Na stranici Red Hand Files fan je upitao Nika Kejva da li bi razmotrio sastavljanje liste s 40 knjiga koje voli. U odgovoru, Nik Kejv je napisao:
“Inače, da bih odgovorio na ovo pitanje, jednostavno bih otišao do police s knjigama i odabrao 40 naslova. Međutim, moje police s knjigama su u potpunosti prazne”.
Potom je nastavio:
”Više od 5.000 knjiga koje sam prikupio tokom godina poslate su Danskoj kraljevskoj biblioteci u Kopenhagenu. Sada su deo potpuno očaravajuće, odlične izložbe Stranger Than Kindness.”
“Bez bibilioteke ispred mene teško mi je da sastavim opsežnu listu mojih 40 omiljenih knjiga. Najbolje što mogu je da nabacam bez forme, nekoherentno, hrpu naslova koji mi padaju na pamet ovoga trena, a koje sam, iz ovog ili onog razloga, voleo tokom godina”, piše Headliner.
Nik Kejv je na kraju zaključio:
”Mislim da sam se zaneo. Mislim da ih je pedeset – bez nekog posebnog redosleda.”
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Evo i liste omiljenih knjiga Nika Kejva:
- American Dreams – Sapphire
- Break, Blow, Burn – Camille Paglia
- The Largesse of the Sea Maiden – Denis Johnson
- The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
- A Good Man is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor
- I and Thou – Martin Buber
- Straight Life – Art Pepper
- The Bible – King James Edition
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- High Windows – Philip Larkin
- The Conference of Birds – Attar of Nishapur
- My Promised Land – Ari Shavit
- The Christ at Chartres – Denis Saurat
- King Leopold’s Ghost – Adam Hochschild
- America a Prophecy – Jerome Rothenberg
- Ariel – Sylvia Plath
- The Book of Ebenezer Le Page – Gerald Basil Edwards
- The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
- The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
- Shaking the Pumpkin – Jerome Rothenberg
- The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
- The Collected Works of Saint Teresa of Avila
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
- Mid-American Chants – Sherwood Anderson
- Collected Works of Billy the Kid – Michael Ondaatje
- American Murder Ballads and Their Stories – Olive Woolley Burt
- Poems of W. B. Yeats – Selected by Seamus Heaney
- The Good Lord Bird – James McBride
- Consolations – David Whyte
- Roget’s Thesaurus – Peter Mark Roget
- Here I Am – Jonathan Safran Foer
- Lives of the Saints – Alban Butler
- Inferno/From an Occult Diary – August Strindberg
- Poems 1959-2009 – Frederick Seidel
- S.C.U.M Manifesto – Valerie Solanas
- Complete Poems of E. E. Cummings
- The Anatomy of Melancholy – Robert Burton
- Dave Robicheaux Novels – James Lee Burke
- Victory – Joseph Conrad
- A Flower Book for the Pocket – Macgregor Skene
- The Informers – Bret Easton Ellis
- The Frog Prince – Stevie Smith
- Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
- Sanctuary – William Faulkner
- Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
- The Factory Series – Derek Raymond
- The Dream Songs – John Berryman
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
- Walkabout – James Vance Marshall
Izvor: B92.net