- Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Bobby Lewis, Morris Carnovsky, Clifford Odets Paradise lost, Wendy Smith The group theater
- In Cold Blood Capote
- Steinbeck
- To Kill a Mockingbird Nelle Harper Lee ,
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A. S. Byatt Possesion,
- Henry james,
- Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot the wasteland
- ‘the New Journalism’: Norman Mailer, Michael Herr, Hunter S Thompson and Tom Wolfe
- Portrait of Hemingway by Lillian Ross ,
- Brando autobio, Elia Kazan bio,
- Zweig ,Brecht
- Cindy Sherman
- Crime and Punishment,The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Anton Chekhov, Ivan Tourgueniev
- The Dead, by James Joyce
As a Joyce FREAK, I would add “anything by James Joyce” – but The Dead is the place to start. The Dead is, indisputably, the greatest short story ever written. End of conversation. - Robert Kaplan the end of earth In this book, he has predicted the world that we now live in.
- Arthur Miller Timebends
- Another Woman – Woody Allen
- Opening Night – John Cassavetes
- Fargo
- East of Eden
