Nick Cave

[Keith]

Well, I've enjoyed everything by him from live performances (seeing  
Stagger Lee at the Hollywood Bowl was delicious) to The Proposition  
to his recorded lectures, 'The Secret Life Of The Love Song & The  
Flesh Made Word' (includes an interesting account of his relationship  
with his literature professor father) so perhaps I'll try the novels.

"From the age of 12 or 13, [my father] would read passages to me from  
books that he thought were good - Dostoevsky, Nabokov. But it was  
less a matter of what I learned from him than seeing what literature  
did for him. When he talked about literature, I saw him become alive."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oq-m-AIspE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEDAdAg5Pok

Speaking of McCarthy/Cave, Cave provides the soundtrack for the film  
version of The Road.