Scott C. Holstad's Reading Interests
Favorite Books
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (Bukowski), A Coney Island of the Mind (Ferlinghetti), Howl (Ginsberg), On The Road (Kerouac), Naked Lunch (Burroughs), The Firebird Poems (Locklin), The Stranger (Camus), The Fall (Camus), A Happy Death (Camus), Nausea (Sartre), The Southeast Asian Book of the Dead (Shields), London Fields (Amis), Possession (Byatt), Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson), You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense (Bukowski)
What I'm Reading
The Pleasures of the Damned by Bukowski, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook by Bukowski, Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems by Locklin, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Bukowski, The Uses of Enchantment by Bettelheim, Gerald Locklin: A Critical Introduction by Basinski, The Plague by Camus
Favorite Authors
Charles Bukowski, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Bill Shields, Kenneth Patchen, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Phillip K. Dick
Influences
Charles Bukowski, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Bill Shields, Kenneth Patchen
About Scott
Scott C. Holstad was born in Boston and has lived all over the North American continent. He holds degrees from the University of Tennessee, California State University Long Beach, and Queens University of Charlotte. He is the author of 15 published poetry...
Connections
Causes Scott Holstad Supports
PEN, The Authors Guild, Sierra Club
Scott’s Favorite Books
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (Bukowski), A Coney Island of the Mind (Ferlinghetti), Howl (Ginsberg...
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