Drug addicts, hustlers, pimps, boozers, suicidal losers... The authors we’ve collected here encompass a wide range of life experiences but one thing is certain – each of their works is about as subtle as a boot stomping on your face. Antonin Artaud said it best: “If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.” All of the cult fiction authors reviewed here are “signaling through the flames” in one way or another.

Cult Fiction Collage - Alternative Reel

Hemingway

Offbeat Quotes from the Files of Alternative Reel

I Still Hate MTV More than Myself

Literary Insults

"Out of the Gates, Slowly Bleeding": The Life & Times of Harry Crews

Revelations in Drunken Ridiculousness: or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bottle

Weekend in Aintry! James Dickey and the Making of Deliverance

Henry Miller: Dirty Old Man of American Letters [1891-1980]

Coming in the New Year! The Wisdom Twins Fiction Journal

We Burn the Fat off Our Souls

The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Fiddler's Curse - Randy Noles

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

Desert Solitaire: A Season In The Wilderness - Edward Abbey

Film Classic: O Lucky Man - Chris Wade

Drunk at the Matinee - Ben Smith

Jim Morrison and The Doors: An Unauthorized Book - Mike Jahn

Ham On Rye - Charles Bukowski

Outlaw Blues: A Book of Rock Music - Paul Williams


Cult Fiction - Article Index

Cult Fiction - Review Index