Selections from my current tangible library linked to Goodreads.
ART
Vienna Actionism by Eva Badura-Triska (Editor), Kerstin Barnick-braun, Herbert Klocker (Editor)
Installation Art by Claire Bishop
Ralph Eugene Meatyard by Guy Davenport
Bruce Nauman – Raw Materials by Emma Dexter
Marcel Duchamp by Anne d’Harnoncourt (Editor)
The Century of Artists’ Books by Johanna Drucker
Francis Bacon by Matthew Gale (Editor), Chris Stephens (Editor)
The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
A.Y.P.S. by Terence Hannum, Kevin Killian (Interviewer)
Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism by Mike Kelley, John C. Welchman (Editor)
Minor Histories: Statements, Conversations, Proposals by Mike Kelley
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists by Sharon Louden (Editor)
A History of Video Art by Chris Meigh-Andrews
Conceptual Art by Ursula Meyer
Hans Bellmer edited by Michael Semff and Anthony Spira
Destruction by Sven Spieker (Editor)
Georg Baselitz by Diane Waldman
Kara Walker: Hyundai Commission*
MISC NON-FICTION
Haunted Air: Anonymous Halloween photographs from c. 1875–1955 by Ossian Brown
Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti
Tales of Times Square: Expanded Edition by Josh Alan Friedman
The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho-Punk, 1980-1984 by Ian Glasper
Chapel of Gore and Psychosis: The Grand Guignol Theatre by Jack Hunter
This Way Madness Lies by Mike Jay
White Line Fever: The Autobiography by Lemmy Kilmister, Janiss Garza
Car Crashes & Other Sad Stories by Mell Kilpatrick, Jennifer Dumas
Violence In Our Time by Sandy Lesberg
Public Collectors by Marc Fischer
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk
Amok Journal Sensurround Edition by Stewart Swezey
Eyeball Compendium: Sex & Horror. Art & Exploitation by Stephen Thrower (Editor)
Nightmare, USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents by Stephen Thrower
Industrial Culture Handbook (RE/Search #6/7) by V. Vale, Andrea Juno
Pranks (RE/Search #11) by V. Vale, Andrea Juno
The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film by Michael J. Weldon, Gordon Van Gelder (Editor)
FICTION
Les Onze Mille Verges : The Amorous Adventures of Prince Mony Vibescu by Guillaume Apollinaire
The Day of Creation by J.G. Ballard
The Kindness of Women by J.G. Ballard
The Flowers of Evil & Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire
I Am Secretly an Important Man by Steven “Jesse” Bernstein
The Primal Screamer by Nick Blinko
The Bell Tolls for No One by Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne (Editor)
Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
Last Words: The Final Journals by William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (Editor)
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin*
Beneath the Remains by Terence Hannum
Maldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de Lautréamont, Alexis Lykiard (Translator)
A Violent Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition by Stephen Sartarelli (Editor)
The Magic Christian by Terry Southern
Battle Royale – Remastered by Koushun Takami
*Added 11.12.21
Some More Books
(I’ve moved several times over the years, and had to purge my shelves every time. I also am a frequent public library user. This is a work in progress.)
NON-FICTION
In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison by Jack Henry Abbott
Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography by J.G. Ballard
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Throbbing Gristle’s Twenty Jazz Funk Greats (33 1/3) by Drew Daniel
More Dirty Looks: Gender, Pornography and Power by Pamela Gibson
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
The Devils of Loudon by Aldous Huxley
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
The Only Living Witness by Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth
Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
FICTION
The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Adding Machine by William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (I keep this on my Kindle)
The Corporation Wars Trilogy by Ken MacLeod
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters by Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis
The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Philosophy in the Bedroom by Marquis de Sade
Selfish, Little: The Annotated Lesley Ann Downey by Peter Sotos
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
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