Freeplay was first self-published in Arlington, Virginia, under the imprint Backbone Books. This 1990 edition was hand-bound and limited to 300 copies, which have blue and white covers—a few test copies with yellow covers are out there as well. The novel was published in revised iUniverse editions in 2001 and 2007 with Bracken’s photo on the cover (iUniverse, Inc. is located in Lincoln, Nebraska).
This Berlin-based novel was first published as Stasi Slut, under the pseudonym Anthony Bobarzynski, by the New York publisher Masquerade Books, Inc., in 1992 in a print run of 4,000 copies. Bracken’s initial contact with the publisher was facilitated by fellow author and friend Jim Keith.
Out of print within a year or so, the author kept it in print as The East Is Black, first with a spiral-bound edition of the manuscript and then with a hand-bound edition where Bracken did the layout in the samizdat style of manually typed and underlined page numbers running vertically along the edge of the pages. The cover photo was taken by the author while doing research for the novel.
SexPol Editions in Baltimore re-typeset the book and made two small print runs, the first in 2000, which quickly sold out.
The author has since published revised editions with iUniverse, in 2006 and 2015, with the latter edition benefitting from criticisms by German women who liked the novel as well as the author simultaneously writing a screenplay while revising the book.
This biography was published in 1997 by Feral House, which was then in Venice, California. Publisher Adam Parfrey contracted Bracken to write the biography soon after Debord’s suicide in November 1994.
The author was in France as the book went into print and was not able to check the proofs, so there were inevitably errors, necessitating an errata sheet. The 2000-copy print run nonetheless sold out quickly and the publisher didn’t want to reprint it, in part because it had been widely stolen from bookstores across the country, creating revenue losses and accounting problems.
The author has since made a full-length documentary film, ...the bourgeois youth of guy debord..., that he is using as a sketch for a more surrealistic and literary edition of the biography.
Published in 1999 by Adventures Unlimited in Kempton, Illinois, The Arch Conspirator has a cover photo by the author that was altered to fit into the cover format—a fisheye shot taken out of the window of a car heading toward the end of the Third Street Tunnel in Washington, D.C. The 2000-copy print run went out of print in 2019. Fellow author and friend Kenn Thomas facilitated contact with the publisher, David Hatcher Childress.
Published in September 2002, a year after the historic attacks, Shadow Government: 9-11 and State Terror was solely written by Bracken with the exception of the chapter on the anthrax attacks by Andrew Smith and the introduction by Kenn Thomas.
Adventures Unlimited published two print-runs of 2000 copies each. The book went out of print in 2019. The time-exposure photo on the cover of the equestrians statues on Memorial Bridge is by the author.
Although not yet published as a complete novel, excerpts of the novel were published in Bracken’s zine Extraphile as well as in the 1991 self-published, limited edition bilingual novella Ritual Intoxication/Intoxicación Ritual—most of the fifty or so copies of the novella were spiral bound, but a few, certainly less than ten, were stitch-bound by hand Asian style. The author conducted more France-based research for this novel in 2019 and 2020, which he intends to complete in 2023.
The Washington, D.C.-based novel Snitch Jacket was originally published through iUniverse in 2005 and again in 2007 with slight changes while the author was living in the city. The cover photo was taken by the author with a kaleidoscopic lens on the D.C. waterfront. From 1994 to 1996, Bracken sent out hand-bound copies for feedback under the title Secret City with a photo of a nude model in front of the Jefferson Memorial.
Originally published in abridged form in the second issue of the London-based journal Principia Dialectica (2006), Bracken revised the essay for the 2019 book edition and added several elements: additional photographs, a chronology of major events, a bibliography and an index.
A biographical portrait, published in 2023, including transcripts, photographs, documents and paintings to comprise a 265-page book. The noncommercial, limited edition of one hundred copies is intended to be privately circulated among family, close friends and select libraries.