two other artists:
Bruce Nauman Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words : Writings and Interviews (Writing Art) and today the card on the steps down to the store: bruce nauman. correspondences--call-it-prose-poems (what are you going to do about it that's what I'd like to know&memphis& ). inter inter inter
Allan Kaprow Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

also look at Nat Tate: An American Artist by William Boyd -Boyd demonstrates his versatility with this wonderful satire on modern biographies of arty types. Nat Tate is a fictional artist drawn by Boyd to possess every possible cliche-ridden characteristic, and whose life never deviated from that expected of him by the gullible art consuming public. huh. dies young, what else? -I am interested in: expectations. (what is supposed).

these and Darger and Edson from AZlist by 'poet's daughter' binniejay which I came to via Frog Hospital which she "liked in college."
list also includes How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way? by Hiroyuki Nishigaki. not a novel. it begins with posts by Nishigaki on Usenet.