Hours:
Weekdays: 12pm-7pm
*Wednesdays: Closed
Fridays: After Hours BYOB
Weekends: 12pm-5pm
Mission:
To establish: an embassy for the soul of the English-speaking world - its literature - in Mexico; an educational resource for Chilangos learning English and eager to explore the artistic reach of the language; a foundation for an international literary magazine, Mexico Review, appearing in 2013; a web-free, Kindle-less island of analog time in the digital sea; a community center for Commonwealth and American expatriates in the most exciting, vibrant and accessible city on Earth; an institution that will pay tribute to that city's magnificence with the best our native culture has to offer.
Background:
Under the Volcano Books is the new project by Grant Cogswell, a founder of the Seattle Monorail Project, the People's Waterfront Coalition, and a film writer/producer.
Contact:
Under The Volcano Books
Cerrada Chiapas 40-C
Col. Roma Norte
Del. Cuauhtémoc
Distrito Federal
MEXICO 06700
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We Need Your Help
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The Dream of the Cold War
Read UTVB founder Grant Cogswell's new book of poems from Publication Studio. Buy the e-book, available now. Hard copy available June 12.
“A poet whose work I love. One of the few successful attempts to drag Whitman out to our remote coast and make him live in a dirty downtown hotel.” – Matthew Stadler
Our Current Inventory
Grassroots
They made a movie about me.
Latest Blog Post
Friday Night Lights
May 7, 2012
Where’s everybody go Fridays? We’ve got hundreds of new books, yet the night of the week when we once did the most business has gone quiet. Maybe not distracting enough: I’m trying to book another reading one of these nights (did Nick Zedd‘s appearance on the 20th not go splendidly?) but every published writer in English in this town keeps putting me off, waiting for some shipment of their books that never arrives, or thinking we sell books in Spanish (Hello, Morris Berman?). I don’t have the money to pay bands, if I did we’d have floor lamps and rugs first.
Latest Event
Nick Zedd reading
NICK ZEDD will read from his memoir ‘Totem of the Depraved’ (originally published by Henry Rollins’ 2.13.61 and now available on Amazon Kindle Download) in the store on Friday, April 20th at 7 PM.
Nick Zedd is truly a most important witness to 20th century cultural history: moving to New York in the early 1970s, he was a punk at CBGBs when bands like the Dead Boys, Patti Smith, Television, Talking Heads and Blondie sprang out of there to change the very language of the culture. From there to living with Television and the Voidoids’ Richard Hell while captaining a film movement that came to be called the Cinema of Transgression to Sonic Youth and Lydia Lunch in the year punk broke, Nick saw it all.
Sounds by DJ Zorrita, beverage with $80 admission.
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