Michael Stipe reveals top ten favourite books, ft. Kerouac, Rimbaud and Patti Smith
R.E.M.'s erstwile frontman Michael Stipe has given a list of his top ten desert island books as part of the series by One Grand, a bookstore/installation created by Out editor Aaron Hicklin.
His list follows the rundown by Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein.
The reasonings behind Stipe's ten picks can be found in The New York Times’ T-Magazine.
Check out all ten of his choices below:
Complete Works by Arthur Rimbaud
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney
Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Four Plays by Aristophanes (translated by William Arrowsmith)
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Stipe may soon find himself with a favourite new TV show - Showtime (Homeland, Dexter) are turning Just Kids into a series.
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