These are some of the books that visually inspire me and which I cannot stop flipping through year after year, day after day. In my writing, I aim for a kind of fantastical little sanctuary of thought, and nothing inspires me more than strange and haunting images. If you’re at all like me here is a good start to your dream library. Naturally, there are thousands and thousands of others I’d like to share, but hey! it’s Saturday. I have to at least PRETEND I do things besides read and write!
- The Marvelous Album of Madame B: Being the Handiwork of a Victorian Lady of Considerable Talent
- Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage (Art Institute of Chicago)
- Built by Animals: The Natural History of Animal Architecture
- The Lonely Doll
- JOSEPH BEUYS: AKTIONER – AKTIONEN (TECKNINGAR OCH OBJEKT 1937-1970 UR SAMLING VAN DER GRINTEN / ZEICHNUNGEN UND OBJEKTE AUS DER SAMMLUNG VAN DER GRINTEN)
- Une Semaine De Bonte: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage
- Michael Heizer
- Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
- Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra
- I Dreamed I Had a Girl in My Pocket: The Story of an Indian Village
- To Die No More
- The Circus: 1870-1950
