PEOPLE/ARTISTS

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

• !!! (aka chk chk chk)
• 1000 Days—08, 09
• 11/22/66—19
• A. Igoni Barrett
• Aaron Swartz
• Aase Berg—06, 10, 11, 13
• Abe Smith
• Abebe Bikila—10, 12
• Abraham Smith
• Abu Zubaydah
• Ada Limón
• Adam Curtis—11, 12, 13, 16, 19a, 19b
• Adam Hochschild
• Adolf Wölfli
• Adolfo Bioy Casares—20
• Alain Badiou—12a, 12b
• Alain Mabanckou
• Alain Robbe-Grillet—11, 12, 13
• Alan Moorehead
• Albert Camus—84, 90, 11a, 11b, 12, 17, 20
• Albert Einstein
• Sir Albert Henry
• Alberto Denti di Pirajno
• Aldo Bandinelli—12a, 12b (& 12 on CP)
• Aldous Huxley
• Alessandro Fornaci
• Alessandro Riva
• Alex Cox—95, 13
• Alex Gregor
• Alex Honnold
• Alex Sherker
• Alfred Hitchcock—19
• Alfred Whitehead—92, 10a, 10b, 12
• Algiers
• Ali Farka Touré—07, 08, 12
• Amos Tutuola—88, 05, 07, 09, 11, 12
• Amy Hempel—19a, 19b
• And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead—03, 19
• Ander Monson—05, 07,
• André Breton—11, 13, 16
• André Gide—12a, 12b
• Andrej Nikolaidis
• Andrew McGahan
• Andrew Zornoza
• Andy Fitch
• Andy Warhol—14, 15
• Angelo Accardi
• Anish Kapoor—09, 10
• Ms. Ann Thrope—19
• Ann Quinn
• Anna Boschi
• Anna Marie Johnson
• Anna Rosen Guercio
• Anne Carson—09, 19
• Anne Dillard
• Annika White—96
• anon I'm us (a.k.a. a.I...dat's us! guest-blogger post-2017)—17a, 17b, 18, 19a, 19b
• 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
• Arthur Rimbaud
• Arthur Schopenhauer—09, 10, 11, 12, 14a, 14b
• Ash Code
• Atticus Lish
• Aung San Suu Kyi
• The Avengers
• Ayi Kwei Armah
• Ayn Rand—87, 11, 12, 14, 15, 19
• The B-52s
• Babak Lakghomi
• Bad Brains
• Baloji
• Banksy—11, 14
• Barbara Kingsolver
• Barack Obama—08a, 08b, 08c, 08d, 08e, 13, 14, 15
• Barry Yourgrau
• Bauhaus—19
• Be Your Own Pet
• Beach House—19
• Beatrice Cenci—11, 18a, 18b, 18c, 18d, 19
• Becky Wreck—92
• Béla Tarr
• Belinda Carlisle
• St. Benededict G. Labre
• Ben Lerner—05, 12a,
• Ben Okri—07a, 07b, 09
• Ben Marcus—02, 05, 09a, 09b, 10, 11, 12a, 12b, 19a, 19b, 19c
• Ben Templesmith
• Benjamin Péret
• Bertrand Russell—10a, 10b
• The Big Sleep
• Bill Murray
• Billy the Kid
• Binyavanga Wainaina—08a, 08b, 08c, 08d, 09, 11, 14
• Black Elk
• 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 (& 09 on CP)
• Blonde Redhead
• Blood Brothers
• Bo Diddley
• Bob Dylan—08, 09a, 09b, 14, 16a, 16b
• Bo Jack Horseman—19
• Boris—17, 19
• Bradley Nowell (Sublime)
• Bram Stoker
• Brandon Freels
• Brandon Hobson—13a, 13b
• The Breeders
• Bret Easton Ellis—20
• Brian Chikwava
• Brian Conn
• Brian Dettmer
• Brian Eno—88, 06, 08, 19
• Brian Evenson—07, 08, 09a, 09b, 12a, 12b, 12c
• Brion Gysin—10, 11, 12, 19
• Bronski Beat
• Bruno Munari—08, 09, 12
• Bruno Schulz
• B.S. Johnson
• Buddha—08, 09, 12, 13, 16
• 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
• Camper Van Beethoven—15, 16
• Candy Darling
• Captain Beefheart
• Captain Cook
• Caravaggio
• Caren Beilin
• Caresse Crosby—14, 15, 17
• Carl Jung—90, 11, 12, 16
• Carlo Collodi
• Carlo Emilio Gadda,
• Carlo Petrini
• Carlos Fuentes
• Carlos M. Luis—05a, 05b, 09, 10, 13 (& 04, 05 on CP)
• Carmen Hermosillo (humdog)
• The Cars (+ Ric Ocasek)—19a, 19b
• Cary Wolfe
• Catherine Malabou
• Cathy Park Hong
• Ceci (ghost that lives w/ us)
• Cecilia Vicuña
• Céline—96, 10a, 10b
• César Aria—10, 13a, 13b
• César Vallejo—05a, 05b, 06
• Charles Brossard
• Charles Bukowski
• Charles Darwin—05a, 05b, 09, 11a, 11b, 12a, 12b, 12c, 14a, 14b
• Charles Saatchi
• Charlie Kaufmann
• Chaulky White—see also Kevin White
• Chelsea Hodson
• Chiara Barzini—10a, 11a, 12a, 12b, 12c, 17 (& 12 on CP)
• Chigozie John Obioma
• Chimes and Bells
• Chinua Achebe
• Chris Fritton—05, 06,  08 (& 05 in SF)
• Chris Gorog
• Chris Isaak
• Christa Wolf—15, 20
• Christian Marclay—11a, 11b, 11c,
• Christian Peet—06a, 06b, 10, 12a, 12b, 13 (& 05 in SF)
• Christine Hiebert
• Christine Kenneally
• Christine Wertheim—10a, 10b, 10c
• Christopher Columbus—15a, 15b, 17a, 17b
• Christopher Higgs
• Christopher Wool—04, 14
• Chuck Norris—09a, 09b
• Chuck Palahniuk
• Circe—09, 10, 12
• Circle Jerks
• Claire Donato
• Clarice Lispector
• Claro
• Claude Lévi-Strauss—13a, 13b, 15, 15b
• Clay Ketter
• Cocteau Twins—19a, 19b, 19c, 19d
• Colin McAdam
• Cooper Renner—05, 06, 07, 08 (& 09 in SF)
• Cormac McCarthy—94, 96, 07, 09, 10, 14, 16
• Cristian Grossi
• Cristina Rivera Garza
• The Cure—90, 09,11a, 11b, 12, 16, 17, 19a, 19b
• Cy Twombly—09, 11a, 11b
• D'Arcy Thompson—89, 11
• D.H. Lawrence—95, 14
• Daedalus—19a, 19b
• Dale Peck—06, 09
• Dambudzo Marechera
• Damon Galgut—12, 17
• Dan Boeckner
• Dan Flores
• 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
• Daphne Du Maurier
• Darby Crash—10, 12
• Dave Eggers—08a, 08a, 08b, 17
• Dave Hollander
• David Auerbach
• David-Baptiste Chirot—05, 09, 10 (& 05, 10 in SF)
• 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
• David Hammons
• David Harold Peery
• David Kaiser
• David Lynch—08, 11, 12a, 12b, 18
• David Markson—09, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18
• David Ohle—05, 07, 08a, 08b, 08c, 09a, 09b, 13, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d (& 08, 09 on CP)
• David Reisman
• Dayanita Singh—11, 13
• Dead Kennedys—11, 12, 13
• Dead Meadow
• Deb Olin Unferth—08a, 08b, 10, 13
• Deep Time
• Deleuze & Guattari—09, 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b, 11c, 12 (see also individually)
• Demetri Martin
• Dengue Fever
• Denis Johnson—15, 17
• Dennis Cooper (& 09 in SF)
• Dennis DiClaudio
• 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
• Diana George—06a, 06b
• Diane Williams—01, 06, 11, 12 (& 09 in SF)
• Diego Miedo
• Diego Riviera
• Dino Buzzati—11
• Dirty Beaches—11a, 11b, 19
• Dirty Projectors
• Dmitry Babenko—05, 11, 13a, 13b (& 12 in SF)
• Dogberry
• Don Delillo—08a, 08b, 12a, 12b, 13, 17a, 17b
• Douglas Adam—90, 91
• Douglas Hofstadter—10, 12, 18
• Douglas Coupland
• Douglas Kearney
• Dr. Seuss—70s, 20
• Dr. V
• Duncan Barlow—09a, 09b, 10, 17, 19a, 19b (& 07, 10, 18 in SF)
• The Durutti Column
• 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 Tufte—09, 12, 14, 15
• Edwin A. Abbott
• Egon Schiele—06, 10, 11, 13, 14a, 14b, 18
• Elisabetta Benassi
• Elizabeth Fraser—see Cocteau Twins
• Elizabeth Mikesch—13a, 13b
• 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
• Erica Il Cane—10, 12, 18
• Erika T. Wurth
• Ernest Hemingway—91a, 91b, 96a, 96b, 11
• Ernst Mayr
• Erwin Schrödinger—12, 13, 18
• Eugene Delacroix
• Eugene Lim—08, 09, 15, 18 (& 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 Fellini—10a, 10b, 12, 13, 18a, 18b
• Federico García Lorca
• Félicien Rops
• Félix Guattari—see Gilles Deleuze
• Femi Kuti
• Fernando Carabajal
• Fernando Pessoa
• Fikeremarkos Desta
• Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
• Foals—07, 08, 09, 10, 19
• Forrest Gander
• Frances Richard
• Francesca Fini
• Francis Ford Coppola—08, 12, 13
• Francis Galton
• Francisco de Goya
• Franco Maria Ricci
• Franco Moretti
• Frank Stanford—95, 06, 10a, 10b, 13, 16, 17
• Franticham—13, 14, 17
• Franz Ferdinand
• Franz Kafka—12a, 12b, 15, 18
• Frank Sobotka—18, 19
• Freddy Mercury
• Friederike Mayröcker
• Fredrick Douglass
• Frida Kahlo
• Frierdrich Nietzsche—08, 12, 13a, 13b, 14a, 14b, 15, 16a, 16b, 19
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky—10, 19
• G. I. Gurdjieff
• Gabriel García Márquez—96, 13
• Galileo Galilei—18
• Ganesha—92
• Gary Gilmore—14, 15
• Gary Lutz—04, 06, 07a, 07b, 08a, 08b, 09a, 09b, 09c, 11a, 11b, 12 , 13a, 13b, 13c, 14a, 14b, 15, 17, 19 (& 09, 11 on CP),
• Gary Shipley
• Gary Shteyngart
• Gavrilo Princip
• Geeshie Wiley
• Gene Scott
• George Belden—see Norman Lock
• George Bush—15a, 15b
• George Orwell—13, 16, 19
• George Quasha
• George Saunders—05, 10
• Georges Bataille—08, 10, 13a, 13b, 15
• Georges Perec
• Gerarld Durrell—86, 90, 07
• Gerald Murnane
• Gert Jonke—12a, 12b
• Giambattista Vico—15, 16
• Giancarlo DiTrapano (NY Tyrant)—08, 09, 10, 11, 13, 14a, 14b, 14c, 16a, 16b, 18 (& 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
• Glorious Din
• God
• Gogol Bordello
• Gordon Lish—05, 08a, 08b, 09, 13a, 13b, 14, 15, 17, 19
• Graham Greene
• Grandpa Cal—80-83, 14a, 14b, 15
• Grateful Dead
• Greg Fadell
• Grimm brothers
• Grizzly Bear—07, 17
• Gummylung Dungtongue—19 (+ in SF XIV)
• Gustav Klimt
• Guy Debord
• H.C.E.—15a, 15b
• Hannah Levbarg—08a, 08b, 09
• Hans Prinzhorn
• Harper Lee
• Harry Crosby—14a, 14b, 15
• Harry Nilsson
• Haruki Murakami—06, 09, 10, 12
• Helen Garner
• Helena Österlund
• Hélène Cixous—09a, 09b, 12
• Henri Bergson—11a, 11b, 12a, 12b, 16, 19
• Henri Michaux
• Henrietta Lacks
• Henry Darger—10, 18
• Henry Miller—90, 95a, 95b, 95c, 95d, 96, 09
• Henry Morton Stanley
• Henry Rollins
• Heraclitus—13, 14
• Herbert Bayer—10, 12
• Herman Melville—90, 09
• 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
• Hullaballoo Wolfowitz
• I Rivers
• Ian Curtis—07, 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b
• Ima Robot
• Ingo Giezendanner (aka GRRR)
• Irana Douer—07, 08
• Irvine Welsh
• Isabel Allende
• Ishi—13, 15
• Ishmael Reed
• Isidore Isou—12a, 12b
• Italo Calvino—10, 11, 12a, 12b, 12c
• Italo Svevo
• Jackson Mac Low—14, 16
• J.A. Baker
• J.D. Salinger—82, 10
• J.G. Ballard—09, 11, 11b, 12, 15, 17
• J.M. Coetzee—11, 12, 14, 16, 17
• J.M. Ledgard—09, 13
• J'Lyn Chapman—08, 15 (& 08 on CP)
• Jack Henrie Fisher
• Jack Kerouac—95, 18
• Jack London—90, 96, 20
• Jackie Lebo
• Jacques Derrida—09a, 09b, 10, 13a, 13b, 13c, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 15a, 15b, 15c, 16
• Jacques Roubaud
• James Balog
• James Gleick—11, 12a, 12b
• James Joyce—89, 94, 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
• 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 Wagner—05, 06, 12, 17 (& 03, 06 on CP)
• Jane Yolen
• Janice Lee
• Jasmine Golestaneh (see also Tempers)—10 in SF
• Jason Bredle
• Jason Schwartz
• Jason Snyder
• Jay Kirk
• Jean Cocteau
• Jean-Michel Basquiat—13, 14, 15, 17
• Jean-Paul Sartre—13, 14, 17
• Jean-Philippe Toussaint
• Jean Ritchie—16a, 16b
• Jean Toomer
• Jeff Buckley—10a, 10b, 12, 13, 20
• Jeff Koons
• Jefferson Airplane
• Jeffrey Sachs—08a, 08b, 10, 12
• Jello Biafra—see Dead Kennedys
• Jen George
• Jenji Kohan
• Jenny Boully
• Jeremy Cherfas—11a, 11b, 12a, 12b, 12c
• Jeremy M. Davies
• Jeremy Irons
• Jerzy Kosinski
• Jesse Ball
• Jesse Glass
• Jessica Baran
• Jesus Christ—11, 12a, 12b, 16
• The Jesus and Mary Chain—15, 19
• Jim Carroll
• Jim Jarmusch—08, 11, 12
• Jim Krusoe
• Jim Nabors
• Jimena Néspolo
• Joan of Arc
• Joe Sacco
• Joe Sacksteder
• Joe Salvatore—08, 11 (& 06 in SF)
• Johannes Göransson—13a, 13b
• John Bishop
• John Bonham—18, 19
• John Bynum
• John Cage—86, 05, 09, 11, 12, 17
• John Dickie
• John Gray
• John Haskell—10, 12
• John Keene—15a, 15b
• John M. Bennett
• John Malkovich—10, 19
• John Oliver
• John Olson (& 06 on CP)
• John Reader
• John Steinbeck—83, 91, 13a, 13b, 15
• John Turturro
• John Wilson
• Johnny Depp—98
• Jomo Kenyatta
• Jon Cotner
• Jonathon Larson
• Jorge Luis Borges—02, 12, 13, 17
• Jorinde Voigt
• José Saramago—03, 12a, 12b
• Joseph Campbell—91, 06, 12, 14, 15a, 15b, 15c
• Joseph Young
• Josephine Foster
• Joshua Cohen—06, 10, 11, 12, 15
• Joseph Cornell—13, 15
• Joy Division—09a, 09b, 09c, 11a, 11b, 18, 19
• Joyelle McSweeney
• Juan Pablo Villalobos
• Juan Rulfo—16, 18
• Juanita (the cactus)—19
• Julien Offray de La Mettrie
• Julie Mehretu
• Julie Reverb—15, 19 (+ CA + in SF XIV)
• Julio Cortázar—20
• Junot Díaz
• Justin Dodd
• Justin Phillip Reed
• Justin Sirois
• Kamau Brathwaite—05, 15
• Karen Green
• Kaspar Hauser—08, 13
• Kate Hill Cantrill
• Kathryn Rantala (& 03 in SF)
• Kathy Acker
• Kawaguchi Tatsuo
• Kay Redfield Jamison
• Keith Nathan Brown
• Ken Baumann—11, 12, 13
• Ken Kesey—96, 18
• Kenneth Goldsmith
• Kevin Sampsell—05, 07, 08, 12, 13 (& 05 in SF)
• Kevin Slavin
• Kevin White (brother, aka Chaulky or Rom)—80-83, 84-85, 86, 87, 89a, 89b, 89c, 90, 91a, 91b, 92, 94, 95, 96a, 96b, 97, 08a, 08b, 10a, 10b, 10c, 12, 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d, 13e, 13f, 13g, 13h, 14a, 14b, 15a, 15b, 17a, 17b, 17c, 19a, 20
• Kim Ki-Duk
• Kim Parko
• Klaus Kinski
• Kōbō Abe
• Konono No 1
• Koudlam
• Kristin Jones
• Kristina Born
• Kurt Cobain
• Kurt Gödel—10a, 10b, 11, 12, 16
• Kurt Vonnegut—15, 17, 18
• L7
• L. Brown—19 (+ in SF XIV)
• Laila Lalamai
• Lance Olsen—13, 14a, 14b
• Langston Hughes—19a, 19b
• Lara Glenum
• László Krasznahorkai
• Laura Ellen Joyce—14a, 14b, 14c
• Laura Poitras
• Laura Redniss
• Laurie Anderson—10, 12
• Lawrence Raab
• Lazarillo de Tormes
• Leadbelly and/or Logo—08, 09a, 09b, 09c, 09d, 11, 14, 16, 19
• Led Zeppelin—19a, 19b
• Lee Jang Sub
• Lee Rourke
• Legs McNeil
• Leonardo Luccone—09a, 09b
• Les Plesko
• Lester Bangs
• Lewis Carroll
• Lewis & Clark—08, 12a, 12b, 13, 16, 17
• Lewis Thomas
• Levi Bryant—12a, 12b, 12c, 13, 15, 16
• Leyla McCalla
• The Liars—13, 14
• Lisa Gitelman
• Livingstone(i presume)—09a, 09b, 12, 15
• Lou Reed
• Louis Aragon—11, 15
• Louis Bec
• Luca Arnaudo—11, 12a, 12b, 12c, 12d, 15 (& 12 on CP)
• 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
• Luigi Serafini—10a, 10b, 11a, 12, 18
• Luis Buñuel
• Luis Suárez
• Lydia Davis—2009, 2016
• M Scott Momaday
• The Maccabees
• Madonna—98, 09
• Magazine—19
• Mr Magoo
• Mahatma Gandhi—97
• Malcolm Gladwell
• Malcolm McNeil
• Mama Obama
• Marcel Proust
• Marcello Mastriani
• Marco Giovenale
• Marcos—05a, 05b
• Marea (character in A Raft Manifest)—16
• María Negroni
• Mariano Villalobos
• Marie Calloway
• Marie Curie
• Mario Bellatin
• Mario Milosevic
• Mark Baumer
• Mark Binelli
• Mark Gonzalez
• Mark Kozelek
• Mark Leyner—90s, 14, 15
• Mark Twain—90, 15a, 15b, 15c, 16, 17a, 17b
• Marlon Williams
• Marmor
• Marshall McLuhan—17, 18
• Martin Glaz Serup
• Marvin (+ Ruth) Sackner—05, 15
• Mary Shelley—88, 09, 19a, 19b, 20
• Massive Attack
• Mathias Énard—17a, 17b
• Matt Groening
• Matt Mullican
• Matt Zacharias
• Matthew Barney—05, 06, 09, 13, 14
• Matthew Cusick
• Matthew Modine
• Matthew Sharpe
• Matvei Yankelevich
• Maurice Blanchot—14a, 14b, 15
• Maurizio Cattelan
• Maurizio Ceccato
• Max Cannon—00, 04, 05
• Max K. Winkler
• Maya Angelou
• Mazzy Star
• Mdou Moctar
• Meat Puppets—07, 12
• Melody Owen
• Metric—19
• Metz
• Michael Bloomberg—16
• Michael Boyko (& 07 on CP)
• Michael Brodsky
• Michael D. Coe
• Michael Jacobson—07, 10
• Michael Jeffrey Lee—13a, 13b
• Michael Kimball—05, 12, 15 (& 05 in SF)
• Michael Peters—05a, 05b, 07, 12 (& 07 on CP)
• Michael Pollan
• Michael Zell—10, 13, 14 (& 10 in SF)
• Michal Ajvaz
• Michael D. Coe
• Michel Houellebecq
• Michel Serres—17a, 17b
• Michelangelo
• Michelangelo Antonioni—18, 19
• Mick Jagger
• Miguel Asturias—92, 19
• Miguel de Cervantes—95, 96a, 96b, 10, 11, 12a, 12b
• Miguel Covarrubias—90, 12
• Mike Bones
• Mike Topp—06, 07, 08 (& 05 in SF)
• Mimmo Rotella
• Mira Schendel—10, 13
• Miranda Mellis—06, 07, 08, 12a, 12b, 13 (& 07 on CP)
• Mirémonos
• Mirtha Dermisache—10, 13, 14
• Miss.Tic
• Missing Persons—09, 12
• mom—95, 19
• Mono
• Morgan Mason
• Morrissey—10, 13, 15
• Moses Isegawa
• Murder City Devils
• Myriam Mocona
• N. Katherine Hayles—13, 14, 16
• Nat Baldwin—16, 17, 20
• Nathalie Sarraute—10, 11, 13, 14
• The National
• Nausicaa—19
• Nero
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o—07, 08, 11, 16
• Nia Peeples
• Nicholson Baker
• Nick Cave: 04, 11, 16, 19
• Nick Drake
• Nick Francis Potter
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
• Nikolai Gogol—11, 19
• No Doubt—92
• Noam Chomsky—11, 12, 19
• Norman Lock—05, 06a, 06b, 06c, 09a, 09b, 11, 12, 15 (& 05 on CP)
• Norman Mailer
• Noy Holland—07, 08
• Ocean Vuong
• Oksana Badrak
• Ono Emiliani
• Orhan Pamuk
• Otessa Moshfegh
• Ovid—14a, 14b
• P.J. Harvey
• Pablo Antonio Cuadra
• Pablo Neruda—91, 96, 14
• Pablo Picasso
• Pamela Lu—18a, 18b
• Paolo Sorrentino—11a, 11b, 14, 18a, 18b, 18c
• Pascal Khoo Thwe
• Parselelo Kantai
• Patti Smith
• Patrick Suskind
• Paul Auster—00, 12
• Paul Bowles—01, 06
• Paul Cunningham
• Paul Kingsnorth
• Paul Klee—11, 13
• Paul Maliszewski—17, 18
• Paul Thek
• Paul Theroux—91, 09
• Percival Everett—12, 14a, 14b
• Percy Shelley
• Peregrine White—14
• Peter Markus—06, 07a, 07b, 08a, 08b, 08c, 09, 12, 13, 15, 17 (& 05, 06 on CP)
• Peter Mathiessen
• Peter Murphy—see Bauhaus
• Peter Nazareth
• Pharmakon—14, 19a, 19b
• Phil Spector
• Phillip Glass—10a, 10b
• Phillip Roth
• Phillip Seymour Hoffman—14a, 14b, 14c, 14d
• Phoebe Washburn
• Pico Iyer—91, 20
• Pier Paolo Pasolini—11, 12, 16
• 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
• Prefontaine—09a, 09b, 09c, 14
• Prince
• Prometheus—19, 20
• Psychedelic Furs—19
• Queens of the Stone Age
• Radiohead
• Raj Patel
• Ralph Nader
• Ramona Falls
• Ramones—12, 15, 19a, 19b
• Rashid Johnson
• Ray Bradbury
• Ray Johnson
• Raymond Carver—92, 95a, 95b, 08, 10, 13a, 13b
• Raymond Queneau—11, 12
• R.C. White (our father)—80-83, 15
• The Realistics
• Rebecca Skloot
• Remy Julienne
• Reinhold Messner
• Rem + Rom (see Romulus + Remus)
• Renata Adler
• René Daumal—14, 17, 18
• Renee Gladman
• Riccardo Mannelli
• Richard Brautigan—88, 95, 10, 12a, 13, 19a, 19b
• Richard Dawkins—89, 09, 10, 11a, 11b, 11c, 12, 13, 18
• Richard Feynman—91a, 91b, 12, 14a, 14b
• Richard Ford—96
• Richard Hugo
• Richard Sheldon
• Rick Moody—01, 08, 09, 11(& 08, 09 in SF)
• River Phoenix—14, 18
• Rivka Galchen
• Roa—10, 15a, 15b, 15c
• Rob Walsh
• Robert Bringhurst
• Robert Dean Frisbie
• Sir Robert Falcon Scott—96, 11
• Robert Graves
• Robert Hughes—11a, 11b, 12
• Robert Lopez—06, 07, 08a, 08b, 10, 16, 17, 18 (& 07 on CP)
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Robert Lunday
• Robert Seydel
• Robert Smith—see The Cure
• Robert Smithson
• Robert Walser—14a, 14b, 17
• Roberto Bolaño—08, 13a, 13b
• Roberto Calasso
• Rodriguez—13, 18
• Roger Avary—94, 08, 09a, 09b
• Roger Ballen
• Roger Ebert
• Roman Polanski
• 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
• Roxane Gay
• Roy Andersson
• Ruben Darío
• Rudy Wilson
• Rufino Tamayo
• Rufus Wainwright
• Russell Banks
• Russell Hoban
• Rutger Hauer
• Ryan McGinley
• Ryszard Kapuściński
• Saddam Hussein—90, 91, 05
• Sade Murphy
• Sally Hemings
• Sam Lipsyte—05, 09, 19
• Sam Michel—11
• Samrat Upadhyay
• Samuel Beckett—08, 09, 11a, 11b, 16a, 16b, 16c, 16d, 19
• Samuel Ligon
• Sandy Baldwin
• Santana—91
• Sanora Babb
• Sarah Bartlett
• Sasha Fletcher—09, 10, 13 (& 09 in SF)
• Saul Bellow—95, 20
• Savages
• Sawako Nakayasu (& 04 in SF)
• Scott Bradfield—91, 95, 96a, 96b, 12, 13a, 13b
• 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
• Shane Anderson
• Shannyn Sossamon
• Sharon Van Etten
• Shawn Fanning
• Shea Zellwegger
• Shelley Duvall—19a, 19b
• Sherman Alexie—14, 15
• Sherwood Anderson
• Shirley MacClaine
• Sid Vicious
• Sigmund Freud
• Sigur Rós
• Simon Lewty
• Simone Pelligrini (& 10 in SF)
• Siouxsie & the Banshees—17, 19
• Sisyphus—17a, 17b, 18, 19a, 19b, 20
• Smashing Pumpkins—19
• Social Distortion
• Sonic Youth (& Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, etc)—07, 10a, 10b, 15, 18 (& 04 in SF)
• Sound Furies—18a, 18b, 18c, 18d, 18e, 18f, 18g, 19a, 19b, 19c, 19d, 19e, 19f (+ CA + in SF XIV)
• Soundtrack of Our Lives
• Spencer Wells
• Spidertangle
• Spike Jonze—14, 19
• Spinal Tap—19
• St. George the Dragonslayer—09, 12
• Stacey Richter—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
• Stephen Hawking
• Steve Erickson
• Steve Eye
• Steven Alvarez
• Steven Dunn
• Steve Pinker—11, 12
• Steven Malčić
• 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
• Swoon—10, 12
• Syzygyx
• Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Talking Heads/David Byrne—19a, 19b
• Tao Lin—08, 09, 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b, 13, 19
• Taylor Negron—98, 16
• Tchock
• Tehching Hsieh
• Telemachus—19, 20
• Tempers—11, 12, 19 (+ in SF XIV)
• Terrence McKenna—11, 12, 18
• Tiberius—15, 18
• Thalia Field
• Theodor Adorno
• Thomas De Quincey
• Thomas King
• Tiffany Sedaris
• Tim O'Brien
• Tim Small
• Timothy C. Ely
• Tirunesh Dibaba
• Thom Yorke (& Radiohead)—06, 08, 09, 12
• Thomas Bernhard—11, 13, 17, 18
• Thomas Heidegger—11, 13
• Thomas Pynchon—03, 09, 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d, 13e, 16a, 16b
• Thomas Robert Malthus—20
• Thomas Wooten
• Thor Heyerdahl—11, 13
• Throbbing Gristle
• Tobias Wolff
• Toiling Midgets—19
• Tom Friedman—03, 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
• Tones on Tail
• Tracy Bonham
• Trajan
• Tristam Stuart—13, 16
• TSOL
• Tyree Guyton
• U2—07, 09, 12, 19
• Ulysses—19, 20
• Uncle Remus
• Unkel Fester
• unknown artist—17, 18, 19 (+ CA + in SF XIV)
• Umberto Eco—10, 13
• Unica Zürn
• Urs Allemann
• Ursula Le Guin
• Valentino Achak Deng—08a, 08b
• Valerie Luiselli—14, 17
• Vanessa Place
• The Velvet Underground
• Venus Bogardus—08a, 08b, 09, 19 (+ in SF XIV)
• Vi Khi Nao
• Vilém Flusser
• Vincent Gallo
• Vincent Standley—08, 11, 12 (& 11 on CP)
• Vine Deloria, Jr.
• Virginia Woolf—11, 14, 19
• Vivian Maier
• Vladamir Nabokov
• Wall of Voodoo
• Walker Percy
• Walt Whitman—09, 11
• Walter Benjamin—11, 12
• Walter Willet
• Warpaint
• Wayne Shorter
• Wendy Sorin—05a, 05b (& 05 on CP)
• Werner Herzog—11, 12, 13, 17
• The Who—98, 11
• Wild Dog Creek—11a, 11b
• William Basinksi
• William Blake
• William Burroughs—10a, 10b, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 14e, 14f, 14g, 14h, 19
• William Burroughs, Jr.
• William Faulkner—94, 95, 96, 12, 15, 20
• William Gaddis
• William Gass—12, 18
• William Kentridge—10a, 10b, 15, 16, 17
• William Klein
• William Safford
• William Shakespeare—11, 16
• Wil Wheaton—94, 08, 12
• Will Self
• Woody Allen—10a, 10b, 11, 14
• Wytches
• Xiaolu Guo
• Xul Solar
• Yang Jiechang
• Yasunari Kawabata—96, 09, 20
• Yogi Berra/Yogi Bear—17, 19
• Yuri Herrera
• Zaha Hadid
• Zeke Zagar—92a, 92b