Exact Change
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Exact Change is an independent book publishing company formed in 1990 by Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang of Galaxie 500 and later of Damon and Naomi. The company specialises in re-publishing 19th and 20th century experimental literature with an emphasis on Surrealism, Dada, Pataphysics, and other nineteenth and twentieth century avant-garde art movements.
Exact Change authors include Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Antonin Artaud, John Cage, Leonora Carrington, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Morton Feldman, Alice James, Alfred Jarry, Franz Kafka, Lautréamont, Gérard de Nerval, Fernando Pessoa, Raymond Roussel, Philippe Soupault, Gertrude Stein, Stefan Themerson, Denton Welch, and Unica Zürn.
Many Exact Change titles were originally published by larger houses, especially in the 1960s, but had more recently been left out of print; some were previously published in the U.K. but not in North America; others are new publications initiated by Exact Change. But in all cases these are books that we believe should be kept available always. We think of our list as a looking-glass version of the Penguin Classics or the Library of America, drawn from works that are equally important but have in general been neglected in the U.S.
Selected publications
- The Heresiarch & Co., The Poet Assassinated - Guillaume Apollinaire
- The Adventures of Telemachus, Paris Peasant - Louis Aragon
- Watchfiends and Rack Screams - Antonin Artaud
- Composition in Retrospect - John Cage
- The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington
- Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico
- Oui - Salvador Dalí
- Give My Regards to Eighth Street - Morton Feldman
- The Death and Letters of Alice James - Alice James
- The Supermale, Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician - Alfred Jarry
- The Blue Octavo Notebooks - Franz Kafka
- Maldoror and the complete works - Comte de Lautréamont
- Immemory (CD-ROM) - Chris Marker
- Aurélia and other writings - Gérard de Nerval
- The Book of Disquiet, The Education of the Stoic - Fernando Pessoa
- The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & other poems - Pablo Picasso
- How I wrote Certain of my Books - Raymond Roussel
- PPPPPP - Kurt Schwitters
- Everybody's Autobiography - Gertrude Stein
- In Youth is Pleasure - Denton Welch
- Slow Under Construction - André Breton, Paul Eluard and Rene Char
