Ugly Man

7 best books like Ugly Man (Dennis Cooper): Concrete Island, Queer, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, The Western Lands, Exterminator!, In Memoriam to Identity, Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music

Concrete Island

Author

J.G. Ballard

On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament in Concrete Island soon turns into horror as...

Queer

Author	William S. Burroughs
ISBN	0330300164

I have a passionate hatred for William Burroughs. I think even his fans have to concede that he's a degenerate piece of shit. I admit my prior experience with him consists of 5 pages of Naked Lunch and a couple biographies of various sorts, none of which fail to mention the pedophilia and him murdering his...

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Author	William S. Burroughs
ISBN	0802118763

On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife and threw his body in the Hudson River. For eight years, Kammerer had fawned over the younger Carr, but that night something happened: either Carr had had enough or...

The Western Lands

Author	William S. Burroughs
ISBN	0140094563

The Western Lands is the eagerly awaited new novel by the most visionary American novelist of the twentieth century–a haunting Book of the Dead for the nuclear age.
Every new work from the pen of William S. Burroughs is an important literary event. This is especially so in the case of The Western...

Exterminator!

Author	William S. Burroughs
ISBN	0140050035

By the time I hit 21 my impressions of William S. Burroughs included:

1. Al Jorgensen was a fan. I remember a picture of the two together.
2. Heroin.
3. Short guy with a hat.
4. Burroughs killing his wife while trying to shoot an apple off her head.

I’m not sure from where...

In Memoriam to Identity

Author

Kathy Acker

In this characteristically sexy, daring, and hyperliterate novel, Kathy Acker interweaves the stories of three characters who share the same tragic flaw: a predilection for doomed, obsessive love. Rimbaud, the delinquent symbolist prodigy, is deserted by his lover Verlaine time and time again....

Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music

Author	Irwin Chusid
ISBN	1556523726

Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel...