Joshua Dysart's Reading Interests
Favorite Books
The Martian Chronicles, The Little Prince, East of Eden, Prufrock and Other Observations, Configurations, Song of Solomon, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, Heart of Darkness, Sheltering Sky, Franny and Zoe, The Divine Invasion, The English Patient, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-handed Poems, Candide, Allan Ginsberg: Selected Poems: 1947 – 1995, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Of Love and Other Demons, Written on the Body, A Fine and Private Place, Tale of One Bad Rat, The Filth, From Hell, A Pale View of the Hills, The screenplay for "Winter Light", Leaves of Grass, David Boring.
Favorite Authors
Ray Bradbury, Stanislaw Lem, Kurt Vonnegut, H.P. Lovecraft, John Steinbeck, T.S. Elliot, Octovio Paz, Toni Morrison, Rumi, Carl Sagan, Robert Anton Wilson, Joseph Conrad, JG Ballard, JD Salinger, Phillip K. Dick, Michael Ondaatje, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gabriel García Márquez, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Jeanette Winterson, Peter S. Beagle, Bryan Talbot, Grant Morrison, Allan Moore, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ingmar Bergman, Walt Whitman, Dan Clowes, Iain M. Banks.
Influences
Over-compartmentalization is a sin that leads to narrow perceptions of the subject being compartmentalized. I am vast and contain multitudes. Influenced by every waking moment.
About Joshua
American comic book writer. Humanist horrorist. Fueled by a fascination with the roots of violence and the conflict between the individual and the collective. Lives by the sea. Loves his mom. Never learned to play Jazz on any instrument.
Joshua’s Favorite Books
The Martian Chronicles, The Little Prince, East of Eden, Prufrock and Other Observations, Configurations, Song of Solomon, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on...