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- Adern, John
- Alighieri, Dante
- Ballard, J. G.
- Baudelaire, Charles
- Baudrillard, Jean
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Beckett, Samuel
- Blake, William
- Bradbury, Malcolm
- Burchill, Julie
- Burgess, Anthony
- Burroughs, William S.
- Camus, Albert
- Chomsky, Noam
- Clarke, John Cooper
- Cohn, Nik
- Confucius
- Conrad, Joseph
- Coupland, Douglas
- Crane, Hart
- Crowley, Aleister
- cummings, e. e.
- Dante
- Davies, Idris
- Dazai, Osamu
- Debord, Guy
- Derrida, Jacques
- Descartes, René
- Dickinson, Emily
- Dostoïevski, Fiodor
- Duffy, Carol Ann
- Dworkin, Andrea
- Eliot, T.S.
- Ellis, Bret Easton
- Engels, Friedrich
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Foucault, Michel
- Freud, Sigmund
- Frost, Robert
- Ginsberg, Allen
- Golding, William
- Gorki, Maxime
- Gray, John
- Greene, Graham
- Gunn, Thom
- Heaney, Seamus
- Hinton, S.E.
- Homère
- Houellebecq, Michel
- Hughes, Robert
- Hughes, Ted
- Huxley, Aldous
- Ibsen, Henrik
- Jabès, Edmond
- Jennings, Elizabeth
- Jones, Lewis
- Jones, Patrick
- Kafka, Franz
- Kane, Sarah
- Kerouac, Jack
- Kesey, Ken
- Kierkegaard, Søren
- Kotányi, Attila
- Larkin, Philip
- Lessing, Doris
- Levi, Primo
- Lewis, Wyndham
- Lord Byron
- Lyotard, Jean-François
- Malraux, André
- Marcus, Greil
- Marx, Karl
- Melville, Herman
- Miller, Henry
- Mirbeau, Octave
- Mishima, Yukio
- Moore, Marianne
- Musset, Alfred de
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Niven, John
- O’Neill, Eugene
- Oliver, Mary
- Orwell, George
- Palahniuk, Chuck
- Pinter, Harold
- Plant, Sadie
- Plath, Sylvia
- Potter, Dennis
- Proust, Marcel
- Rexroth, Kenneth
- Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Rimbaud, Arthur
- Salinger, Jerome David
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Savage, Jon
- Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Selby Jr, Hubert
- Sexton, Anne
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Sillitoe, Alan
- Situationistes, les
- Smith, Stevie
- Socrate
- Solanas, Valerie
- Sontag, Susan
- Steinbeck, John
- Swift, Jonathan
- Thomas, Dylan
- Thomas, Edward
- Thomas, R. S.
- Thompson, Hunter S.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Updike, John
- Vaneigem, Raoul
- Virilio, Paul
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Welsh, Irvine
- Wharton, William
- Wilde, Oscar
- Williams, Tennessee
- Woolf, Virginia
- Wordsworth, William
- Zola, Emile