City of Night (2021)

"Later I would think of America as one vast City of Night," Rechy writes in the novel's opening sentence, "stretching gaudily from Times Square to Hollywood Boulevard - jukebox-winking, rock-n-roll-moaning: America at night fusing its dark cities into the unmistakable shape of loneliness." From "City of Night" by John Rechy, published 1963, read by Lydia Lunch.