Moloko+ Books

Catherine Marshall & Simon Johnson – Ordinary Stupid People

“… Joan Vollmer’s memory has long been framed within the narrative of the troubled five-year common-law marriage to the writer William S. Burroughs… her accidental death at her husband’s hand is unforgettable, the most enduring event of her short life. The shooting made her life a taboo topic for those who knew her well and a subject of fascination for those who did not. But the shooting tells us nothing about the 28 years of Joan’s life that preceded it… Joan Vollmer was extraordinary. The dean of her college knew it. Burroughs knew it. We knew it, too…”
€ 15.00

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Heinrich Nowak – Die Sonnenseuche

Heinrich Nowak was born in Vienna in 1890. On and off he followed German Studies in that town from 1911 to 1918 and took actively part in the organisation of cultural events, such as re-staging a futurist exhibition from Berlin in 1912. During that period in Vienna, Nowak befriended young expressionists such as Albert Ehrenstein and Egon Schiele and soon emerged as one of Austria’s leading literary expressionists. Until 1918 Nowak’s poems appeared regularly in German and Austrian expressionist magazines…
€ 15.00

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Richard Byrne – Hotel Mayflower

True story: Before finding fame as a writer, Beat Generation icon William Burroughs met a German Jewish woman named Ilse Herzfeld Klapper in Dubrovnik. A year later, in 1938, they married. Ilse Burroughs received a U.S. visa from this marriage, which allowed her to escape Nazi Germany. She arrived in New York in 1939, where she worked for exiled anti-fascist German writer Ernst Toller. During his exile, Toller had become a leading figure in the anti-fascist resistance. He gave speeches, wrote articles, raised money for the hungry in Spain and even wrote film scripts…
€ 20.00

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William Cody Maher – Confessions of a Makeup Artist

Poet, author and performer William Cody Maher was born to a working class family in San Francisco in 1950. After having moved to New York in the early 1980s, Maher met film director Alexandre Rockwell and together they produced the films Lenz (1982) and Hero (1983), which were both screened at the Berlin film festival. In the mid-1980s Maher joined forces with photographer Susan Schwartzenberg in their photo installation My Name is Hunter’s Point, which explores Maher’s childhood in San Francisco and was shown in his native town, Heidelberg and Berlin. From 1987 to 1998 Maher made Berlin…
€ 17.50

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Ace Farren Ford – Thursdays

Moloko+ compiles the poems that Ace Farren Ford published in his 4 Thursday chapbooks: ‘A Year of Thursdays’, ‘Escape from beneath the Valley of Thursdays’, ‘Exiled once more to the Island of Thursdays’ and ‘Love Theme from Thursdays’ plus a chapter of previously unpublished poems ‘Beyond that farther Mountain of Thursdays’. These older and newer poems are combined in the book with a fine selection of Ace’s collages done between 2010 and 2022. Beautifully designed by rag from Vienna, this edition presents a wide view of Ace’s long practice as an artist and poet. Thursdays pays tribute to this multi-talented West-Coast legend.
€ 20.00

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