Book'em
I dig books. Always have, always will.
They get me through my mind. From the Papered essay on fin de siecle French decadent lit done in the service of Octave Mirbeau's deliciously brutal The Torture Garden which begat Book 'em (a title, btw, stolen from Merle Ginsburg's in the original Details), to the exile years of blessed Bullying (which kept me clued and from coming unglued), I've covered some small slew of great good reads. There were some in betweens (Spin, Reflex, CrimeBeat), a during (NY Press), and many more still TK (Paste among 'em). The Bullystuff's all here, as is the Pressing, the rest'll come as I get my mitts on 'em.
Dig along.
- A Con's Eye ViewRobert Sullivan's Rats, Sabina Murray's A Carnivore's Inquiry, David Sedaris's Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Angus Trumble's A Brief History of the Smile, Barry Lopez's Resistance
- An Alias Among Us Craig Clevenger's The Contortionist's Handbook
- Anywhen You Want ItMark Costello's Bag Men & Big If
- A Quiet Little MadnessDavid Gilmour's Sparrow Nights
- The Ballad of
the Sad ÉmigrÉMilan Kundera's Ignorance - Beat Outta TimeMeredith Brosnan's
Mr. Dynamite - Bobbin' the Big
Bad AppleColson Whitehead's The Colossus of New York - BOUND: Miami Sun Post
Black and Blue
and Smart All OverCamille Paglia
Six Feet in the Closet Alison Bechdel - Brass-Knuckle CoolElmore Leonard's TishOmingo Blues
- Chick GritViolette Leduc's
La Batarde - Coming To TermsJim Knipfel's Ruining It For Everybody
- Con LitDr. Larry E. Sullivan's Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth Century America
- The Corpses' DaughterWylene Dunbar's My Life With Corpses
- Crack Got Your Tongue?Jerry Stahl's Plainclothes Naked
- Deja ViewmasterAlain Robbe-Grillet's Repetition
- Dilbert On IceJimmy Lerner's You Got Nothing Coming
- Dime DamesDorothy B. Hughes's In A Lonely Place, Valerie Taylor's The Girls in 3-B, & Faith Baldwin's Skyscraper
- Diminutive GiantStephen Inwood's The Forgotten Genius
- EAST VILLAGE TETRALOGYArthur Nersesian
- Four the Hard WayIan Caldwell & Dustin Thomason's The Rule of Four
- Good As It HurtsRichard Price's Samaritan
- Grandma-a-Go-GoStanley Elkin's
Mrs. Ted Bliss - Hope Gets In your EyesWalter Mosley's What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace
- I Confess (Not Really)Stephen
Cooper's
The John Fante Reader - Low RoadEddie B. Allen's Life & Legacy of Donald Goines
- Manhatten NoirAKASHIC - Edited
By Lawrence Block
- Mass-Market Martyr Joey
Goebel's
Torture the Artist - Oh, Jennifer!Max Barry's
Jennifer Government - Pop PhenomenologyNick Hornby's Songbook
- Pulp In A Hard PlaceVictor
Gischler's
Gun Monkeys - Real Wilde ChildWill Self's Dorian
- Rock ThisJoey Goebel's
The Anomalies - A Scanner DarklyPhilip K. Dick
- Soapbox PulpMichael
Tenaglia's
Anti Hero - The Solace of
Open SeasonDouglas Coupland's
Hey Nostradamus! - The Tao Of WillieWillie
Nelson
with Turk Pipkin - To Die FromChuck Palahniuk's Lullaby
- Vindaloo Vroom VroomWilliam Rhode's Paperback Original
- Welcome to YesterdayIan Spiegelman
- What's In A DameJhumpa
Lahiri's
The Namesake