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A startling, hallucinatory descent into the black holes of human consciousness, balancing vertiginous panic with tender beauty. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Julia and the Bazooka.
- hallucinatory
- vertiginous
- seductive
- dark
- 01
Ice
Anna Kavan · 1967
A hallucinatory, dread-soaked pursuit through a freezing, collapsing world that feels exactly like a nightmare you cannot wake up from.
- 02
Reasons to live
Amy Hempel · 1985
A masterclass in saying everything by saying almost nothing, wrapping profound grief in sharp, brittle wit.
- 03
Homesick For Another World
Ottessa Moshfegh
A delightfully repulsive and darkly funny plunge into the grimiest corners of the human condition.
- 04
Bad behavior
Mary Gaitskill · 1988
A raw, disenchanted plunge into the longing and angst of an urban fringe generation desperate for connection.
- 05
Interzone
William S. Burroughs
A startling, fragmented descent into a 1950s expatriate's psyche, fueled by dark humor and raw compulsion.
- 06
Delta of Venus
Anaïs Nin · 1977
A lush, dreamlike descent into bohemian decadence and the unapologetic depths of female desire.
- 07
Little Birds
Anaïs Nin · 1998
A lush, dreamlike exploration of human desire that feels like reading someone's most secret, beautifully written diary.
- 08
The death of the heart
Elizabeth Bowen
A razor-sharp, quietly devastating portrait of adolescent innocence colliding with the icy cynicism of polite society.
- 09
Short stories
David Herbert Lawrence
A feverish plunge into the untamed wilderness of the human psyche, where polite society is shed in favor of primal, dangerous awakenings.
- 10
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July
A tender, delightfully weird exploration of lonely people fumbling toward connection in the most unexpected ways.
- 11
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Hubert Selby, Jr. · 1994
A visceral, unpunctuated plunge into the desperate, violent underbelly of mid-century New York.
- 12
Crash
J. G. Ballard · 1973
A chilling, hypnotic descent into a modern wasteland where twisted metal and shattered glass become the ultimate objects of human desire.
