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Mark’s favorite books

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Tramps Like Us by Joe Westmoreland

Junky by William S. Burroughs

Max Makes a Million by Maira Kalman

Crush by Richard Siken

City Poet by Brad Gooch

The Jewel Tree of Tibet by Robert A.F. Thurman

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Easy Way Out by Stephen McCauley

Just Kids by Patti Smith

The Fabulous Sylvester by Joshua Gamson

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Knife: Meditation...

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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

by Salman Rushdie

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Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas

by Eric Fischl

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The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

by Andrew Durbin (Goodreads Author)

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Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

What was there to complain about? A murdered wife? A sore back? The wrong grade copper? Living happened till it didn’t. There was no choice in it. To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes, then stepped into ...more

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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, and Non-fiction

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