#Lampedusa tragedy

[tearsofrefugees]

Milan, Italy

An installation at the Darsena del Naviglio canal in memory of the 500 people attempting to migrate from Africa on a fishing boat that capsized in 2013 off the shores of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa. The tragedy, in which 368 people died, became one of the largest shipwreck death tolls in the Mediterranean on record

Photograph: Luca Bruno/AP

[stele3]

[noisynutcrusade]

Shipwreck in Lampedusa, boat with 53 migrants rescued. 2-year-old girl dies on patrol boat, at least 8 missing

Another tragedy in front of the waters of Lampedusa. There were 53 migrants, who left from Sfax in Tunisia, traveling on an iron small boat. A short distance from the coast of Lampedusa, shortly after 2 pm, the boat sank. In several groups, men, women and children reached the rocks, saving themselves. An inspector from the Immigration Office noticed the tragedy and immediately raised the alarm.…

[personal-reporter]

Il decimo anniversario della strage di Lampedusa e l'intervista a Giusi Nicolini

Il 3 ottobre 2013, un terribile naufragio al largo delle coste di Lampedusa, un'isola italiana nel Mar Mediterraneo, fece tremare il mondo intero. Quel giorno, un barcone carico di migranti provenienti principalmente dalla Somalia e dall'Eritrea, affrontò le acque insidiose del Mediterraneo in cerca di un futuro migliore in Europa. La tragedia che si è verificata è stata una delle più mortali nella storia delle migrazioni, causando la morte di oltre 360 persone. Questo ottobre segna il decimo anniversario di quella terribile strage e un momento cruciale per riflettere sull'umanità e la politica delle migrazioni. Lampedusa: Una porta verso l'Europa Lampedusa, con la sua posizione geografica strategica, è stata a lungo un punto di arrivo per migliaia di migranti che cercano di entrare nell'Unione Europea. Questa piccola isola, situata tra la Tunisia e la Sicilia, è diventata un simbolo delle sfide e delle tragedie legate all'immigrazione irregolare. La sua popolazione di circa 6.000 abitanti ha dovuto affrontare il flusso costante di persone in cerca di sicurezza e opportunità. Il naufragio del 3 ottobre 2013 è stato un punto di svolta nella percezione dell'Europa riguardo alle sfide delle migrazioni. La comunità internazionale si è trovata di fronte a immagini scioccanti di corpi senza vita che affioravano dalle acque intorno a Lampedusa. Questo ha scosso la coscienza pubblica e ha portato a un dibattito globale sulla politica delle migrazioni e sulle responsabilità dell'Europa nel fornire un rifugio sicuro per coloro che fuggono dalla guerra, dalla persecuzione e dalla povertà. Giusi Nicolini: Una voce per i migranti Durante il periodo critico seguito al naufragio del 2013, Giusi Nicolini è emersa come una figura chiave nella risposta di Lampedusa alla crisi umanitaria. All'epoca, Nicolini ricopriva la carica di sindaca dell'isola e ha lavorato instancabilmente per assistere i sopravvissuti e per sensibilizzare l'opinione pubblica sulla situazione disperata dei migranti. L'approccio umanitario di Nicolini ha attirato l'attenzione e l'ammirazione a livello internazionale. Ha lavorato instancabilmente per migliorare le condizioni di accoglienza sull'isola e per promuovere un dialogo aperto sulle migrazioni. Il suo impegno ha portato alla conferenza di Lampedusa nel 2015, che ha riunito leader mondiali, organizzazioni umanitarie e migranti stessi per discutere di soluzioni alla crisi migratoria. L'eredità di Lampedusa A dieci anni dalla strage di Lampedusa, molte domande rimangono senza risposta. La politica migratoria europea è ancora oggetto di dibattito e critica. Il destino dei migranti e dei rifugiati che cercano di raggiungere l'Europa rimane incerto, con molte persone ancora intrappolate in situazioni disperate nei paesi di origine o di transito. Tuttavia, il decimo anniversario della strage di Lampedusa ci offre l'opportunità di riflettere sul nostro dovere umanitario di aiutare coloro che sono in cerca di sicurezza e di una vita migliore. Giusi Nicolini, con la sua dedizione e il suo impegno, ci ricorda che possiamo fare la differenza, che possiamo offrire un futuro dignitoso a coloro che sono in fuga dalla tragedia. Nell'intervista esclusiva a Giusi Nicolini, l'ex sindaca di Lampedusa condivide le sue riflessioni sulla strage del 2013, sulle sfide delle migrazioni e sul ruolo dell'Europa nel garantire i diritti umani fondamentali. Per leggere l'intervista completa, clicca qui. Read the full article

[lamilanomagazine]

Naufragio di Lampedusa: 10 anni dal naufragio in cui morirono 368 persone

Naufragio di Lampedusa: 10 anni dal naufragio in cui morirono 368 persone Nella Giornata della Memoria e dell’Accoglienza del 3 ottobre si ricordano le vittime richiamando l’emergenza ancora attuale della migrazione. Il 3 ottobre 2013 una barca si ribaltò a meno di mezzo miglio dalle coste di Cala Croce: morirono 368 migranti, i sopravvissuti furono solo 155. L’accaduto viene ricordato come una delle peggiori stragi nel Mediterraneo, dalla quale nacquero molteplici posizioni e polemiche civili e politiche. "Non sappiamo più dove mettere i morti e i vivi. È un orrore", dichiarò durante la strage l’allora sindaco, Giusi Nicolini. Il 3 ottobre venne istituita dalla legge 45/2016, la Giornata della Memoria e dell'Accoglienza, in ricordo di coloro che hanno perso la vita e per coloro che ancora rischiano di perderla, attraversando il Mediterraneo. “A dieci anni dalla tragedia di Lampedusa, il susseguirsi di naufragi e stragi in mare e le almeno 28.000 persone morte o disperse nelle acque del Mediterraneo dal 2014 sembrano non essere ancora sufficienti per convincere l'Unione Europea e il Governo italiano a un cambio di approccio. Al contrario, il naufragio di Lampedusa del 3 ottobre 2013 ha segnato l'inizio di una conta sempre più numerosa di morti in mare e di una serie di misure inefficaci e disumane a discapito di vite umane. Dieci anni fa, 368 persone annegavano al largo di Lampedusa e pochi giorni dopo ne morivano altre 200, cambiando per sempre la storia del nostro mare. Evento che sembrò allora inaccettabile alle autorità italiane che, gridando ad alta voce ‘Mai più!’, avviarono l'operazione di ricerca e soccorso Mare Nostrum, durata poco più di un anno”, accusa Medici. “Alla luce del continuo numero di tragedie alle quali ancora assistiamo, in questa giornata è importante ribadire come la salvaguardia della vita umana sia prioritaria rispetto a tutte le altre considerazioni afferenti la gestione del fenomeno migratorio e che il soccorso di persone in difficoltà è un principio fondamentale di umanità e solidarietà, e che deve essere supportato e promosso a tal fine sia il lavoro degli Stati sia il prezioso contributo delle ONG presenti nel Mediterraneo”, afferma Laurence Hart, Direttore dell’Ufficio di Coordinamento OIM per il Mediterraneo.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

[qudachuk]

More than 11,000 people have landed on the island in recent days – a decade on from when hundreds were killed in a shipwreckVito Fiorino and his friends were preparing to go fishing after sleeping the night on his...

[delectablywaywardbeard-blog]

Naufragio Lampedusa, Papa Francesco: non rimaniamo indifferenti alla tragedia

“Ho appreso con dolore la notizia di un nuovo naufragio di migranti nel Mediterraneo”. Lo scrive su Twitter Papa Francesco intervenendo sul naufragio che si è verificato al largo di Lampedusa. Nel tweet Bergoglio continua esortando: “Non rimaniamo indifferenti davanti a queste tragedie e preghiamo per le vittime e i loro familiari”.  Il Papa sin dall’inizio del suo pontificato ha affrontato a più…

[kritere]

Migranti, ancora naufragi al largo della Tunisia: 14 morti e una cinquantina di dispersi

DIRETTA TV 7 Agosto 2023 Ancora naufragi e morti in mare. Mentre a Lampedusa arrivano i superstiti dei naufragi al largo dell’isola, la Tunisia ha confermato altre due tragedie davanti alle sue coste, in cui avrebbero perso la vita 14 persone e altre 51 risultano disperse. 17 CONDIVISIONI Immagine di repertorio I sopravvissuti al naufragio di questo fine settimana sono stati portati…

[beardedmrbean]

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Thursday brought her planned crackdown on people smugglers to a southern town near the coast where a wooden boat packed with migrants broke apart, killing scores and leaving many missing.

In a symbolic move to highlight what she has described as her conservative government's genuine concern for migrant lives, Meloni and her ministers flew to Calabria, in the toe of the Italian peninsula, to hold a Cabinet session in Cutro's town council hall.

Meloni, anti-migrant leader Matteo Salvini, who heads the infrastructure ministry which includes the coast guard, and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, posed for photos outside the town hall after she was greeted by the local bishop and other dignitaries.

The Cabinet was widely expected to approve far stiffer punishments for smugglers, who guide unseaworthy boats crowded with migrants to Italy's shores.

Also expected to be adopted are measures to facilitate refugees' access to so-called humanitarian corridors to Europe as they flee persecution or war in their homelands.

Many of the dead and survivors in the Feb. 26 tragedy were fleeing from Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Syria, hoping to join family members in Italy and other Western European countries.

Earlier this week, a 72nd body was recovered, nine days after the boat crashed into a sandbank just off Steccato di Cutro beach, started taking on water and splintered apart.

Eighty people survived, many of them staggering ashore on the beach after swimming from the wreck. Dozens are still believed to be missing after the wreck of the boat, which survivors said had set out from Turkey with around 180 passengers days earlier.

Opposition leaders and humanitarian groups have decried Italian authorities' decision not to quickly dispatch coast guard rescue boats after a Frontex patrol aircraft spotted the wooden boat about 40 nautical miles (72 kilometers) off Calabria's coast hours before the pre-dawn wreck on Cutro's beach in adverse sea conditions.

Frontex is the European Union's border and coastal protection agency.

Earlier this week, Italy's interior minister, who implements the government's migration policy, insisted in a speech to lawmakers that Frontex — in its communication to Italian authorities — hadn't indicated any sign of distress and no one aboard the ill-fated boat had sent out any alarm.

Even as Meloni's government presses the crackdown, hundreds more migrants have stepped ashore on the southern island of Lampedusa in recent days.

Many arrived without needing rescue. Italy's coast guard and border police boats plucked dozens of others to safety from the sea this week in the central Mediterranean. Among them were 45 migrants, including five newborns, rescued on Wednesday, and another 38 saved by the coast guard after their boat sank in Malta's air-and-rescue sector.

In another Italian coast guard operation, 20 migrants were saved when their boat ran into trouble after setting out from Sfax, Tunisia, and a woman's body was recovered, Italian state television said.

By Thursday afternoon, more than 1,300 migrants had reached Lampedusa by sea in the past few days, and authorities were sending a large ferry from Sicily to transfer some of them from the island's chronically overcrowded temporary residence for migrants.

Dozens of townspeople turned out on Thursday in solidarity with migrants in Cutro, a town of 8,000, which closed schools and cordoned off the area as part of security for the Cabinet meeting. Some of the town's fishermen had dived into the sea to rescue the living and recover the dead from the disaster.

Relatives of survivors had staged a sit-in blocking a road in Cutro earlier this week to prevent the transfer of bodies to a Muslim cemetery, which has space in the northern city of Bologna. On Thursday, Italy's interior ministry said it was working to satisfy the wishes of families to have their loved ones buried where they want.

So far, the body of a migrant from Afghanistan has been buried in Calabria, that of a Tunisian victim was sent to Tunisia, a victim from Afghanistan was transported to Germany while four bodies were sent back to Pakistan. On Wednesday, seven bodies were transported to Bologna's Muslim cemetery, while still others were prepared to be sent to Germany and Afghanistan.

[telodogratis]

Salvini a Lampedusa, si parli dell'isola solo per cose belle

Salvini a Lampedusa, si parli dell’isola solo per cose belle

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[bowieberlinstateofmind]

Bowie was a voracious reader. In 2013, he posted a list of his top 100 favorite reads on his Facebook page.

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse Room At The Top by John Braine On Having No Head by Douglass Harding Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess City Of Night by John Rechy The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Iliad by Homer As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall David Bomberg by Richard Cork Blast by Wyndham Lewis Passing by Nella Larson Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd The Divided Self by R. D. Laing The Stranger by Albert Camus Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Herzog by Saul Bellow Puckoon by Spike Milligan Black Boy by Richard Wright The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot McTeague by Frank Norris Money by Martin Amis The Outsider by Colin Wilson Strange People by Frank Edwards English Journey by J.B. Priestley A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West 1984 by George Orwell The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn Mystery Train by Greil Marcus Beano (comic, ’50s) Raw (comic, ’80s) White Noise by Don DeLillo Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky The Street by Ann Petry Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr. A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard The Bridge by Hart Crane All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence Teenage by Jon Savage Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Viz (comic, early ’80s) Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s) Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont On The Road by Jack Kerouac Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa Inferno by Dante Alighieri A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno The Insult by Rupert Thomson In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

[hollywoodlady]

David Bowie’s 100 Favourite Books:

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

Room At The Top by John Braine

On Having No Head by Douglass Harding

Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Of Night by John Rechy

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Iliad by Homer

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell

Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall

David Bomberg by Richard Cork

Blast by Wyndham Lewis

Passing by Nella Larson

Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto

The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

The Divided Self by R. D. Laing

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman

The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter

The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Herzog by Saul Bellow

Puckoon by Spike Milligan

Black Boy by Richard Wright

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima

Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler

The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot

McTeague by Frank Norris

Money by Martin Amis

The Outsider by Colin Wilson

Strange People by Frank Edwards

English Journey by J.B. Priestley

A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West

1984 by George Orwell

The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn

Mystery Train by Greil Marcus

Beano (comic, )

Raw (comic, ’80s)

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick

Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage

Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley

The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillette

Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky

The Street by Ann Petry

Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.

A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn

The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby

Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz

The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard

The Bridge by Hart Crane

All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess

The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos

Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders

The Bird Artist by Howard Norman

Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey

Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich

Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia

The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Lady Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Teenage by Jon Savage

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Viz (comic, ’80s)

Private Eye (satirical magazine, – ’80s)

Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara

The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes

Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler

Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno

The Insult by Rupert Thomson

In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan

A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes

Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

[klara-dominovic]

Trip to Italy

Activity title: Trip to Italy

Duration: 5 days

Type of activity: creativity, service

Learning outcomes 🐢

💚 Demonstrated engagement with issues of global significance.

🤍 Recognized and considered the ethics of choices and actions.

❤️ Demonstrated the skills and recognized the benefits of working collaboratively.

Activity description ��

I went to Italy with my Italian teacher 👩🏻‍🏫 and one another student from my school. We were on the small island called Lampedusa 🏝, which is the southernmost part of Europe 🌍. We were there to commemorate and be a part of the “COMITATO 3 OTTOBRE” organization, which has become a tradition on this island because of the tragedy that happened on 3rd October 2013. ⛴However, a fishing boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off and at least 368 people died and 155 people survived. 😢 On the occasion of the “Day of Remembrance and Reception”, the project “WE ARE IN THE SAME BOAT” aims to strengthen the awareness and knowledge of young people of school age on the themes of migration, global interdependence, human rights, cultural integration and reception of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. 👩🏼‍🎓

Reflection ❤️‍🩹

This was my first time in Italy and I adored it so much. Now I can tell Italy is one of the most beautiful countries in the world for sure 😍. Their people are so decent and kind. I have tried so many different things on this journey, and this refers mostly to their food🍦🍕🥐 .Also, it was my first time ever traveling by plane and I enjoyed every second of it ✈️. I even thought to myself to become a pilot one day but that thought, unfortunately, did not last long. 😅 One of the best things that happened is that I got to meet new people, make new friends.🌐 There was, besides ours, about 50 other school from all around Europe. 🥳 We all had the same program in the school of Lampedusa where were organized many workshops. 🤝 So I have learned many new things about migrants and refugees and the importance of human rights. It is just sad when people don’t understand that we are all the same and that we should all have some respect for each other. 😩 We have to learn to remove prejudice and stereotypes because it is the only way to live in peace. ✌🏼☮️🕊😌

[art-now-germany]

untitled (boat people), Stefan Heyer

mixed media on canvas the painting deals with tragedy of lampedusa, i wanted to create something beautiful despite the dark content, we have to dive into the darkness to overcome it

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-untitled-boat-people/90107/2327594/view

[rexmagnus]

“their plight does not draw the same attention as that of Syrians crossing Turkey into Europe. In Libya African migrants are met by a grim situation, they face indefinite detention, racism, slave-like labour conditions and violence at the hands of militias and smugglers.

....

Even when boats sink in the central Mediterranean route, focus usually shifts to Syrians, rather than on perished Africans. It seems the plight of Syrian refugees feeds our liberal bias towards refugee stories – the political battle is over who gets the right to be called a refugee, by extension those outside that definition are seen to have made their journeys to Europe by choice, and therefore they do not deserve the same attention.

There is a tendency in public discourse to protect refugees at the expense of migrants, to endlessly debate whether we should describe them as a refugee or a migrant, but the reality is that this misses the nuances”.

.....

[smokymelancholy]

David Bowie's Top 100 Reads:

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

Room At The Top by John Braine

On Having No Head by Douglass Harding

Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

City Of Night by John Rechy

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Iliad by Homer

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell

Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall

David Bomberg by Richard Cork

Blast by Wyndham Lewis

Passing by Nella Larson

Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto

The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

The Divided Self by R. D. Laing

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman

The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter

The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Herzog by Saul Bellow

Puckoon by Spike Milligan

Black Boy by Richard Wright

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima

Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler

The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot

McTeague by Frank Norris

Money by Martin Amis

The Outsider by Colin Wilson

Strange People by Frank Edwards

English Journey by J.B. Priestley

A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West

1984 by George Orwell

The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn

Mystery Train by Greil Marcus

Beano (comic, ’50s)

Raw (comic, ’80s)

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick

Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage

Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley

The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete

Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky

The Street by Ann Petry

Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr.

A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn

The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby

Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz

The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard

The Bridge by Hart Crane

All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess

The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos

Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders

The Bird Artist by Howard Norman

Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey

Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich

Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia

The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Teenage by Jon Savage

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Viz (comic, early ’80s)

Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)

Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara

The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes

Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler

Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno

The Insult by Rupert Thomson

In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan

A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes

Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg