Reading List 1995

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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 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