When I was in my late teens, I found a lot of writing inspiration in The Outlaw Bible of American Literature. This collection of stories, essays, and literary oddities, published in 2004, exposed me to an array of exciting authors and artists I’d never read in school, people like Kathy Acker, Jim Carroll, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Mingus, Philip K. Dick, Lenny Bruce… This 920-page tome is marketed as “a primer for generational revolt and an enduring document of the visionary tradition of authenticity and nonconformity in literature.”
Jim Goad