Doctor Sax

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real peo...

The Magnetic Fields

Andre Breton + Philippe Soupault

An indispensible classic of French poetry, this is a new translation of Breton and Soupault's experiment with automatic writing, and also the first known work of literary surrealism.  In the spring of 1919, two young men, André Breton and Philippe Soupault, both in a state of shock after World War I, em...