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Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain

The reluctant voice of a generation whose private journals reveal a voracious reader obsessed with punk history, anatomy, and the fringes of literature.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain

Read by Kurt Cobain

byPatrick Süskind
2001272 Pages

I've read Perfume, by Patrick Süskind, about ten times in my life and I can't stop reading it. It's like something that's just stationary in my pocket all the time, it just doesn't leave me.

Kurt Cobain

Source: Interview with Erica Ehm, MuchMusic, 1993

Naked Lunch

Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain
Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain

Read by Kurt Cobain, Anthony Bourdain

Naked Lunch

The Restored Text

byWilliam S. Burroughs
2013304 Pages

I think I like Burroughs best, and I'm into Bukowski and Beckett.

Kurt Cobain

Source: NME Interview, 1992

Geek Love

Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain

Read by Kurt Cobain

Geek Love

A Novel

byKatherine Dunn
1989368 Pages

We're going to have bit parts in a new movie called 'Geek Love' in the New Year. It's about the freakshow family who breed flipper children.

Kurt Cobain

Source: Live Nirvana Interview Archive, 1991

Sexual Personae

Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain

Read by Kurt Cobain

Sexual Personae

Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

byCamille Paglia
1990736 Pages

I really like Camille Paglia a lot; it's really entertaining, even though I don't necessarily agree with what she says.

Kurt Cobain

Source: The Advocate Interview, February 1993

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