Editing Hubert Selby Jr. (section)

==In popular culture==
* In 1972, [[David Bowie]] said that two novels influenced him greatly: [[Jack Kerouac]]'s ''[[On the Road]]'' and Selby's ''Last Exit to Brooklyn''. According to an article in the ''[[New York Times]]'' published in 1973,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Edwards|first1=Henry|title=Who (or What) Is David Bowie?|work=The New York Times|date=August 12, 1973}}</ref> Bowie had "confessed that he had formed a desperate identification with" the latter novel.
* Selby's first work, "The Queen Is Dead" (appearing as a chapter in ''Last Exit to Brooklyn''), inspired the name of an album by [[Manchester]] alternative rock group [[The Smiths]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Mozipedia: The Encyclopaedia of Morrissey and the Smiths|last=Goddard|first=Simon|publisher=Plume|year=2000|isbn=0452296676|location=Manchester|type=Encyclopedia|quote="here’s also the title itself, from a chapter in Hubert Selby Jr’s 1964 novel Last Exit To Brooklyn, the cause of several obscenity trials upon first publication due to its explicit subject matter. Significantly, Selby Jr’s ‘The Queen Is Dead’ concerns a transsexual named Georgette. Even when Morrissey first sent the album artwork to ROUGH TRADE, he joked that the title referred to ‘the death of a panto queen … yes, it’s autobiographical’."|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/mozipediaencyclo00godd_0}}</ref> 
* In the book ''Was This Man a Genius?'' by Julie Hecht, the comedian [[Andy Kaufman]] is quoted saying that his favourite book is ''The Demon'' by Hubert Selby (p.&nbsp;159). 
* ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' inspired the name of [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]'s first band, Last Exit.
* The [[Manic Street Preachers]] song, "Of Walking Abortion", from the album ''[[The Holy Bible (album)|The Holy Bible]]'', begins with a quote from Selby: "I knew that someday I was gonna die. And I knew that before I died, two things would happen to me, that number one: I would regret my entire life; and number two: I would want to live my life over again."
*British band [[Alt-J]] composed a song entitled "Fitzpleasure", inspired by the short story "Tralala" from ''Last Exit to Brooklyn''.
* In the [[Nicolas Winding Refn]] film ''[[Bleeder (film)|Bleeder]]'', a character enters a book store asking for a Hubert Selby Jr. work.
* [[Nicolas Winding Refn]] dedicated his film ''[[Pusher II]]'' to Selby, Jr.
* The block of East 10th Street between Second and Third Avenues in [[Manhattan]] (where Selby lived in 1964 with his second wife, Judith, and her son, James) is mentioned in Chapter 23 of [[Tom Robbins]]'s 1976 novel, [[Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel)|''Even Cowgirls Get the Blues'']], being described specifically as the place where "Hubert Selby, Jr., wrote ''Last Exit to Brooklyn''."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Robbins|first1=Tom|title=Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (GoogleBooks jump to relevant page)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8UlJX7zkFqYC&q=robbins+selby+cowgirls&pg=PT89|isbn=9780553897890|date=2003-06-17|publisher=Random House Publishing }}</ref>