Artists
Edward Hopper
William Glackens (Regarding both of these, the Ashcan Group is a favorite in general)
Renoir, but mainly The Luncheon of the Boating Party: I used to look at it for hours at the Phillips in DC.
Mark Rothko
Music
Almost anything out of Macon, GA: Allman Brothers, Mighty Hannibal, Otis Redding
Jazz: Post 1950, though I like the Big Bands of the 30s.
Folk: But it’s got to be acoustic, the exception being Dylan
Blues: There’s little I don’t like here
Classical: Some opera, but primarily Chamber Music
Song: Pony Boy, by the Allmans
Books
Herzog, by Saul Bellow, does it for me but I like anything he’s written.
The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway
A Moveable Feast, Hemingway
A Time of Our Time, Mailer (Anything by Norman Mailer)
Poets
Dylan Thomas
T.S. Eliott
John Keats
Wallace Stevens
Robert Bly
Robert Lowell
