Skinless: Works Cited in the Text

A little more insight into Skinless, Charmay. . .

I thought you might get a kick out of looking through the references I used in this Psychological Crime Fiction novel. The amount of literature, poetry, theatre, film that is referenced adds a nice twist to the genre feel, and character’s interests and inner life. (There have been a few edits since this was created, so forgive a page or two difference from what may be listed here).

 Works cited in the text Skinless:

• Alice in Wonderland, 28
• “Amazing Grace,” the snow globe Rex gives Charmay places the spiritual, 106
• “A-Train,” 72
• Angel Heart, 1987, neo-noir psychological thriller, Charmay likes the film, 21
• “Angie,” (1973) Stones song, Charmay thinks of it near the end of the book when Sam comes back after the fight, 315
• Arms and the Man,George Barnard Shaw.  Charmay tells Tex she’s studying in her script analysis class, Rex tells her it was Marlon Brandon’s stage swan song (1953); both of them like the play, 171,172, 173
• Baby Doll, film, based on Tennessee Williams’s 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, 1956
• Bach concerto, 83
• Backstage, where Charmay looks for auditions, 150, 221
• Barbarella, character, 223
• Beaudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, 7
• The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, by political scientist Harvard man Charles Murray, 111
• Bible, 113
• Blueprint 3, Jay Z album, 88 
• Body Heat, 326
• Bonnie and Clyde, 326
• “Born to Be Wild,” Sam sings his version while cooking, 126
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s, (1961), 40
• Bus Stop, 257
• Business of Acting, 111
• “But Not for Me,” by George Gershwin, 224, 225
• Caged Bird, (1969) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou, one of Charmay’s faves, 108
• Caligula, 1979, 49
• Canadian Newspaper, where Charmay and Sam’s Las Vegas wedding pictures ended up on the cover, 75
• Carrie, Charmay’s aborted fetus calls up the Stephen King horror film, 355
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,  Tennessee Williams, 96
• Caravan of Dreams, Idries Shah, 1968, 272
• Casablanca, 151
• Chopin, “Nocturne, op 9, no. 2,” 294
• Color Purple, (1982), Alice Walker, one of Charmay’s faves, 108
• “Cry like a Baby,” Roberta Flack, a song Charmay performs for Rex, 84, 227
• Danger: Diabolik, 1968 film, 89
• Dead Eye Boy, The, 237
• Divorce American Style, 253
• Family Feud, TV game show, 155
• Fantasia, 127
• Elementary Gazette, Charmay’ school paper, 49
• Enquirer, 292
• Entertainment Weekly, 313
• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Russ Meyer film, Charmay boasts to Sam’s parents that a director has asked her to study a part from the cult class, 225
• Fear of Flying, Erica Jong, 325
• Fool for Love, Sam Shepherd, Charmay played May, 94
• Fortune, 199
• “Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding,” T. S. Eliot’s, 265
• Friendship, 128
• “Für Elise,” Beethoven’s bagatelle, tune playing on a ballerina music box of Charmay’s childhood, 57, 107
• Gemstones of the World, a book from Drew’s mom, 176
• Gift of the Magi, The, O’Henry story, Charmay thinks she should have used this reference instead of The Muse, at Sam’s shrink’s, 203
• Gilda, namely Rita Hayworth, 257
• “Girls, Girls, Girls” Motley Crue, 53
• Giselle, from Lion King 218
• The Glass Menagerie, Williams, Sam compares Charmay’s daydreaming to Laura in the play, Charmay had play Laura at Stella Adler’s, 96
• Grinch, character’s name from How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 162, 185, 295
• Hatful of Rain, Gazzo, Charmay tells Rex she’s playing the lead, 150, 151
• Home Cooking, name of magazine at Sam’s shrinks’, 199
• “Honey in My Honeycomb,: Ethel Waters, 59
• “Hot Legs,” song Sam sings while cooking, 126
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas, opening lines of the song from, 295
• “Hush,” by Maggie Moor, 122, 123, 304
• Importance of Being Earnest, The, 151
• “I Thought About You,” Johnny Mercer, 224
• James Joyce’s The Dead Broadway musical production with Christopher Walken (1999), 269
• Jetsons, The, 154
• Kama Sutra, 35
• Kids, magazine at Sam’s shrink, 199
• Last Exit to Brooklyn, 21
• Last Seduction, The, 1994, 292
• “Lilac Whine,” song by James Shelton, 1950; Charmay tunes into the song when she’s with Rex at Hudson’s, 69
• Lion King, The, 226
• Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 8
• “Love Potion Number Nine,” Searchers, 186
• Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti, 85
• Magnolia, film of P. T. Anderson (2000), 27
• Maltese Falcon, Falcon, 327, 331
• Miss Sadie, Rita Hayworth film, 257
• Moby Dick, 338
• Modigliani painting, 28
• Mozart’s “Allegro” from A Little Night Music, 184
• Muse, The, 291
• “My Mother’s Son-in-Law,” 185
• National Geographic Nautical Photographs, 110
• New Rose Hotel (1998), 264
• New Testament, 113
• New Yorker, The, 236, 237
• Night before Christmas, 338
• 91/2 Weeks, film, Charmay tells Sam Rex is obsessed with the film, 118, 263
• “numb”, Beth Orton, Portishead, 50
• Old Testament, 113
• Oz, 31
• Paris Nightlife, Picasso painting, 245
• “Pearly Gates, The” Barostti cartoon, 237
• Pope of Greenwich Village, (1984) 21
• Porter, Cole; standards, 221
• Post, The, copy in the pocket of the Lucky Strike owner, 248
• Pride and Prejudice, 199
• Rainman, 343
• Requiem for a Dream, 268
• River of No Return (1954), 257
• “Run This Town,” Jay-Z, 88
• Sacred Dance, 36
• Sea of Love, 19889, film, 268
• Sex in the City (1998), 320
• Short Cuts, 237
• Simpsons, 163
• Sleeper, 174
• Sopranos, second season, 226, 320
• Spiderman, 263
• Spoon River Anthology, 69
• Starry Night, Van Gogh, 1889, 199
• “Sussudio,” by Phil Collins (1985), 187
• Taming of the Shrew, 25
• Times, The, 237
• True Romance, 1993, pop culture film, Charmay likes, 21, 76, 268
• Twenty-Four Hours A Day, Hazelden. Daily meditations, 281
• Water Lilies, Monet, 1914-1926, 199
• Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, 117
• When God Was a Woman, by Merlin Stone, a book Charmay read in Marin, 36
• “Where is Everybody?” Nine Inch Nails song, 291
• Where the Wild Things Are, 116
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Charmay and Sam had played Martha and George in the Albee play at the Adler studio, 89
• Why Do I Feel Nothing Without a Man, book mom reads, 72
• Wicked, 240
• Yellow Pages, Mom uses them, 282, 293
• “You Can Leave Your Hat On,” 118, 263
• The Young and the Restless, soap opera, 245                                                 [LINK to SKINLESS: MY WHY?]