What's a good novel or collection of poetry to give a 17 year old obsessed with '70s punk rock?

_High Fidelity_by Nick Hornby is a good novel about a guy who owns (or manages) a vintage vinyl store.

Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll? You might want to peruse it first and it’s non-fiction.

This is a book about The Sex Pistols

Punk Blood by Jay Marvin. He calls it “punk noir”.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

not prose fiction but comics: Say You Want A Revolution , written by Grant Morrison.

I would say The Primal Screamer by Nick Blinko from Rudimentary Penii, except that that has gone out of print and a copy would cost a bundle.

Up In the Air: The Collected Film Scripts by Derek Jarman.

Anything by Henry Rollins.

@hungryhungryhortence I didn’t know he had written anything. Is there anything that man doesn’t do?

@fundevogel: he’s pretty amazing, I was surprised when I came across his stand up “comedy” via youtube.com
GO HENRY!!!

“I’m a muscular man talking very loudly.”

please kill me. its got a bunch of interviews with the ramones, the stooges, blondie, johnny thunders and all those other bands that frequented cbgbs and max’s in the 70s.