films

• apocalypse now
• rumble fish - francis ford coppola
• the entertainer
• reflections in a golden eye

poetry / plays / short stories / comics

• ronin - frank miller
• philip larkin
• emily dickinson
• howl
• primo levi
• a season in hell - rimbaud
• lament for moths / small craft warnings / suddenly last summer / baby doll - tennessee williams
• bernice bobs her hair - f scott fitzgerald
• knots - r d laing
• the waste land - t s eliot

music

• unknown pleasures - joy division
• london calling - the clash

books

• the fall / the plague / the outsider / the myth of sisyphus - albert camus
• junkie - william burroughs
• heart of darkness - joseph conrad
• crash / the atrocity exhibition - j g ballard
• the virgin suicides - jeffrey eugenides
• frisk - dennis cooper
• dante's inferno
• go ask alice
• the bell jar - sylvia plath
• the boy looked at johnny - julie burchill & tony parsons
• awopbopaloobop alopbamboom: the golden age of rock - nik cohn
• 1984 - george orwell
• lolita - vladimir nabokov
• the fire next time / another country - james baldwin
• borstal boy - brendan behan
• less than zero / american psycho - bret easton ellis
• lord of the flies / the inheritors - william golding
• prick up your ears - john lahr
• one flew over the cuckoo's nest - ken kesey
• brave new world - aldous huxley
• desolation angels - jack kerouac
• the dice man - luke rhinehart
• invisible man - ralph ellison
• the catcher in the rye - j d salinger
• birdy / pride - william wharton
• naomi - junichiro tanizaki
• no longer human - osamu dazai
• the trial / the metamorphosis - franz kafka
• notes from the underground / the brothers karamazov - fyodor dostoevsky
• black rain - masuji ibuse
• thirst for love / death in the midsummer - yukio mishima
• the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde
• miracle of the rose - jean genet
• under the volcano - malcolm lowry
• the torture garden - octave mirbeau
• the runaway soul - harold brodkey