Editing Hubert Selby Jr. (section)

===Life after ''Last Exit to Brooklyn''===
In 1971, Selby published his second novel, ''[[The Room (Selby novel)|The Room]],'' which received positive reviews. It featured a [[criminally insane]] man, locked in a room in a prison, who reminisces about his disturbing past. Selby described ''The Room'' as "the most disturbing book ever written."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1460421/Hubert-Selby-Jr.html |title=Hubert Selby Jr |date=|website=www.telegraph.co.uk |publisher=The Telegraph |access-date=26 September 2024 |quote=}}</ref>

Selby continued to write [[short fiction]], as well as [[screenplay]]s and [[teleplay]]s at his apartment in [[West Hollywood]]. His work was published in many magazines, including ''[[Black Mountain Review]]'', ''[[Evergreen Review]]'', ''Provincetown Review'', ''Kulchur'', ''[[New Directions Annual]]'', ''Yugen'', ''Swank'' and ''Open City''.

In the 1980s, Selby met [[punk rock]] singer [[Henry Rollins]], who had long admired the writer's works and publicly championed them.<ref name="Henry and Heidi Podcast">{{cite web|title=Henry and Heidi Podcast|date=July 21, 2015|url=http://henryrollins.com/dispatch/detail/henry_heidi_-_henry_hubert_selby_jr/}}</ref> Rollins helped broaden Selby's readership, and also arranged recording sessions and reading tours for Selby. Rollins issued original recordings through his own [[2.13.61]] publications, and distributed Selby's other works.<ref name="Henry and Heidi Podcast"/>

For the last 20 years of his life, Selby also taught [[creative writing]] as an adjunct professor in the Master of Professional Writing program at the [[University of Southern California]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Novelist, Professor Hubert Selby Jr. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2004/04/28/novelist-professor-hubert-selby-jr/a03c4719-544c-4798-84b2-3e718306e1f8/ |access-date=2024-02-01 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

A film adaptation of ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'', directed by [[Uli Edel]], was made in 1989. Selby appeared in ''Brooklyn'' in a brief cameo as a taxi driver. ''[[Requiem for a Dream (novel)|Requiem for a Dream]]'' (1978) was adapted as a film of the same name released in 2000. He had a small role as a prison guard who taunts [[Marlon Wayans]]’s character, who is forced to perform hard labor while going through heroin withdrawal.<ref name=NYT2>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=OSCAR FILMS/ACTORS: An Angry Man and an Underused Woman; Ellen Burstyn Enjoys Her Second Act|first=Rick|last=Lyman|date=March 4, 2001|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/movies/oscar-films-actors-angry-man-underused-woman-ellen-burstyn-enjoys-her-second-act.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm}}</ref>