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Ambient literature, new and used. 

Open noon to 6pm. (Closed Mondays).
2732 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. // Portland, OR 97217

Order online at our bookshop.org store 
Join our email list. 
Or email nate@lost-avenue.com

Used book buying hours: Sat-Sun 12p - 5p.

(note: bookshop.org store is not representative of what's in the shop. feel free to email or dm for any questions)

Official online store coming soon.
Please email me if you'd like me to mail a tee shirt, sweatshirt, tote bag, or curated book.

Also on substack and instagram
( online socials not updated super frequently ) 

upcoming events

Saturday Dec 5. 7pm.
Perfect Medium vol. 2. 
A quarterly curated event by jeff alessandrelli & kaya noteboom

Sunday Dec 6. 6:30pm
Monthly book club. 
Concluding our trilogy of fake biographies, 
Italo Svevo's Confession of Zeno (1923)
Also translated as Zeno's Conscience.

(Previous entries in the trilogy were:
Rachel Cusk's Life of M, 
and 
Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red)

monthly curated shelves


may/july by craig florence, owner of mother foucault's bookshop

leonardo sciascia. the moro affair.
karl marx. the 18th brumarie
doris lessing. the good terrorist.
clr james. the black jacobins. 
roberto calasso. the ruins of kasch.
pankaj mishra. the blind fanatics.
iris murdoch. the sea, the sea.
nadezhda mandelstam. hope against hope.



june by Ripley of Rose City Band, Moon Duo, and Wooden Shjips

Lisa Tuttle. My Death.
Anna Kavan. Ice.
Catherine Breillat. I Only Believe in Myself
Nancy Lemann. Lives of Saints
Hernan Diaz. In the Distance.
Gavin Lambert. The Goodbye People
Nathalie Leger. Suite for Barbara Loden.
Álvaro Mutis - The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

may by jeff vandermeer
(writer of Absolution, Annhilation, Area X, Borne, Dead Astronauts, others)

Olga Ravn. The Employees.
Pip Adam. The New Animals. 
Andre Alexis. Other Worlds.
Claire-Louise Bennett. Pond.
Giorgio De Maria. The Twenty Days of Turin.
Grace Krilanovich. The Orange Eats Creeps. (in store only, not online).
James Elkins. Weak in Comparison to Dreams.
Francoise Fromonot. The House of Dr Koolhaas.
Mirceau Cartarescu. Solenoid. (out of print, sadly)

some notable new releases
(past three months)

james elkins. stories, like illnesses.
haruki murakami. abandoning a cat.
adolfo bioy casares. morel's invention. (new translation, by margaret jull-costa).
tom mccarthy. the rhyl poster.
hiroko oyamada. garden.
sakamato. music sets you free.
mathias enard. perfecting the shot.

some recommendations:

rachel cusk. outline.
wg sebald. austerlitz.
antonio tabucchi. pereira maintains.
clarice lispector. hour of the star.
juan rulfo. pedro paramo.
thomas mann. magic mountain.
borges. the aleph and other stories.
calvino. if on a winters night a traveler ... 

newer lit recs (2024 - 2026):

makeena goodman. helen of nowhere (2026)
rachel cusk. life of m. (2026)
ben lerner. transcription. (2026)
vincenzo lotronico. perfection. (2025)
katia katimura. audition. (2025)
jenny erpenbeck. kairos. (2024)
hisham matar. my friends. (2024)
teju cole. tremor. (2024)

anti fascism fiction/lit recs:

antonio tabucchi. pereira maintains. 
nona fernandez. the twilight zone.
roberto bolano. by night in chile.
fernanda melchor. hurricane season.
jose saramago. blindness, seeing, the cave.

previous author events:

jeff vandermeer, samuel moss, patricia wolf, emmi greer, joshua pollock, colin keating, madeline mcdonnell, caryl page, leni zumas, armin tolentino, bri-skye mckizzie, benjamin mcpherson ficklin

previous musicians/performers:

lexi, zachary markezich, harrison rapp, twingle, barna howard, merle law, timesbold, gautam tejas ganeshan

Previous book club picks :

roberto bolano, amulet. brenda lozano, loop. jenny erpenbeck, visitation. thomas bernhard, woodcutters. laszlo krasznahoraki, satantango. karl ove knausgaard, the morning star. clarice lispector, agua viva. katie kitamura, audition. tezer özlü, journey to the edge of life. anna seghers's transit.
rachel cusk's outline , sylvia plath's the bell jar , carver's what we talk about when we talk about love , and de kerangaal's eastbound

previous book & movie clubs

Saturday August 22. 7pm.
Lost Avenue & Academy Theater Present:
A screening of Orson Welles's The Trial 
Tickets here. 

Featuring a Q&A with Jack Perez, after the film. 
(Director of La Cucaracha, Some Guy Who Kills People, Wild Things 2). 

at the shop, "bootleg" free screenings: 

wim wender's perfect days
paired with patricia highsmith's "eleven"

beyond the valley of the dolls
paired with susan sontag's "notes on camp"
(curated by dj stonebunny)

my dinner with andre 
paired with the little prince

contact:
nate@lost-avenue.com
ig: @lostavenuebooks
email list: (long link)

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