The Journal of Jules Renard

10 best books like The Journal of Jules Renard (Jules Renard): I Killed Adolf Hitler, Renegade, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, The White People and Other Weird Stories, Serenade, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography, Rub Out the Words: The Letters, 1959-1974, The Age of Movies: Selected Writings, Werewolves of Montpellier, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005

I Killed Adolf Hitler

Author	Jason
ISBN	1560978287

What if we lived in a world where ‘murderer for hire’ was as legal and commonplace a profession as doctor or engineer?

What if a scientist hired one of these assassins for the most amazing hit of his career…to go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler before his evil rise to power?

And...

Renegade

Author	Mark E. Smith
ISBN	0670916749

Reams of stuff have been written about me in the past, but never in my own words: this is the proper one’ Mark E. Smith Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music — odd, spare, cranky and circular — an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The...

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Author	Chögyam Trungpa
ISBN	1570629579

In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the...

The White People and Other Weird Stories

Author	Arthur Machen
ISBN	0143105590

Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People" is...

Serenade

Author	James M. Cain
ISBN	0394725859

John Sharp had just flopped in Rigoletto, down in Mexico, when he first saw Juana. Somehow, the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute offered him a way back, a chance to rebuild his career in New York and Hollywood. But then, like the snake in the garden, Winston Hawes, the prodigiously accomplished...

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

Author	Aleister Crowley
ISBN	0140191895

Aleister Crowley's autobiographical confessions are a fascinating record of his lifetime's journey into Strange regions of consciousness. A 'saint' of the 'Gnostic' church, Crowley subtitled his six-volume work 'an autohagiography'. He describes his initiation into magic, his world-wide...

Rub Out the Words: The Letters, 1959-1974

Author

William S. Burroughs

“Burroughs’s voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.”
—Joan Didion

“Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.”
—Jack Kerouac

Carefully edited from more than 1000 of his personal...

The Age of Movies: Selected Writings

Author	Pauline Kael
ISBN	1598531093

"Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply," Pauline Kael once observed, "just because you must use everything you are and everything you know." Between 1968 and 1991, as regular film reviewer for The New Yorker, Kael used those formidable tools to shape the tastes of a generation,...

Werewolves of Montpellier

Author	Jason
ISBN	1606993593

After an omnibus collection of earlier books (Almost Silent) and a new collection of short stories (Low Moon), Jason returns with another full-length, full-color graphic novella his first since the 2008 Eisner Award-winning The Last Musketeer.

Sven, a semi-aimless Scandinavian artist...

Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005

Author	Luc Sante
ISBN	1891241532

In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range. He is “one of the handful of living masters of the American language, as well as a singular historian and philosopher...