Eastwood's speech at the republican convention.
Eastwood's speech at the republican convention.
The Story of the Eye by George Bataille:
http://ps28.squat.net/bataille_story_of_eye.pdf
Anything by Irving Welsh or Kathy Acker and obviously Songs of Maldoror.
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
The short stories of Somerset Maugham are extremely cynical. Whilst not explicitly nasty in the way of, say, Burroughs or Irvine Welsh, Maugham has a cold, deterministic view of human nature which I find far more unsettling.
Certain types of writers want to show humanity at its depths. I get the feeling that Maugham saw it as rotten all the way to the top.
"My Life As A Small Boy" by Wally Cox ---really!