Summary:
I can’t remember what finally got me into Raymond Carver, but he’s by far my favorite short-story writer. I remember 1995 as being a very confusing time, and I went through a huge variety of writers that year.
Reading List 1995
- Short Cuts - Raymond Carver
- Feast of Snakes - Harry Crews
- No Minor Chords - Andre Previn
- Frank Zappa: Negative Dialects of Poodle Play - Ben Watson
- The Knockout Artist - Harry Crews
- Tracer - Frederic Barthelme
- Kentucky Ham - William S. Burroughs Jr.
- Cathedral - Raymond Carver
- At Night, the Salmon Move - Raymond Carver
- Where I’m Calling From - Raymond Carver
- Furious Seasons - Raymond Carver
- Ranson - Jay McInerny
- A New Path to the Waterfall - Raymond Carver
- Sex, Lies, and Videotape - Steven Soderberg
- The Hawk is Dying - Harry Crews
- The Loop - Joe Coomer
- Ultra-Marine - Raymond Carver
- Where the Water Comes Together With Other Water - Raymond Carver
- Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead - Eric Bogosian
- The Road to Los Angeles - John Fante
- Carver Country - Raymond Carver
- The Marquis de Sade - Donald Thomas
- Scar Lover - Harry Crews
- No Beast so Fierce - Edward Bunker
- Virtual Light - William Gibson
- Will you Please be Quiet, Please? - Raymond Carver
- The Importance of Being Eric Dolphy - Raymond Harricks
- Gurdjieff: A Very Great Enigma - J.G. Bennett
- Fires - Raymond Carver
- The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson - Paul Perry
- Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
- Brian Eno - Eric Tamm
- Life After God - Douglas Coupland
- Mother: the Frank Zappa Story - Michael Gray
- Suburbia - Eric Bogosian
- Planet Joe - Joe Cole
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- Perfect Pitch - Nicholas Slominsky
- The Sadness of Sex - Barry Yourgrau
- Et Tu, Babe - Mark Leyner
- The Animal Factor - Edward Bunker
- Illuminati Papers - Robert Anton Wilson
- Dead Babies - Martin Amis
- Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt - Richard Brautigan