Rob Simons | Writer | Photographer | Things Kept Burning

LITERATURE
Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden | Ian McEwan, First Love, Last Rites | Ian McEwan, In Between the Sheets | Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories | Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater | Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides | Chuck Palahniuk, Choke | Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor | Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From | Raymond Carver, Cathedral | Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son | Richard Ford, Rock Springs | Richard Ford, The Sportswriter | William T. Vollman, Whores for Gloria | William T. Vollman, The Rainbow Stories | William T. Vollman, 13 Stories 13 Epitaphs | Jt Leroy, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things | Jt Leroy, Sarah | EL Doctorow, The Book of Daniel | Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Dave Eggers, How We Are Hungry | Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried | Tim O'Brien, In the Lake of the Woods | Jack Kerouac, On the Road | Jack Kerouac, Big Sur | Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums | William Burroughs, Junky | David Sedaris, Naked | David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day | Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | Russell Banks, Affliction | Russell Banks, Trailerpark | Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory | Hubert Selby, Songs of the Silent Snow | Albert Camus, The Stranger | Richard Wright, Native Son | Richard Wright, The Outsider | Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man | Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller, Tropic Of Capricorn | Joan Didion, The White Album | ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation (non-fiction) | Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse - Five | Kenzaburo Oe, A Personal Matter | McSweeney's Quarterly | Zoetrope | The Believer | Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt | Hunter S. Thompson, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas | Don Delillo, White Noise | Craig Clevenger, The Contortionist's Handbook | Ann Joslin Williams, The Woman in the Woods |

CINEMA
The Squid and the Whale | Bottle Rocket | Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou | Rushmore | The Royal Tenenbaums | Seven | Fight Club | Lost in Translation | The Return (Russian) | Closer | The Graduate | Requiem For A Dream | Pi | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Amelie | Thirteen | 28 Days Later | Trainspotting | Shallow Grave | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Magnolia | Buffalo 66 | Boogie Nights | Punchdrunk Love | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Dr Strangelove | The Shining | A Clockwork Orange | Full Metal Jacket | The Killing | Trilogy: Blue & Red | Good Fellas | Taxi Driver | Casino |Raging Bull | Gummo | Julien Donkey-Boy | The Ring | One-Hour Photo | Godfather I | Godfather II | Apocalypse Now | The Conversation | Six Degrees of Separation | Fearless | 400 Blows | Breathless | Clerks | Layer Cake | Carlito's Way | Fletch | Caddyshack | Vacation | The Big Lebowski | Barton Fink | Fargo | Raising Arizona | The Hudsucker Proxy | Dead Man | Down By Law | The Warriors | The Falcon and the Snowman | The Girl in the Cafe | It's All Gone Pete Tong | Ratcatcher | Morvern Callar | Ocean's Twelve | The Son | Paradise Now | Belle De Jour | Munich | Syriana | Withnail and I | Stroszek | The Ice Storm | Get Carter (British version) | The Departed | The Killing Fields | Babel | Sexy Beast | Welcome to the Dollhouse | Children of Men | The Limey, Somersault, La Haine | Control | Ocean's Thirteen | Margot at the Wedding | The Assassination of Jesse James By That Coward Robert Ford | Into the Wild | Control | No Country For Old Men | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |