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The Phantom Tollbooth —Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer
Weetzie Bat—Francesca Lia Block
The Night Kitchen—Maurice Sendak
A Scene In Between—Sam Knee
Forever . . . —Judy Blume
The Awful Rowing Toward God —Anne Sexton
Where the Sidewalk Ends —Shel Silverstein
Breakfast at Tiffany’s—Truman Capote
Peanuts: The Complete Collection —Charles M. Schulz
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction —J. D. Salinger
Candy Girl—Diablo Cody
Higglety Pigglety Pop!—Maurice Sendak
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory —Roald Dahl
Eightball—Daniel Clowes
The Red Balloon—Albert Lamorisse
The Little Prince —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Frog and Toad Are Friends —Arnold Lobel
The Cat in the Hat—Dr. Seuss
Goodnight Moon —Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd
The Wind in the Willows —Kenneth Grahame
How to Sharpen Pencils—David Rees
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe —C. S. Lewis
Live Forever—Elizabeth Peyton
The Wes Anderson Collection —Matthew Zoller Seitz
Rookie Yearbook One —Rookie staff, Tavi Gevinson, editor
The Double Life Is Twice as Good —Jonathan Ames
Autobiography—Morrissey
My Areas of Expertise—John Hodgman
How the Grinch Stole Christmas —Dr. Seuss
Rip It Up and Start Again —Simon Reynolds
Matilda—Roald Dahl
Nine Stories—J. D. Salinger
A Cricket in Times Square —George Selden and Garth Williams
Revolution in the Head —Ian MacDonald
England’s Dreaming—Jon Savage
The Pitchfork 500—Pitchfork staff
Our Band Could Be Your Life —Michael Azerrad
The Songs That Saved Your Life —Simon Goddard
A Queue for Many Warm and Quiet Evenings In
Moonrise Kingdom—Wes Anderson
The Graduate—Mike Nichols
A Charlie Brown Christmas —Bill Melendez
Breathless—Jean-Luc Godard
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer —Rankin and Bass
The Royal Tenenbaums—Wes Anderson
Kicking and Screaming —Noah Baumbach
Gregory’s Girl—William Forsyth
Rushmore—Wes Anderson
The 400 Blows—François Truffaut
The Ice Storm—Ang Lee
Garden State—Zach Braff
Harold and Maude—Hal Ashby
Superbad—Greg Mottola
The Diary of Anne Frank —George Stevens
Grey Gardens —Albert and David Maysles
Funny Ha Ha—Andrew Bujalski
Juno—Jason Reitman
The Virgin Suicides—Sofia Coppola
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory —Mel Stuart
Pinocchio—Ben Sharpstein and Hamilton Luske
Donnie Darko—Richard Kelly
Bugsy Malone—Alan Parker
(500) Days of Summer—Marc Webb
The Puffy Chair—Mark and Jay Duplass
Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco—Whit Stillman
The Squid and the Whale —Noah Baumbach
Me and You and Everyone We Know—Miranda July
The Future—Miranda July
Humpday—Lynn Shelton
Fast Times at Ridgemont High —Amy Heckerling
Tiny Furniture—Lena Dunham
Powers of Ten—Charles and Ray Eames
Napoleon Dynamite—Jared Hess
Young Adult—Jason Reitman
Daria: The Complete Animated Series
Fans Only—Belle and Sebastian
Splendor in the Grass—Elia Kazan
Yellow Submarine—George Dunning
The Magnificent Ambersons—Orson Welles
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T —Dr. Seuss
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure—Tim Burton
Heathers—Michael Lehman
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind—Michel Gondry
Clueless—Amy Heckerling
The Fantastic Mr. Fox—Wes Anderson
A Taste of Honey—Tony Richardson
Greenberg—Noah Baumbach
Amelie—Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Welcome to the Dollhouse—Todd Solondz
Lost in Translation—Sofia Coppola
Be Kind Rewind—Michel Gondry
Bambi—David Hand
The L-Shaped Room—Bryan Forbes
Hotel Chevalier/The Darjeeling Limited —Wes Anderson
Hannah Takes the Stairs—Joe Swanberg
Beginners—Mike Mills
Rebel Without a Cause—Nicholas Ray
Henry Fool—Hal Hartley
Storytelling—Todd Solondz
The Do-Deca-Pentathlon —Jay and Mark Duplass
High Fidelity—Stephen Frears
Your Sister’s Sister—Lynn Shelton
Lady and the Tramp —Clyde Geronimi
Girls (seasons 1–3)—Lena Dunham
Cyrus—Jay and Mark Duplass
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner—Tony Richardson
Dark Horse—Todd Solondz
The Science of Sleep—Michel Gondry
Frances Ha—Noah Baumbach
Touchy Feely—Lynn Shelton
Drinking Buddies—Joe Swanberg
Computer Chess—Andrew Bujalski
The Grand Budapest Hotel—Wes Anderson
Acknowledgments
Special thank you to James Fitzgerald and Carrie Thornton for being my partners on this book and the calm voices through my strange and loud career. The following people look like kittens: Calvert Morgan, Lynn Grady, Kevin Callahan, Michael Barrs, Brittany Hamblin, Amanda Kain, Joseph Papa, Trina Hunn, Tracey Pepper, Lizzy Goodman, Joni Mitchell and Jerry Orbach (Basset kittens), my parents, Sid Spitz, Al Josephberg and Ricki Josephberg, Chris Eigeman, Maureen Callahan, Robert Cox, Adam Kersh, Megan Davey, Joshua Seftel, Nils Bernstein, Justin Rice, Brian Bumbery, Joan Uhelszkin, Matthew King Kaufman, Bonnie Thornton, Marc Maron, George Gurley, Dr. Dori Fromer, Dr. Robert Levine, Lauretta Charlton, Michael Bonner, Michael Hogan, Roger Greenberg, Fisher & Sons, Steven Daly, Simon Reynolds, Rob Gelardi and all at XOU, Richard Allen and everyone at Black and White, Nick Bodor and everyone at the Library, Soho, Hal Horowitz, Felder and Schustack Mgmt, Kirsten Ames, Jill Landaker, and Steven Barclay.
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About the Author
MARC SPITZ is an author, playwright, and journalist. His books include Bowie: A Biography and Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue, as well as two novels: the cult classic How Soon Is Never? and Too Much, Too Late. He has also published a memoir, Poseur: A Memoir of Downtown New York City in the ’90s. He was formerly a senior writer at Spin magazine, and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Maxim, Vanity Fair, New York, Uncut, and the New York Times. He lives in New York City.
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Also by Marc Spitz
Fiction
How Soon Is Never?
Too Much, Too Late
Nonfiction
We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
(with Brendan Mullen)
Nobody Likes You: Inside the
Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day
Bowie: A Biography
Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue
Poseur: A Mem
oir of Downtown
New York City in the ’90s
Credits
Cover design by Amanda Kain
Cover illustration © Diane Labombarbe / Getty Images
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