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Tiny Vices Books
We live in tiny apartments on tiny budgets. We can't afford giant works of art selling for giant sums of money.
What we can afford are small, beautifully crafted books and zines, cataloguing more works of art in a six-inch stretch of bookshelf than we could ever afford in wall space. Though more expensive than a Whopper value meal, as far as luxury goes, these are our "tiny" vices.
Mary Martin Bookshop
Until recently, I didn't realise that Mary Martin was an actual person; I just assumed it was a nice business name devised by booksellers with a love of alliteration. In fact, Mary Martin was a woman, writer and artist who pioneered independent bookselling in Adelaide and the shop bearing her name now has an additional location on Norwood Parade.
Exact Change Rarities: Classics of Experimental Literature
The fiery breeze of psych-noise pleasers Galaxie 500 brought me to Exact Change Rarities: Classics of Experimental Literature, an independent publishing jaunt founded in 1989 by Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang of the same band.
Heads of their field, Exact Change specialised in re-publishing 19th and 20th century avant-garde literature with the belief that several important niche titles should remain available always.
Library Love
Remember those things called libraries? They're a little like google scholar, but real. Oh, and they actually work.
Well, turns out they've actually got some pros ; besides weird red brick architecture, local government funding, smelly elderly folks and making your uni essays sound vaguely intelligent that is.
21 Nights in July: The Physics & Metaphysics of Cycling
You would be forgiven for thinking that Dr Ianto Ware is the whitest person in Adelaide. After all, the man has a Doctorate in European Cultural Studies, is a member of No Through Rd (the whitest band in Adelaide), and is a zealous advocate of - wait for it honkies - competitive cycling. Ware's debut book is a kind of poignant hymn to his whiteness, viewed through his endearingly white obsessions with the Tour de France, lycra, identity politics, Roland Barthes and the various evils of post-industrial capitalism.
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