Bring The Noise: 20 Years of writing about Hip Rock and Hip-Hop

5 best books like Bring The Noise: 20 Years of writing about Hip Rock and Hip-Hop (Simon Reynolds): The Day of the Triffids, Infinite Jest, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

The Day of the Triffids

Author	John Wyndham
ISBN	0812967127

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.”

Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded...

Infinite Jest

Author	David Foster Wallace
ISBN	0316921173

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.

Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment...

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Author	David Foster Wallace
ISBN	0316925284

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace...

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Author

David Foster Wallace

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation...

Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

Author	Reza Negarestani
ISBN	0980544009

At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire, CYCLONOPEDIA is work of theory-fiction on the Middle East, where horror is restlessly heaped upon horror. Reza Negarestani bridges the appalling vistas of contemporary...