Recs if you like Trout Fishing in America...

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

Books with a distinct literary DNA that reflects the chaotic, revolutionary era they were born into and often show a systemic distrust of authority. Whether the enemy is the military (Catch-22), psychiatric institutions (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), or government surveillance (Vineland)

"ergodic literature is a mode of textual organization in which nontrivial effort is required for the reader to traverse the text, beyond ordinary eye movement or turning pages." - espen j. aarseth

books with unique formatting, books you can play like a game, books you need to take apart and put back together again, stories-within-stories, books containing found documents and ephemera, etc.

Pacific Northwest authors and settings

All books read by Tough Guy Book Club since 2014. The club that wants men to Read More, Talk More, and have more Friends.

A course syllabus for David Foster Wallace's class "English 170R-Selected Obscure/Eclectic Fictions" Spring '03