PEOPLE/ARTISTS

   Includes singular people (first name first) + group/band names:

• !!! (aka chk chk chk)
• 1000 Days—08, 09
• 11/22/66—19
• 75 Dollar Bill
• a.I. (see anon I'm us)
• A. Igoni Barrett
• Aaron Swartz
• Aase Berg—06, 10, 11, 13
• Aeoleus
• Abe Smith
• Abebe Bikila—10, 12
• Abraham Smith
• Abu Zubaydah
• Ada Limón
• Adam Curtis—11, 12, 13, 16, 19a, 19b, 21a, 21b, 22
• Adam Driver—21
• Adam Hochschild
• Adam Peterson
• Adolf Wölfli
• Adolfo Bioy Casares—20
• Agnès Potier
• Alain Badiou—12a, 12b
• Alain Mabanckou
• Alain Robbe-Grillet—11, 12, 13
• Alan Lightman
• Alan Moorehead
• Alan Watts
• Albert Camus—84, 90, 11a, 11b, 12, 17, 20a, 20b
• Albert Einstein
• Sir Albert Henry
• Alberto Denti di Pirajno
• Aldo Bandinelli—12a, 12b (+ 12 on CP)
• Aldous Huxley—19, 20
• Alessandro Fornaci
• Alessandro Riva
• Alex Cox—95, 13
• Alex Gregor
• Alex Honnold—17, 21
• Alex Sherker
• Alfred Hitchcock—19, 20a, 20b, 22
• Alfred Whitehead—92, 10a, 10b, 12
• Algiers
• Ali Farka Touré—07, 08, 12
• Ali Raz
• Amos Tutuola—88, 04, 05, 07, 09, 11, 12, 20a, 20b
• Amy Hempel—19a, 19b
• Amy Sedaris—14, 20
• Amy Yoes
• And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead—03a, 03b, 19
• Ander Monson—03, 05, 07,
• André Breton—11, 13, 16
• André Gide—12a, 12b, 21
• Andrej Nikolaidis
• Andrew Farkas
• Andrew McGahan
• Andrew J. Wilt
• Andrew Zornoza
• Andy Fitch
• Andy Warhol—14, 15, 21, 22
• Angelo Accardi
• Anish Kapoor—09, 10
• Anjelique Kidjo
• Ann Petry
• Ms. Ann Thrope—19, 20a, 20b
• Ann Pancake
• Ann Quinn
• Anna Boschi
• Anna Marie Johnson
• Anna Rosen Guercio
• Anne Carson—09, 19, 21, 22
• Anne Dillard
• Annika White—96
• anon I'm us / ∀/non i'm us (a.k.a. a.I...dat's us!)—17a, 17b, 18, 19a, 19b, 20a, 20b, 20c, 20d, 22
• Anthony Bourdain—03, 21
• Anthony Burgess—15, 19
• Antoinette St Leger
• Antoni Gaudí—01, 12
• Antonin Artaud—09, 12a, 12b, 14
• Arcade Fire—05, 11,
• Ariana Boussard-Reifel
• Ariel Pink—10a, 10b, 19
• Aristophanes—10, 12
• Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• Arthur C. Clarke
• Arthur Rimbaud—16, 21
• Arthur Schopenhauer—09, 10, 11, 12, 14a, 14b
• Ash Code
• Atticus Lish
• Aung San Suu Kyi
• Ava Hoffman
• The Avengers
• Ayi Kwei Armah
• Ayn Rand—87, 11, 12, 14, 15, 19, 22a, 22b
• The B-52s—19, 22
• Baaba Maal
• Babak Lakghomi
• Bad Brains
• Baloji
• Banksy—11, 14, 22
• Barbara Kingsolver—95, 20b
• Barack Obama—08a, 08b, 08c, 08d, 08e, 13, 14, 15, 20
• Barry Hannah
• Barry Yourgrau—04, 14
• Bauhaus—19
• Be Your Own Pet
• Beach House—19
• The Beatles
• Beatrice Cenci—11, 18a, 18b, 18c, 18d, 19
• Becky Wreck—92
• Béla Tarr—12, 20, 22
• Belinda Carlisle
• St. Benededict G. Labre
• Ben Lerner—05, 12a,
• Ben Okri—07a, 07b, 09, 20
• Ben Marcus—02, 03, 05, 09a, 09b, 10, 11, 12a, 12b, 19a, 19b, 19c, 20
• Ben Templesmith
• Benjamin Labatut
• Benjamin Péret
• Bertrand Russell—10a, 10b, 21
• Beryl Markham
• Beth Steidle
• The Big Sleep
• Bi Gan
• Bill Murray
• Billy the Kid
• Bill Watterson
• Binyavanga Wainaina—08a, 08b, 08c, 08d, 09, 11, 14, 20
• Bjork—03
• Black Elk—93, 13
• Black Lips
• Black Mountain—19
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club—05, 06, 08a, 08b
• Blake Butler—08a, 08b, 08c, 08d, 09a, 09b, 09c, 11a, 11b, 13a, 13b, 15, 16, 19, 20a, 20b, 21, 23 (+ 09 on CP)
• Blonde Redhead—07, 20
• Blood Brothers
• Bo Diddley
• Bob Dylan—08, 09a, 09b, 14, 16a, 16b, 20, 22a, 22b
• Bob Kerry
• Bob Marley–02-05
• Bo Jack Horseman—19
• Boris—17, 19
• Brad Phillips
• Bradley Nowell (Sublime)
• Bram Stoker
• Brandon Freels
• Brandon Hobson—13a, 13b
• Breece D'J Pancake
• The Breeders
• Bret Easton Ellis—20
• Brian Chikwava
• Brian Conn
• Brian Dettmer
• Brian Eno—88, 06, 08, 19, 22
• Brian Evenson—07, 08, 09a, 09b, 11, 12a, 12b, 12c, 21
• Brion Gysin—10, 11, 12, 19
• British Sea Power
• Bronski Beat
• Bruno Munari—08, 09, 12, 21
• Bruno Schulz—12, 21
• B.S. Johnson
• Buddha—08, 09, 12, 13, 16
• Budokan Boys—see Michael Jeffrey Lee
• Bulgarian Voices (Voix Bulgares)—92
• Bunnydrums—12, 19
• Butthole Surfers—09, 13
• C215 (Christian Guemy)—08, 12, 15
• Caesars
• Cai Guo-Qiang
• Cal A. Mari (my publishing hat)—10, 11a, 11b, 12a, 12b, 13, 14, 17
• Caliban
• Camden Joy
• Camper Van Beethoven—15, 16, 22
• Candice Wuehle
• Candy Darling
• Captain Beefheart
• Captain Cook
• Caravaggio
• Caren Beilin
• Caresse Crosby—14, 15, 17
• Carl Jung—90, 11, 12, 16, 21
• Carl Sandberg
• Carlo Collodi
• Carlo Emilio Gadda,
• Carlo Petrini
• Carlo Ravelli
• Carlos Fuentes
• Carlos M. Luis—04, 05a, 05b, 09, 10, 13 (+ 04, 05 on CP)
• Carmen Hermosillo (humdog)
• Carrie Brownstein
• The Cars (+ Ric Ocasek)—19a, 19b
• Cary Wolfe—16, 20
• Catherine Malabou
• Cathy Park Hong
• Ceci (ghost that lives w/ us)
• Cecilia Vicuña
• Céline—96, 98, 10a, 10b
• César Aira—10, 13a, 13b, 23
• César Vallejo—05a, 05b, 06
• The Chameleons
• Chanelle Benz
• Charles Brossard
• Charles Bukowski—14, 21
• Charles Darwin—05a, 05b, 09, 11a, 11b, 12a, 12b, 12c, 14a, 14b, 20
• Charles Saatchi
• Charlie Kaufmann—99, 09
• Chaulky White—see also Kevin White
• Che Guevara
• Chelsea Hodson
• Chiara Barzini—10a, 11a, 11b, 12a, 12b, 12c, 17, 21 (+ 12 on CP)
• Chigozie John Obioma—09, 20a, 20b
• Chimanda Ngozi Adiche
• Chimes and Bells
• Chinua Achebe—09, 20
• Chris Fritton—05, 06,  08 (+ 05 in SF)
• Chris Gorog
• Chris Isaak
• Chris Marker
• Christa Wolf—15, 20, 22
• Christian Marclay—11a, 11b, 11c, 20, 22
• Christian Peet—04, 06a, 06b, 10, 12a, 12b, 13 (+ 05 in SF)
• Christine Hiebert
• Christine Kenneally
• Christine Wertheim—10a, 10b, 10c
• Christopher Columbus—15a, 15b, 17a, 17b, 21
• Christopher Higgs—11, 22
• Christopher Wool—04, 14
• Chuck Norris—09a, 09b
• Chuck Palahniuk
• Circe—09, 10, 12
• Circle Jerks (+ Keith Morris)—85, 13, 22
• Ciro Alegría
• Claire Donato
• Clarice Lispector
• Claro
• The Clash—see Joe Strummer
• Claude Lévi-Strauss—13a, 13b, 15, 15b, 21
• Clay Banes
• Claudio Bonfiglioli—21, 23
• Clay Ketter
• Club of Rome
• Cocteau Twins—19a, 19b, 19c, 19d
• Colin McAdam
• Colson Whitehead
• Conner Bouchard-Roberts
• Cooper Renner—05, 06, 07, 08 (+ 09 in SF)
• Cormac McCarthy—94, 96, 00, 07, 09, 10, 14, 16
• Counting Crows
• Cristian Grossi
• Cristina Rivera Garza
• The Cure—90, 09,11a, 11b, 12, 16, 17, 19a, 19b, 20, 22
• Cy Twombly—09, 11a, 11b
• D'Arcy Thompson—89, 11
• D.H. Lawrence—95, 14
• Dad—59–60, 80–83, 15, 21a, 21b, 22
• Daedalus—19a, 19b
• Dale Peck—06, 09
• Dambudzo Marechera—13, 20
• Damon Galgut—12, 17
• Dan Boeckner
• Dan Flores
• Dan Hoy
• Dana Spiotta—20, 21a, 21b
• Danah Zohar
• Daniel Borzutzky—05, 06, 07 (+ 07 in SF)
• Daniel Evan Weiss
• Daniel Mahoney
• Daniel Sendecki
• Danielle Dutton—06, 12 (+ 06 in SF)
• Dante Alighieri—12a, 12b, 12c, 12d, 21, 22, 23
• Daphne Du Maurier—17, 20
• Darby Crash—10, 12
• Dave Eggers—08a, 08a, 08b, 17, 20
• Dave Hollander
• David Auerbach
• David-Baptiste Chirot—05, 09, 10, 21, 22 (+ 05, 10 in SF)
• David Bowie—19, 21, 21b, 21c
• David Bowman
• David Byrne—88, 06, 08, 09, 11a, 12b, 12, 13
• David Cecchetto
• David Cronenberg—09, 12
• David Foster Wallace—08a, 08b, 09, 10, 11, 13, 14, 21
• David Hammons
• David Harold Peery
• David Huffman
• David Kaiser
• David Lynch—08, 11, 12a, 12b, 18, 22
• David Mamet
• David Markson—09, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20
• David Nagler—23
• David Nutt—22, 23
• David Ohle—05, 07, 08a, 08b, 08c, 09a, 09b, 13, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 21, 23 (+ 08, 09 on CP)
• David Ryan
• David Reisman
• David Sedaris—14, 20
• Dawn Raffel—23
• Dayanita Singh—11, 13
• Dead Kennedys—11, 12, 13, 20, 22
• Dead Meadow
• Deb Olin Unferth—08a, 08b, 10, 13, 23
• Dee Brown—94a, 94b
• Deep Time
• De La Vega
• Deleuze + Guattari—09, 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b, 11c, 12 (see also individually)
• Demetri Martin—07, 21
• Demi Moore
• Dengue Fever
• Denis Johnson—15, 17, 21
• Dennis Cooper (+ 09 in SF)
• Dennis DiClaudio
• Dennis McKenna (see also Terence McKenna)
• Derek McCormack
• Derek White (gratuitous self-portraits)—80s, 80-83, 84-85, 86, 87, 88, 89a, 89b, 89c, 89d, 90, 91, 07, 08a, 08b, 09a, 09b, 10, 11a, 11b, 12a, 12b, 13a, 13b, 13c, 14, 15a, 15b, 16, 18, 18b
• Deron Bauman—05, 07
• Des Demonas
• Devo
• Diana George—06a, 06b
• Diane Williams—01, 06, 11, 12 (+ 09 in SF)
• DieGO (our dog)—23
• Diego Miedo
• Diego Riviera—13, 20
• Dino Buzzati—11
• Dirty Beaches—11a, 11b, 19
• Dirty Projectors
• Dmitry Babenko—05, 11, 13a, 13b (+ 12 in SF)
• Dogberry
• Don Delillo—03, 08a, 08b, 12a, 12b, 13, 17a, 17b, 21, 22, 23
• Donald Breckenridge—23a, 23b
• Donna J. Haraway—20, 22
• Donna Summer
• Douglas Adam—90, 91
• Douglas Hofstadter—10, 12, 18
• Douglas Coupland—91, 21
• Douglas Kearney—16, 20, 21, 23a, 23b
• Dr. Seuss—70s, 20
• Dr. V
• Duncan Barlow—09a, 09b, 10, 17, 19a, 19b (+ 07, 10, 18 in SF)
• The Durutti Column
• Dylan Kreiger
• E. Anne Proulx
• E. O. Wilson—06, 11a, 11b, 12
• Earth
• Echo and the Bunnymen—05, 12, 17, 19
• The Edge (also see U2)
• Eduardo Recife—05, 06, 08 (+ 06, 08 in SF)
• Edouard Levé
• Edward Gibbon
• Edward P. Jones
• Edward Snowden—13, 15
• Edward T. Hall
• Edward Tufte—09, 12, 14, 15
• Edwin A. Abbott—17, 20
• Egon Schiele—06, 10, 11, 13, 14a, 14b, 18, 20
• Elisa Taber
• Elisabetta Benassi
• Elizabeth Bishop
• Elizabeth Fraser—see Cocteau Twins
• Elizabeth Mikesch—13a, 13b
• Elizabeth Switaj
• Elliot Smith
• Elmore Leonard
• Eloy Urroz
• Emil Bønnelykke
• Emil Cioran—14a, 14b, 14c
• Emile Zola
• Emily Pettit
• Enrico Fermi
• Epimetheus—19a, 19b
• Eric Baus
• Eric E. Olson
• Eric Garner
• Eric Larson—23a, 23b
• Erica Il Cane—10, 12, 18
• Erika T. Wurth—17, 20
• Erlend Loe—21a, 21b
• Ernest Hemingway—91a, 91b, 96a, 96b, 11
• Ernst Mayr
• Erwin Schrödinger—12, 13, 18, 22, 22b, 22c, 22d, 23
• Eugene Delacroix
• Eugene Lim—08, 09, 15, 18, 22, 23a, 23b (+ 08, 09 in SF)
• Eugene Marten—08, 09
• Evelyn Hampton
• Evelyn Waugh
• Evgeny Morozov
• Evi Vine—19
• Ezra Pound
• Faruk Ulay—06, 14a, 14b
• Faust
• Federico Federici
• Federico Fellini—10a, 10b, 12, 13, 18a, 18b, 21
• Federico García Lorca
• Fela Kuti—10
• Félicien Rops
• Félix Guattari—see Gilles Deleuze
• Femi Kuti—04, 06
• Fernanda Melchor—22
• Fernando Carabajal
• Fernando Pessoa
• Fibonacci sequence/numbers—90, 07, 11, 20, 22
• Fikeremarkos Desta
• Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
• Fleur Jaeggy
• Foals—07, 08, 09, 10, 19
• Forrest Gander
• Frances Richard
• Francesca Fini
• Francis Ford Coppola—08, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23
• Francis Galton
• Francisco de Goya
• Franco Maria Ricci
• Franco Moretti
• Frank Stanford—95, 06, 10a, 10b, 13, 16, 17, 22a, 22b
• Franticham—13, 14, 17
• Franz Ferdinand
• Franz Kafka—12a, 12b, 15, 18
• Frank Sobotka—18, 19
• Fred Turner
• Freddy Mercury
• Friederike Mayröcker
• Fredrick Douglass
• Fredrick Lenz
• Frida Kahlo—13, 20
• Friedrich Nietzsche—01, 08, 12, 13a, 13b, 14a, 14b, 15, 16a, 16b, 19, 21, 22
• Fritjof Capra
• Fu Xi
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky—10, 19
• G. I. Gurdjieff
• Gabriel García Márquez—96, 13, 20
• Galileo Galilei—18
• Gang of Four
• Ganesha—92
• Garielle Lutz—03, 04, 06a, 06b, 07a, 07b, 07c, 08a, 08b, 09a, 09b, 09c, 11a, 11b, 12 , 13a, 13b, 13c, 14a, 14b, 15, 17, 19 20, 21a, 21b, 22a, 22b, 22c, 22d, 22e, 23a, 23b (+ 09, 11 on CP)
• Gary Gilmore—14, 15
• Gary Larson
• Gary Newman
• Gary Shipley—17, 22
• Gary Shteyngart
• Gavrilo Princip
• Geeshie Wiley
• Gene Scott
• Genesis P-Orridge (see also Throbbing Gristle)—11, 14, 20
• Germán Sierra
• Geof Huth
• George Belden—see Norman Lock
• George Bush—15a, 15b
• George Lucas
• George Orwell—13, 16, 19
• George Quasha
• George R. Stewart
• George Saunders—05a, 05b, 10
• Georges Bataille—08, 10, 13a, 13b, 15
• Georges Perec
• Gerarld Durrell—86, 90, 07, 21
• Gerald Murnane
• Gerhard Richter
• Geronimo
• Gert Jonke—12a, 12b
• Gertrude Stein—21a, 21b
• Giacomo Puccini
• Giambattista Vico—15, 16
• Giancarlo DiTrapano—10a, 10b, 11a, 11b, 13, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 16a, 16b, 16c, 18, 20a, 20b, 21a, 21b, 21c, 21d , 21e, 21f, 21g, 21h, 22a, 22b (+ 12 in SF)
• Gilberto Sorrentino
• Gilles Deleuze—09, 10, 12, 15, 16a, 16b, 16c
• Gino Coppedè
• Giordano Bruno
• Giulio Camillo Delminio
• Giulio Mozzi
• Glass Ghost
• Glenn Kaino—02, 03, 13
• Glorious Din
• God
• Gogol Bordello
• Gordon Lish—05, 08a, 08b, 09, 13a, 13b, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21a, 21b
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz—13, 16, 17, 21
• Graham Greene—14, 22
• Grandpa Cal—80-83, 14a, 14b, 15
• Grateful Dead
• Greg Fadell
• Grimm brothers
• Grizzly Bear—07, 17
• Guillaume Apollinaire
• Gummylung Dungtongue—19 (+ in SF XIV)
• Gustav Klimt—18, 20
• Guy Beining
• Guy Debord
• H.C.E.—15a, 15b
• Hannah Levbarg—08a, 08b, 09
• Hans Prinzhorn—18, 20
• Harper Lee—12, 20
• Harriet Tubman
• Harry Crosby—14a, 14b, 15
• Harry Jaffe—20
• Harry Nilsson
• Haruki Murakami—98, 06, 09, 10, 12, 21
• Helen Garner
• Helena Österlund
• Hélène Cixous—09a, 09b, 12
• Henri Bergson—11a, 11b, 12a, 12b, 16, 19, 20, 22
• Henry David Thoreau—22a
• Henri Michaux
• Henrietta Lacks
• Henry Darger—10, 18
• Henry David Thoreau—22
• Henry Kuttner
• Henry Miller—90, 93a, 93b, 95a, 95b, 95c, 95d, 96, 98, 09
• Henry Morton Stanley
• Henry Rollins
• Heraclitus—13, 14
• Herbert Bayer—10, 12
• Herman Melville—90, 09, 22
• Hob Broun
• Homer—90, 95a, 95b, 08, 11, 13a, 13b, 14, 19
• Horse Lords—13, 15a, 15b, 17
• Hot Hot Heat
• Houdini
• Hsia Yü
• Hubert Selby, Jr.
• Huckleberry Finn (+Huck Finnegan)—15a, 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 21
• Hullaballoo Wolfowitz
• Humphrey Bogart
• I Rivers
• Ian Curtis—07a, 07b, 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b
• Ian McEwan
• Iggy Pop
• Ima Robot
• in8 iĐ—23a, 23b, 23c, 23d, 23e
• Ingo Giezendanner (aka GRRR)
• Irana Douer—07, 08
• Irvine Welsh
• Isaac Asimov
• Isabel Allende
• Isaiah Zagar—01, 21
• Ishi—13, 15, 20a, 20b
• Ishmael Reed—14, 20
• Isidore Isou—12a, 12b
• Italo Calvino—10, 11, 12a, 12b, 12c, 23a, 23b
• Italo Svevo
• J.A. Baker
• J.C. Mehta
• J.D. Salinger—82, 10
• J.G. Ballard—09, 11, 11b, 12, 15, 17
• J.M. Coetzee—11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21
• J.M. Ledgard—09, 13
• J'Lyn Chapman—08, 15 (+ 08 on CP)
• Jack Henrie Fisher
• Jack Kerouac—95, 18, 22
• Jack London—90, 96, 20
• Jackie Lebo
• Jackson Mac Low—14, 16
• Jackson Pollock—10a, 10b, 14, 21
• Jacob Cockle
• Jacques Derrida—09a, 09b, 10, 13a, 13b, 13c, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 15a, 15b, 15c, 16
• Jacques Roubaud
• Jake Reber
• James Baldwin—15, 23
• James Balog
• James Belflower—22a, 22b, 22c, 22d
• James Brubaker
• James Franco—11, 16
• James Gleick—11, 12a, 12b, 23
• James Joyce—89, 94a, 94b, 06, 09, 10, 11a, 11b, 12a, 12b, 13a, 13b, 13c, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 15a, 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, 15g, 15h, 15i, 15j, 15K, 16a, 16b, 16c, 16d, 17a, 17b, 18, 19a, 19b, 20, 21, 23
• James Lewelling—08a, 08b, 10, 12, 14 (+ 08 on CP)
• James Merrill
• James Michener—90a, 90b
• James Reich—08a, 08b, 09, 19 (+ 08 in SF)
• James Tate—02, 05, 07, 16
• James Turrell—22
• James Wagner—05, 06a, 06b, 12, 17, 23 (+ 03, 06 on CP)
• Jane Campion—21, 23
• Jane Yolen
• Janice Lee—14, 23
• Jared Diamond
• Jared Daniel Fagen—14a, 14b, 23
• Jasmine Golestaneh (see also Tempers)—10 in SF
• Jason Bredle
• Jason Schwartz—13, 21
• Jason Snyder
• Jason Teal
• Jay Forrester
• Jay Kirk
• Jay McInerney
• Jean Cocteau—97, 18, 21
• Jean-Michel Basquiat—13, 14, 15, 17
• Jean-Paul Sartre—13, 14, 17
• Jean-Philippe Toussaint
• Jean Ritchie—16a, 16b, 21a, 21b
• Jean Toomer
• Jeff Bezos—20, 23
• Jeff Buckley—00, 10a, 10b, 12, 13, 20, 21
• Jeff Koons—92, 14
• Jefferson Airplane
• Jeffrey Sachs—08a, 08b, 10, 12
• Jello Biafra—see Dead Kennedys
• Jen George
• Jenji Kohan
• Jenny Boully
• Jenny Offill
• Jeramiah Zagar (see also Zeke Zagar)
• Jeremy Cherfas—11a, 11b, 12a, 12b, 12c
• Jeremy M. Davies
• Jeremy Irons
• Jerome Lawrence
• Jerzy Kosinski—14, 21
• Jesse Ball—10, 21
• Jesse Glass
• Jesi Bender
• Jessica Baran
• Jessica Beshir
• Jessica Fischoff
• Jessica Hagy
• Jessica Sequiera
• Jesus Christ—11, 12a, 12b, 16, 22
• The Jesus and Mary Chain—15, 19
• Jim Carroll—17, 21
• Jim Jarmusch—08, 11, 12
• Jim Krusoe
• Jim Nabors
• Jimena Néspolo
• Joan of Arc
• Joan Baez (+ family)—92
• Joan Didion—22a, 22b
• Joanna Walsh
• Joe Sacco
• Joe Sacksteder
• Joe Salvatore—08, 11 (+ 06 in SF)
• Joe Strummer—21a, 21b
•  Joey Remeny
• Johannes Göransson—13a, 13b
• Johannes Gutenberg—20
• John Berendt
• John Bishop
• John Bonham—18, 19
• John Bynum
• John Cage—86, 05, 09, 11, 12, 17, 21, 22, 23a, 23b
• John Cusack
• John D Morley
• John Dickie
• John Fante
• John Gray
• John Haskell—10, 12, 23
• John Keene—15a, 15b, 23
• John Kennedy Toole
• John M. Bennett
• John Malkovich—10, 19
• John Muir
• John Oliver
• John Olson—06, 07 (+ 06 on CP)
• John Reader
• John Shepherd
• John Steinbeck—83, 90, 91, 13a, 13b, 15, 20a, 20b
• John Turturro
• John Waters
• John Wilson—14, 22, 23
• Johnny Depp—98
• Jomo Kenyatta
• Jon Cotner
• Jonathan Ames
• Jonathan Larson
• Jonathan Lethem
• Jorge Amado
• Jorge Luis Borges—02, 12, 13, 17, 20a, 20b, 22
• Jorinde Voigt
• Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Jose Antonio Vargas
• José Saramago—03, 12a, 12b, 20
• Joseph Campbell—91, 06, 12, 14, 15a, 15b, 15c, 21a, 21b, 22a, 22b
• Joseph Conrad—93, 09, 11, 13
• Joseph Young
• Josephine Foster
• Joshua Cohen—05, 06, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 20
• Joseph Cornell—13, 15
• Joy Division—09a, 09b, 09c, 11a, 11b, 18, 19, 21
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Joyelle McSweeney
• Juan Pablo Villalobos
• Juan Rulfo—16, 18
• Juanita (the cactus)—19, 23
• Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
• Julian Barnes
• Julien Offray de La Mettrie
• Julie Mehretu
• Julie Reverb—15, 19 (+ CA + in SF XIV)
• Julio Cortázar—20, 21a, 21b, 21c, 22
• Junot Díaz—01, 10
• Justin Dodd
• Justin Joque
• Justin Phillip Reed
• Justin Sirois
• Justin Taylor
• Justin Torres—22, 23
• Kamau Brathwaite—05, 15, 20, 23a, 23b
• Karen Green
• Kaspar Hauser—08, 13
• Kate Hill Cantrill
• Kathryn Rantala (+ 03 in SF)
• Kathy Acker
• Kawaguchi Tatsuo
• Kay Redfield Jamison
• Keeno Ahmed—04
• Keith Nathan Brown
• Kelly Krumrie—21, 22a, 22b
• Ken Baumann—11, 12, 13
• Ken Kesey—96, 18, 22a, 22b
• Kenneth Goldsmith
• Kevin Kelly—22a, 22b
• Kevin Sampsell—04, 05, 07, 08, 12, 13 (+ 05 in SF)
• Kevin Slavin
• Kevin White (brother, aka Chaulky)—80-83, 84-85, 85-96, 86, 87, 89a, 89b, 89c, 89d, 90, 91a, 91b, 92, 94, 95, 96a, 96b, 97a, 97b, 97c, 08a, 08b, 10a, 10b, 10c, 12, 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d, 13e, 13f, 13g, 13h, 14a, 14b, 15a, 15b, 17a, 17b, 17c, 19a, 20a, 20b, 21, 22a, 22b
• Kiese Laymon
• Kim Ki-Duk
• Kim Parko
• Kiss
• Klaus Kinski
• Knut Hamsun
• Kōbō Abe
• Koko (the Gorilla)—21
• Konono No 1
• Koudlam
• Kristin Jones
• Kristina Born
• Kurt Cobain
• Kurt Gödel—10a, 10b, 11, 12, 16, 20, 21
• Kurt Vonnegut—90, 15, 17, 18, 22a, 22b
• L7
• L. Brown—19 (+ in SF XIV)
• L. Frank Baum—23
• Laika (the dog)
• Laila Lalamai
• Lance Olsen—13, 14a, 14b
• Langston Hughes—19a, 19b
• Lara Glenum
• László Krasznahorkai
• Laura Ellen Joyce—14a, 14b, 14c, 23a, 23b
• Laura Poitras
• Laura Redniss
• Laurie Anderson—05, 10, 12, 22
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Lawrence Raab
• Lazarillo de Tormes
• Leadbelly and/or Logo—08, 09a, 09b, 09c, 09d, 11, 14, 16, 19, 20
• Led Zeppelin—19a, 19b, 21
• Lee Israel
• Lee Jang Sub
• Lee Rourke
• Legs McNeil
• Leonardo de Pisa—see Fibonacci
• Leonardo Luccone—09a, 09b
• Les Plesko
• Leslie Marmon Silko
• Lester Bangs—03, 19
• Lewis Carroll
• Lewis + Clark—08, 12a, 12b, 13, 16, 17, 21a, 21b
• Lewis Padgett
• Lewis Thomas
• Levi Bryant—12a, 12b, 12c, 13, 15, 16
• Leyla McCalla
• Liars—13, 14, 22
• Libertines
• Lisa Gitelman
• Livingstone(i presume)—09a, 09b, 12, 15
• Logan Berry
• Longwave
• Lorrie Moore
• Lou Ottens
• Lou Reed—see The Velvet Underground
• Louis Aragon—11, 15
• Louis Armand
• Louis Bec
• Louis Chude-Sokei—23
• Low—22a, 22b
• Luca Arnaudo—11, 12a, 12b, 12c, 12d, 15 (+ 12 on CP)
• Luci Tapahonso
• Lucien Lévy-Bruhl—15a, 15b, 15c
• Lucretius—10a, 10b
• Ludwig Wittgenstein—09, 18
• Luigi Barzini—11a, 11b, 11c, 11d, 12
• Luigi Pirandello—10a, 10b, 11, 13, 20
• Luigi Serafini—10a, 10b, 11a, 12, 18
• Luis Buñuel
• Luis Suárez
• Lydia Davis—2009, 2016
• Lynn Hill
• M Scott Momaday
• The Maccabees
• Madonna—98, 09
• Magazine—19
• Mr Magoo
• Mahatma Gandhi—97
• Malcolm Gladwell—08, 20
• Malcolm McNeil
• Mama Obama
• Marcel Duchamp
• Marcel Proust—16, 20, 23
• Marcello Mastriani—18, 21
• Marco Giovenale
• Marcos—05a, 05b
• Marcus Pactor
• Marea (character in A Raft Manifest)—16
• María Negroni
• Mariano Villalobos
• Marie Calloway
• Marie Curie
• Mario Bellatin
• Mario Milosevic
• Mario Vargas Llosa—20
• Mario Savio—22, 23
• Mark Baumer—17, 20, 21, 21b
• Mark Binelli
• Mark Gonzalez
• Mark Kozelek
• Mark Leyner—98, 14, 15
• Mark Richard
• Mark Twain—90, 15a, 15b, 15c, 16, 17a, 17b, 21
• Mark Z. Danielewski—12, 21
• Marlon Williams
• Marmor
• Marshall McLuhan—17, 18, 20a, 20b, 21, 22a, 22b, 22c, 22d
• Martin Amis—92, 98
• Martin Glaz Serup
• Marvin (+ Ruth) Sackner—05, 15
• Mary Ann Unger
• Mary Shelley—88, 09, 19a, 19b, 20
• Maryse Meijer
• Massive Attack
• Mathias Énard—17a, 17b
• Matt Groening
• Matt Mullican
• Matt Pinfield
• Matt Zacharias
• Matthew Barney—03, 05, 06, 09, 13, 14
• Matthew Cusick
• Matthew Klane—22a, 22b, 22c, 22d
• Matthew Modine
• Matthew Sharpe
• Matthias Svalina
• Matvei Yankelevich
• Maud Newton
• Maurice Blanchot—14a, 14b, 15
• Maurizio Cattelan
• Maurizio Ceccato
• Max Barry
• Max Cannon—98, 99, 00, 04, 05, 06
• Max K. Winkler
• Maya Angelou
• Mazzy Star
• Mdou Moctar
• Meat Puppets—07, 12, 21
• Megan Boyle
• Melody Owen
• Merry Pranksters—22, 23
• Metric—19
• Metz
• Michael Bloomberg—16
• Michael Boyko—07a, 07b (+ 07 on CP)
• Michael Brodsky
• Michael D. Coe—16a, 16b
• Michael Jacobson—07, 10
• Michael Jeffrey Lee—13a, 13b, 22
• Michael Kimball—05, 12, 15 (+ 05 in SF)
• Michael Martone—21
• Michael Nicoloff
• Michael Peters—05a, 05b, 07a, 07b, 12 (+ 07 on CP)
• Michael Pollan—11, 22a, 22b
• Michael Salu—23a, 23b, 23c, 23d
• Michael Zell—10, 13, 14 (+ 10 in SF)
• Michal Ajvaz
• Michel Houellebecq
• Michel Serres—17a, 17b
• Michel Vachey
• Michelangelo
• Michelangelo Antonioni—18, 19, 21a, 21b, 22
• Mick Jagger
• Miguel Asturias—92, 19
• Miguel de Cervantes—95, 96a, 96b, 10, 11, 12a, 12b
• Miguel Covarrubias—90, 12
• Mike Bones
• Mike Corrao—22a, 22b
• Mike Kleine—22a, 22b, 22c, 22d, 22e
• Mike Segretto
• Mike Topp—06, 07, 08, 22 (+ 05 in SF)
• Milan Kundera
• Mimmo Rotella
• Minor Threat (+ Ian MacKaye)—22a, 22b
• Mira Schendel—10, 13
• Miranda July—21a, 21b
• Miranda Mellis—06, 07a, 07b, 08, 12a, 12b, 13, 16 (+ 07 on CP)
• Mirémonos
• Mirtha Dermisache—10, 13, 14
• Miss.Tic
• Missing Persons—09, 12
• MM/DD/2020—21a, 21b, 21c, 21d, 21e, 21f, 23
• Mom—58-60, 94, 95, 98, 02, 19, 20a, 20b, 21a, 21b
• Mono
• Monty Python—20a, 20b
• Morgan Mason
• Morrissey—see The Smiths
• Moses Isegawa
• Mother Theresa
• Moyna Pam Dick—23a, 23b
• Murder City Devils
• Myriam Mocona
• N. Katherine Hayles—13, 14, 16
• Nafkote Tamirat
• Nat Baldwin—16, 17, 20, 22, 23a, 23b
• Nathalie Sarraute—10, 11, 13, 14
• The National
• Nausicaa—19
• Nathan Dragon—21
• Nathaniel West
• Neil Young—93, 22a, 22b
• Nero
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o—07, 08, 11, 16, 20a, 20b
• Nia Peeples
• Nicholas Carr—20a, 20b
• Nicholson Baker
• Nick Bantock
• Nick Cave: 04, 11, 16, 19
• Nick Drake
• Nick Francis Potter—17, 23
• Nick Hornby
• Nick Land—20
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
• Nikolai Gogol—11, 19
• No Doubt—92
• No One—20a, 20b, 20c
• Noah Eli Gordon—23
• Noam Chomsky—11, 12, 19
• Norbert Weiner—22, 23
• Norman Lock—05, 05b, 06a, 06b, 06c, 09a, 09b, 11, 12, 15 (+ 05 on CP)
• Norman Mailer
• Noy Holland—07, 08
• Ocean Vuong
• Odysseus—see Ulysses
• Oksana Badrak
• Olga Ravn
• Olga Tokarczuk
• Oliver Sacks—22, 23
• Oliver Stone
• Ono Emiliani
• Orhan Pamuk
• Ottessa Moshfegh—15, 20a, 20b
• Ovid—14a, 14b
• P.J. Harvey—10, 21
• Pablo Antonio Cuadra
• Pablo Neruda—91, 96, 97, 98, 14
• Pablo Picasso
• Padgett Powell
• Pamela Lu—18a, 18b, 22
• Pamela Ryder—08, 23
• Paolo Sorrentino—11a, 11b, 14, 18a, 18b, 18c, 21, 23
• Pascal Khoo Thwe
• Parselelo Kantai
• Patti Smith
• Patrice Nganang
• Patrick Kosiewicz
• Patrick Suskind
• Patricia Lockwood
• Paul Auster—00a, 00b, 01, 12, 21
• Paul Bowles—01, 06
• Paul Cunningham
• Paul Davies—20, 23
• Paul Kingsnorth
• Paul Klee—11, 13
• Paul Maliszewski—17, 18
• Paul Thek
• Paul Theroux—91, 09
• Paul Thomas Anderson
• Pei-Shen Qian
• Pentagram
• Percival Everett—12, 14a, 14b, 20, 21
• Percy Shelley
• Peregrine White—14
• Pete Stevens
• Peter Dinklage—20
• Peter Markus—04a, 04b, 05, 06a, 06b, 07a, 07b, 08a, 08b, 08c, 09, 12, 13, 15, 17, 21, 22, 23 (+ 05, 06 on CP)
• Peter Mathiessen
• Peter Murphy—see Bauhaus
• Peter Nazareth
• Petra Backonja—23
• Pharmakon—14, 19a, 19b
• Phil Collins
• Phil Spector
• Philip K Dick—20, 22a, 22b
• Phillip Glass—10a, 10b
• phi!ip james shaw
• Phillip Roth
• Phillip Seymour Hoffman—00, 02, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 22
• Phish
• Phoebe Washburn
• Pico Iyer—91, 20
• Pier Paolo Pasolini—11, 12, 16, 21a, 21b
• Piero Manzoni—11a, 11b, 18
• Pierre Boulle
• Pink Floyd—19a, 19b
• Poem Rocket (see also Michael Peters)—19 (+ in SF XIV)
• Popahna Brandes—14, 17
• the Pope—13, 15a, 15b, 15c
• Poto + Cabengo (Grace + Virginia Kennedy)
• Prefontaine—09a, 09b, 09c, 14
• Prince
• Prometheus—19, 20
• Psychedelic Furs—19
• Queens of the Stone Age
• R.G. Vasicek
• Radiohead—01, 07, 19, 22a, 22b
• Raj Patel
• Ralph Abraham
• Ralph Nader
• Ramona Falls
• Ramones—12, 15, 19a, 19b
• Ranier Maria Rilke—20
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Rashid Johnson
• Ray Bradbury
• Ray Johnson
• Raymond Carver—92, 95a, 95b, 98, 08, 10, 13a, 13b
• Raymond Queneau—11, 12
• The Realistics
• Rebecca Skloot
• Remy Julienne
• Reinhold Messner—10, 22
• Rem + Rom (see Romulus + Remus)
• Renata Adler
• René Daumal—14, 17, 18
• Renee Gladman
• Reza Negarestani
• Riccardo Mannelli
• Richard Brautigan—88, 95, 10, 12a, 13, 19a, 19b, 20, 22
• Richard Dawkins—89, 99, 09, 10, 11a, 11b, 11c, 12, 13, 18, 21
• Richard Feynman—91a, 91b, 12, 14a, 14b, 23a, 23b
• Richard Ford—96, 20
• Richard Hugo
• Richard Sheldon
• Rick Moody—01, 08, 09, 11, 21 (+ 08, 09 in SF)
• River Phoenix—14, 18
• Rivka Galchen
• Roa—10, 15a, 15b, 15c
• Róbert Gál—22a, 22b
• Rob Walsh
• Robert Bringhurst
• Robert Dean Frisbie
• Robert Downey Jr—21
• Ryan Weil
• Sir Robert Falcon Scott—96, 97, 11
• Robert Graves
• Robert Hughes—11a, 11b, 12
• Robert Lopez—06a, 06b, 07a, 07b, 08a, 08b, 10, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23 (+ 07 on CP)
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Robert Lunday
• Robert Olen Butler
• Robert Seydel
• Robert Smith—see The Cure
• Robert Smithson
• Robert Trivers
• Robert Walser—14a, 14b, 17
• Roberta Allen
• Roberto Bolaño—08, 13a, 13b
• Roberto Calasso
• Rodriguez—13, 18
• Roger Avary—85-89, 94, 08, 09a, 09b
• Roger Ballen
• Roger Ebert
• Roger Penrose
• Roman Polanski—14, 21
• Romeo Void—10, 19
• Romulus + Remus—08, 10a, 10b, 11, 12a, 12b, 15a, 15b, 15c, 17, 18a, 18b
• Ron Jeremy—94, 99
• Ron Perlman
• Rosaire Appel—13, 16, 21a, 21b
• Ross Simonini—21
• Roxane Gay—12, 20, 23
• Roy Andersson—10, 21
• Ruben Darío
• Rudy Wilson
• Rufino Tamayo
• Rufus Wainwright
• Russell Banks
• Russell Hoban
• Rutger Hauer
• Ryan McGinley
• Ryszard Kapuściński
• Ryuichi Sakamoto
• S.C. Delaney
• Saddam Hussein—90, 91, 05
• Sade Murphy
• Sally Hemings
• Salvador Dali—22a, 22b
• Sam Lipsyte—05, 09, 19, 20, 23
• Sam Michel—11
• Sam Roxas-Chua 姚
• Samrat Upadhyay
• Samuel Beckett—08, 09, 11a, 11b, 16a, 16b, 16c, 16d, 19
• Samuel Clemens—see Mark Twain
• Samuel Ligon
• Samuel R Delany—23
• Sandy Baldwin
• Santana—91
• Sanora Babb
• Sarah Bartlett
• Sasha Fletcher—09, 10, 13 (+ 09 in SF)
• Saul Bellow—95, 20, 22
• Savage Republic
• Savages
• Sawako Nakayasu (+ 04 in SF)
• Scott Bradfield—91, 95, 96a, 96b, 12, 13a, 13b, 20
• Scott McClanahan—13, 14, 18, 19
• Screaming Females
• Sean Penn
• Sean Thomas Dougherty (+ 07 inSF)
• Selah Saterstrom—05, 07  (+ 05 in SF)
• Sergio Ramirez
• Sex Pistols
• Sexy Magazines
• Shane Anderson
• Shannyn Sossamon
• Sharon Van Etten
• Shawn Fanning
• Shea Zellwegger
• Shelley Duvall—19a, 19b
• Sherman Alexie—00, 14, 15, 20
• Sherwood Anderson—19, 23
• Shirley MacClaine
• Sid Vicious
• Sidney Poitier
• Sigmund Freud—09, 21
• Sigur Rós—03a, 03b, 19
• Simon Lewty
• Simone Pelligrini—11, 21 (+ 10 in SF), 22
• Siouxsie + the Banshees—17, 19
• Sisyphus—17a, 17b, 18, 19a, 19b, 20
• Siva Vaidhyanthan
• Sleater-Kinney
• Smashing Pumpkins—19
• The Smiths—10, 13, 15, 21, 22
• Social Distortion
• Sofia Samatar—23
• Sonic Youth (+ Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, etc)—00, 02, 03, 04, 07, 10a, 10b, 15, 18, 20 (+ 04 in SF)
• Sound Furies—18a, 18b, 18c, 18d, 18e, 18f, 18g, 19a, 19b, 19c, 19d, 19e, 19f, 20a, 20b, 20c, 20d, 20e, 21, 22, 22b, 22c, 23a, 23b (+ CA + in SF XIV)
• Soundgarden
• Soundtrack of Our Lives—03, 18
• Soup Nazi
• Spencer Wells
• Spidertangle
• Spike Jonze—14, 19, 23
• Spinal Tap—19
• Squid
• St. George the Dragonslayer—09, 12
• Stacey Richter—00, 04, 05, 09
• Stanley Crawford—09, 10, 11a, 11b, 11c, 13a, 13b, 13c, 14, 15, 17
• Stanley Donwood—06, 07, 10, 12
• Stanley Kubrick—15
• stellastarr*—04
• Stephen Hawking
• Stephen Jay Gould—93, 22
• Stephen King
• Stephen Spielberg
• Steve Buscemi
• Steve Erickson
• Steve Eye
• Steve Lattimore
• Steven Alvarez—17, 23
• Steven Dunn
• Steve Pinker—11, 12
• Steven Malčić
• Steve Martin—20, 22
• Steve McQueen—21a, 21b
• Steven Strogatz
• Steve Von Till (+ Neurosis)—20
• Stewart Brand—22a, 22b, 22c, 22d
• Stig Sæterbakken
• Stuart Gilbert
• Sturnus Vulgaris—see starlings (+ 12 on CP)
• Sun Tzu
• Sun Xun
• Supertramp
• Survival Research Laboratories—89, 05, 09
• Susan Minot
• Suspended
• Svjetlan Junaković
• Swans (+ Michael Gira)—10, 12a, 12b, 13, 14a, 14b, 14c, 16, 17, 19a, 19b, 20a, 20b, 20c, 21
• Swoon—10, 12
• Sy Montgomery
• Sycorax
• Sylvia Plath—01a, 01b
• Syzygyx
• Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Talking Heads/David Byrne—19a, 19b
• Tao Lin—08, 09, 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b, 13, 19, 21a, 21b, 23
• Tape Hiss
• Taylor Negron—98, 16
• Tchock
• Ted Kaczyski
• Tehching Hsieh
• Teju Cole
• Telemachus—19, 20
• Tempers—11, 12, 19 (+ in SF XIV)
• Terrence McKenna—11, 12, 18, 21a, 21b, 22a, 22b, 22c, 22d, 23
• Terry Hall
• Tiberius—15, 18
• Tice Cin
• Thalia Field—13, 22
• Theodor Adorno
• Thomas De Quincey—98, 13
• Thomas King
• Thomas Mann—94
• Thomas Robert Malthus—22a, 22b
• Tiffany Sedaris
• Tim O'Brien—99, 21
• Tim Robbins
• Tim Small
• Tim Winton
• Timothy C. Ely—12, 21
• Tirunesh Dibaba
• Tisa Bryant
• Thalia Zedek
• Thom Yorke (+ Radiohead)—06, 08, 09, 12, 20
• Thomas Bernhard—11, 13, 17, 18
• Thomas Heidegger—11, 13
• Thomas Pynchon—03, 09, 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d, 13e, 16a, 16b, 20
• Thomas Robert Malthus—20
• Thomas Wooten
• Thor Heyerdahl—11, 13
• Throbbing Gristle (see also Genesis P-Orridge)
• Tobaias Carroll
• Tobias Wolff—97, 20a, 20b, 23
• Toiling Midgets—19
• Tom Friedman—03, 11, 12
• Tom La Farge
• Tom McCarthy—09, 11, 13, 15a, 15b
• Tom Paine
• Tom Phillips—01, 05
• Tom Rachman
• Tom Richmond—16, 19
• Tom Robbins—89, 09, 13a, 13b
• Tom Savini
• Tom Stoppard
• Tom Waits—05, 12, 19
• Tom Whalen
• Tom Wolfe—90, 15, 21, 23
• Tones on Tail
• Tony Wilson
• Tracy Bonham
• Trajan
• Tristam Stuart—13, 16
• TSOL
• Tyler Knott Gregson
• Tyree Guyton
• U2—07, 09, 12, 19
• Ulysses—19, 20a, 20b, 23
• Uncle Remus
• Unkel Fester
• unknown artist—17, 18, 19, 21 (+ CA + in SF XIV)
• Umberto Eco—10, 13, 21
• Unica Zürn
• Urs Allemann
• Ursula Le Guin—19, 21
• Val Avery
• Valentino Achak Deng—08a, 08b
• Valerie Luiselli—14, 17
• Vanessa Onwuemezi 
• Vanessa Place
• The Velvet Underground (+ Lou Reed)—13, 21, 23
• Venus Bogardus—08a, 08b, 09, 19 (+ in SF XIV)
• Vi Khi Nao—17, 22, 23
• Vilém Flusser
• Vincent Gallo
• Vincent Standley—08, 11, 12 (+ 11 on CP)
• Vine Deloria, Jr.
• Virginia Woolf—92, 11, 14, 19
• Vivian Maier
• Vladamir Nabokov
• W.E.B. Du Bois—20a, 20b, 22
• W.I.T.C.H.
• Wall of Voodoo
• Walker Percy
• Walt Whitman—09, 11, 21
• Walter Benjamin—11, 12
• Walter Willet
• Warpaint
• Warshan Shire
• Wayne Shorter
• Wendell Berry—20
• Wendy Sorin—04, 05a, 05b, 05c (+ 05 on CP)
• Werner Herzog—11, 12, 13, 17, 21a, 21b
• Wes Anderson
• The Who—98, 11
• Wild Dog Creek—11a, 11b
• William Basinksi—14, 23
• William Blake
• William Burroughs—99, 10a, 10b, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 14e, 14f, 14g, 14h, 19
• William Burroughs, Jr.
• William Faulkner—94, 95, 96, 97a, 97b, 12, 15, 20, 20b
• William Gaddis
• William Gass—12, 18
• William Gibson—20, 22, 23
• William Kentridge—01, 05, 10a, 10b, 15, 16, 17
• William Klein
• William Safford
• William Saroyan
• William Shakespeare—11, 16, 22, 23
• Wil Wheaton—94a, 94b, 08, 12
• Will Self
• Wim Wenders
• Wong Kar-wai—22
• Woody Allen—10a, 10b, 11, 14
• Wytches
• X (the band)—05a, 05b, 22
• Xiaolu Guo
• Xul Solar
• Yang Jiechang
• Yasunari Kawabata—96, 09, 20
• Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Yogi Berra/Yogi Bear—17, 19
• Yuji Agematsu
• Yuri Herrera
• Zadie Smith—20
• Zaha Hadid
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs—03, 04
• Yuxin Zhao—23a, 23b, 23c
• Zeke Zagar—92a, 92b, 00a, 00b, 01, 03, 19, 21
• Zora Neale Hurston