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  •  Humanoid   ( @Humanoid@beehaw.org ) 
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    In no particular order:

    The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
    A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
    Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
    Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
    The Red Night Trilogy of William S. Burroughs (Cities of the Red Night, The Place of Dead Roads, The Western Lands)
    On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
    Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac
    The Stranger by Albert Camus
    The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
    The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    After Dark by Haruki Murakami
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
    Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
    Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

    • Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Please Kill Me rank high for me too. I remember the first time I heard Blank Generation: I couldn’t listen to anything else for weeks. Just that album, over and over…

      Are you familiar with Kharms?

      • Blank Generation is a special album for me too! Richard Hell is a genuinely foundational artist for my musical tastes, along with much of his NYC cohort. You know Blank Generation is going to be remarkable right out of the gate when you hear Hell wailing “Love comes in spurts! Oh, god… it hurts!

        I’m not familiar with Kharms, but a cursory search tells me that he checks a lot of boxes for what I like. Do you have any recommendations as to where I should start with him?