Editing Nick Cave (section)

== Writing ==
Cave released his first book, ''King Ink'', in 1988. It is a collection of lyrics and plays, including collaborations with [[Lydia Lunch]]. This was followed up with ''King Ink II'' in 1997, containing lyrics, poems, and the transcript of a radio essay he wrote for the [[BBC]] in July 1996, "The Flesh Made Word", discussing in biographical format his relationship with Christianity.
[[File:Nick Cave in New York City 2009 portrait 2.jpg|thumb|upright|Cave reading from ''[[The Death of Bunny Munro]]'' in New York City, 2009.]]
While he was based in [[West Berlin]], Cave started working on what was to become his debut novel, ''[[And the Ass Saw the Angel]]'' (1989). Significant crossover is evident between the [[Theme (narrative)|themes]] in the book and the lyrics Cave wrote in the late stages of the Birthday Party and the early stage of his solo career. "Swampland", from ''Mutiny'', in particular, uses the same linguistic stylings ('mah' for 'my', for instance) and some of the same themes (the narrator being haunted by the memory of a girl called Lucy, being hunted like an animal, approaching death and execution).

In 1993, Cave and [[Lydia Lunch]] published an adult comic book they wrote together, with illustrations by Mike Matthews, titled ''AS-FIX-E-8''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AS-FIX-E-8 |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/1762077-as-fix-e-8 |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=[[Goodreads]] |language=en}}</ref>

On 21 January 2008, a special edition of Cave's novel ''And the Ass Saw the Angel'' was released.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=28460_0_2_1_C |title=Nick Cave sees debut novel 'And The Ass Saw the Angel' re-released as collectors edition |website=Side-line.com |date=15 January 2008 |access-date=2 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520133047/http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=28460_0_2_1_C |archive-date=20 May 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Cave's second novel ''[[The Death of Bunny Munro]]'' was published on 8 September 2009 by [[HarperCollins]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/nme/46636|title=Nick Cave announces release date for new novel – News|date=11 August 2009|website=Nmr.com|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harpercollins.ca/books/9781554685400/The_Death_of_Bunny_Munro/index.aspx|title=The Death of Bunny Munro: A Novel By Nick Cave|website=[[HarperCollins|Harpercollins.ca]]|access-date=22 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120150632/http://www.harpercollins.ca/books/9781554685400/The_Death_of_Bunny_Munro/index.aspx|archive-date=20 January 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Telling the story of a sex-addicted salesman, it was also released as a [[Binaural recording|binaural]] audio-book produced by British Artists [[Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard]] and an [[iPhone]] app.<ref>Breihan, Tom [https://pitchfork.com/news/36434-nick-caves-new-novel-ibunny-munroi-gets-its-own-iphone-app-tour/ "Nick Cave's New Novel Bunny Munro Gets its Own iPhone App, Tour"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909144334/http://pitchfork.com/news/36434-nick-caves-new-novel-ibunny-munroi-gets-its-own-iphone-app-tour/ |date=9 September 2011 }} September 2009.</ref> The book originally started as a screenplay Cave was going to write for [[John Hillcoat]].<ref>Khanna, Vish [http://exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=137&csid2=946&fid1=41546 "Conversations: Nick Cave"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209151414/http://exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=137&csid2=946&fid1=41546 |date=9 December 2009 }} at ''[[Exclaim!]]'' October 2009.</ref>

In 2015 he released the book ''The Sick Bag Song'', followed in 2022 by ''[[Faith, Hope, and Carnage]]'', collected from a series of phone conversations conducted between Cave and Irish writer [[Sean O'Hagan (journalist)|Sean O'Hagan]] during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoskyns |first=Barney |date=28 March 2015 |title=Nick Cave: pass the sick bag |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/28/nick-cave-the-sick-bag-song-poetry |via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>

=== Contributions ===
Aside from their soundtracks, Cave also wrote the screenplays for [[John Hillcoat]]'s ''[[The Proposition (2005 film)|The Proposition]]'' (2005) and ''[[Lawless (film)|Lawless]]'' (2012).

Cave wrote the foreword to a [[Canongate Books|Canongate]] publication of the ''[[Gospel of Mark|Gospel According to Mark]]'', published in the UK in 1998. The American edition of the same book (published by [[Grove Press]]) contains a foreword by the noted American writer [[Barry Hannah]].

Cave was a contributor to a biography of the alternative rock and pop band [[the Triffids]], ''Vagabond Holes: David McComb and the Triffids'' (2009), edited by Australian academics [[Niall Lucy]] and Chris Coughran.<ref>Niall Lucy and Chris Coughran, eds. Vagabond Holes: David McComb and The Triffids (Fremantle: [[Fremantle Press]], 2009).</ref>