I often comment on Dennis Cooper's superlative blog DC's. This week he requested that readers and distinguished locals nominate their favourite books. What follows is my own list, but I heartily recommend you follow these 'ere links to discover what others chose:
Day 1: LINK
day 2: LINK
Here is a list of 20 books.
Dante – Inferno
William Blake – The Complete Illuminated Books
Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Marquis de Sade – Justine
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Comte de Lautréamont – Maldoror
Jean Genet – Our Lady of the Flowers
Jean Rhys – Good Morning Midnight
Unica Zürn – Dark Spring
Salvador Dalí – The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
JG Ballard – The Atrocity Exhibition
Gordon Burn - Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper
Bob Flanagan – The Pain Journal
Andrea Dworkin – Heartbreak
RE/Search – Industrial Culture Handbook
Adam Parfrey (editor) – Apocalypse Culture
Sylvere Lotringer - Overexposed: Treating Sexual Perversion in America
Mike Kelley – Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism
Peter Sotos – Comfort and Critique
Dennis Cooper - Closer
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