Skinless: Works Cited in the Text

A little more insight into Skinless, Charmay. . .

This is a curated list of the literature, poetry, theatre, and film explicitly mentioned in Skinless—quoted, name‑checked, or discussed in dialogue and in Charmay’s narration. These references live on the page and shape the book’s voice, relationships, and texture. Page numbers may vary slightly by edition. Due to subsequent edits, this list was created for the first edition of Skinless. The second edition has substantial expansion, but the references all remain.

Works cited in the text Skinless:

• Alice in Wonderland, 28
• “Amazing Grace,” the snow globe Sam gives Charmay places the spiritual, 106
• “A-Train,” jazz singer at Hudson’s Restaurant, 72
• Angel Heart, 1987, neo-noir psychological thriller, Charmay likes the film, 21
• “Angie,” (1973) Stones song, Charmay thinks of it near the end of the book when Sam comes back after the fight, 315
• Arms and the Man, George Barnard Shaw.  Charmay tells Rex she’s studying in her script analysis class, Rex tells her it was Marlon Brandon’s stage swan song (1953); both of them like the play, 171,172, 173
• Baby Doll, film, based on Tennessee Williams’s 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, 1956
• Bach concerto, 83
• Backstage, where Charmay looks for auditions, 150, 221
• Barbarella, character, 223
• Beaudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, 7
• The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, by political scientist Harvard man Charles Murray, 111
• Bible, 113
• Blueprint 3, Jay Z album, 88
• Body Heat, 326
• Bonnie and Clyde, 326
• “Born to Be Wild,” Sam sings his version while cooking, 126
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s, (1961), 40
• Bus Stop, 257
• Business of Acting, 111
• “But Not for Me,” by George Gershwin, 224, 225
• Caged Bird, (1969) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou, one of Charmay’s faves, 108
• Caligula, 1979, 49
• Canadian Newspaper, where Charmay and Sam’s Las Vegas wedding pictures ended up on the cover, 75
• Carrie, Charmay’s aborted fetus calls up the Stephen King horror film, 355
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,  Tennessee Williams, 96
• Caravan of Dreams, Idries Shah, 1968, 272
• Casablanca, 151
• Chopin, “Nocturne, op 9, no. 2,” 294
• Color Purple, (1982), Alice Walker, one of Charmay’s faves, 108
• “Cry like a Baby,” Roberta Flack, a song Charmay performs for Rex, 84, 227
• Danger: Diabolik, 1968 film, 89
• Dead Eye Boy, The, 237
• Divorce American Style, 253
• Family Feud, TV game show, 155
• Fantasia, 127
• Elementary Gazette, Charmay’ school paper, 49
• Enquirer, 292
• Entertainment Weekly, 313
• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Russ Meyer film, Charmay boasts to Sam’s parents that a director has asked her to study a part from the cult class, 225
• Fear of Flying, Erica Jong, 325
• Fool for Love, Sam Shepherd, Charmay played May, 94
• Fortune, 199
• “Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding,” T. S. Eliot’s, 265
• Friendship, Egon Schiele painting Charmay love, 128
• “Für Elise,” Beethoven’s bagatelle, tune playing on a ballerina music box of Charmay’s childhood, 57, 107
• Gemstones of the World, a book from Drew’s mom, 176
• Gift of the Magi, The, O’Henry story, Charmay thinks she should have used this reference instead of The Muse, at Sam’s shrink’s, 203
• Gilda, namely Rita Hayworth, 257
• “Girls, Girls, Girls” Motley Crue, 53
• Giselle, from Lion King 218
• The Glass Menagerie, Williams, Sam compares Charmay’s daydreaming to Laura in the play, Charmay had play Laura at Stella Adler’s, 96
• Grinch, character’s name from How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 162, 185, 295
• Hatful of Rain, Gazzo, Charmay tells Rex she’s playing the lead, 150, 151
• Home Cooking, name of magazine at Sam’s shrinks’, 199
• “Honey in My Honeycomb,” Ethel Waters; jazz singer at Hudson’s, 59
• “Hot Legs,” song Sam sings while cooking, 126
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas, opening lines of the song from, 295
• “Hush,” by Maggie Moor, 122, 123, 304
• Importance of Being Earnest, The, 151
• “I Thought About You,” Johnny Mercer; Charmay sings in a movie, 224
• James Joyce’s The Dead Broadway musical production with Christopher Walken (1999), 269
• Jetsons, The, 154
• Kama Sutra, 35
• Kids, magazine at Sam’s shrink, 199
• Last Exit to Brooklyn, 21
• Last Seduction, The, 1994, 292
• “Lilac Whine,” song by James Shelton, 1950; Charmay tunes into the song when she’s with Rex at Hudson’s, 69
• Lion King, The, 226
• Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 8
• “Love Potion Number Nine,” Searchers, 186
• Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti, 85
• Magnolia, film of P. T. Anderson (2000), 27
• Maltese Falcon, Falcon, 327, 331
• Miss Sadie, Rita Hayworth film, 257
• Moby Dick, 338
• Modigliani painting, 28
• Mozart’s “Allegro” from A Little Night Music, 184
• Muse, The, 291
• “My Mother’s Son-in-Law,” 185
• National Geographic Nautical Photographs, 110
• New Rose Hotel (1998), 264
• New Testament, 113
• New Yorker, The, 236, 237
• Night before Christmas, 338
• 91/2 Weeks, film, Charmay tells Sam Rex is obsessed with the film, 118, 263
• “Numb”, Beth Orton, Portishead, 50
• Old Testament, 113
• Oz, 31
• Paris Nightlife, Picasso painting; Charmay refers to while on stage at Lucky Strike, 245
• “Pearly Gates, The” Barostti cartoon, 237
• Pope of Greenwich Village, (1984) 21
• Porter, Cole; standards, 221
• Post, The, copy in the pocket of the Lucky Strike owner, 248
• Pride and Prejudice, 199
• Rainman, 343
• Requiem for a Dream, 268
• River of No Return (1954), 257
• “Run This Town,” Jay-Z, 88
• Sacred Dance, 36
• Sea of Love, 19889, film, 268
• Sex in the City (1998), 320
• Short Cuts, 237
• Simpsons, 163
• Sleeper, 174
• Sopranos, second season, 226, 320
• Spiderman, 263
• Spoon River Anthology, 69
• Starry Night, Van Gogh, 1889, 199
• “Sussudio,” by Phil Collins (1985), 187
• Taming of the Shrew, 25
• Times, The, 237
• True Romance, 1993, pop culture film, Charmay likes, 21, 76, 268
• Twenty-Four Hours A Day, Hazelden. Daily meditations, 281
• Water Lilies, Monet, 1914-1926, 199
• Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, 117
• When God Was a Woman, by Merlin Stone, a book Charmay read in Marin, 36
• “Where is Everybody?” Nine Inch Nails song, 291
• Where the Wild Things Are, 116
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Charmay and Sam had played Martha and George in the Albee play at the Adler studio, 89
• Why Do I Feel Nothing Without a Man, book mom reads, 72
• Wicked, 240
• Yellow Pages, Mom uses them, 282, 293
• “You Can Leave Your Hat On,” Sam sings to Charmay about Rex, 118, 263
• The Young and the Restless, soap opera, 245