The Stooges
“Professional” bands of the time would have sanded off all those rough edges to make their sound more palatable. But the Stooges intuited that raw and rowdy could be the essence of their craft a decade before it became voguish to do so.
Fallen Man
Lolita
Nabokov creates new words and organizes others into phrases that were likely never uttered before.
Post Office
There’s plenty of other hippie/stoner/loner/existentialist/nihilist literature with more substance than this.
The Orchard Keeper
Gritty in detail, creative in structure, delightfully verbose; McCarthy’s grasp of the English language is breathtaking.
Revanche
Revanche is an intricate meditation on love and violence woven into a tale about conscience, regret and responsibility.
The Sound and The Fury
piecing together these fractured thoughts imparts more than the family melodrama that provoked them.
Go Down, Moses
It is purposefully not an easy read, but it is rewarding for those who put in the effort.
Light in August
Mellifluous, polysyllabic, and archaic words sometimes mask a tenderness toward the novel’s afflicted human subjects, but Faulkner’s consummate artistry is worth the emotional distance.
Le Corbeau
Once the letters started, everyone succumbed to the worst aspects of themselves, displaying latent capacities for evil.
Man Bites Dog
It is an extended visual essay actually criticizing violence in film, pointing the finger at the audience who has collectively inched its way toward such a cinematic experience.