Writers Pick: Favorite Obscure Books
If your looking for some obscure summer reading the Village Voice asked a number of authors to suggest a book to make you appear more well read then you really are.
Jennifer Egan:
You Can’t Live Forever, by Harold Q. Masur
John Banville
Some People, by Harold Nicolson
Donna Tartt
Blood in the Parlor, by Dorothy Dunbar
Rick Moody
Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play, by Ben Watson
Jonathan Ames
The Lunatic at Large, by J. Storer Clouston
Nathan Englander
Gob’s Grief, by Chris Adrian
Tom Bissell
Invasion of the Space Invaders, by Martin Amis
Colum McCann
Fup, by Jim Dodge
George Pelecanos
Hard Rain Falling, by Don Carpenter
Susan Choi
The Wars, by Timothy Findley
Ned Vizzini
The Assistant, by Robert Walser
Ed Park
The Marceau Case, by Harry Stephen Keeler
Matthew Sharpe
The Hearing Trumpet, by Leonora Carrington
Tao Lin
Color of Darkness, by James Purdy
Sheila Heti
The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector
