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Michael Stipe
Few rock stars achieve the extraordinary stature of Michael Stipe, the artist and former frontman of R.E.M., the art rock band from Athens, Georgia, that managed to find global fame without sacrificing the alt-rock instincts that suffused their music. Or, as Spin writer Charles Aaron put it, within the punk-inspired scene of the day, “R.E.M. was first to show us you can be big and still be cool.”
Below are Michael Stipe's favorite books, available to purchase individually or as a set. See the full list...
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Complete Works
Arthur Rimbaud
Because of Patti Smith I read Rimbaud’s entire works at the age of 16. The whole time I was thinking his name was pronounced Rim-bawd. I actually can’t say at the time that I understood much of the finer points, but it was a wild read.
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
This book became my band’s template. To explore the country and do it all — having a great big time — on our terms, and no one else’s. Hooray! Followed by “The First Third” by Neal Cassady. The muse speaks, writes, smokes, drinks, seduces.
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Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delaney
Where I learned in eighth grade, I think, that in the future you could have unbridled sci-fi sex with every man and woman within reach, without guilt, fear or weirdness, and have great end-of-times adventures. Just like my dreams! Fantastically futuristic!
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Isabelle Huppert
From: $ 160.87
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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Kathy Najimy
From: $ 138.92
Yellow Silk: Erotic Arts and Letters
edited by Lily Pond and Richard Russo
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Torbjörn Flygt
$ 169.69
The Wall
Marlen Haushofer
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Ahilan Arulanantham
$ 230.64
A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul
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Phoenix
From: $ 127.85
Please Kill Me
Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil
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Christopher Guest
$ 149.73
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
Garry Wills
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Eric Ripert
From: $ 181.89
The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus
Henry Miller
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Zac Posen
$ 339.94
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever
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Amber Tamblyn
$ 162.83
Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson
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