Basket Books & Art

An independent bookstore and art gallery in Houston TX specializing in contemporary art, literature, and thought

 

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Open Tuesday-Saturday 12-6 at 115 Hyde Park Blvd, Houston TX 77006

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https://www.basket-books.com/

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“The only other play she ever wrote also in Operas and Plays, many years later and in french, was inspired by her white poodle dog called Basket” 

— Gertrude Stein, Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

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Basket Books & Art

The Best in Art Publishing

The Argonauts
Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza 5th Edition
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
Torpor, New Edition
I Love Dick
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
Coming to Writing and Other Essays (Revised)
Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d'Un Retour Au Pays Natal (Bilingual)
King Kong Theory
To Write as If Already Dead
DMZ Colony
Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics
I Will Die in a Foreign Land
Inhabiting the Negative Space
Punks: New & Selected Poems
Bee Reaved
Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism
Studiolo
The Last One
The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void
Cold Enough for Snow
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Tomatoes + Why Doesn't the Far Left Read Literature?
The Book of Explanations
Gentlemen Callers
Art Workshops for Children
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition (Revised and Updated)
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
Brown Neon
Lote
Dream of Europe: Selected Seminars and Interviews: 1984-1992
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
The Novelist
Summer Fun
Violets
Punks: New & Selected Poems
Panics
The Sea
In Concrete
Grey Bees
Paradais
Lucky Breaks
Deaf Republic: Poems
Voices in the Evening
A Country for Dying
Inseparable: A Never-Before-Published Novel
Heaven
The Antarctica of Love
The Twilight Zone
Birthday
In the Country of Others
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
Last Summer in the City
An Arab Melancholia Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, New Edition: Collected Stories Indivisible, New Edition
Basket Books & Art

Semiotext(e) slice

Violets
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Nina Simone's Gum
Just Us: An American Conversation
Drifts
A Country for Dying
Second Place
Punks: New & Selected Poems
The Swimming Holes of Texas (Second Edition, Updated)
What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)Biography of Niki de Saint Phalle
Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems
Faith Ringgold: Politics / Power
Harrow
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou
Meret Oppenheim: Works in Dialogue from Max Ernst to Mona Hatoum
Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition
Nightwood
The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings
Down Below
The Hearing Trumpet
Surrealism Beyond Borders
Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto
Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora
Adam Pendleton: Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement
Hannah Höch
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction
A History of My Brief Body
Collected Poems 1912-1944
Sphinx
Female Masculinity (Anniversary)
La Batarde = The Bastard
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
The End of Eddy
Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art
Inferno: A Poet's Novel
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics
Detransition, Baby
An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing
How I Became One of the Invisible, New Edition
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness
Tender Buttons (Corrected Centennial)
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
Lifting Belly: An Erotic Poem
Shakespeare and Company, New Edition
Everybody's Autobiography
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated
Gertrude Is Gertrude Is Gertrude Is Gertrude
Paris France
The Letters of Sylvia Beach
Three Lives
Gertrude Stein: Selections Volume 6