Kirk Read is the author of "How I Learned to Snap," a memoir that was named an Honor Book by the American Library Assocation. His forthcoming second book is a collection of essays called "This is the Thing." He cohosts two open mic events called K'vetsh and Smack Dab.
Lenny Bruce, Patti Smith, Larry Kramer, Michael Stipe, Sandra Bernhard, Mark Twain, Jack Smith, Charles Ludlam, Iggy Pop, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Walt Whitman, Christopher Isherwood, Armistead Maupin, Kenneth Anger, Sarah Schulman, Michelle Tea.
Favorite Books
Hell Soup by Sparrow 13 Laughingwand, Sorry, We're Close by Tarin Towers, Valencia by Michelle Tea, Everybody Into the Pool by Beth Lisick, Nebraska by George Whitmore, Christian Science by Mark Twain, A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood, The Complete Plays by Charles Ludlam, Stagestruck by Sarah Schulman, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Junky by William S. Burroughs, Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Favorite Authors
Molly Ivins, Armistead Maupin, Michelle Tea, Beth Lisick, Eileen Myles, Andrew Holleran, Edmund White, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Molly Ivins, Christopher Isherwood, Ali Liebegott
What I'm Reading
Death Valley Red Light Chronicles (a history of sex workers in gold rush Nevada) by Robin Flinchum;
Self Taught and Outsider Art by Anthony Petullo;
Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger, by Bill Landis;
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, by Michael Pollan
