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Kate Bornstein

Buddhist, male-to-female transsexual Performance artist, gender educator, and author of the iconoclas
Tags: Intimate, Mythic, Queer art, Queer literature, Quirky
Philip K. Dick

The work of Philip K. Dick represents some of the most influential writing to come out of the 1950s a
Tags: Agitated, Cyberpunk fiction, Dark, Distorted, Dystopic, Fantastic, Layered, Machinistic, Noir / pulp fiction, Religious, Trippy
William S. Burroughs

To read William Burroughs is to discover a different world where people speak a different language --
Tags: Beats, Cartoonish, Cyberpunk fiction, Distorted, Experimental, Funny, Grotesque, Improvised, Perverse, Postmodern fiction, Profane, Psychedelic, Quirky, Surreal
Umberto Eco

"I began writing in March of 1978, prodded by a seminal idea: I felt like poisoning a monk." This dar
Tags: Dense, Layered, Lush, Mathematical, Postmodern fiction, Semiotics
Max Ernst

Imagine holding the end of a live wire in each hand. Now imagine one end is shaped like a turtle and
Tags: Dada, Hallucinatory, Polychromatic, Psychedelic, Saturated, Surreal, Surrealist art, Surrealist literature, Tense

Maurice Blanchot

Little is known about Maurice Blanchot except that he wrote an odd style of fiction. His novels are n
Tags: Clean, Death, Deconstructive, Discourse as event, Dreamy, Elegant, Ethereal, Intimate, Literature of transgression, Mathematical
Jean-Luc Godard

A perpetual innovator who indelibly altered the nature of his craft, French director Jean-Luc Godard
Tags: Citational, Collage, Deconstructive, Existentialist literature, Expansive, French new wave, Intimate, Minimal, Open-ended, Quiet, Self-reflection, Social revolution
Jean Cocteau

His artistic avocations were many -- poet, novelist, painter, playwright, set designer, actor -- but
Tags: Existentialist literature, Horror, Surreal, Surrealist film, Surrealist literature, Surrealist photography, Trippy
James Joyce

From an early age, Joyce disdained what he saw as the shabby Philistinism of his birthplace, Dublin,
Tags: Composed, Excessive, Expansive, Formless, Layered, Modernist literature, Moody, Playful, Postmodern fiction, Profane, Religious, Sprawling, Subtle
Jack Kerouac

Though he became identified as the voice of the Beat generation, Jack Kerouac was always haunted by t
Tags: Beats, Bloomsbury, Event, Excessive, Improvised, Loose, Open-ended, Sprawling

Italo Calvino

According to Critic JoAnn Cannon, the key to Italo Calvino's renowned final novel, "Mr. Palomar" (198
Tags: Clean, Eclectic, Experimental, Layered, Postmodern fiction, Spare, Surreal
Antonin Artaud

"I salute Antonin Artaud," wrote Andre Breton, "for his passionate, heroic negation of everything tha
Tags: Absurd, Experimental, Literature of transgression, Severe, Surreal, Surrealist theater, Theater of cruelty, Theater of the absurd
Antoni Gaudi

Gaudi believed that the straight line belonged to man and the curved line to God. His work has been c
Tags: Art nouveau architecture, Dreamy, Fantastic, Lush, Psychedelic, Quirky, Round, Surreal, Surrealist literature
Alvin Ailey

When Alvin Ailey stumbled into Lester Horton's dance theater at UCLA, he abandoned his original plan
Tags: African american fiction, Euphoric, Expansive, Kinetic, Political, Polychromatic, Spiritual
Hunter S. Thompson

Revolutionizing journalism, Hunter S. Thompson created his own brand of reporting -- more like report
Tags: Beats, Cyberpunk fiction, Excessive, Hallucinatory, Journalism, Neurotic, New journalism & gonzo, Profane, Psychedelic, Trippy

Virginia Woolf

Both as a novelist and as an essayist, Virginia Woolf was a pioneer of what Marguerite Duras would la
Tags: Bloomsbury, Feminine, Feminism, Intimate, Modernist literature, Queer literature, Quirky, Sprawling, Women's literature

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