Hubert Selby Jr.- Last Exit to Brooklyn- The Demon-Requiem for a Dream.
William Burroughs- Junky- Naked Lunch-Queer- Cities of the Red Night
Jean-Paul Sartre - "No Exit"
Hunter S Thompson- "The Gonzo Papers", "Fear and Loathing".
De Sade- 120 Days of Sodom - Justine : Misfortune of Virtue-
Bukowski Influences: John Fante- The Brotherhood of the Grape- Wait Until Spring Bandini- Ask the Dust-
Joseph Conrad- "Hearts of Darkness" , " The Nigger of the Narcissus"
Poe , Lovecraft - connection---
Kurt Vonnegutt------- "Slaughterhouse 5" , " Cat's Cradle" , "Mother Night" , "Breakfast of Champions" , "Hoccus Pocus,
Hemmingway - "The Nick Adams Stories"
John Steinbeck --- "The Pearl" , "Of Mice and Men", "The Grapes of Wrath".
Henry Miller - "Tropic of Cancer".
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