection of short fiction, poetry and essays by writers on the cutting-edge of literature. With pieces on AIDS and mortality, urban violence, sex for money, sex for drugs, sex for revenge, and suicide, High Risk 2 offers perverse, profound ways of looking at the world." |
 | | Conjunctions 46, Selected Subversions: Essays on the World at Large by John Crowley, Fanny Howe, Anne Carson, Ken Gross, Robert Harbison, Ricky Jay, Michael Martone, Honor Moore, Rosamond Purcell, Joanna Scott, David Shields, Dubravka Ugresic, Nancy Willard, Geoffrey O'brien, Bradford Morrow, Robert Polito, Rikki Ducornet, Ned Rorem, Rick Moody, Ben Marcus, Eliot Weinberger, William Gass Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2006 by Bard College ISBN-13: 978-0-941964-62-3, ISBN: 0-941964-62-0 "This anthology of commissioned writing on subjects as wide-ranging as rock and roll lyrics, movies, science, pornography, curiosity cabinets, jazz and magic offers rich insights into a vast spectrum of ideas. The classic essay form--postulation, argument, exegesis, conclusion--ain't what it used to be. Lately it's too often referred to as what" |
 | | Trafik (Paperback) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, Published 2021 by Coffee House Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-606-1, ISBN: 1-56689-606-1 |
 | | Wild Geraniums by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 12 Pages, Published by Actual Size Press Deluxe Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-904942-03-3, ISBN: 0-904942-03-1 |
 | | Wild Geraniums by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 12 Pages, Published by Actual Size P Import ISBN-13: 978-0-904942-02-6, ISBN: 0-904942-02-3 |
 | | Brightfellow by Rikki Ducornet 176 Pages, Published 2016 by Coffee House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-441-8, ISBN: 1-56689-441-7 "Praise for Rikki Ducornet: “A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat.” —New York Times “Ducornet—surrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at times—is one of our most accomplished writers, adept at seizing on ..." |
 | | Brightfellow by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2016 by Coffee House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-440-1, ISBN: 1-56689-440-9 "Praise for Rikki Ducornet:A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat.” New York TimesDucornetsurrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at timesis one of our most accomplished writers, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment simultaneously. I love her style because it is penetrating and precise but also sensual without being overwrought. You experience a Ducornet novel wit ..." |
 | | The Deep Zoo(1st Edition) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 165 Pages, Published 2015 by Coffee House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-376-3, ISBN: 1-56689-376-3 "Included in Library Journal’s "25 Key Indie Fiction Titles, Fall 2014-Winter 2015"Within the writer's life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powers The Deep Zoo. Her essays take us from the glorious bestiary of Aloys Zötl to Abu Ghraib, fro ..." |
 | | The Fountains of Neptune(2nd Edition) (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2015 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-155-0, ISBN: 1-56478-155-0 ""My sleep began in the spring of 1914. I slept through both World Wars and the tainted calm between. It was as if I had been cursed by an evil fairy, pricked by an enchanted spinning wheel; an impenetrable briar had gripped my mind."Thus begins Rikki Ducornet's brilliant lyric novel about Nicolas who, as a result of witnessing his mother's murder, falls into a decades-long coma. Awakened in a seaport town in France, he reconstructs his ..." |
 | | The Fan-Maker's Inquisition A Novel of Marquis de Sade by Rikki Ducornet 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-4532-8779-8, ISBN: 1-4532-8779-5 "She askedthatit beread aloud;thegentleman obliged: “L'eaudes marais n'estni saine, ni claire, ni agréableà ... heard the tale. “But I shall fear foryou, knowing how Restif hurt my friendSade, who,at this moment,languishes in a tower, andthisin ..." |
 | | The Deep Zoo Essays by Rikki Ducornet 165 Pages, Published 2014 by Coffee House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-381-7, ISBN: 1-56689-381-X "years ago the Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei filled the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with one million hand-painted porcelain replicas of sunflower seeds. The experience of Ai Wei Wei's installation was one of deeply felt joy and mindfulness. u The seed is emblematic not only of potency, but of the initial impulse that engenders a universe, a universe characterized by mutability and so: multiplicity. If a seed appears to ... In other words ..." |
 | | The Cult of Seizure by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 2012 by Skylight Press ISBN-13: 978-1-908011-46-6, ISBN: 1-908011-46-7 "Maria Dermout, The Ten Thousand Things, Simon and Schuster, 1958. Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens, Beacon Press, Boston, 1955. Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, translated by James W. Ellington, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis, 1993. George Kubler, The Shape of Time, Yale University Press, 1962. Giovanni Mariotti, Le Bestiaire d'Aloys Zötl, F. M. Ricci, Paris, 1979.Ovid, The Metamorphoses, Penguin, Middle ..." |
 | | Netsuke by Rikki Ducornet 128 Pages, Published 2011 by Coffee House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-271-1, ISBN: 1-56689-271-6 "7. A DAYOF CONTRASTS.Akiko, taken upwith the garden, plants shrubbery, allJapanese. Firs or pines. (Or both.I do not know anything about plants.) Shehas alonging fora world she never knew, or rather, has caught mereglimpses of on brief ..." |
 | | Netsuke by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2011 by Coffee House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-253-7, ISBN: 1-56689-253-8 "Ruled by his hunger for erotic encounters, a deeply wounded psychoanalyst seduces both patients and strangers with equal heat. Driven to compartmentalize his life, the doctor attempts to order and contain his lovers as he does his collection of rare netsuke, the precious miniature sculptures gifted to him by his wife. This riveting exploration of one psychoanalyst s abuse of power unearths the startling introspection present within even ..." |
 | | Not Normal, Illinois(Unabridged) Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover (Quarry Books) by Michael Martone, Max Apple, Joel Brouwer, Robert Coover, Robert Day, Rikki Ducornet, Stuart Dybek, Mark Ehling, Louise Erdrich, Robin Hemley, Lily Hoang, Laird Hunt, Sandy Huss, Lily James, Janet Kauffman, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Brian Kitely, Clarence Major, Brian Mcmullen, Glenn Meeter, Ander Monson, Susan S. Neville, Lon Otto, Erin Pringle, Josh Russell, Scott Russell Sanders, George Saunders, Steve Tomasula, Deb Olin Unferth, Kellie Wells, Curtis White, Michael Wilkerson, Dianne Williams, Quarry Books Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2009 by Quarry Books ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21022-7, ISBN: 0-253-21022-4 "Do Midwesterners have a peculiar way of looking at the world? Is there something not quite right about the way they see things? For such a normal place, the heartland has produced some writers who take a most individual approach to storytelling. And the result―to the delight of readers everywhere―has been stories that reveal the mystery, joy, and enchantment in the most ordinary and incidental moments of life. These 33 exceptional tales ..." |
 | | The One Marvelous Thing(1st Edition) by Rikki Ducornet, T. Motley, Tom Motley Paperback, 161 Pages, Published 2008 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-519-0, ISBN: 1-56478-519-X "Winner of a 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rikki Ducornet is beloved as a novelist and essayist, but is known perhaps most of all for her work as a writer of short stories. In the tradition of Italo Calvino, Donald Barthelme, and Angela Carter, Ducornet creates modern-day fables filled with characters as complex and surprising as any in American short fiction. This landmark collection of new stories is generously illustrated ..." |
 | | Ubar A Cabinet of Infinite Compartments by Amy England, Rikki Ducornet, David Vance, Catherine Kasper Published 2006 ISBN-13: 978-1-58775-025-0, ISBN: 1-58775-025-2 |
 | | The Word "Desire" (Lannan Selection) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 193 Pages, Published 2005 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-398-1, ISBN: 1-56478-398-7 "These twelve startlingly original stories about erotic desire are the best opportunity yet for adventurous renders to discover and explore the fiction of Rikki Ducornet, who over the past three decades has created a body of work that is as daring and finely wrought as any writer's. Each of these stories centers on a pivotal erotic moment in the lives of the men and women who narrate them. Desire is awakened by such seemingly inconsequen ..." |
 | | Gazelle(Reprint) by Rikki Ducornet Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by Anchor Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-385-72043-4, ISBN: 0-385-72043-2 "As mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade, Gazelle traces the story of Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old American girl whose adolescent passion is awakened in the exotic climate of 1950s Cairo. While her mother–whose beauty and sexual prowess both frighten and fascinate Elizabeth–moves into a hotel to pursue a string of lovers, her father, a historian, loses himself in a world of chess and toy soldiers. Elizabeth’s imagination, ..." |
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