Who recommends it
- Sharon MesmerInterview
In poetry, Howl by Allen Ginsberg; in short fiction, The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector; in the novel, anything by James Baldwin; in essays, The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art by Guy Davenport; in the category “undefinable,” The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald.
- Alex CuadrosInterview
My godfather, David Sullivan, took it upon himself to expand my literary horizons since I was a kid. When he gave me a copy of Howl by Allen Ginsberg, I was 16 and I became totally obsessed with it. Later he turned me onto The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis and A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes…
- Henry RollinsInterview
No single book I can think of. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, the Kauffmann translation wowed me in my early 20’s. The Book of Five Rings by Miyamato Mushashi, Black Spring by Henry Miller was huge for me. Celine’s early work. Rimbaud, Artaud, Maldoror and Poems by Comte Lautreamont was very good for…
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