Amanda Palmer's Top 10 Books
In her 2014 memoir The Art of Asking, musician and performance artist provocateur Amanda Palmer wrote about the inextricable link between empathy, vulnerability…
Jim Morrison's Literary Influences
“Nietzsche killed Jim Morrison,” John Densmore, drummer of the Doors, wrote in his 1990 autobiography Riders on the Storm. Before…
Tom Waits' Favorite Reads
The son of two schoolteachers, junkyard poet and piano man Tom Waits has been a voracious reader all his life. In the 2009 biography Lowside…
Leonard Cohen’s Reading List
From a young age, rock poet and troubadour Leonard Cohen knew he wanted to be a writer. In fact, it wasn’t…
Florence Welch's Book Club Reads
Back in 2012, a 14-year-old fan tweeted singer, songwriter and angel spirit Florence Welch proposing she start a book club. Welch…
Questlove's Bookshelf
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the musician best known as the drummer and co-frontman of Grammy Award-winning hip-hop group The Roots, is very much…
The Literary Influences Of Nick Cave
Nick Cave, gothic brooder and murder balladeer extraordinaire, has spent six decades surrounded by words. Growing up in a tiny…
Janelle Monáe's Favorite Books
Half a century after Jimi Hendrix looked to science fiction to tell universal truths through music, Electric Lady Janelle Monáe finds…
J. Cole's Fayetteville Book Club
Back in 2011, renowned rapper and recording artist J. Cole founded The Dreamville Foundation, a non-profit “created to bridge the…
6 Books Jay-Z Lives By
“I’d spend free time reading the dictionary, building my vocabulary for battles…I wasn’t even in high school yet and I’d…