Fantastic Metropolis

• Prince of Foxes, Samuel Shellabarger
• Tales of Mean Streets, Arthur Morrison
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, B. Traven
• The Asphalt Jungle, W.R. Burnett
• 1982, Janine, Alasdair Gray
• The Book of Survival, Anthony Greenbank
• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Krazy & Ignatz 1929-1930, George Herriman
• Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata
• Jacques the Fatalist, Denis Diderot
• Olympic Games, Leslie What
• Gazelle, Rikki Ducornet
• At War, Flann O’Brien
• The Church, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• One-Way, Didjer Van Cauwelaert
• Punk: Young, Loud & Snotty, Steven Wells
• Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha, Dr. Ben Reitman
• We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, Marc Spitz & Brendan Mullen
• The Stain, Rikki Ducornet
• Underworld, Don DeLillo
• The Black City, George Sand
• Frek and the Elixir, Rudy Rucker
• Others’ Paradise, Paul Leppin
• Rendezvous in Black, Cornell Woolrich
• House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories, Yasunari Kawabata
• Piano, Jean Echenoz
• Firing the Cathedral, Michael Moorcock
• Dance Dance Dance, Haruki Murakami
• First Snow on Fuji, Yasunari Kawabata
• The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek
• Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography, Jim Tully
• Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Alasdair Gray
• South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami
• The Sea-Hawk, Rafael Sabatini
• The Best of Xero, Dick Lupoff, editor
• I, Shithead: A Life in Punk, Joey Keithley
• The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
• Tom Sawyer Abroad, Mark Twain
• Tom Sawyer, Detective, Mark Twain
• The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
• Dumb Luck, Gary Baseman
• Parisian Sketches, J. K. Huysmans
• Between Lives, Dorothea Tanning
• The Cat’s Pajamas and Other Stories, James Morrow
  
• Krazy & Ignatz 1931-1932, George Herriman
• The Jinx, Théophile Gautier
• Some Thing Black, Jacques Roubaud
• Some Prefer Nettles, Junichiro Tanizaki
• Summerlong, Peter Beagle
• Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
• McTeague, Frank Norris
• I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick, Emmanuel Carrère
• The Misanthrope, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière
• Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
• Vicious: Too Fast to Live…, Alan Parker
• Maus I & II, Art Spiegelman
• The Essential Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Akutagawa
• Stable Strategies and Others, Eileen Gunn
• Expressionist Texts, Mel Gordon, editor
• Poor Things, Alasdair Gray
• The Ends of our Tethers, Alasdair Gray
• The Monstrous and the Marvelous, Rikki Ducornet
• The Wisdom of Life, Arthur Schopenhauer
• The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Inquisitory, Robert Pinget
• Forming: The Early Days of L.A. Punk, Smart Art
• Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms, Suzy McKee Charnas
• The Mystery of the Texas Twister, Michael Moorcock
• Selected Stories, Robert Walser
• The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald
• No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai
• The Great Shadow, Mário de Sá-Carneiro
• The Robber, Robert Walser
• The Class, Hermann Ungar
• Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
• The Trolley, Claude Simon
• Jakob von Gunten, Robert Walser
• The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai
• Coloring Outside the Lines: A Punk Rock Memoir, Aimee Cooper
• The Maimed, Hermann Ungar
• Men and Cartoons, Jonathan Lethem
• With the Flow, J.K. Huysmans
• Confessions of Zeno, Italo Sveno
• Blind Owl, Sadegh Hedayat
• Incidences, Daniil Kharms
• Ferdydurke, Witold Gombrowicz
• Blindsight, Hervé Guibert
• Palafox, Eric Chevillard
• Boredom, Alberto Moravia
• The Notebook, Agota Kristof
• The Proof, Agota Kristof
• The Third Lie, Agota Kristof
• Cosmos, Witold Gombrowicz
• Exquisite Corpse, Robert Irwin
• Pornografia, Witold Gombrowicz
• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1, Fowler, Murphy, Notkin, Smith, editors
• The Limits of Vision, Robert Irwin
• Midsummer Night, Uwe Timm
• Under Fire, Henri Barbusse
• Contempt, Alberto Moravia
• The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
• Love & Loss—A Story About Life, Death & Rebirth, Jane Bay
• The Arabian Nightmare, Robert Irwin
• Locos: A Comedy of Gestures, Felipe Alfau
• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
• Foam of the Daze, Boris Vian
• Possessed, or the Secret of Myslotch, Witold Gombrowicz
• I Spit on Your Graves, Boris Vian
• The Glass Bees, Ernest Jünger
• Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories, Boris Vian
• Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Key, Junichir? Tanizaki
• Only an Alligator, Steve Aylett
• Diary of a Mad Old Man, Junichir? Tanizaki
• Chicago: City on the Make, Nelson Algren
• On the Natural History of Destruction, W.G. Sebald
• Chasm: A Weekend, Dorothea Tanning
• Heartsnatcher, Boris Vian
• All Riot on the Western Front, Winston Smith
• A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
• Vertigo, W.G. Sebald
• The Fox in the Attic, Richard Hughes
• The Dedalus Book of English Decadence: Vile Emperors and Elegant Degenerates, James Willsher, editor
• After Nature, W.G. Sebald
• Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig
• The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake, Breece D’J Pancake
• Koroko, Natsume Soseki
• Trans-Atlantyk, Witold Gombrowicz
• Young Lonigan, James T. Farrell
• Payback, Gert Ledig
• Parasites Like Us, Adam Johnson
• Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer, Antonio D’Ambrosio, editor
• Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle, Robert McNab
• When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Pink Beams of Light From the God in the Gutter: The Science-Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick, Gabriel McKee
• Blade Runner: The Inside Story, Don Shay
• Travels in Abyssinia and the Harar, Arthur Rimbaud
• Destroy: Sex Pistols, Dennis Morris
• Adulterers Anonymous, Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka
• A Kind of Testament, Witold Gombrowicz
• Pretty in Punk: Girls’ Gender Resistance in a Boys’ Subculture, Lauraine Leblanc
• God Save the Sex Pistols: A Collector’s Guide to the Priests of Punk, Gavin Walsh
• Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal
• The Wooden Shepherdess, Richard Hughes
• The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
• A Night in the Luxembourg, Remy de Gourmont
• Introducing Kafka, David Zane Mairowitz and R. Crumb
• Le Fanu’s Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness, Victor Sage
• Riders of the Purple Sage, Zane Grey
• Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature, Warren Motte, editor
• Ask the Dust, John Fante
• Soft!, Rupert Thomson
• Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
• Diary, Volume One, Witold Gombrowicz
• Mountain R, Jacques Jouet
• Insel, Mina Loy
• Germinie Lacerteux, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
• Unrecounted, W. G. Sebald
• Krazy & Ignatz 1933-1934, George Herriman
• Yardie, Victor Headley
• As a Man Grows Older, Italo Svevo
• The Clash: Return of the Last Gang in Town, Marcus Gray
• Cinderella’s Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground, Maria Raha
• Cigarettes, Harry Mathews
• Diary, Volume Two, Witold Gombrowicz

Allan Kausch is an editor, surreal collagist and author from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has had a handful of shows of his original collages, and is the author of five books: Voyage of Exile, Blackberry Castle, The Wax Baby, Fetch the Stick Dog and Remorse Code and Other Tantrums. His latest story appears in Leviathan 4: Cities, edited by Forrest Aguirre. Until recently he worked as the Continuity Editor for Lucasfilm Ltd., serving as the Star Wars expert under George Lucas, and he received the Harvey and Eisner awards for his editing of Star Wars comic books. He is now pursuing a freelance existence.