Everyone knows film was a love of Willie’s life. The University Film Society and the Trylon were his living rooms.

Favorite Filmmakers: Satyajit Ray · Abbas Kiarostami · Akita Kurosawa · John Cassavettes · Orson Welles · Agnes Varda · Frederico Fellini · Jang Yimou · Hou Hsiao-hsien

Willie was a voracious reader, having several books going at a time. Following is a list of the authors he read and enjoyed.

FAVORITE WRITERS: Flann O’Brien · James Joyce · Walter Benjamin · Michael Dibdin · Andrea Camillieri · Patrick O’Brian · Joseph Roth · H. Balzac · Isaac Babel · Mike Davis · Fredric Jameson

The above list (thank you Elka!) is really just the tip of the iceberg, and we can’t begin to list particular book titles he loved, but we thought it would be fun to list here some of the books he recommended via a “BOOKFACE” section of his gig promo email:

Chester Himes: Plan B
Orhan Pamuk: The Red Haired Woman; also A Strangeness in My Mind
Anton Treuer: Warrior Nation – a History of Red Lake
Otto Friedrich: City of Nets
Denise Mina
Elena Ferrante: 4 book Naples series: My Brilliant Friend; Story of a New Name; Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay; The Story of the Lost Child
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment; also An Indigenous People’s  History of The United States