There's a true rock and roll legend entering You're Booked Towers this week and we couldn't be happier. Kid Congo Powers has played in such beloved bands as The Cramps, The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and his own Pink Monkey Birds. His astonishing new memoir Some New Kind of Kick talks about growing up queer and Mexican-American in 1970s, the glam rock and punk rock scenes, music, addiction, fandom, tragedy and fun. It's utterly compelling and sure to enter the pantheon of great music memoirs. We talked to Kid about Nick Cave's book recommendations, the power of Eve Babitz, great grudge writing, appearing in the classic film Wings of Desire and the troubling book that appeared on Lux Interior's coffee table. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Daisy Buchanan - Careering
Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood
Ludwig Bemelmans - Madeline
William Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Herbert Huncke - Reader
Herbert Huncke -The Evening Sun Turned Crimson
John Rechy - City of Night
Viv Albertine - Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
Ian Hunter - Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star
Barry Adamson - Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars
Warren Ellis - Nina Simone's Gum
Wreckless Eric - A Dysfunctional Success
Harriet Evans - Going Home
Derek Raymond - I Was Dora Suarez
James Ellroy - The LA Quartet
Flora Rheta Schreiber - The Shoemaker
K Mason - Concentration Camp Bestiality
William Burroughs - Junky
Geoffrey Wolff - Black Sun
J. Randy Taraborrelli - Call Her Miss Ross
Kitty Kelly - His Way
Albert Goldman - Elvis
Nick Tosches - Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story
Caryn Rose - Why Patti Smith Matters
Rimbaud - Collected Poems
Baudelaire - Complete Poems
Fred Vermorel - Starlust
John Rechy - Sexual Outlaw
Raquel Gutierrez - Brown Neon
Chris Womersley - The Diplomat
Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved
William Boyd - Any Human Heart
Patricia Highsmith - Ripley's Game
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