Tortuga, 1951 by Jacobo Borges (b. 1931)

A panel from Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days by Al Columbia, Fantagraphics Books, 2009.

In Grace Krilanovich’s Acid Green Velvet, nearly everyone is trying to invent a new self. Tramps become philosophers, grifters become visionaries, labor organizers become prophets, mystics be…

In Grace Krilanovich’s Acid Green Velvet, nearly everyone is trying to invent a new self. Tramps become philosophers, grifters become visionaries, labor organizers become prophets, mystics be…

Sonic Youth1988-11-05Cabaret MetroChicago, ILRecording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive.Source: TEAC ME-120 Mics > Marantz PMD 420 > Cassette (M)Transfer: Cassette (M) > ...

A few panels from “What an Interesting City!” by Julie Doucet. Published in Dirty Plotte #5, May 1992, Drawn & Quarterly.

“The Boy Who Hooked the Sun” by Gene Wolfe On the eighth day a boy cast his line into the sea. The sun of the eighth day was just rising, making a road of gold that ran from its own bro…

Any time I visit Atlanta, I have to stop by A Capella Books. I walked down there from Little Five Points, where my wife and son were still looking around. I have never seen L5P so busy, thick with …

Any time I visit Atlanta, I have to stop by A Capella Books. I walked down there from Little Five Points, where my wife and son were still looking around. I have never seen L5P so busy, thick with …

Untitled, 1970 by Lucas Samaras (1936–2024)

NYRB’s new edition of South African author Barbara Trapido’s debut 1982 novel Brother of the More Famous Jacks is forthcoming next month, with an introduction by Mick Herron. NYRB&#8217…

Snow White, 1967, Donald Barthelme. Bantam Books (7th. printing, 1971). No cover designer credited. 181 pages. The collector in me finally picked up this awful horny late sixties photographically-c…

“Clean Slate” by Tom Clark 3 free services of the weightless cool environment: a light blue wall for breathing, a bright red wall for energy, a broad green wall for warmth.

“Multiple Mouth McCardy,” a detail from Wally Wood’s cover for Plop! #13, June, 1975, DC Comics.

Biblioklept is twenty years old today. I was 27 when I started the blog which I guess means I’m 47 now. The blog is older than both of my children (it is almost exactly nine months older than…

I had never looked at a robot that closely before, having been brought up to fear and respect them. And I became aware, looking at his stupid, manufactured face, that I was seeing for the first tim…

“The Raid” by John Steinbeck I It was dark in the little California town when the two men stepped from the lunch car and strode arrogantly through the back streets. The air was full of …

A page from Prison Pit, Book One by Johnny Ryan, 2009, Fantagraphics Books.

Claudia Rankine’s Triage is out now from Graywolf Press. A work of autofictive-poem-prose-essaying, Triage is larded with beautiful full-color reproductions of paintings, photographs, install…

“Poems for Bad Children” by Andrew Hudgins I We buried the bird but the cat dug her up, cat dug her up, cat dug her up, we buried the bird but the cat dug her up, so we ground her in th…