Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorcese
John Waters
Tim Burton
Fritz Lang
Alfred Hitchcock
Francois Truffaut
Jeunet and Caro
Terry Gilliam
Wes Anderson
Penelope Spheeris
Savage Steve Holland
John Hughes
Danny Boyle
most movies about youth cults and subculture
the Haim/Feldman canon
+ just about anything in the theater, at the video store, or on TV
Harry Crews
Albert Camus
Kurt Vonnegut
Tibor Fischer
Jonathan Lethem
Don Delillo
Anthony Burgess
Piers Anthony
Sam Lipsyte
Howard Zinn
John Bellairs
Frank Miller
Alan Moore
+ lots of non-fiction, notably:
Cordingly - "Under The Black Flag"
Kolker - "A Cinema of Loneliness"
Home - "What is Situationism?"
Anything published by Taschen
Lately, I've been reading lots of short story comps and (of course) the bitchin' last Harry Potter book
I am a slow reader.