Stuart Swezey
A new, updated edition of the world's one and only comprehensive, bibliographically detailed guide to the most unusual, bizarre, titillating, and subversive works in print Amok is the name of one of America's most unusual bookstores, an L.A. "anarcho-extremist" browser's paradise that carries everything from Tom of Finland porn to Goebbels' novel. Now, the famed bookstore brings us The Amok Sourcebook, a comprehensive bibliographic collection of offbeat literature, with vivid (and slightly surreal) descriptions of more than 2,500 titles.,Amok has its finger on the pulse of deviance in many forms. Categories include Mayhem, Pulps, Sleaze, Sensory Deprivation, and Nietzsche. Works catalogued range from nudist colony guidebooks to biographies of serial killers, from fundamentalist fulminations to Santeria spellbooks. And that's just nonfiction The Amok Sourcebook also tours the fiction jungle, from blaxploitation to cyberpunk, from William Burroughs to George Battaille.
The Amok Sourcebook: Fifth Dispatch: The Extremes of Information in Print