“Best of Burroughs, Malanga & More” features 25 top-flight rarities from such luminaries as William S. Burroughs, Ed Sanders, Gerard Malanga and others. Check the link below to browse the bimonthly feature: https://www.thirdmindbooks.com/featured.php So, we launched the special a bit late this month—and it’s because Third Mind Books is headed to that other center of […]

The Third Mind Books May/June special celebrates Beat-&-Beyond giants WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS and MICHAEL McCLURE with 30 hand-selected rarities spanning the storied careers of both relentless innovators. 15 items from Burroughs & 15 Items from McClure—all 10-15% off for the months of May/June only! To celebrate our namesake, Master Magician of American Letters, William S. […]

This month marks the ninety-sixth birthday of Jack Kerouac (March 12). To us, Kerouac’s life and legacy are at once the most emblematic–and enigmatic–of the founding members of the Beat Generation. The man whose writings inspired his and subsequent generations all over the world to this day and beyond to break the bounds of convention, […]

The Third Mind Books January/February Feature is the PUBLISHER-PRINTER-POET Special! For the first two months of the new year, we’ve chosen selections from poets published on their own press, publications from the presses of poet-publishers, and books about individual publishers and their presses. Among the author-publishers represented are NEELI CHERKOVSKI, GARY SNYDER, LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, KEN […]

Happy Holidays from Third Mind Books! Instead of having a blowout “Cyber Monday” sale with the rest of the world earlier this week (if we were in it for conformity, do you think we’d be booksellers?) we decided to launch our special Dec. 1 and to make it by and large the most ambitious sale […]

THE THIRD MIND BOOKS NOVEMBER SPECIAL is “McC-Rarities/Mik-Rarities Pt. II,” featuring twenty-five collection-defining rarities from the archives of Ken Mikolowski, founder of Detroit’s legendary “Alternative Press,” and Jim McCrary; poet, educator, and part of William S. Burroughs’ inner circle in Lawrence, Kansas during the last years of his life. We added to the mix some […]

THE THIRD MIND BOOKS OCTOBER MONTHLY SPECIAL is titled “OFF-BEAT & LATE BEAT,” and we’ve chosen to feature selections from the “Off-Beat” category of our site and key late works by definitive participants from the Beat literary epoch. Among the authors and artists represented are JOHN CAGE, PHILLIP GLASS, JEAN COCTEAU, ALLEN GINSBERG, WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, […]

THE THIRD MIND BOOKS SEPTEMBER SPECIAL features GARY SNYDER, Beat-&-Beyond ambassador of ecological, ethno-poetic and Zen learning. For the month of September only, we’ll be featuring 25 items from Snyder–and most from the collection of KEN MIKOLOWSKI, poet and publisher of Detroit’s legendary Alternative Press. The ORIGINAL “Alternative Press,” not the music magazine of immense […]