Justin Vivian Bond’s Book Picks

Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, Play It as It Lays and 7 more books selected by Justin Vivian Bond.

Ten books selected by Justin Vivian Bond for One Grand.

Source: https://onegrandbooks.com/shop/curators/artists/justin-v-bond

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

1. Lipstick traces — Greil Marcus
2. The man who fell in love with the moon — Tom Spanbauer
3. Play It As It Lays — Joan Didion
4. The Thief's Journal (Genet, Jean) — Jean Genet
5. Edie — Jean Stein, George Plimpton
6. Pentimento. — Lillian Hellman
7. Manifestoes of surrealism — André Breton
8. Concerning the Spiritual in Art — Wassily Kandinsky
9. Still Life with Woodpecker — Tom Robbins
10. Eustace Chisholm and the Works — James Purdy - undifferentiated