Smashbomb

"There’s a whole wave of Latin American fiction that I didn’t encounter until later in life. In high school one reads grand narratives like Don Quixote, and Garcia Marquez was the closest to contemporary we got. This felt like watching the movie Ghost World; there’s something very exciting and fun about the quotidian in it."

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Marina Abramovic recommended The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke in Books (curated)

"Reading Rilke, on the other hand, was like breathing in pure poetic oxygen. He spoke of life in a different way than I’d ever understood it before. His expressions of cosmic suffering and universal knowledge related to ideas I would find later in Zen Buddhist and Sufi writings. Coming upon them for the first time was intoxicating."

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Brockmire

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A famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on...

Irvine Welsh recommended Cities of the Red Night in Books (curated)

Cities of the Red Night

William S. Burroughs | 2010 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy

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"It’s fashionable to read ‘Naked Lunch,’ proclaim Burroughs as a genius, sometimes dip into ‘Junky,’ and forget the rest. The truth is that Burroughs’ best novels were the ones he wrote in the later years of his life, like ‘The Western Lands,’ and this beautiful work."

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