The Complete ZE Series (Nos. 001–008): Holiday Edition

The Complete ZE Series (Nos. 001–008): Holiday Edition

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For collectors, artists, readers, and iconoclasts: the entire ZE Books series, gathered for the first time at a holiday price. These eight volumes span memoir, criticism, journalism, fiction, and hybrid forms—each designed as a meticulously crafted object with gorgeously produced full-color artwork.

Includes":

no. 001 — Intelligence for Dummies, Glenn O’Brien

no. 002 — Stay, Nick Flynn

no. 003 — The Ocean Is Closed, Jon Bradshaw

no. 004 — The Devil’s Treasure, Mary Gaitskill

no. 005 — Cellophane Bricks, Jonathan Lethem

no. 006 — And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, Joe Boyd

no. 007 — Minister without Portfolio, Hooman Majd

no. 008 — Private I, Lynn Hershman Leeson

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Private I: A Memoir - Lynn Hershman Leeson

A visionary life at the intersection of art, technology, and feminism.

Release: Nov 4, 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 9798988670087 • 292 pages
UK release: Nov 10, 2025 • UK Price: £25

Minister without Portfolio: Memoir of a Reluctant Exile - Hooman Majd

From the author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ comes a globe-spanning memoir of identity, exile, and reinvention.

Release: Sep 30, 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 9798988670063 • 320 pages
UK release: Nov 6, 2025 • UK Price: £25

And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey through Global Music - Joe Boyd

Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award in Pop Music

From the legendary producer of Nick Drake, R.E.M., Toots and the Maytals, and Pink Floyd and author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s comes a riveting, world-spanning tour de force illuminating the artists, histories, controversies, and collaborations that shaped global music.

Hardcover Release: Sep 24, 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 9798988670025 • 960 pages • two 16-page full-color photo inserts

Paperback Release: Apr 1, 2025
Paperback ISBN: 9798988670056 • 968 pages • two 16-page full-color photo inserts

Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture - Jonathan Lethem

A rapturous, ravenous celebration of visual art and storytelling from one of our most innovative writers and critical minds.

Release: Jul 30, 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 9798988670001 • 424 pages
UK release: Sep 19, 2024 • UK Price: £30

The Devil's Treasure: A Book of Stories and Dreams - Mary Gaitskill

A bewitching collage of fiction, memoir, essay, criticism, and visual art from an author unique in her “ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don’t even know we are living.” (Parul Sehgal, New York Times Magazine)

US Release: Oct 19, 2021 • UK Release: Apr 10, 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 9781733540155 • 240 pages

The Ocean is Closed: Journalistic Adventures and Investigations - Jon Bradshaw

“A long-overdue anthology of writings by a great—and now largely forgotten—long-form journalist... Exemplary journalism by a writer who deserves to be in every nonfiction anthology and textbook henceforth." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

US Release: Mar 16, 2021 • UK Release: Apr 10, 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 9781733540148 • 240 pages

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Stay: threads, conversations, collaborations - Nick Flynn

“If Nick Flynn’s Stay is a self-portrait, it is a self-portrait of our planet, of our contemporary consciousness in an undeniably wounded era. I think of it as an artist’s notebook, a prayer book, a monumental compendium of what it means to stay alive.” —Mary Ruefle

US Release: Mar 17, 2020 • UK Release: Apr 10, 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 9781733540117 • 312 pages

Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings - Glenn O'Brien

“Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence in the reader’s life.” —Michael Chabon

US Release: Oct 22, 2019 • UK Release: Apr 10, 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 9781733540100 • 336 pages

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